Not all contemporary reviews were positive. Robert Christgau gave the album a two-star honorable mention rating and selected "You Were Right" and "Center of the Universe" as highlights. Pitchfork 's Jason Josephes praised the album, writing "at the risk of hopping on a cliché wagon, I think I'm gonna tell all my friends about Built to Spill." In another positive review, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Keep It Like a Secret "the most immediate and, yes, accessible Built to Spill record," writing that the band "embraced the sounds of a big studio and focused their sound without sacrificing their fractured indie rock aesthetic." Kim Stitzel of MTV called the album "a great (and different) Built to Spill record, proudly displaying its strengths and reveling in its uniqueness even while making concessions to a changing world." Christopher Hess of The Austin Chronicle wrote that Doug Martsch's "guitar vocabulary gives 'Center of the Universe' an intrinsically bright tone, and infuses 'Else' with stunning beauty," while praising Scott Plouf's drumming as being "spot on throughout, providing active punctuation for the multiple layers of guitar." Spin 's Will Hermes also praised Martsch's guitar playing, writing that "Martsch is still making the most beautiful baroque electric guitar murals in modern rock. On Metacritic, the album has a score of 79 out of 100, indicating "generally positive reviews." Keep It Like a Secret received mostly positive reviews when it was first released. And then I knew immediately that it was going to be a bunch of clichés, and I decided to use other people's clichés." Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Club, Martsch described how he wrote the song: ".I came up with the chorus, 'You were wrong when you said, 'Everything's gonna be all right,' and then I decided the verse would be, 'You were right when you said.' something more pessimistic. Records secured permission for the band to use the lyrics. "You Were Right" almost didn't make the album due to perceived copyright issues. The song "You Were Right" features a collage of famous lyrics from songs by The Rolling Stones (" You Can't Always Get What You Want"), The Doors (" The End"), Jimi Hendrix (" Manic Depression"), Bob Dylan (" A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"), Bob Marley (" Three Little Birds"), Led Zeppelin (" Stairway to Heaven"), Kansas (" Dust in the Wind"), Bob Seger (" Against the Wind"), and Pink Floyd (" Another Brick in the Wall"). He would later comb through the hours of recorded music and find parts that he liked, methodically building them into songs. During these marathon jam sessions, which could last up to five hours at a time, Martsch used a foot pedal that triggered a tape machine to begin recording. Many of the songs on the album originated from a week's worth of band jam sessions in Boise. After feeling burned out from constructing the lengthy songs on his previous album, Perfect from Now On, Doug Martsch made a conscious decision to write shorter, more concise songs for Keep It Like a Secret.
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