g love and special suck amirite
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
for some reason i had the inclination that DMB might be huge in aus. i don't really know why. maybe because he's from SA (sorry if that's some kind of insult)? or maybe because his US fanbase and americans who are "really into" australia is a prob a close venn diagram.
Didn't they get a lot of their fans through touring the college circuit though? (I dunno, a lot of my "knowledge" of DMB is basically inferred from passing aside references)
The fact that a lot of South Africans move to Australia to let the white times roll doesn't really result in any kind of awareness of SA or SA-related cultural products here.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
let the white times roll
lol
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I beg you all, don't let your feelings about Dolores "Not Larry" O'Riordan color your judgement here. DMB is worse than ten Hitlers. Or at least some number of Hitlers greater than one.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
from the zombie cover youtube comments
The most tasteless and point-missing musical abomination in the history of the world, ever. They took a heartfelt Irish protest song from the previous year resenting the IRA's campaign of violence, and made a happy, boppy dance version of it.Simply repugnant.EalaDubh 4 months ago
Simply repugnant.
EalaDubh 4 months ago
at first i assumed they were talking about the cranberries original..
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
DMB dumped its own sewage onto people's heads while they were on an architectural tour, which is worse than screeching "Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou"
DMB is worse.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahaha I had forgotten about that
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Cranberries dumped sewage into peoples heads by making that song
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
metaphorical sewage >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actual sewage
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
DMB dumped its own sewage onto people's heads
by sewage you meant "every live album it's ever released"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Dolores sounds like a harpooned walrus. the DMB song has a pleasant sax solo.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't they get a lot of their fans through touring the college circuit though?
yes this is their origin story.
god if only we had an overzealous dept of homeland security back then
― goole, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3597180.stm
this is seriously one of the funniest stories ever
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
policing Charlottesville!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
pleasant sax solo.
R.I.P. LeRoi Moore
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
DM himself is, i am assuming, not a white-times-roll kind of zud afrikan, to his credit.
― goole, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://riffraf.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a7b5f86a970b014e5f3d6c85970c-800wi
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
the one who died being the only one w/ shoes in that pic is very "barefoot paul on the cover of abbey road"
― hypnagoonic rock (some dude), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I like "Zombie"! It was obvious at the time that it was just a Smashing Pumpkins rip-off but tbh I liked it more than anything off Mellon Collie except "1979" & I still feel that way. Plus "Zombie" is easy & fun to sing around the house & I do this a lot still.
Dave Matthews makes me feel old, b/c it got big w/ college students right when I graduated from college & I could not get the appeal.
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
The dude on the far right excepted, these are the most out of shape guys under forty to hit multiplatinum in the last twenty years
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
DMB song is pleasantish-enough light rock imo. Cranberries, although I championed their first album, exaggerates all the worst qualities of Dolores' vocal quirks and mawkish poetry about "big issues."
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
It was obvious at the time that it was just a Smashing Pumpkins rip-off
yeah see this wasn't going to make it any more endearing to me
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
DMB song is pleasantish-enough light rock imo.
this might be true except the lyrics are not just bad, they are offensively stupid
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
And the violence caused such silence,Who are we mistaken?
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ ESOL student
i'm sure the lyrics are better in the original gaelic
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
what would YOU say?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
does Zombie even have lyrics? all I know is "zahm beh eh eh eh" etc & the chung chung chung chung chung riff
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
has everyone bagging on "Zombie" heard "Bosnia", because that will blow your mind if you haven't heard it
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
i was gonna suggest the John Lennon one as their peak
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
i would rather hear cranberries than dmb
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
i'll prob take dolores's po-faced inarticulate nonsense over dave's breezy faux-wise nonsense
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
they each deserve separate singles polls imo
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
lyrics are not just bad, they are offensively stupid
I've heard that DMB song a handful of times, just relistened five minutes ago to make sure I knew which song it was, and I still don't remember what the lyrics are. Maybe I just block DMB out like bad TV commercials.
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
as far as cranberries hits go, i'd rather hear "zombie" than "free to decide" or "ode to my family"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE DOING LINES: DON'T DO IT
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i'd rather be kicked in the shin than in the balls but
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost "Free to Decide" was objectively awful so not sure that's a meaningful statement.
Does anyone prefer "Zombie" to the first album? Anyone?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
MOM IT'S MY BIRTHDAY
only lyrics i know, apart from the title
― goole, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Don't Drink The Water" is one of the most hilarious songs I know, though.
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I know the lyrics on "Salvation" are hamfisted, but musically it fits happily in the "Crazy Horses"/Rocket From The Crypt continuum and I have no beef with hearing it anytime.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
When played live, "Don't Drink the Water" is often preceded by a spacey intro that features Matthews' famous screams and comes to a loud climax before slowing back down into the beginning of the song. The song itself is played at a much more upbeat tempo that differs greatly from the much slower paced one featured on the album.
DONT DRINK THE WATERTHERE'S BLOOD IN THE WATER
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
TV On The Radio should cover "Don't Drink The Water"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol "free to decide"
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
based on the news story above, "blood" is not the main problem with "the water"
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Also, heard "Free to Decide" at the grocery store the other night, would take it above "Zombie" or "Salvation" easily. "Linger" and "Dreams" are quite lovely though.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Did you think "I'm not so suicidal anymore"?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
It was the fearful night of December 8th.He was returning home from the studio late.He had perseptively known that it wouldn't be nice.Because in 1980, he paid the price
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
With a Smith & Wesson 38,John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.
did not know Weird Al had written a Lennon song
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
"i drink too much" makes me want to drink too much
― billstevejim, Monday, 26 March 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
It's probably because they were totally ubiquitous when I was 13-17, the age at which your brain is highly vulnerable to radio hits, but I kinda like all DMB's mid-'90s stuff. Cranberries aren't too bad, either. Someone from the post-Pearl Jam crop of assholes like Bush is way more odious to me.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
When I was 15 people would tell me I look like Dolores, but that's because I had short red hair and people are unimaginative/love making celeb comparisons.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
OTM about having a hard time really hating those mid-90s Dave singles. We should do worst Bush single or something.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 March 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
Bush singles >>> DMB singles, but I'm something of a grunge acolyte...
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 26 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
the first 7 bush singles are good.
― billstevejim, Monday, 26 March 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link