Live is an album of live recordings made by indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Built to Spill

Built to Spill

Built to Spill is an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho. The band has released seven full-length albums. Their most recent album, There Is No Enemy, was released on October 6, 2009.-History:...

 on the band's Keep It Like a Secret

Keep It Like a Secret

Keep It Like a Secret was the fourth full-length album released by indie rock band Built to Spill, and their second for Warner Bros. The core line-up of the band had not changed since Perfect from Now On: singer/guitarist Doug Martsch, bassist Brett Nelson, and drummer Scott Plouf...

tour in 1999. Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 9 were recorded in New York City in connection with the band's appearance on the HBO series Reverb

Reverb (TV series)

Reverb, the critically acclaimed weekly HBO music television series spotlighting emerging talent, ran for four seasons . Reverb captured the energy and spontaneity of live music by taking viewers on stage, backstage, and into the audience at some of the premier venues in the United States...

, tracks 4-7 were recorded in Seattle, and track 8 was recorded in Denver. At the time the album was recorded, the band consisted of singer/guitarist Doug Martsch

Doug Martsch

Doug Martsch is an American musician. Martsch, a native of Boise, Idaho, is best known for his distinctive vocals and guitar style in the band Built to Spill. He has also worked with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening in The Halo Benders. Martsch's first band was Farm Days, with Andy Capps and Brett...

, guitarists Brett Netson, Jim Roth

Jim Roth (musician)

Jim Roth is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has played with several indie bands including The Delusions, Voodoo Gearshift, and The Hollowmen. He also has released a solo album called Anti-Rad. Roth also plays guitar in Built to Spill...

, bassist Brett Nelson

Brett Nelson

Brett Nelson is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist for the indie rock band Built to Spill....

, and drummer Scott Plouf. Live was released on the Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 label in 2000.

The model featured on the cover is Jeremy Atkins, a musician and an executive with Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...

.

Track listing

1. "The Plan" – 4:54
2. "Randy Described Eternity" – 3:55
3. "Stop the Show" – 4:15
4. "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" (Halo Benders) – 7:00
5. "Cortez the Killer
   Cortez the Killer
   "Cortez the Killer" is a song by Neil Young from his 1975 album, Zuma. It was recorded with Young's band Crazy Horse and ranked #39 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos and #321 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
   
   " (written by Neil Young
   Neil Young
   Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
   
   ) – 20:30
6. "Car" – 3:07
7. "Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords" (Love as Laughter
   Love as Laughter
   Love as Laughter is an American indie band. The band was formed in 1994 by vocalist and guitarist Sam Jayne as a solo project following the break-up of his previous band, Lync. The band currently features Ivan Berko on bass, Nic Gonzales on drums, Andy Macleod on guitar and Robbie Lee on keyboards...
   
   ) – 3:33
8. "I Would Hurt a Fly" – 5:24
9. "Broken Chairs" – 19:05

Double-LP version

As a part of Built to Spill's contract with Warner Bros. Records, all of their Warner Bros. releases were released on vinyl LP by the band's former label, Up Records

Up Records

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

. Two studio tracks, "Forget Remember When" and "Now and Then," are included as bonus tracks on the Up double-LP version. These tracks had been previously released as part of the Carry the Zero CD single/EP.

The track listing for this version is:

Side One:

1. "The Plan" – 4:54
2. "Randy Described Eternity" – 3:55
3. "Stop the Show" – 4:15
4. "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" – 7:00

Side Two:

1. "Cortez the Killer" – (20:30)

Side Three:

1. "Car" – 3:07
2. "Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords" – 3:33
3. "I Would Hurt a Fly" – 5:24
4. "Forget Remember When" – 4:23
5. "Now and Then" – 5:24

Side Four:

1. "Broken Chairs" – 19:05