least bad & hated Dave Matthews Band single

i also love the weirdo lyrics to What Would You Say.

"I was there when the bear ate his head, thought it was a cannnnnnndyyyyyyyy"

damn now you're making me want to switch my vote to "What Would You Say"

I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out.....

Strange that such a long and storied career produced but one memorable single (What Would You Say).

which one is the one with that rapey "hike up your skirt and show me the world" line so i can vote for anything other than that one

that's crash into me

oh srsly what the fuck that song makes your body is a wonderland sound charming and tender jesus

i wonder how many people played that song at their wedding

I kind of like the one that say "tomorrow let's go back to being friends" whatever the fuck that one is.

the other notable lyrics in Crash Into Me: "oooh I watch you there in the window, and I stare/You wear nothing, but you wear it so well"

whatever it is, it's definitely *not* the one (can't remember the name/possibly never knew it) where he sings about getting older, and being all these different ages, and thinking sentimental vaguely dopey thoughts baout love/life/family, in the most excruciating falsetto of our time

This is not DMB; it's Five for Fighting, "100 Years."

talk about confusing two groups that sound nothing alike

nah Five For Fighting guy has a slight Dave Matthewsishness in his voice

kinda, but the band's music isn't in the same ballpark

Dave Matthews + Coldplay - Eno= Five For Fighting

no, it equals something that'll never enter my cd player

if i don't hear it, it doesn't exist

Do you never go to the grocery store?

yea but mine generally plays either cheesy 80's keyboard music or...there was actually one I used to go to which was playing Muzak from the 80's/90s including Jack Wagner's "All I Need"

But in Virginia circa 1992, Dave & co. were not yet famous and were playing every Wednesday at the Flood Zone in Richmond. I had a friend who slept with Stefan the bass player. One occasionally saw Dave and his crew around town or at one's friends' college bars.

I was forcibly ejected from a Dave Matthews Band show in Delaware around this time because I was being a terrible, belligerent drunk. Then I vomited all over my roommate's girlfriend's car after she came to pick me up. That is my DMB story.

I don't know a lot of these songs by name, but I legitimately enjoy "Stay" so that's what I voted for. "Crash Into Me" is one of the worst songs ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4bFX1ZEKyA

I actually really enjoy listening to a lot of these songs.

There, I said it.

I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out.....
--check out my malady (San Te)

Kinda otm

voted "Ants Marching", never minded this song when it was ubiquitous, which is the best I can say about it (or about the others).

I do quote "Don't Drink The Water" a lot for dadjoke comedy value.

"Don't Drink The Water" was a nearly "Lakini's Juice"-level buzzkill in terms of their career at the time, i don't know how it would sound to me now but when i think of it i mostly lol

it reminds me of lakini's juice, mostly cuz its weirdo sludge rawk

Funny because when it originally came out, "Lakini's Juice" was my favorite thing Live had done yet.

ME TOO

it was like a helmet song tbh

Lakini's Juice was severely underrated

"Lakini's Juice" C or D?

where are you going

Whiney OTM re Helmet-ness of that song. Finally we find common ground. If I ever found myself with the desire to listen to an entire Live album again, it would totally be Secret Samadhi

everyone in high school called this album Secret Sodomy
― miccio (miccio), Monday, March 14, 2005 3:32 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

BEST DAVE MATTHEWS SINGLE

ha how did i forget POSTING on that thread. i only searched the archives for "Dave Matthews Band" so it didn't come up when i tried to see if it'd been done before :(

wait i have to go see if this helmety live single exists brb

ok i see what you guys are saying but that fucking cunt is still singing so no

wait did dude just say "i rushed the ladies room took the water from the toiilet" wtf is wrong with this whole generation of assholes

on the other hand this video for dont drink the water is absolutely fucking hilarious, i think i just found my vote

Lakini's Juice by Live was supposed to sound like Helmet. The only thing it had in common w DDtW were that they were both weirdly melodramatic alt-rock songs

well lets be fair, both of them are absolutely terrible so they do have that in common

btw i realize that i am taking the dangerous and on the cusp challop view that a live and a DMB song are not good, but i had never heard either one before and wow

Love Lakini's Juice and voted for it in dude's Stylus Mag's Floundering Grunge Follow-up poll

I think now is a good time to re-assert that DMB are 90% awful

What Would You Say
Jimi Thing
Ants Marching
Satellite
Too Much
So Much To Say
Tripping Billies
Don't Drink The Water

^^^ much as i'd like to i can't really hate on any of these, hooky as hell (although his vocal stylings almost sink "Satellite") and fuck man, i owned the CDs like a million other people. Like it or not, Under The Table And Dreaming is going to be in fucktons of "classic album" canon lists ten years from now if it's not already. Granted, the lows are really low, and they overreach when they try to make Serious Statements. I let "Don't Drink The Water" in because it's just so magnificently goofy. But ehhh, none of those up there are so bad and hated, for me.

I will admit that I would race to change the channel on "Ants Marching" but I'll still give it credit for being very well-constructed.

Work It Out [Jurassic 5 feat. Dave Matthews Band] 0

ok wow just listened to that and it is somehow far worse than i expected

What Would You Say and So Much To Say are the same song, less satanic than their others.

~deep trax only~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ZhDN_HBbI