Planting Seeds

Album: There Is No Enemy (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a track from American indie rock band, Built to Spill's seventh studio album, There Is No Enemy.
  • Frontman Doug Martsch told Billboard Magazine that this is "a real conventional kind of pop/rock song. It reminds me of a Tom Petty song or something, but it probably doesn't sound anything like that."

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  • Eric from Rhinelander, WiThe title refers to comedian Bill Hicks routine in which he suggests that anyone in his audience who was in marketing go kill themselves. The lyrics paraphrase this bit, "I heard they'll sell anything and I think they might, I think Bill Hicks was right about what they should do."
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