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

Unfortunately I think you just shot yourself in the foot.

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)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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).

I was being sarcastic as it isn't interesting.

band x likes band y.

that band x is U2 is nothing to me.

(hi ned)

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...

being a fan, I'm allowed to say that.

oh, sorry

Seen as a verb phrase instead of a adjectival one, this suggests wonders.

ooh! another accidental double entendre!

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.

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ILX in more addictive and debilitating than crack cocaine shock. I can feel time slowly ceasing to have any meaning.

I think this is the most pathetic thing I've read in years. It's taken me this long to stop laughing at this post and the deeply feeble mind that concocted it. The best thing you can come up with is "you're just jealous that you aren't an accountant"???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

oh yes you do

Cheers,
Gracie in Canada

Oh sweet irony.

Several stores (including ours) were fined, and in Westchetsre, NY ALONE, two record stores were shut down (temporarily or not, I'm not sure) because Matthews objected to the selling of his "bootlegs" -

Nowadays, we call that section the "import" section and are very careful to never use the 'B' word, suspicious of spies and other soulless metermaid types.

My store, for our part, staged a boycott of all Dave Matthews CDs.

Fuck him and his shitty, sterile music.

This is a very good reason to hate anything, actually.