Yup.
DMB fans aren't like Jehova's Witnesses
I like the idea of fans of any band riding around on bikes like the Mormons, winning people over via house to house visits.
To be fair, Sarah, you're quite correct in general. You like them and that's what matters, and you shouldn't care what anyone else thinks. But like it or not, other people will have their opinions on the matter and will disagree with you on them if that's what they feel. That's the way things work. From where you're standing, those others are not 'right,' but they're not wrong either.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― craig johnson, Friday, 28 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Then get off your ass and get over there and do it, cowboy.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 28 February 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 1 March 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The first time I heard him(Dave) I thought he was a black jazz artist.The song I heard (crush) from him and his bandmates was amazing and had a distinct soulful feel to it, the feel that you don't hear much at all today from bands. Their drummer(carter) has God like drumming skills,amazing live band their just lit from beginning to end.I just got around to picking up their new one Busted Stuff, fucking mindblowing music. All the musicans bring somthing to the table so your always full ya know?They literally have created their own genre of music and that right there is quite a thrill mate."- Bono ,Showbiz Iraland Maginzine 3-2-03
Is this why we hate dmb?? yah dmb..they suck..riiiiiiiight
― Mark, Saturday, 1 March 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 March 2003 06:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 1 March 2003 09:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unfortunately I think you just shot yourself in the foot.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 March 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
P.S(especially the non-dmb fans you white trash pieces of shit)
P.S.S(have you guys ever realize that your just dissing people you will never be i.e Accountants, lawyers, people that go to university)
― DMB FAN 4/20, Saturday, 1 March 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark, Saturday, 1 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark, Saturday, 1 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― eded, Saturday, 1 March 2003 18:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ned, like I said I don't care if people like the music or not. That's their opinion. It's when people are prejudiced towards me and other fans that there begins to be a problem. I happen to hate the music of the band Creed, but I don't hate all Creed fans just because they like music that I don't. I have been treated very unfairly at times because I happen to be a DMB fan. A lot of people assume I am a pot-head and that all I do is get drunk and listen to DMB. That's not my life at all. I don't really know of many other bands or artists whose fans get so much hatred. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that DMB fans are some of the most hated fans around and I still don't understand why. Maybe someone could enlighten me?
― sarah4136, Saturday, 1 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's not that I don't like them, its just that I haven't heard a single note from them.
some of the comments are idiotic (if bono likes 'em that must mean something...).
But you know I do the 'smug' thing most of the time anyway cozen, and especially so at the weekends since this place is nearly dead.
You are right. I'll restrain myself.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
OK. So you don't like them. I'm sure I don't like some of the same music as you. But that doesn't mean we can't get along, and that is my main point.
― sarah4136, Saturday, 1 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't really know of many other bands or artists whose fans get so much hatred.
Pretty much EVERY band's fans has negative stereotypes. I've spent most of my life deply into Prince (ergo I MUST be a bisexual, hyper-promiscuous fop obsesed with Jesus) and The Cure (ergo I must think I'm a suicidal vampire fairy). Ask fans of The Smiths what people thought of them, or the Sex Pistols, or Marilyn Manson, or pretty much any band or artist out there.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
I got enough crap for liking REM in elementary school, I can't even IMAGINE what I would have gotten for Prince-appreciation (save for the Batman soundtrack, which was cool because it was about Batman). Maybe that's why I didn't really go nuts about pop until college (even though I watched it all the time on tv I only purchased "alternative" albums).
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was being sarcastic as it isn't interesting.
band x likes band y.
that band x is U2 is nothing to me.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
(hi ned)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
please be reminded i have not said one bad thing about linkin park.
Uh, yay? (To make it clearer, Mark -- I don't care how many awards they've won or how long they've been together or all that crap, what matters about U2 or any other band is what I think of their music. That should be all that matters to you as well. Or do you seriously go around rating bands based on those extraneous factors rather than their music?)
Ned, like I said I don't care if people like the music or not. That's their opinion. It's when people are prejudiced towards me and other fans that there begins to be a problem.
Fair enough, and as Dan has illustrated, that's something that is pretty commonly felt no matter what you're listening to. I will say though that you were 'irritated' when people judged Mr. Matthews and company on the basis of what they had heard via the radio songs -- so clearly you do care somewhat! ;-) I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all, we could all say something similar. And as Dan notes, his response (and mine) aren't to say, "We can't get along because you like DMB," it's to say, "We're not going to agree on this subject -- that means nothing else about anything else, though, or doesn't have to be." Which it sounds like we're all saying anyway.
ergo I must think I'm a suicidal vampire fairy
You don't, Dan? But but but I do! Oh wait...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
being a fan, I'm allowed to say that.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
oh, sorry
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Seen as a verb phrase instead of a adjectival one, this suggests wonders.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
ooh! another accidental double entendre!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Listen junior, not only have I invariably seen U2 more times than you've had hot dinners, I've actually sat down and talked to the man, so don't try to school me about his cred. I don't care if JAZ COLEMAN espouses the music of the Dave Mathews Band. Lending creedence to an artist just because someone you respect or admire likes them is no way to establish merit. Hell, I'm a massive fan of Julian Cope, but the records he cites on his website as 'crucial' I usually find nigh on unlistenable. What I can tell you is that to these ears, the music of the DMB is dead fucking boring and deplorably overrated by a nation of whistleheaded frat schmucks who don't know any better. I couldn't give less of a flaming fuckin' fig if Bono likes them -- he likes fuckin' Patti Smith too, and ya don't see me charging out my door to go buy her fuckin' crappy albums.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 2 March 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 2 March 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link