― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Dave Matthews is innocuous.
He isn't "exciting" or "original" or even "good" per se. But his music isn't really that offensive either. it just sort of exists. Like radishes or minor league baseball teams or the Family Feud with the guy from Home Improvement hosting.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
He was a little nicer to this one but it's still funny:
Under the Table and Dreaming [RCA, 1994]Popular groundswells do vary in discernment, as students of jogging, nail care salons, and tax limits know. Like his homeboy and forebear Bruce Hornsby, Matthews jams politely. His instrumentation invokes classical, jazz, and bluegrass niceties. And although one can understand the deep-seated impatience with agony-as-entertainment his renown reflects, he's as bland as a tofu sandwich. C+
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Francisco Monar (fmonar), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Glad we're on the same page.
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
man, freedom ain't what it used to be...and sure as shit ain't what it was....long live this thread!!!3 yrs and counting...lost steam but hey....glory unto it.
― eedd, Friday, 17 March 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
c'mon, people! the new DMB touring season's just around the corner...we need to whip this thread into shape.first, squat thrusts, then, free wieghts.
― eedd, Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― eedd, Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 April 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 April 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 28 April 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
that would mean Yanni, Enya, Phil Collins solo career, Sting's solo stuff, and most "adult contemporary" would be considered "great art"?!!!the mind boggles, freezes, reverses step, then falls off the world.
― eedd, Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Perhaps try a show, it's freedom. I can understand why you hate us. -- miss chievous grin (twostepjule...), January 29th, 2006.
― TRG (TRG), Saturday, 29 April 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― fetch control, Saturday, 29 April 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adrian P, Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
the rhetorical function of "sorry" in this sentance would undergo a remarkable transformation if the speaker were omniscient
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
i can't help but ponder the idea that there IS a universe/multiverse where this statement is true, and how bad would it suck to live there?just imagine, a world where ceaseless solos and careening fiddlin collide and never end!!!it's almost more than i can bear to think about...
thanks gawd this is just a fabrication of a facsimile.now, someone should post pics of kittens destroying a field of DMB fans...please?
― eedd, Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
ILM wouldn't know great music if it ripped off your head and shat down your windpipe
― john clarkson, Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fonzie Scheme (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 30 April 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
some of the greatest artists ever are bland
Thats the universe eedd.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 April 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
DMB fans should know better than to bring shit into this ...
― TRG (TRG), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marley Anderson, Monday, 1 May 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 1 May 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― animal, Monday, 1 May 2006 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 1 May 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Monday, 1 May 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ashley, Monday, 8 May 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 8 May 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
it was horrible.
― pablo (Pablo A), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
The 2000th post was impossibly perfect.
It's like the punchline to the longest vaudeville setup ever. That it was in no way contrived gives it serious purchase on being the single most perfect thing ever. A serendipitous gift, borne on the warm cosmic cross-winds of Google.
Thank you ILM. Thank you.
― D(u)MBforevahh, Monday, 8 May 2006 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
really? that's EXACTLY why i dislike him+his music.cuz i've seen/heard too much.why, this weekend, for instance, i had to explain (with some amount of tact, mind you) why it was i found him so bland to about 10 DMB fanatics whom were totally amazed that someone could acutally NOT enjoy that music. i went about it w/ an amazing degree of 'non-ass-holeishness' (for having drunk 1/5 of tequila, cannonballed w/ wine)and found that the concept of not liking DMB is totally foreign to some folks...i think i blew they're mind when they asked what i DID listen to, as they knew some of it, but found none of it appealing unless it somehow related back to DMB somehow.it's like '6 degree of DMB' which is a tricky and evil thing to do to a drunk person...
― eedd, Monday, 8 May 2006 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
i will admit that my first concert ever was dave matthews band. i was 14. saw him at a hockey arena, shortly before their second big album came out. was very excited. oh boy, was he ever dreamy. especially in his crappy waffle-knit henleys and unwashed khakis, pre-MTV makeover and gigantic piles of tour revenue.
ten years later, and, er, yeah. remember: i was 14.
it's boring music for boring people.
there is a guy that plays cover songs on an acoustic guitar on the deck at this bar near where i live, that you have to walk past on the weekends to get anywhere. for some reason, probably because god hates me, i've run into him covering "ants marching" or "crash into me" almost every time i'm there. someday i'm going to do something awful to him, possibly involving angry, hungry dogs or big, sharp sticks. only one of us will come out of it alive.
― Emily B (Emily B), Monday, 22 May 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link