ps. Who is worse? Dave Matthews Band, Hootie, Shania Twain, Meredith Brooks, Travis,Ocean Colour Scene,Stereophonics, Alannis etc?
― Julie Cosgrove, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
But....at the end of the day, DMB's music still bores me to absolute tears.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dave's voice is something only Alanis' mother could love.
― don weiner, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
NOOOOOOOO, Anthony! ARGH! Don't say it! I'm melting, melting!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Come to think of it, it does. Travis and the Stereophonics both have at least one song I really like, and they're really not that different from the DMB...
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
I understand the hatred perfectly, its the same reason we hate DMB.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
I know CanCon requirements explain a lot, but how can you not have heard them from car radios or commercials or other involuntary exposure?
― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
I feel my opinion of his music is fairly sincere because I was literally unaware of who he was or what he looked like. I had heard his name in relation to Phish, so I assumed his music probably wasn't even on the radio.
His music always felt icky, like bad generic white guy music from the late 80s somehow mixed with Seal to make for an uncomfortable, displaced feeling of nostalgia and slow-motion blah.
― Scaredy Cat, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
The verses of "The Space Between Us" (the chorus sucks ass)The "I am no Superman" songThe "drink too much" song
Everything else is completely worthless and unnecessary.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
I can't stand it when people say they don't like them because "crash into me talks about looking up girls skirts" when in reality it was put there because Dave improved it once and everyone laughed and it just kind of stuck, what's the big deal? It's nothing compared to any rap, rock, or hip hop group out there.
Dave matthews has an awesome voice, it's different, it's for people who like different things every now and then, don't you people ever get tired of all the singers that sound like either Britney Spears or Scott Stapp? Nobody sounds like Dave, that's why so many people love him.
Dave Matthews Band started out about 13 years, jamming in a bar. They grew so fast because of their awesome live shows and word-of-mouth. Dave is now obviously a millionaire, but he always states how much they owes every bit of their success to their fans. They release an album, whether it be live or a studio recording, every year, for their fans, they tour everywhere all the time for their fans, Dave dances, and the band's still together for their fans.
The DMB is the best band on earth right now, they're very, very talented, and they love their work and their fans. How could you deny the greatness of such a group of people?
― naga_pampa, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm a professional singer and I think that DMB doesn't just the big hairy nutsack, they chew and gnaw at it until it tears, causing the testes to spill out in a heaping pile of epididymis and seminal vesicles.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
jesus christ, what are you, their publicist? You sound positively zealous in your DMB fundamentalism. Here's a suggestion -- sweeping superlatives and purple prose will *NEVER* convince anyone of anything nor *EVER* win you an argument.
"Nobody sounds like Dave"
Hmm...well, John Mayer certainly does....and he's boring as fuck too!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is funny for more reasons than I can count.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do the jazz singers you work with know that you don't consider them to be musicians?
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
(NOTE: I have often felt bad for the violin player, partly because I felt like he was wasting his talent by playing with DMB but mostly because he looks like the Predator.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ah, that explains it then.
Listen, your tiresome insistence that "real musicians know what" you're talking about it is a moot point. Musicians don't make music solely for other musicians. Boring music is boring music, whether your Philip Glass or Kato Kaelin. Technical proficiency on your instrument of choice is no guarantee of substantive *STYLE* (waaaay more important than skill). Sure, maybe you can play scales on your oboe using only your pinky,.....but that doesn't mean anyone really wants to listen to it. Technical proficiency merely makes you a musical 'craftsman,' STYLE makes you an artist....and even then, not necessarily a great one. DMB has style -- I'll admit it -- but they're still dead boring.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, no charge, but it seems to me that using terms like "most talented," "best commercialized", "genious [sic]", "incredible", "perfect", "awesome", "eclectic" and, of course "best band on earth right now" sort've overstates it. Calling the Dave Matthews Band "crafstmen" is by no means a compliment.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link