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

(It's a lot easier in the UK, obv)

dunno how i missed this...
it was a Cinco De Mayo party thrown by a DMB obsessed grrl, whom i had an inkling of intrest in. suffice to say, that's all over and done and the party, while a drunkenly great success, was perhaps an eye-opening experience to those whom love the DMB while myself and my drinking partner explain (subtley, mind you)how utterly bland and uninspired DMB is to some. they were shocked and dismayed.
i was drunk and tryin to step lightly...

I feel a t-shirt comin' on

At first I thought you were talking about ACTUAL pirates and I suddenly had a lot more respect for Dave, what with picturing him in a British navy officer's uniform, crossing swords with bucaneers, and all that. But no.

HAHAHAHAAAAHHA!!!man, that's great! can i use that?! yeah? cooool.

oh, and DMB "solved" racism?! wha??!! when?
and what does buld mean? and srsly??

rap?? what does that have to do w/ DMB? does carter rap now, too!???

and, i've done plenty to help humanity. actually, right now, even!
doin a fund raising show for the Salvation Army to help Katrina victims. so, shut face, dickstick.

i'm slightly sad about that.
that pic was some serious comedy for quite a few peeps...
oh vell.

chapter 1 - listen to gay english music

chapter 2 - be a loster

chapter 3 - hate things that are populer

chatper 4 - dont get layed

dooshes?!!!man, you got this spellin thing DOWN, mah man!!! what's a matter? yr pious stance gave way to free-form trash talk that a 13 yr old would find blasse...this makes me weep. and the baby jeses!

damn you, dave's good arm! you beat me to the punch...

where did the 'gay english music' thing come from???!
i don't recall any mention of The Moz here!

(Even though you are an ILM trolling kidder, this is still kinda funny. But your fake bad spelling is over the top, even for a DMB fan. You're trying too hard!)

see, now yr missing the point of this thread as it stands- it's almost no longer (almost!) about DMB and his lousy music or his fans! now, the thread's "devolved" into a limbo-esque state of near-constant semi-irony and not-so-clever baiting in hopes of random googlers finding this thread and posting in it! therefore, the thread can NOT die due to DMB's rabid and apparently mild-illiteracy.

my spelling not withstanding. and pics of Nick n' Buzz also.

Dave Matthews is such a bad singer he makes scott stapp of Creed look great!

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I have had a TON of responses, then when I tell them when practice is, I never hear from them again. Email me up if this sounds good to you.

THIS SOUNDS GOOD TO ME.

EMAILS FORTHCOMING THANKS

...has respect of fellow musicians like sting,peter gabriel, allanis,sheryl crow,Meredith Brooks,Counting Crows

hahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahah!

priceless!

I remember the first two albums, and I don't see how anyone could listen to the entirety of "Remember Two Things" and not admit there was some stunning talent at work, here. I regret that DMB never fulfilled their potential. I had a dream recently that they had done something new that was good as the first two albums and it was blissful, but when I awoke, it was all a mirage. I went to allmusic to explain to me what has happened to the band since I quit following their work so many years ago and even the verdict there seemed to say they had lost the plot. That makes me sad. And it makes me sad that they'll always be known for the 'shit incident'. There is a real lost potential here, and that is sad, to me.

Please commence the jokes...

Popular groundswells do vary in discernment, as students of jogging, nail care salons, and tax limits know.

Ironically, what I regretted about them at the time though, was what I think was most interesting about them now;l they invented the piezo pop sound. Tim Reynolds and Dave Mathews guitars and “the predator's” violin made no attempt at all to sound acoustic or like more pleasing sound of magnetic pickups, nor did they use heavy effects or subtle eq to process out the quack and rubber of the piezo. Dave M even went so far as too use a solid body guitar with a piezo pickup and no magnet and to use that sound fairly unfiltered. This is not to say no one have ever used a UST before, but they made an aesthetic out of it rather than a compromise, and it served their music. The piezo tone had a less fragile sound than real acoustic and a more percussive quality than magnetic pickups. Dave’s guitar parts would have been even wimpier on a miced D-28 a muddy mess on Les Paul, but with that raw piezo sound they work. Also as several people have noted those guitars sound like plastic (guitars are almost never made of plastic, which I think referentially serves their plastic frat funk. And, if few of the imitators were listenable, the sound still proved hugely influential.

Of course after a few albums their material went completely south, they were never good improvisers (though as many have noted excellent rhythm section) his voice is polarizing with out being distinctive enough to merit being polarizing, and the fans are, as everyone has noted, the scum of the earth.

When I got to college they had recently released their first sell out record and my standards of taste were rising, but the main thing that sent my dave mathews cds home to collect dust were looking around and noticing the kinds of college students who liked Dave Mathews didn't particularly like music.

This phrase makes me very happy and makes me laugh.

I'll even admit that my hometown was the one from which DMB came, so there are memories there. I didn't really get into DMB until I'd moved away, but I remember a time when no one knew them outside of that small town. I remember a bartender making me a tape of them, and I really thought it was pretty good. I don't think they had any records out then. I remember seeing them live once with a friend. But it just didn't make any sense to me until I moved away.

I dug up this quote for you guys that I thought you'd find funny. This was from a show I heard advertised on BBC radio, probably BBC 6. I wrote this down intending to share it with ILM, but didn't get around to it until now:

"Witty, Creative & Bright" they called him on BBC radio. Twas actually radio 2 on a Saturday, but I missed the show on DMB.

why?

because this thing's bigger than all of us, bigger than it's subject matter, bigger than Nick n' Buzz's photos, bigger than the ignorance of the DMB fanbase (who i'm now firmly convinced are NOT fans of music OTHER than DMB and DMB clones), and bigger than anything i can contemplate.

my friend now lives in Dave's hometown, says it's horrible how often he hears them now, and that he really wants to just shout how bad they are at people, but it's worthless to do so...

so, to all the DMB fans who think they're right and go to the Gorge or whatever mega-venue and get high on 'teh music' and whatnot, keep on tryin kids, don't you worry about that trustfund runnin out, or that yr really just tryin to hold on to a nostalgia that makes the Dead look like they were part of the Neo-Roman Classical Period of art.

keep yr DMB locked down and far away from me, and next time you play in a bar in PGH where i am, i'll kick the juke-box for ya, Arthur Fonzerellie style...

Hahahahaha

This guy is speaking my language. Name another band to borrow so beautifully from a trio of English folk, various American styles, and African music thrown in for good measure. I'm proud most of all of the DMB's multiculturalism. They seemed to mix a lot of cultures together. I'm talking of their first album of course "Remember Two Things".

All the ignorant college students in the whole world can't take that away from me.

I'm also eager to re-experience their first "proper" album Under The Table & Dreaming, produced by Steve Lillywhite, who I have had much good things to say about in the past.

Just know this, that my town, my hometown was so small, that I remember meeting the guy who designed the sleeve for Under The Table... I remember things about him. Because the town was so small. But one can't tell all.

I love jazz/funk too. But DMB never had the funk in enough quantity. That's okay because the first two albums are still classic records.

pleasepleasepleaseplease to tell.

Well, I'm stumped.

After spending three hours trying to get to the venue, getting into the venue, dealing with already drunk white hats from nearby UVa (he's one of US!!!! WAAAAHOOOOO!!!!), I finally got into the show and got a beer. Sat through the first set - not terrible, and the people watching was hilarious.

Then came the .1% of my appreciation - it was a few days after Johnny Cash had died, and Dave came out and did a solo, quarter time version of Ring of Fire. Sounds kind of lame, I know, but the audience automatically became split in two - those who knew IMMEDIATELY what song it was, and were at least appreciative of what he was trying to do (that would be me) or those who didn't know the song, didn't know who Johnny Cash was, and were screaming for the rest of the band to come back out.

So, for what its worth, I suspect that Dave actually gives two shits about some worthwhile things, but his band is not anywhere near my iTunes.

This guy is speaking my language. Name another band to borrow so beautifully from a trio of English folk, various American styles, and African music thrown in for good measure. I'm proud most of all of the DMB's multiculturalism. They seemed to mix a lot of cultures together. I'm talking of their first album of course "Remember Two Things".

Are you sure we're talking the same language, because I think I was talking about pickups, how despite overall lameness it was kind of cool that they embraced such a shitty pickup sound, and you're hearing multicultural blending. I don't even particularly hear the English folk influence, but I'll concede, no American band had ever been influenced by African music before. That was a real revelation, and no ignorant college student or well informed music critic can take that away from you.