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

this entire thread has now been justified. thank you spencer, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Kingfish
Jon Williams
Alex in NYC

If realizing that the DMB are yawnsome, overrated crap makes me gay....THEN FETCH ME A PINK FEATHER BOA AND SOME ROUGE AT ONCE! I'M OFF TO THE RODEO, BOYS!

however, most of us gay-folk are now trying to ascend to the level of TEH GHEY, which only the gayest acolytes/members/devotees may achieve.

it's a long, hard trip, but we'll all get there in the end.

Everything you do is simply fabulous!
Everything you wear is quite exquisite!
So why can't I be gay???

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. July 14, 2003, 4:15 PM ET

Matthews Gets 'Personal' On 'Some Devil'

Dave Matthews tells Billboard.com that, in many ways, his recently completed solo debut reveals a side of the singer/songwriter that his fans have not yet seen. Matthews says "Some Devil," due in September on RCA, includes some of his most introspective material to date. "This was very, very, very, very personal," he says. "It was a good soul-searching thing for me to do. I think the songs are more introspective in many ways."

The album features an as-yet-untitled track co-written by Matthews and Phish's Trey Anastasio, who also adds guitar work to the record. Steve Harris, who produced Dave Matthews Band's last studio effort, "Busted Stuff," played on "Some Devil" and co-wrote and arranged some of the songs with Matthews.

The bulk of the album is composed of songs written this year. Some fans will recognize the tracks "Stay or Leave" and "Gravedigger," a pair of cuts Matthews has played over the last year at his acoustic dates with Tim Reynolds. Reynolds plays guitar on the set, which also features drummer Brady Blade and bassist Tony Hall, both of whom have played with Emmylou Harris.

"Some Devil" was created gradually over the past year and finished about a month ago. Initially, Matthews says he didn't know "what I was gonna do with all this. And then it all started to fall together and get personality, and started to sound a little more legitimate. Going into it, it just seemed like a good therapy, ya know? And then it started to really take on some personality. [After a few months] we started thinkin', 'We might be makin' something worthwhile here.'"

Of "Gravedigger" and "Stay or Leave," Matthews says, "They didn't ever really sit in with the band. They never really got their heads above the water. They never really developed, and I'm not sure what the reasoning was, maybe just the wrong day. They're songs that I like, so I was messing with those, but I was also messing with other ideas."

"I think the idea of recording a couple of things that just didn't have a place with the band grew into a sort of, just a writing experience and recording experience that in some ways I hadn't really expected," he continues. The vast majority of the Dave Matthews Band catalog is composed of songs co-written by its five members, the exception being songs from the album "Everyday," many of which were co-written by Matthews and songwriter/producer Glen Ballard.

Matthews says there's really no comparison between the songs on "Some Devil" and those on his band efforts. And as the album nears release, he says that he's excited, but he is being cautious not to get his hopes up: "Like most of what I've done, it's done, and so now I just move on from it. I'm excited, I hope people like it, but I try not to get too excited because what if everyone f***in' hates it? Then I can let it go like an empty beer can. That's the way I look at it now: My part in it is done, and I hope people like it. But in case they don't, I'm gonna try not to invest too much in it that I might be disappointed."

-- Wes Orshoski, N.Y.

You own all our cd's- you're gay, you're gay
You own all our 7"s- you're gay, you're gay
You bought all our t-shirts- you're gay, you're gay
You go to all our shows- you're gay, you're gay

[Chorus:] All our fans are gay [x4]

You think you know what we are singing about- you're wrong
You think we care about the underground- you're wrong
You think we won't fuck up your club- you're wrong
You think we care if you like us- you're wrong

[Chorus]

If we're nice to you, it's because we're broke
Or unless you got some drugs to smoke
When the drugs are gone, then we are too
Then we'll go back to making fun of you

[Fan voice:] "But I've supported you guys for so long"
FAGGOT!

As appealing as a cigar-smoke-filled meal with Henry Kissinger and Karl Rove earnestly discussing the virtues of Wendell Wilkie.

OR IF U THINK UR AGLEGDLY TOO "COOL" 4 DMB THEN JUST FUCK OFF AND LISTEN TO UR CRAP "INDY" MUSIC LOL OK WHATEVER

DIEEEEEEEEE

(The above is an oblivious...er, um...obvious troll.)

LOL == Jocularity
OK == Acceptance
WHATEVER == Cynicism
DIEEEEEEEEE == Violent Hatred

weird.

like this one, for example:

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Jul/20037155107736730886180.jpg

THIS is the image that should have displayed. Does somebody else want to host it? Photoisland gets bitchy when more than one of its images is linked to from a page.

(OMG, MAKE IT STOP, MAKE IT STOP!!!!)

This isn't true for most of the people here by a very long shot, southpaw. Read this board a little before calling us all "close-minded music snob assholes."

"Asshats" is the preferred term around here.

It's much more fun to imagine you reading the whole thread, you not getting it and crying and wetting yourself and then posting this. Sorry.

ok this is the single most classic thing ever & I call for an ilx0r resolution that we shall all use the word "aglegdly" wherever & whenever possible

hate all/shot all remains the thread's high point however

You had me at " this entire page exists only as a place for sexually frustrated, overly analytical, recordphile music snobs to get together and slam an easy target." -duh.

The Sacred Readme is a tad vague, but the church's High
Priest believes that "The Meaning Of Life" is encoded in
either a popular song, or a Hollywood movie, or an Adobe
e-book.

or a musicologist forum thread about Das Dafe Mettews Bend.

Last night, for no apparent reason, I started reading The Da Vinci Code. I therefore believe this statement unconditionally! That, and TheFeyRobertSmith roxxx u r all not gay enuf.

we can dream, can't we?

"LAN PARTY ON THE POOL DECK! BRING YOUR FINAL SCRATCH!"

Its not true that all DMB fans like Phish or Counting Crows.
I like all sorts from The Cure, Depeche Mode, REM,U2,Bowie, Orbital,Massive Attack ,The Jam, Smiths,Echo & The Bunnymen, Killing Joke. I dislike Creed, Grateful Dead, Pearl jam, Nirvana, Counting Crows, Limp bizkit etc.
So come on everyone who posted here tell me your 10 favorite bands.

Alex in NYC, yer BUSTED!

Lifter Puller
Stockholm Monsters
Souled American
Blonde Redhead
Enon
Steely Dan
Morbid Angel
Randy Newman
Rufus Wainwright
The Streets

...and now we just sit back and wait for trife to come in and holler about how those are all white people, but again, that list changes daily - two weeks ago it would've had Scarface on it