# The Best Built to Spill Guitar Solos > The 19 best Built to Spill guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Carry the Zero (1999), then Broken Chairs and Cortez the Killer. Every video starts at the solo. Canonical URL: Built to Spill made the extended, melodic guitar solo respectable again in 1990s indie rock, with Doug Martsch layering interlocking leads that owe as much to Neil Young and Television as to punk. Their three-guitar live lineups turned songs into long, patient jams that kept building. Informed by: [Wikipedia - Built to Spill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Spill), [Wikipedia - Perfect from Now On](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_from_Now_On), [Wikipedia - Keep It Like a Secret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_It_Like_a_Secret), [Wikipedia - Live (Built to Spill album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_(Built_to_Spill_album)), [Wikipedia - You in Reverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_in_Reverse) 1. [Carry the Zero](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-carry-the-zero/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1999 2. [Broken Chairs](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-broken-chairs/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1999 3. [Cortez the Killer](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-cortez-the-killer/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 2000 4. [Randy Described Eternity](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-randy-described-eternity/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1997 5. [Goin' Against Your Mind](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-goin-against-your-mind/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 2006 6. [Kicked It in the Sun](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-kicked-it-in-the-sun/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1997 7. [Untrustable / Part 2 (About Someone Else)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-untrustable-part-2-about-someone-else/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1997 8. [Velvet Waltz](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-velvet-waltz/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1997 9. [Stop the Show](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-stop-the-show/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1997 10. [Car](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-car/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1994 11. [Time Trap](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-time-trap/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1999 12. [Else](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-else/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1999 13. [Big Dipper](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-big-dipper/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1994 14. [In the Morning](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-in-the-morning/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1994 15. [I Would Hurt a Fly](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-i-would-hurt-a-fly/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 1997 16. [Strange](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-strange/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 2001 17. [Conventional Wisdom](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-conventional-wisdom/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 2006 18. [Liar](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-liar/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 2006 19. [When I'm Blind](https://greatestsolos.com/song/built-to-spill-when-i-m-blind/) — Built to Spill · solo by Doug Martsch · 2015 --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)