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

But....at the end of the day, DMB's music still bores me to absolute tears.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), February 12th, 2003.

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Totally OTM and prescient. And this didn't even take into account the purposefully overhyped WMD canard and the hamfisted way this Administration would mismanage the war. He's right about DMB, too.

But before I talk about the album specifically, I want to share a memory I have of Dave Matthews and his entourage coming into this restaurant I worked in...it was after he had been on David Letterman for the first time, but I do believe it was well before Crash had come out. Anyway, at the time this happened, it was like he's just made it. He was a star now. And him and his group of people stayed later at the restaurant than anyone and I began to really resent him because I wanted to go home for the night, and we couldn't because of his table and I figured he had this huge swollen ego now that he'd made it. So when he finally decided to leave, we all stood up and greeted them, just as we would have any customers as they left and in a narrow hallway I stood, saying thank you and making eye contact with everyone in that whole entourage except him, whom I refused to look at or speak to.

This was before I really got into his music, though, so it does look very different to me in hindsight. Although maybe he did have a big head then? Who am I to say?

Anyway, first of all "Crash" the song is a fucking tradgedy. The riff is divine, the tune is divine, it could have been the best thing they ever did but he fucking ruins it with those lyrics. And it's because it's like he's too lazy to try some interesting poetry to describe sex and love, he has to have it literal and stupid. And I think I said before it just ends up sounding like an invitation to groupies, how egotistical. Just so idiotic and stupid. But the song itself, like I said, the tune is fucking gorgeous from beginning to end. As for the rest of the album "So Much To Say" isn't quite as good as it promises to be, "Two Step" is not too bad, but nothing to write home about, and "Too Much"/"#41"/"Say Goodbye" is really not worth mentioning, most of it goes in one ear and out the other. "Drive In Drive Out" is also rather repulsive, but then comes "Let You Down" something delightful happens and the album suddenly takes a turn for the better. "Lie In Our Graves" is delicious English/Celtic folky stuff to my ears. "Cry Freedom" is staggering and single-handedly justifies the entire album. "Tripping Billies" has been sanitized and overproduced here, losing all the vitality of the live version on the first album. And it all ends suitably beautifully, with a very nice mellow track called "Proudest Monkey".

Never again would I find their music interesting.

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holy flurking shnit. that is egregiously expensive.

hahaha are there actually DMB vinyl freaks?

Dave Matthews Band: Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Legendary and Beloved

Even Alanis Morissette lends her trademark pipes!

What is Dave Matthews listening to? Matthews tells us about Xiu Xiu, the experimental indie project of Californian singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who, Matthews says, Tim Reynolds turned him on to. “There’s something about it where you can’t put it down,” he says. “It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ and it’s really beautiful. He’s a little bit precious maybe — and ‘a little bit’ may be understating it — but there’s something about it that I go back and I listen to it again, and I like it.”