There's Nothing Wrong with Love

The album has been considered a concept album based around a general theme of growing up.{{cite web | last=Strauss | first=Neil | title=The Pop Life | website=The New York Times | date=August 3, 1995 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/03/arts/the-pop-life-116895.html | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Among the topics: "[Frontman Doug] Martsch sings about everything from the erotic thrill of touching a girl's thumb during an elementary-school game of seven-up to the hip appeal of David Bowie."{{cite web | last=Strauss | first=Neil | title=Sounds Around Town | website=The New York Times | date=October 14, 1994 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/arts/sounds-around-town-527483.html | access-date=April 4, 2024}} "Twin Falls" is named for the Idaho town.{{cite web | last=Bodenner | first=Chris | title=Track of the Day | website=The Atlantic | date=March 22, 2022 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/category/track-of-the-day/?page=4 | access-date=April 4, 2024}} "That was the last record when I was able to make music without thinking a lot of people would hear it. It makes a difference. I’d like to think it doesn’t, but it does," Martsch later confided.{{cite web | title=The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s – SPIN | website=SPIN | date=December 25, 2021 | url=https://www.spin.com/2021/12/greatest-90s-albums/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}}

The video for "In the Morning" was featured on Beavis and Butt-head. An unlisted final track is a satirical preview of the next Built to Spill album; none of the clips on the track are real Built to Spill songs.

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/theres-nothing-wrong-with-love-mw0000121344 |title=There's Nothing Wrong with Love – Built to Spill |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=April 22, 2016 |last=Bush |first=John}}

| rev2 = Christgau's Consumer Guide

| rev2score = A−{{cite book |chapter=Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong With Love |chapter-url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=489 |access-date=April 22, 2016 |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |title-link=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |year=2000 |isbn=0-312-24560-2}}

| rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|date=2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC}}

| rev4 = Melody Maker

| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong with Love |magazine=Melody Maker |date=May 16, 2000 |page=47}}

| rev5 = MusicHound Rock

| rev5Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Graff|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Durchholz|editor2-first=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|section=Built to Spill|isbn=1-57859-061-2|pages=172–173}}

| rev6 = NME

| rev6score = 7/10{{cite magazine |title=Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong with Love |magazine=NME |date=October 28, 1995 |page=53}}

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7score = 9.3/10{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21096-theres-nothing-wrong-with-love/ |title=Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong With Love |website=Pitchfork |date=October 23, 2015 |access-date=April 22, 2016 |last=Richardson |first=Mark}}

| rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Built to Spill |last=Randall |first=Mac |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor-last=Brackett |editor-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA118 118–19]}}

| rev9 = Spectrum Culture

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Neil Strauss at the New York Times was positive in his 1995 assessment of the record, commenting: "With jagged layers of guitar, a piecemeal approach to pop music and sharp, introspective lyrics, the second album from this Boise, Idaho, band shined like a sequin on the dirty shirt of indie-rock."{{cite web | last=Strauss | first=Neil | title=Sounds Around Town | website=The New York Times | date=October 14, 1994 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/arts/sounds-around-town-527483.html | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Entertainment Weekly{{'s}} Ethan Smith called it "top-shelf songwriting."{{cite web | last=Smith | first=Ethan | title=Built to Spill Caustic Resin | website=EW.com | date=December 1, 1995 | url=https://ew.com/article/1995/12/01/built-spill-caustic-resin/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}} John Bush at AllMusic wrote, "Beneath the wacky guitar fooling and somewhat nasal vocals, Built to Spill write great love songs, whether its bouncy pop or fragile melodies." In a Pitchfork review, Steve Kandell writes, "Released in 1994, it’s an unassuming, lovely slab of lo-fi fuzz-pop about growing up, and not growing up, in Idaho, with picaresque lyrics about playing seven-up with grade-school crushes, driving nowhere in particular, loneliness, and the childlike wonder of staring up at the stars."{{cite web| last=Kandell | first=Steve | title=Built to Spill: Perfect From Now On | website=Pitchfork | date=April 29, 2018 | url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/built-to-spill-perfect-from-now-on/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Billboard characterized the album as full of "simple, head-bobbing songs."{{cite web | title=Built To Spill Discovers ‘Ancient Melodies’ | website=Billboard | date=July 13, 2001 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/built-to-spill-discovers-ancient-melodies-79122/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Chris DeVille at Stereogum ranked it the third best album by the band, calling it a "a charmingly sophomoric sophomore release [..] Despite a few moments when the endearing tips over into the obnoxious, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love is the sound of scrappy mountain manchildren toying with their powers, pushing the limits of their form, setting the table for future tours de force."{{cite web | last=DeVille | first=Chris | title=Built To Spill Albums From Worst To Best | website=Stereogum | date=May 1, 2013 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/1338422/built-to-spill-albums-from-worst-to-best/photo/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Upon its 2015 reissue, Jillian Mapes at Vulture opined: "The excitement Doug Martsch rings out of childhood anecdotes gone sideways with little more than his completely ordinary voice and his now-imitated guitar-playing (see: “Twin Falls”) is something to cherish, but so are the jangly, distorted rocking-out moments like “Big Dipper,” too."{{cite web | last=Mapes | first=Jillian | title=The 10 Best Album Reissues of 2015 | website=Vulture | date=December 16, 2015 | url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/12/10-best-album-reissues-of-2015.html | access-date=April 4, 2024}}

Christopher Hess at The Austin Chronicle called it a "landmark indie album" in 1999.{{cite web | title=SXSW Record Reviews | website=The Austin Chronicle | date=March 19, 1999 | url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1999-03-19/521595/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Mark Richardson, in a retrospective piece for Pitchfork, suggested that Love "has come to define a certain strand of indie rock, leaving a cluster of threads picked up by Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, and many more." Strauss mentioned it among the "CD's That Still Sound Good Years Later" in a 2004 New York Times ranking.{{cite web | last=Strauss | first=Neil | title=THE POP LIFE; CD's That Still Sound Good Years Later | website=The New York Times | date=March 11, 2004 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/arts/the-pop-life-cd-s-that-still-sound-good-years-later.html | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Jon Dolan from Spin ranked it among the best albums of the 1990s: "[it] challenged slacker cynicism with basement-band symphonies that turned his own private Idaho into indie-rock’s last unknown country. [...] There’s Nothing Wrong With Love did for the guitar hero what Kurt Cobain had done for the rock star: subvert ego with touching vulnerability." The album was the first album PUP singer Stefan Babcock learned to play.{{cite web | last=Cooke | first=Shawn | title=How PUP Turned Crippling Doubt Into Addictive Hooks | website=Vulture | date=April 3, 2019 | url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/how-pup-turned-crippling-doubt-into-addictive-hooks.html | access-date=April 4, 2024}} Pitchfork ranked There's Nothing Wrong with Love No. 24 on its Top 100 Albums of the 90s list.{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/8/ |title=Staff Lists: Top 100 Albums of the 1990s |last= |date=November 17, 2003 |website=Pitchfork |access-date=February 21, 2016 |quote=024: Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |archive-date=June 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623024352/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/8/ |url-status=dead }}

The band announced a thirtieth anniversary tour of the album in 2024, alongside Yo La Tengo{{cite web | last=Chelosky | first=Danielle | title=Built To Spill Announce 'There’s Nothing Wrong With Love' 30th Anniversary Shows With Yo La Tengo | website=Stereogum | date=February 20, 2024 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/2252697/built-to-spill-announce-theres-nothing-wrong-with-love-30th-anniversary-shows-with-yo-la-tengo/news/ | access-date=April 4, 2024}} and Kicking Giant.

All songs written by Built to Spill except where noted.

1. "In the Morning" – 2:37
2. "Reasons" – 3:46
3. "Big Dipper" – 4:09
4. "Car" – 2:59
5. "Fling" – 2:33
6. "Cleo" (Karena Youtz, Doug Martsch) – 4:35
7. "The Source" – 3:20
8. "Twin Falls" – 1:49
9. "Some" – 5:57
10. "Distopian Dream Girl" (Martsch, Brett Nelson, Andy Capps, James Christensen) – 4:24
11. "Israel's Song" (Youtz, Martsch, Nelson, Capps) – 3:47
12. "Stab" – 5:29
13. "Bonus Track" (unlisted track) – 1:23

Built to Spill

• Doug Martsch – lead vocals, guitar
• Brett Nelson – bass
• Andy Capps – drums

Additional musicians

• Wayne Rhino Flower – guitar on "Big Dipper" and bass guitar on "Cleo"
• John McMahon – cello on "Fling" and "Stab"
• Gretchen Yanover – cello on "Car"
• Eric Akre – percussion on "Source" and "Twin Falls"
• Chad Shaver – guitar on "Midnite Star" (one of the songs in the unlisted preview track)
• Phil Ek – speaking voice on "Preview"
• Luke W. Midkiff – piano and keyboards

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