Built To Spill as far as I'm concerned have no talent, if you think they're catchy then great, I'm sure you enjoy tons of commercial jingles.
But many bands mainstream or not are much better musicians than Built To Spill, mainly for their abillity to advance up to song structures that don't sound like they were composed by 3 year old children.
Maybe compared to other crappy overexposed Indie bands they are good, but you could go to any local bar and find better... Granted Stadium Arcadium isn't too great, but it's better than anything I have heard by Built To Spill or their imitators (Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade, etc)... And overall, RHCP are a more respectable band for actually putting effort into their music in addition to actually knowing how to play music.
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