don't get me wrong this band still sucks
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
interesting. i'm not a fan of lillywhite sessions/busted stuff. you can tell that some of the songs were written with the same guitar patterns he'd used for sketching out songs since forever. for example, grey street is very similar to tripping billies where david matthews has written a repeating melody for everyone to mimic by moving two fingers up and down the guitar neck. the band maybe felt the initial guitar ideas they had to work from in the lillywhite session were stale. they may have also toured that material too heavily and burned out on it before recording? so they switched to the baritone guitar for Everyday and shook things up. This was the band-sanctioned narrative at the time, but I agree with it now. Everyday is way better than the other stuff they were up to.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
... everyday is a really terrible record idgi
the band narrative was that this material was too depressing and they weren't having fun recording it. they should have less fun
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
i tried everyday again but it is actually impossible to get through "i did it"
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Everyday sounds a bit like the other side of the band's collaboration on Santana-Supernatural. So it's kind of bad and annoying and awesome in the same way that Santana-Supernatural is those things.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
yeah, skip i did it. it is annoying.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
I usually start with Dreams of Our Fathers
don't know why i'm italicizing song titles. just a quirky dave-ism, i guess.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
I remember reading an interview with him once where he was talking about how much he loved oral sex and how he could survive by just drinking/eating? the fluids of women. ― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:59 AM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― omar little, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
i think about this, and the fact that this band dumped half a ton of their own feces from a bridge and onto innocent boat tourists.
― omar little, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
how have i never heard of this story??
― Spottie, Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
yeah me neither wow
dude being obsessed with and gross about oral sex is unsurprising if you've heard any percentage of his music
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
However I can't really imagine that comment being in an actual interview??
― Evan, Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
i can. he wrote an entire song about the same subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDYP2TxDGlc
listen at your own peril
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
oh no
Blood through my veins for youYou alone have all of me
― Spottie, Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
there are no innocent 'boat tourists' imo
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
first of all, they're covered in feces
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
Just Googled the lyrics to that "Rapunzel" song -- OMG
I had to stop halfway thru
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
(Where's the PMRC when u need them?)
always thought he was singing about bugles
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2018/11/20/the-sainthood-of-dave-matthews-has-been-indefinitely-postponed
― plant a twee or die (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
https://entertainment.theonion.com/dave-matthews-band-apologizes-after-tour-bus-dumps-anot-1830712805
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/10/rock-the-vote-this-week-i/
By Peter P.M. Buttigieg,November 10, 2003This week, I picked up a new album by Dave Matthews, prophet of the carefree joy of my high school years. But unlike the cheerful strains of late-nineties-Dave, the solo project Some Devil is a sober, even grim reflection of how much the world has changed in a few short years. The man who brought us the playful riffs of “Too Much” and “Everyday” is now promoting the album’s first single, “Gravedigger.” Matthews is not the only one undergoing a tonal shift; if you’ve paid attention to Radiohead this year, you know that they have grown not only darker, but more explicitly political. In titling their new project, for example, they replaced the cryptic inclinations that brought us previous efforts like or Kid A, and called this one Hail to the Thief.Music is always regarded as an index of the times, so a glance at what’s changed in our short student lifetimes could tell us a thing or two. And indeed, there are some lessons in even a casual overview of what has happened to campus music trends just in the last few years....
Music is always regarded as an index of the times, so a glance at what’s changed in our short student lifetimes could tell us a thing or two. And indeed, there are some lessons in even a casual overview of what has happened to campus music trends just in the last few years.
...
― j., Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
Then all hell broke loose. Just as we were adjusting to the fact that our country could function even if the president didn’t completely know what he was doing, a team of Saudis with box cutters torpedoed our innocence. Right then, like our cell phones, our culture stopped working for a minute. What sense could the old Dave Matthews make when Dave Letterman was weeping on air?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
an incoherence of daves
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
he would probably make a better prez than music writer
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
I would bet my house he owned at least one Dispatch album in college. Or downloaded one from Napster, is probably more like it.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
the P.M. stands for "Patchouli Man"
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
if mayor pete wasn’t cancelled before, he sure is now
― a photographer, satanist and ukip voter (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
go on pete, you are forgiven
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/mayor-pete-buttigieg-phish-inauguration-1203193074/
Asked about his college days, he cited “a lot of Dave Matthews in my life back then, a fair amount of Phish kind of thing. But also again the classics. I thought I was gonna be Jimi Hendrix on the guitar.” The hosts then produced a Les Paul, on which he strummed a snippet of “Hey Joe.”
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
Ah yes, the les paul. Cassic jimi hendrix guitar.
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 April 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JyD6WHE_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Friday, 9 August 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
RUNDMB
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 August 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
Y'know...it's one thing to stand at a remove of a couple decades and snicker at a vague recollection of DM and his B, but I've had a few of his songs pop up over the past week (in a general '90s playlist) and...yeah, this shit was real real bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FqsQE5oRNE
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 June 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
The only DMB reappraisal I will fuck with is that his shit was so heinous that if we had one terminator to send back and the question is do we send it back for DMB or Trump I'm going to need five minutes to think about it.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Thursday, 25 June 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
BREAKING: Amazon's new CEO's favorite band is DMB https://t.co/fPqhxlEatt pic.twitter.com/mo9KLboVIO— Caroline O'Donovan (@ceodonovan) February 2, 2021
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 February 2021 04:58 (three years ago) link
guillotine
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 February 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
'Jassy Thang' a believable DMB song title
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 February 2021 07:07 (three years ago) link
https://preview.redd.it/ixufs6a7e5g71.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f88d0cb69098bc0a9751617a7057b3260ef7133e
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
speaking of 800 lbs of shit, i have contemplated reviving this thread to talk about how before these crowded streets is a good record and the lillywhite sessions is an excellent one
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
Sure, Jan.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
every(?) jam band has exactly two good records
grateful dead: u knowphish: billy breathes, story of the ghostdmb: before these crowded streets, lillywhite sessions (counts even tho it was shelved)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
I do kind of like that theory. Like, if you just keep playing and recording eventually you're going to do something good, like monkeys with white baseball caps sitting at type writers.
By the way, the other day, yesterday, and saw a young couple walking down the street holding hands. She was head to toe goth, with black fishnets and a black hat obscuring her face. He was just a preppy dude in jeans and a DMB t-shirt. I assume they were in love.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
my boyfriend is not "preppy," he was a crust punk for like five years ok
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
then he got sober, embraced his inherited wealth, and found dave
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
Don't forget about Rift, Brad!
Also, I had never seen the location of the poo dumping before. I don't know why, but I had always imagined it from a more significant elevation. Like, "oh, the boats look like tiny little dots down there - we just didn't see them." Maybe at the edge of a cliff. Obviously not taking into account Chicago's geography. Nope, that was just right on their heads. Wow!
― wankee hotel fuckstrot (peace, man), Monday, 9 August 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
I'll plug Ryley Walker's cover of the Lillywhite album, it's really good even if you hate Dave.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 August 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Before These Crowded Streets is darker-edged than most of his stuff, I like "Don't Drink the Water", which has his attempt at death growls
― there's too much fucking shit on me (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 August 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link