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

this band released an album with a "Magic Eye" cover. basically started chillwave iirc.

I think 'before these crowded streets' is actually one of the better mainstream albums to emerge from that jam band scene, it's just made with such skill and clarity of purpose.

haven't listened to it in ages but i'm pretty sure i'd still like the kronos quartet jam off of 'before these crowded streets,' "the stone"

CONTENTION: Dave Matthews is actually a halfway-decent crooner*—nice warm timbre & natural-sounding phrasing, never pushes his voice too far beyond its range, sticks close to the melody—it's just a shame that his lyrics read like something a music teacher crowd-sourced from first-graders, e.g. "Sweet like candy to my soul / Sweet you rock and... sweet you roll"

* obviously the funky-honky jam-band numbers like "What Would You Say" are another story entirely, and I would rather listen to an entire Blues Traveler album than be subjected to that song's chorus even one more time

― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 8:58 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, it's weird (to me) that I never hear "Satellite" anymore—I remember it getting airplay in the 90s, and I've always found it the most listenable song in his catalog (again, ignoring lyrical stinkbombs like "Who's the king of your satellite castle?")

― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, Satellite sold me that DMB album. Didn't last long for me, but I love playing along with that guitar part. Regardless, it's still a hell of a lot better than Crash, which I still hear all the time.

― how's life, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:27 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loved.

― how's life, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:27 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never really listened to Incubus (who seem to be popular with the same crowd?) but for some reason always had the impression that their starry-eyed prog-lite stylings could be traced directly back to that guitar part

― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:43 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I could hear that.

― how's life, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love the (3+ minute) coda on #41 through the intro of Say Goodbye.

― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 12:24 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this band released an album with a "Magic Eye" cover. basically started chillwave iirc.

― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 12:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think 'before these crowded streets' is actually one of the better mainstream albums to emerge from that jam band scene, it's just made with such skill and clarity of purpose.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haven't listened to it in ages but i'm pretty sure i'd still like the kronos quartet jam off of 'before these crowded streets,' "the stone"

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm going to be dim and ask if someone's going to pop out and go "april fools!!!"????

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Many songs would be pretty if on acoustic guitar only with lyrics removed.

i keep running into abstracts in underground musicology journals that rank dave as a top 5 guitar player using the latest objective forms of chord analysis

The progressions are definitely more interesting and inventive than you'd think from a hated cheesy jam band for northface people

I read an article recently about a guy who was attempting to use sound wave analysis to determine the best band w/r/t originality, how different they were from other musicians resolved through science. Dave Matthews came out near the top for some reason (above velvet underground!) the piece humorously paraphrased 'ghostbusters' and said nobody ever wrote music like this, Matthews must be an authentic wacko or certified genius.

he does seem to construct songs by moving the same finger shapes around on the fret board. they are like the frat boy version of barred chords. you probably do get things that sound weird when you write songs while prioritizing finger shapes over sounds.

i love when he does his funny growly voice.

"hoooowwww youuuuuuaallllgh dooinnggg tonaaaagggggh??"

oh dave, hee!

"Two Step" is a 6.5 minute song, and I'd say at least half of it features Mr. Matthews playing the same dyad over and over again, just daring you to turn it off. If you make it through, Sir Matthews rewards you with "crash into me", an entire 5 minute song of one chord (we get 3 notes in this one, though!).

What if you took this and plucked the guitar part out and had Mark Kozelek singing about crab cakes with a new vocal melody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzBwKZyCFM

I liked that song 'Everyday' when it first came out...and then I saw them live and now i hate them forever

what if we all just posting "dave" like it's a chant

dave

dave!

dave!!

dave!!!

big d!

capital Dave!!

david!!!

top drawer Dave!

hammertime!!!

C'MOWN!!!

to the tune of ants marching: DAVE! dave dave dave, dave dave dave dave DAVE!

AMANDA!!!

Wait wait, guess which one this is:

Dave - dave, Dave DAVE, dave

that is the chorus of crash into me

Whoa, you actually got it

I'm seriously amazed. David!

90s justice: if someone crashes into you in their car or on a motor bike, you can "come into them" should you desire to do so

dave da-DAVE daaaaave

guess?

that is the chorus of What Would You Say

What if you took this and plucked the guitar part out and had Mark Kozelek singing about crab cakes with a new vocal melody

^seriously would this be bad or good?

it would be bad. i'm not sure that it'd be worse, though.

the dave between

i dave'd it

Darrell! That's what the true fans call him, because in his Raleigh show in April 2002 he introduced the guest sax player Darrell Pawton, and Pawton said "you should have been a Darrell, Dave", and ever since then all of us on Dancing Nancies call Dave Darrell as an inside joke lol

somebody call Dave Darrell. we've got a problem, and Dave Darrell is a problem fixer.

I'm listening to that album he did with the baritone guitar, and it's the only one that doesn't sound like the 90s

i think it is probably their best album

sounds kinda like Morphine

I liked that song 'Everyday' when it first came out...and then I saw them live and now i hate them forever

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:57 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is correct. I think they'd be less bad and hated if Everyday was the only album.

I think. I think about Dave.

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one of my favorite DMB stories is the Pawtucket show in April 2002. he introduced the guest sax musician Ralph Dharel, and Dharel said "you really should have been a Ralph, Dave", and ever since then all of us on Dancing Nancies call Dave Ralph as an inside joke lol

in the song 'satellite,' dave seems to think that satellite television is broadcast via the Earth-ionosphere waveguide. this is incorrect, dave.

we sometimes refer to him as Darrell, as well, in reference to a similar incident that occurred later that month