Built To Spill - Broken Chairs Recorded Live: 3/15/2012 - Stage On Sixth (Austin, TX) Subscribe to Paste on RU-vid: goo.gl/AU2nKB Visit Paste Magazine: www.pastemagazine.com
My favorite thing is right before they played this, Doug asked the sound guy how much time they have and he said they had time for one more, so they ripped a 17 minute song off to close it out.
Broken Chairs is just an amazing song... ot sounds like hope and despair... and longing for something... like walking aimlessly in a desert and finding an oasis... the lyrics are flawless and the music is just perfect. One of my favorite songs and this live version is the best on out there.
This might be one of their best recorded live performances as a whole, so it’s a damn shame that there’s ads in the middle of it now 🙄, especially the one right after the vocal finally kicks in lol
This is is incredible! Broken Chairs is my favorite ❤️ I want to go back to the night I saw Built To Spill, Smoking Popes and Jawbreaker play and just stay there forever! Built to Spill is one of the best bands EVER!!!!
It hurts my heart... this song is a poem written by my best friend. That they made this song is so beautiful, and a testament to Uhurus legacy of kick ass creativity.
"Broken chairs" is such a striking visual metaphor, on one hand a chair, a supportive thing, what you get a rest on, or chat with family or friends on. And "broken" suggests violence and trauma, or simply the aftermath of a particularly horrific fight. Such amazing lyrics and melody. Argh. Always that band, and that song is one of their finest. Doug is without a doubt one if not the most talented rock songwriter of his generation.
1. Doug didnt write this 2. The broken chairs, are society To sit upon such a chair, your body must conform to the flaws, and fit in, if you want rest.
Also Built to Spill definitely still wrote the music for this song, but the words are a poem from one of their friends who has long since passed (Uhuru Black).
I'm an 'Old Dude' and Built to Spill were derivative back in the day, and they definetly arn't 'rocking right' with age. They compentaly do what others do much better.
@@-0-getliffe476 ok. lol. I know the exact dude you are at a concert. so lame. pissed because you arent 23 and discovering new music. Doug is easily better at guitar smithing than any of his contemporaries from that era and genre. get a grip. sorry that not every tour is a pixies/pavement/smiths/joy division/elliott smith resurrection tour. Go listen to wilco and spoon and continue being a hipster. Dug and Brett outshred any indie guitar duo ever. ill put them up against any duo on pure sonic guitar smithing.
I was just thinking the same thing the other day! And even more so than looking like him, his voice sounds IDENTICAL to Krist’s voice! Listen to interviews with Doug- their voices are 100% the same.