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Built to Spill's first album tends to get overlooked. Ultimate Alternative Wavers, which came out in 1993, wasn't the college radio hit that '94's There's Nothing Wrong With Love was--and obviously didn't get as much mainstream attention as the band's later albums on Warner Brothers--but everything that makes Built to Spill what they are was already there: Doug Martsch's plaintive vocals, his slightly dreamy slice-of-life lyrics, and, of course, his amazing guitar work, which has always balanced