Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

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Because THIS thread is about hating DMB, NOT about why [you/we] like/should like them.

The funny thing is, this thread didn't even start as a "Let's bash DMB" thread -- it was "Let's try to figure out WHY people hate DMB."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

and now we know that the answer is "Because they rufuse to let It from Abruptum, the black metal dwarf, take over Bez duties for them"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

And after nearly 950 posts we're none the wiser!
I live in England and I have never heard DMB at all.

― Rocky, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

And after nearly 950 posts we're none the wiser!

not necessarily. for example, this truism has been finely articulated:

Anyone who calls your genitals "a world" is clearly a creep and pig and will never go down on you unless under extreme duress...

indeed.

and here's a related truism: one of the unpublished & indirect side effects of Paxil is that it makes your jaw ache.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

::yawn:: c'mon..I'm feeling fiesty. Gimme a reason to be mean!

What?? Say somethin', bitch!

― Allison (Allison), Thursday, 10 July 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

I mock your value system!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 10 July 2003 07:04 (twenty years ago) link

OPENLY!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 10 July 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

-woah-

d00d, that was uber-harsh...

damn...

― eedd, Thursday, 10 July 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~hettinga/data/bongo.gif
this thread needs even more bongos

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 10 July 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

Is there a prize for the person who makes the 1000th post?

― Marriot, Friday, 11 July 2003 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, you are no longer obligated to pay attention to this thread.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 11 July 2003 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

Until it gets near 2000 after Google has this thread as its number 1 link when searching for 'Dave Matthews band'.

― Pauline, Friday, 11 July 2003 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

bring on the hippies!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 11 July 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link

Not all Dave Matthews Band fans are hippies, lawyers or college students. They have a cross section of fans of all social backgrounds,religion,color. If people say DMB are the best band in the world then its because they really believe so. Show some respect. I am in no doubt they are the best live band i have ever had the privilege to see. If there any better live bands then tell me and i'll try checking them out.
Most of you dont even have any good reason to hate the band so much. They're really nice guys too!

― Ruth, Friday, 11 July 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

Bands I'd rather see live whose stage presence are so different from DMB that comparing them would be silly:

The Cure
Prince
Orbital
The Orb
808 State
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
The Clientele
Poem-Cees
De La Soul
Sisters Of Mercy
Meat Beat Manifesto
Depeche Mode
Certainly, Sir

Bands who do something vaguely similar to DMB that I'd rather see:

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

Ruth you should check out DMCB cuz they do what Dave do but they haven't lost the eye of the tiger

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

this thread is like a time warp to uh three weeks ago.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

They have a cross section of fans of all social backgrounds,religion,color.

I have yet to meet a millionaire Hasidic Jewish Maori who loves the Dave Matthews Band.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

I am in no doubt they are the best live band i have ever had the privilege to see. If there any better live bands then tell me and i'll try checking them out.

ooo! ooo! new thread time!

better live bands?

Mission of Fuckin' Burma, among others.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

I love the DMCB!!

― Ruth (Ruth), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

or rather, old thread time

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Na : I have yet to meet a millionaire Hasidic Jewish Maori.
Dan: I quite like The Cure and Prince.

― Ruth (Ruth), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

I don't even hate DMB! They're just there.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

I lurve them Cure and Prince too, Ruth -- but Dan and I are agreed that the Dave Matthews Band exists happily without our positive feedback and ignores our indifference or complaints if they have any sense of self-esteem and/or are laughing all the way to the bank, which I rather assume they are. Now, FANS of the DMB who can't accept that there are such things as differing opinions, that's something else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

somebody call a doctor?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

I have yet to meet a millionaire Hasidic Jewish Maori who loves the Dave Matthews Band.

BAHAhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

Oh dear lord. Just what we need more hordes of the great unwashed hippie scum that makes up the DMB fanbase. Please NO.

― frobert, Friday, 11 July 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

98% of this board is absolutely retarded and wouldn't know good music if it slapped them upside their pimply pale scared of the sun head. I happen to one of those twenty something yuppies who loves dave matthews and have been to many of his shows and he gets better everytime. before you can judge his music you should go see a show it will change your opinion completely

― eddy foley, Friday, 11 July 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

ruth i was on the dmcb website and am here to help

― eddy foley, Friday, 11 July 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

I feel like I'm in poland watching the tanks roll in. OH GOD NO

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

(answering thread title's request here)

...because their singer isn't Karl Marx!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

before you can judge his music you should go see a show it will change your opinion completely

How good could it be if I have to goto such great lengths to hear it properly? If he's so fucking brilliant, how come his records can't convince me? RAISE YOUR STANDARDS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~hettinga/data/headache.jpg

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

Malcolm McLaren's manangement skills on behalf of the New York Dolls to thread.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

(xpost)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

I was just thinking that this thread wasn't taking long enough to load - Let's add a bunch of pictures to it!

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

Good to see you eddy , but calling them 'retards' will only flame their sheer hatred of DMB fans even more.
Readingthe whole thread i saw that a few people have at least heard the cds and watched them in concert. I respect their comments. But those who call DMB fans 'Yuppie Scum' 'Hippie Scum' 'Jocks' 'Date rapists ' etc I cannot.
Not very open minded about music despite the claims. You can keep your 'Alternative' bands to yourself if thats the sort of opinions some of you have.

― Ruth (Ruth), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

date rapists?

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't DMB "Alternative"?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

Ruth, you read the whole thread??

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

DMB were alternative before they sold out, now DMCB are the keepers of the true flame

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

They confused DMB with Limp Bisquick.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

Ruth, you read the whole thread??

I think she's making that up - why else would she even consider that we cared about being open-minded!?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/kozen/images/dexter-mean.gif

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

You can keep your 'Alternative' bands to yourself if thats the sort of opinions some of you have.

Insufferably pious post of the month!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

"dave matthews band, comes alive, at the earth day festival, at a concert in brazil"

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

alternative to what?

― eddy foley, Friday, 11 July 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

Um, if it wasn't for "Alternative" music...where would DMB be right now?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

since WHEN did we use the term, "hippie scum"?!

we here at ILX prefer the more sophisticated term of "those stinking hippie fucks like the one guy my buddy John had to room with freshman year before he moved out of South Quad".

please get your facts straight before you criticize.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 11 July 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

Ruth/ eddy -

I admire your spunk - but you're going to have to do a lot better than telling everyone to be open-minded.. Why don't you upload an mp3 section of a song that's a really good example of the band's talent.? Explain what makes them so great.. (Use technical terms.) Describe how/why some passage really is creative...

This thread is getting more boring than Dave Matthews hisself.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 July 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

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