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

"Bad" is a thousand times more preferrable than "dull".

by the way, i just want to say that i'm still fairly new to the board and feel deeply grateful for the fact that many of you have lumped DMB together with other mediocre and annoying bands i hate like Pearl Jam, Counting Crows, Phish, John Mayer, Hootie and Blowfish and U2...it's not everyday that i get to meet such great people such as yourselves.....*sniff*

okay, now i'm getting emotional.....

I searched for -Dave Matthews Band- and could not find this thread in the results.

Then I searched -I Love Dave Matthews Band- and still did not find it.

I then searched -Dave Matthews Band hated- and only found some references to this thread, but not the thread itself.

Finally, searching -"Dave Matthews Band : Name your reasons"- and found four tenuous references to this thread, but not the thread itself.

This thread does not exist. Please delete.

nothing too funny, but i found an interesting review on one of his albums...here are some quotes:

http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/010321/tunes.shtml
For these reasons, the Dave Matthews Band has been successfully filling a niche that’s existed just as long as indistinguishable radio pop — Earnest Rock. And although this niche can make you rich, fat and happy, it’s much more distressing than anything ’NSync could think up.
Earnest Rock was the great unwritten-about musical trend of the ’90s — mostly because rock critics couldn’t summon the interest to dissect such blindingly mediocre records. Earnest Rock, as performed by groups like Hootie and the Blowfish and Counting Crows, thrives as a reaction to the overblown tendencies of the musical extremes elsewhere in the marketplace. While this brand of music might be more “meaningful” than, say, Destiny’s Child, it’s also achingly dull in comparison to the catharsis and passion fueling a Nirvana or a PJ Harvey (or a Le Tigre or a Yo La Tengo)....

...It can’t even be discussed on its own merits because, really, it can’t exist by itself. It’s Plan B. It’s just there. Which is worse, much worse, than sucking.

Subject: RE: Dave Matthews Obsession
From: Dave is AMAZING
Date: 09-Oct-03
Message: ok, first of all, a lot of you people who are dave bashing all are hypocritical asses. Don't give me that crap about dave matthews being a racist and not having any talent. Why don't you get your damn facts straight before YOU start sounding IGNORANT...oh...wait...i think it's a little too late for that. Dave was born in south africa and like most of the normal people on this message board said....dave's music comes from the experience of hearing the music of south africa. and what's the crap about having all his "black" members stand behind him on stage...well..let me give you a little wake up call......go to a dave concert asses and take a look. he steps away and lets boyd (the guy on the electric fiddle) take the stage. So YET AGAIN you are WRONG. I am not going to bash marilyn manson or whatever music you listen to. What i am going to say is Dave is a brillian musician, and songwriter. Ever listen to his lyrics? they have so much MEANING to them....got that... M E A N I N G! So take a chance and listen to his music before you go and start with the dave hate.....cut the crap.

Alas, this thread shall never die when we are belssed by the likes of:
"go to a dave concert asses and take a look."

1) Dave Matthews Band
2) Sexually Transmitted Diseases
3) Pitchforkmedia (This one might actually be true)
4) The weather in Chicago
5) Jeff Probst
6) Middle English
7) The thieves that broke into my car and stole 10 recently purchased indie rock CDs with almost no resale value

at 6:51 am
i LOL'd @ this.

and thought 'damn, this thread shall NERVER die!'

wait...nerver, neevren, noovren, nevren...
shit.

i hate hate.
where's my coffee?

HOWEVER- if you are looking for some songs to download, do these-
nething by ani defranco, creedence clearwater revival, led zepplin
taylor/rodeo clowns-jack johnson
i believe in a thing called love- the darkness
meant to live- switchfoot
so much to say- dmb
so good- better than ezra (FUCKMEYEAHTHATSAGOODBAND)

haha- those are like my favorite bands and i dont care if u love them or hate them- those bands are what i love to listen to

Yes, they are unexcusably bland and uninteresting to my ears.

are u basing this on songs you have heard on the radio, or have you actually taken the time to listen to one of his cds?

'OMG PLEEEEEASE tell me more about this band "The Darkness"'

they are britsh. haha, the music videos are kinda sketchy but i heart their music. if you like them then also go for 'the dandy warhols' and rhcp... maybe even sublime

Trying again, I got halfway through Everyday and promptly fell asleep.

I can't get over how uninteresting they've become. I remember thinking there was at least something interesting there the first time I heard anything from Under the Table....

Dieblucasdie- i am not the most intuitive person and i have problems determining srcasm from sincerity thru tone of type!

Erin, I'm going to re-post a statement of mine from wa-hey back in 2003 (last June) that addresses your question:

Should it require more than a few CDs and singles to form an opinion of this band? If their readily available material (presumably the music the band felt most satisfied with to represent them) fails to create a favorable impression, why do you have such a seemingly damn hard time fathoming how -- for even a nanosecond -- that you may actually indeed be mistaken in your assertion that the DMB's music is anything other than bog-fucking-standard?

-- Alex in NYC ( vassifer@earthlink.net ), June 14th, 2003.

and because i have left like 20 messages today i feel like i need to explain. i am home alone and sick. i finished alphabetizing our refrigerator (achooo) and i started searching for dmb mp3s, this popped up.

Whew. Now I can quit reading this thread.

thank you God, thank you God, thank you God - I knew if I waited long enough this thread would give me a really hard case of the giggles again