Happy thread anniversary plus six days.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
has anyone heard his new cover of kashmir
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
kash into me
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
what is like a good dmb album i like hte songs i kno
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― Don't delay, we cannot do this forever. (Matt P), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
under the table and dreaming is ok
― Don't delay, we cannot do this forever. (Matt P), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
dmb would be better if he hadn't gone back in time and stole john mayers voice and made it look like John ripped his off...
― Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
thats weird that u would say that
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
has anyone heard that bootleg of him jamming with vernon reid and ikue mori? have to admit, it's got me thinking twice about DMB.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
What the HELL does it sound like??
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
cult of ants marching
― Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ikue mori jams?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
what woulda been really awesome is if diamanda gala sang over it
― Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
and lil wayne (since he obviously wants to appear on every recording evar)
none of the Dave fanatics stuck around on the board did they?
― lukevalentine, Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
from last night: dancing to dave matthews
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
has the critical reappraisal of DMB on ILM started with that poll?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
As I sit on my couch recovering from last week's surgery and reacquaint myself with ILM after a looooong hiatus, I'm reminded that this thread (especially the first fifth) is surely a high-water mark of Western civilization.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok... his voice is like nails on a chalkboard and he is gay
― Jordan Bass, Saturday, October 18, 2003 5:33 PM (7 years ago)
― (am0n), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
this thread ain't so big now
― corportate/Illuminati controlled (crüt), Friday, 3 February 2012 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
never forget
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Which is WORSE: What Would You Say vs. Zombie
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Dave Matthews is one of rock's most underrated Pretty Complex Dudes – as horny as Lil Wayne, as troubled as Thom Yorke, able to growl "war is the most vulgar madness" like the American Sting he's always sort of been. He's got a beige-Baja-shirt rep and a black-turtleneck soul.
The first DMB record in more than three years (and the first in over a decade produced by Steve Lillywhite, who helmed their mid-Nineties albums) serves up the Matthews magic in all its musically tight, emotionally bumfuzzled splendor: from the sex-as-food funk-pop romp "Belly Belly Nice," to the relationship SOS "The Riff," where Matthews sings, "I don't know the man living in my head/If I don't know the woman sleeping in my bed," to op-eds against political apathy like the fragilely beautiful "Mercy."
Lillywhite's sympathetic production and the rich band interplay, steeped in New Orleans R&B, lithe jazz fusion and nimbly driving jam rock, make for uncluttered songs that at times recall Clinton-era glories (the elegant slow build of "Mercy" is just a hacky-sack flip away from 1996's "Crash Into Me"; it could've soundtracked the shit out of a Friends montage).
And yet, this is no nostalgia trip back to the quad. Even songs that luxuriate in strummy romantic escapism take midlife head-on: "I'm too old to wanna be younger now," the 45-year-old sings on the gingerly intimate "Sweet." He wears his grown-'n-grumpy honesty like a champ.
3 1/2 stars
― omar little, Sunday, 16 September 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
the sex-as-food funk-pop romp "Belly Belly Nice,"
― omar little, Sunday, 16 September 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
Has this guy hit the stage in his career now where even his fanbase don't really care about a new album?
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Sunday, 16 September 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
Clinton-era glories
― catbus otm (gbx), Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
I remember reading that story about when his tour bus showered a boat in the Chicago River with sewage several years ago and thinking "ah, there's a metaphor for his entire career".
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Art!
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/03/06/dave-matthewss-second-act-silkscreen-painting/
...great.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
emotionally bumfuzzled splendor.....
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
alcohol-infused orange juice
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
this is no nostalgia trip back to the quad
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/couple-driving-to-dave-matthews-show-spots-a-hitchhikin-786539838
― how's life, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
That's how he solved the poopbus problem all those years back, he just bikes to shows.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
i was about to post that. not for the story so much as the accompanying video where Dave tells the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUR-36lNhp0
what is with that voice thing he does?!
― Z S, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
bi-si-ckle....rackonit.
― how's life, Monday, 15 July 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
That might as well be a Dave Matthews shreds video.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 July 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
Cool story, brah-si-ckle.
― Moka, Monday, 15 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
They were lucky they didn't crash into him.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
he must have hiked up his skirt etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 July 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
how does the entire audience not just walk out of the show when he starts with that voice
― sleepingbag, Monday, 15 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/9/3/10/enhanced-buzz-26086-1378219161-10.jpg
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
Do frat kids still listen to this guy, or can we write this off as a 90s/early 00s phenomenon once and for all?
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
as of a few years ago my college-age cousins were reporting he was still a thing with frats. so, anecdotal evidence there.
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/af8fc3ab07014f81292195b8d531664a/tumblr_n2a9t4zGHw1rck6i3o1_500.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 March 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
is he shitting out his own skeleton or
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 March 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
#overcomingmaterialism
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 13 March 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link
Man, this thread
― DDD, Thursday, 13 March 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
that picture is amazing
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Thursday, 13 March 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
more like
#comingovermaterialism
― Evan, Thursday, 13 March 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
his cup is overflowing
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link