''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' is the second full-length album released by American

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the mu ...

band Built to Spill.''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' was recorded in May and June 1994, and released September 13, 1994, on the

Up Records Up Records was a Seattle based independent record label founded in 1994 by Chris Takino and Rich Jensen. Some of the label's best known artists were 764-Hero, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Quasi and Tad. Chris Takino died of leukemia in 2000 ...

label. It was produced by

Phil Ek Phil Ek is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. Ek began his career in Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s recording live sound in clubs. He then moved into studio recording, recording small projects and demos for local bands. Aroun ...

. The songs "Car" and "Distopian Dream Girl" were released as singles. The video for "In the Morning" was featured on '' Beavis and Butt-head''. ''

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'' ranked ''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' No. 24 on its Top 100 Albums of the 90s list. An unlisted final track is a satirical preview of the next Built to Spill album; none of the clips on the track are real Built to Spill songs. Sub Pop reissued the album on vinyl in 2015. This is the only album to feature drummer Andy Capps and the first to feature bassist Brett Nelson.

Track listing

All songs written by Built to Spill except where noted. # "In the Morning" – 2:37 # "Reasons" – 3:46 # "Big Dipper" – 4:09 # "Car" – 2:59 # "Fling" – 2:33 # "Cleo" (Karena Youtz, Doug Martsch) – 4:35 # "The Source" – 3:20 # "Twin Falls" – 1:49 # "Some" – 5:57 # "Distopian Dream Girl" (Martsch, Brett Nelson, Andy Capps, James Christensen) – 4:24 # "Israel's Song" (Youtz, Martsch, Nelson, Capps) – 3:47 # "Stab" – 5:29 # "Preview" (unlisted track) – 1:23

Personnel

Built to Spill * Doug Martsch – lead vocals, guitar *Brett Nelson – bass *Andy Capps – drums Additional musicians *Wayne Rhino Flower –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

on "Big Dipper" and

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

on "Cleo" *John McMahon –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

on "Fling" and "Stab" *Gretchen Yanover –

on "Car" *Eric Akre –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

on "Source" and "Twin Falls" *Chad Shaver –

on "Midnite Star" (one of the songs in the unlisted preview track) *

– speaking voice on "Preview" *Luke W. Midkiff –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and

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References

Built to Spill albums 1994 albums Albums produced by Phil Ek Up Records albums {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub