Before These Crowded Streets is the most adult contemporary sounding album, but it is also too gross and horny to qualify.
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link
My best friend and I often belt that Sting-o chorus to each other. That song was everywhere in summer '95 and has vanished except for loyal CVS shoppers.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:15 (ten months ago) link
I saw the motherfucker perform once at a free festival our local contemporary station put on.
I left one song into his boring set to go read a guitar magazine in a bookshop. I think during his other lesser song, "Keeper of the Flame"
When I came back, Sophie B Hawkins was singing "Damn, i wish I was your lover"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:19 (ten months ago) link
it was grafted onto my subconscious in childhood
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:21 (ten months ago) link
xp excellent timing!
Half of BtCS is horny. The other half could be in Hadestown.
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:22 (ten months ago) link
i love it when i'm unwinding in the bistro of a courtyard inn after a successful meeting with southern regional partners, and 'in the house of stone and light' comes on, as it always helps me realign my values.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
What kind of a high-school student would fall in love with this band? I always thought of DMB as a form of adult contemporary. Shouldn’t one be discovering better music in teenage years?
This is an ahistorical take; DMB built their fan base via the college party circuit.
― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:30 (ten months ago) link
^^ otm
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link
yeah, thank you. My college friends were fuckin' obsessed with them.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
I don't recall them having any significant visibility/popularity in college (despite plenty of jam-band/Phish action there); must have been a quirk. Don't even remember when I first became aware of DMB – I guess just via "Ants Marching" on MTV.
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:37 (ten months ago) link
They were musical guests on SNL in '95, and it was like 'WHAT MATTHEWS BAND!?!?'.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
the kind of person who forges an upwardly mobile yet "conscious" social identity in college and never significantly modifies it is the kind of person who remains a dmb fan for life ime.
they were my first concert. my friends dad bought us tickets, i just had to say yes. i liked them ok. i was 13. remember nothing of that night except that there was a lot of saxophone playing lol.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:42 (ten months ago) link
I once posted that "In the House of Stone and Light" was "The poor man's 'In Your Eyes' and I stand by that characterization.
White dude world-muzak preexisted Dave Matthews, and it will outlive him.
Dave, at least, was actually born in Africa (unlike Paul Simon, Martin Page, Peter Gabriel, or Sting) so maybe he has even more right to play that sound than they do.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:42 (ten months ago) link
Now I have "Satellite" stuck in my head.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:43 (ten months ago) link
Self-XPS I remember Dave wore baggy -style pants onstage and I was like, "I guess anybody can be famous now."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:43 (ten months ago) link
I had a high-school friend who went away to Miami of Ohio in the mid-90s and came back a DMB superfan. He was a theater kid more than a jock, but he gravitated toward sort of a preppy/frat-boy style in general, so it wasn't much of a surprise.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:43 (ten months ago) link
did he become a lawyer
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
XPS "Pyjama-styoe pants"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:46 (ten months ago) link
I learned about them in elementary school. I had a gift card to Media Play, and my high school aged sister suggested I buy Live at Luther College. I really wanted to buy Quake, but my dad believed computer games would break the computer.
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:47 (ten months ago) link
― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 2:30 PM bookmarkflaglink
seriously, the first time I even realized how rabid the DMB fanbase was, was college. I was into them as early as 8th grade and lasting through high school, but I thought I was just a nerdy weirdo. but I got to orientation sign-in and this guy was like "do you like Dave Matthews Band?" and I was like "uhh yeah" and he stood up and yelled to the other RA "HEY THIS GUY LIKES DAVE MATTHEWS BAND" and she cheered from across the hall as did like three other people.
felt really bad when I robbed their dorm later that night
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:48 (ten months ago) link
of dank nugs?
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:49 (ten months ago) link
Ahem. Everybody here has strong anti-DMB opinions, and I get it.
But I am pretty sure I am the only person here who almost slept with someone whose roommate almost slept with their bassist.
And I am pretty sure I am the only person here whose band opened for a band that opened for the Dave Matthews Band.
Just sayin.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:52 (ten months ago) link
did you also know the guy who drove their bus.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:54 (ten months ago) link
Neanderthal: no, but my roommate's sister's cousin's dentist's niece once slow-danced with that bus driver. So basically we're kin.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:59 (ten months ago) link
"I guess anybody can be famous now."
This should be written on Dave's tombstone.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:01 (ten months ago) link
I feel like the time I stumbled into a place in Burlington, Vermont and every third person, knowing I wasn't from there, had to explain their relationship to members of the band Phish
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:03 (ten months ago) link
careful breeding, I suppose
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:13 (ten months ago) link
just feel the need to mention that the university of utah is an overlooked junior partner in the network of schools that gave 90s jam bands their sentience.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:14 (ten months ago) link
did you know that Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College was taped at Luther College in Iowa? that's here! Dave!
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:16 (ten months ago) link
I mean, we used to joke back in 1997/8 that Big Ten universities must have issued DMB posters with the dorm rooms.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:16 (ten months ago) link
in Athens, GA around '99 there was a DMB cover band that would sell out the Georgia Theater charging $25 a ticket. the singer did the kermit voice and everything. they prob made a small fortune.
― Heez, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:19 (ten months ago) link
even when i was in college in reno there was a popular, obviously-former dmb cover band and their name was even the same construction (“[guy’s name] band”) and they were fucking godawful, no escape
to say nothing of how an open mic night i frequented was haunted by a guy who always covered “halloween”
― ivy., Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:24 (ten months ago) link
a bold choice for the real daveheads
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:28 (ten months ago) link
this all makes me think of the band Virginia Coalition
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:29 (ten months ago) link
i wasn’t that bothered by it bc it’s one of the dave songs i still really like, gremlin voice and all
― ivy., Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:30 (ten months ago) link
drummer in my high school band was a fan of the stuff with Tim Reynolds. He would listen to that stuff in his truck with the treble cranked up so you could really feel those acoustic stabs
― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:38 (ten months ago) link
I used to see Tim play with Cosmology back in the 80s
1st time I got real stoned was at B0yd the violin player's apartment, again prob 7-8 years before the band formed
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:50 (ten months ago) link
Dropping in to suggest the Bandsplain on DMB with Grayson Haver Currin
― Indexed, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:55 (ten months ago) link
I've long had a theory that much of the affection that, like, basic-ass people who have attitudes about music and culture that ILMniks would look down on have for DMB might be a grade school or early high school immersion in Graceland…like, these folks went to dead shows in the late 80s/early 90s, liked to party, and were not going to be concerned with Paul Simon's cavalier attitude towards credit, or the consequences of a UN boycott, would not be interested in listening to township jive and african music but have a dopey reverence for "the 60s"…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link
did he become a lawyer― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
School psychologist iirc
― jaymc, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:21 (ten months ago) link
― Indexed, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 12:55 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Why are they talking like Dennis Miller?
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:23 (ten months ago) link
To make a three-hour podcast episode about DMB a good time
― Indexed, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:35 (ten months ago) link
I'd never call three hours of Dennis Miller a good time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
I'm assuming someone out there has a podcast called What Would You Say?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
Dennis Miller Band
Paging e everything, who got the hooch to thread
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:37 (ten months ago) link
Dennis Miller Bland
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 21:25 (ten months ago) link
Go Gauchos to yasi, but "Lover Lay Down" is a bad track
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 01:21 (ten months ago) link
disturbing to learn about lilywhite's own horndog leanings
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 01:58 (ten months ago) link