least bad & hated Dave Matthews Band single

They make records??

no, this is their line of custom coffee tables

"crash into me" came on in a crowded bar where the soundsystem was very bass-y and I thought it was ani difranco

feel like any op is a challop in this situation

i like crash into me, but from my experiences as a fraternity brother, i know the answer to this is either two step or tripping billies...

http://www.dmb-solutions.co.uk/images/top_bar2a.gif

whatever it is, it's definitely *not* the one (can't remember the name/possibly never knew it) where he sings about getting older, and being all these different ages, and thinking sentimental vaguely dopey thoughts baout love/life/family, in the most excruciating falsetto of our time

Crash is not-horrible album from a decade of tons of fucking awesome ones...even Phish had at least one really good one (Lawn Boy)

everything else DMB ever did is insufferable dogshit mind you

I think "Crush" was the one I didn't mind back in the day.

try to get through this entire song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXZkdEj7YI

incl. video or just the song?

the song, double bonus for the video

Satellite is the only one I've ever really been able to not claw my ears out listening to.

probably voting this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pq0b6UqrY

oh god that video

I made it 90 seconds into the video

i'm pretty much fine with all the goofy funky upbeat singles from the first 2-3 albums. i will be bummed if "Crash Into Me" wins this, that song is ugh.

i dont mind jimi thing, typical sitch, too much & two step but probably havent listened to any of them purposely in 10 yrs

trying to finish "I did it" w/out video for sake of sanity

I vaguely remember this song, but just the hook — not all these unnecessary annoying bridges and shit

This is p obviously "what would you say"

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"Too Much" is another video that poisoned me against the song, preferred the slightly watered down version Tripping Billies

"Crash Into Me" is an okay track, but it's a little romcom'ed out. "Two Step" is still fantastic and gets my vote.

voted for i did it for its innovative bridges

This is p obviously "what would you say"

― ronan's revenge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 25, 2011 11:21 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark

there is something adorable about the days when 16 bars of John Popper GOIN IN was what it took to break through on the radio

lol
xp and lol again

What Would You Say vs. Sister Hazel's "All For You"

I remember hearing "So Much To Say" on the radio as a kid and being like, dude, wtf, you obviously don't have all that much to say because you just keep repeating those 4 words

"Satellite" was good tho, I always dug it and didn't even realize it was by the same band until later

"So Much To Say" is kinda dope imo, might get my vote

I am listening to "Two Step" for, I am pretty sure, the first time — hard to imagine this as a single, but it's enjoyable

yeah I don't remember ever hearing Two Step as a single...

"I Did It" is tolerable without the video.

God, I still have "Don't Drink The Water" in my system. DON'T DRINK THE WAW-TER BLOOD ON THE WATER EEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHV EEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAH

okay I'm seeking out "What Would You Say?" now based on the above praise — top youtube comment says "one of the weridest video of all time!", which is making me leery... DENIS

OHHHhhh I remember this song now, duh. very Sister Hazel/Blues Traveler early 90s harmonica folk-funk

i c&p'd the list from wikipedia, which included a lot of songs that i guess were officially released as singles but did not chart and may as well be thought of as album tracks

I mean who gives a shit really

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND FANS OUTRAGED AS CRITICS SHOWER PRAISE ON OBSCURE 'DEEP CUT'

"one of the weirdest video of all time!" = straight Sledgehammer bite

I think I am going to vote "Satellite" without relistening, then stop thinking about this band again

I think I'm gonna dig up the infamous DMB thread on ILX

I think I'm gonna have to force myself not to read it if I want to get anything done today :/

(but still wholeheartedly support this idea)

LOL know the feeling

this is just DM, not DMB - but is the only song I have ever heard by him that didn't make me want to stick my head in a vice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZ0rSVehmk

the only DMB song that tends to get stuck in my head is "Gravedigger," their minor alt-rock radio hit from 2004. the chorus goes, "gravedigger, when you dig my grave, bury me shallow, so I can feel the rain," and each verse is a biography of an everyday person who lived and died without fame or riches. it's DMB's very own Spoon River Anthology, and it really makes you stop and think about the fragility of human life.

by comparison, all of the songs listed here are stone-cold classics & I would give my soul to wipe "Gravedigger" from my memory forever.

Why I Am
You And Me

I read this as "Why I Am (You and Me)"

i heard "Why I Am" a couple times last year (which is odd because it apparently never charted) and it was kinda nice, similar to the early stuff i like.

"Gravedigger" is from the same DM solo album Pillbox posted a song from iirc.

no love for "Ants Marching"?

two step

"Ants Marching" is definitely vying for my 2nd place along with "Stay" and "What Would You Say"

The sax on "Ants Marching" = the stench of death

Crush

I cannot endorse the whole DMB thing post-2000 or so.

But in Virginia circa 1992, Dave & co. were not yet famous and were playing every Wednesday at the Flood Zone in Richmond. I had a friend who slept with Stefan the bass player. One occasionally saw Dave and his crew around town or at one's friends' college bars.

And I will tell you that "Satellite" sounded perfect and new at that time and in that place.

This was music that made you smile if your idea of fun was: get high first thing in the morning. Play hacky sack and/or strum an acoustic guitar in the park until mid-afternoon. Then platonically cuddle a golden-haired hippy-maiden art student in a long skirt and no bra. Whenever I chance to hear that fingerstyle intro and the jazzy-ass wrongness of the time signature, I smile inside.

(This is not to defend the rest of the man's music or the bad & hated white-hatted fanbase.)

(I kind of didn't mind how "Why I Am" came out on Austin City Limits, but failed to inspire me to embrace recent or mid-career Daveness.)

sooo tempted to vote for 'don't drink the water' because of ALANIS

AND I LIVE WITH MY JUSTICE

gotta be ants marching

SHE wakes up in the morning

DOES her hair and the something something

*violin*

hahaha

I think I'm wiht Max on this. If I had to pick one I think Ants marching is the least offensive and least likely to make me want to kill someone.

well hello old friend Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

don't even know half of these

hmm i know so few of these. dave matthews is def on the top of my "lunge to change the station" artists. it's nice that his sound is so distinctive that you can pretty much switch to a new station within like three seconds.

xposts to max: oh "ants marching" is that one — yeah that was a pretty catchy song

voted for The Space Between tho i'm not sure i ever need to hear it again - i like what piece of it i can conjure in my brain tho

apparently I still have four of his albums on my computer -- Before These Crowded Streets, Busted Stuff, Everyday, and Some Devil. haven't really listened to them in a long time but I def think he's at least slightly more sufferable than 99% of ilx.

what's with this dude's eyebrow

http://images.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/US/2007/09/03/DaveMatthews_300x300.jpg
http://www.empyrelounge.com/images/grammy/dave_matthews.jpg
http://www.relix.com/images/2010/10/21/24826/dave-matthews1-353x-300x.jpg
http://www.celebritybabies.info/wp-content/uploads/dave_matthews.jpg

lol, think he's slightly more sufferable than 99% of ilx thinks he is. not that i think he's more sufferable than ilx is. ilx is eminently sufferable! xp

he is raising an eyebrow quizzically. he has a question.

i never really realized it before this thread, but he looks kinda like jeremy piven's twin

I reviewed "American Baby" once and noticed that the first 15 seconds were kind of pretty and rhythmically propulsive, so I kept just playing those 15 seconds over and over and pretending it was a Four Tet remix.

(Stay) Wasting Time reminds me of Summer 98.

What Would You Say? I actually liked the first three albums or so, then got lost in how same-y it all sounded. plus college kids ruined them for me. when I saw the types of people that worshipped DMB my freshman year of college i decided I no longer wanted to be a member of that club.

reviewed "American Baby" once and noticed that the first 15 seconds were kind of pretty and rhythmically propulsive, so I kept just playing those 15 seconds over and over and pretending it was a Four Tet remix.

lol

I thought he was pretty cute in the early years, and there were whispers about him...

i also love the weirdo lyrics to What Would You Say.

"I was there when the bear ate his head, thought it was a cannnnnnndyyyyyyyy"

damn now you're making me want to switch my vote to "What Would You Say"

I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out.....

Strange that such a long and storied career produced but one memorable single (What Would You Say).

which one is the one with that rapey "hike up your skirt and show me the world" line so i can vote for anything other than that one

that's crash into me

oh srsly what the fuck that song makes your body is a wonderland sound charming and tender jesus

i wonder how many people played that song at their wedding

I kind of like the one that say "tomorrow let's go back to being friends" whatever the fuck that one is.

the other notable lyrics in Crash Into Me: "oooh I watch you there in the window, and I stare/You wear nothing, but you wear it so well"

whatever it is, it's definitely *not* the one (can't remember the name/possibly never knew it) where he sings about getting older, and being all these different ages, and thinking sentimental vaguely dopey thoughts baout love/life/family, in the most excruciating falsetto of our time

This is not DMB; it's Five for Fighting, "100 Years."

talk about confusing two groups that sound nothing alike

nah Five For Fighting guy has a slight Dave Matthewsishness in his voice

kinda, but the band's music isn't in the same ballpark

Dave Matthews + Coldplay - Eno= Five For Fighting

no, it equals something that'll never enter my cd player

if i don't hear it, it doesn't exist

Do you never go to the grocery store?

yea but mine generally plays either cheesy 80's keyboard music or...there was actually one I used to go to which was playing Muzak from the 80's/90s including Jack Wagner's "All I Need"

But in Virginia circa 1992, Dave & co. were not yet famous and were playing every Wednesday at the Flood Zone in Richmond. I had a friend who slept with Stefan the bass player. One occasionally saw Dave and his crew around town or at one's friends' college bars.

I was forcibly ejected from a Dave Matthews Band show in Delaware around this time because I was being a terrible, belligerent drunk. Then I vomited all over my roommate's girlfriend's car after she came to pick me up. That is my DMB story.

I don't know a lot of these songs by name, but I legitimately enjoy "Stay" so that's what I voted for. "Crash Into Me" is one of the worst songs ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4bFX1ZEKyA

I actually really enjoy listening to a lot of these songs.

There, I said it.

I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out.....
--check out my malady (San Te)

Kinda otm

voted "Ants Marching", never minded this song when it was ubiquitous, which is the best I can say about it (or about the others).

I do quote "Don't Drink The Water" a lot for dadjoke comedy value.

"Don't Drink The Water" was a nearly "Lakini's Juice"-level buzzkill in terms of their career at the time, i don't know how it would sound to me now but when i think of it i mostly lol

it reminds me of lakini's juice, mostly cuz its weirdo sludge rawk

Funny because when it originally came out, "Lakini's Juice" was my favorite thing Live had done yet.

ME TOO

it was like a helmet song tbh

Lakini's Juice was severely underrated

"Lakini's Juice" C or D?

where are you going

Whiney OTM re Helmet-ness of that song. Finally we find common ground. If I ever found myself with the desire to listen to an entire Live album again, it would totally be Secret Samadhi

everyone in high school called this album Secret Sodomy
― miccio (miccio), Monday, March 14, 2005 3:32 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

BEST DAVE MATTHEWS SINGLE

ha how did i forget POSTING on that thread. i only searched the archives for "Dave Matthews Band" so it didn't come up when i tried to see if it'd been done before :(

wait i have to go see if this helmety live single exists brb

ok i see what you guys are saying but that fucking cunt is still singing so no

wait did dude just say "i rushed the ladies room took the water from the toiilet" wtf is wrong with this whole generation of assholes

on the other hand this video for dont drink the water is absolutely fucking hilarious, i think i just found my vote

Lakini's Juice by Live was supposed to sound like Helmet. The only thing it had in common w DDtW were that they were both weirdly melodramatic alt-rock songs

well lets be fair, both of them are absolutely terrible so they do have that in common

btw i realize that i am taking the dangerous and on the cusp challop view that a live and a DMB song are not good, but i had never heard either one before and wow

Love Lakini's Juice and voted for it in dude's Stylus Mag's Floundering Grunge Follow-up poll

I think now is a good time to re-assert that DMB are 90% awful

What Would You Say
Jimi Thing
Ants Marching
Satellite
Too Much
So Much To Say
Tripping Billies
Don't Drink The Water

^^^ much as i'd like to i can't really hate on any of these, hooky as hell (although his vocal stylings almost sink "Satellite") and fuck man, i owned the CDs like a million other people. Like it or not, Under The Table And Dreaming is going to be in fucktons of "classic album" canon lists ten years from now if it's not already. Granted, the lows are really low, and they overreach when they try to make Serious Statements. I let "Don't Drink The Water" in because it's just so magnificently goofy. But ehhh, none of those up there are so bad and hated, for me.

I will admit that I would race to change the channel on "Ants Marching" but I'll still give it credit for being very well-constructed.

Work It Out [Jurassic 5 feat. Dave Matthews Band] 0

ok wow just listened to that and it is somehow far worse than i expected

What Would You Say and So Much To Say are the same song, less satanic than their others.

~deep trax only~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ZhDN_HBbI

oh hey, which is the one where he goes "it's a typical situation in these typical times"? that one blows chunks too, and I'm glad nobody (I hope?) has defended it on this thread

that one is called..."Typical Situation"

don't eat the floaters--dave matthews

xp oh durr

i've heard what would you say on the radio a few times recently and it really doesn't sound that bad, tho it has its share of awful lyrical clunkers. but now that i am considering what else i could vote for i remember that all dmb songs have terrible lyrical clunkers.

so yeah, what would you say.

plus the breakdown is pretty fun

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wtf just happened

aaahhhhhhhaaahhhhhhghghhhhh you terrible people

Ha! That's amazing. <3 u secret DMB loving lurking heart of ILX

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

www.votefortheworst.com

have to admit i'm kinda glad this had such a bigger turnout and different winner from micceo's poll just so my thread wouldn't feel as redundant, but ugh at this result

play with fire

don't play with firrrrrre, there's burn in the fire

lol awesome

ha ha ha oh ilx

i have listened to almost no dave matthews, but in college someone thought it would be a good idea to hire a DJ to play music outside to celebrate the end of the term. except it was monday of fucking finals week and how the fuck am i supposed to write an essay about cotton mather when my brain is full of "THE SPAAAACE BETWEEEEEEEEEEEEEN~~~~~!"

Do we still get this many DMB lurkers?

DMB lurkers all voting for "Crash Into Me"?! No sir, it is the unfamiliar who are voting...

I guess, I'm just shocked that there are that many ilxors that would vote for it. Thought it was pretty much universally reviled around here.

not voting for "Crash Into Me" = actually giving some semblance of a shit...

"Crash Into Me" is a depressingly ubiquitous song, i'm not really surprised 30 people on this board had it pounded into their head enough to vote for it

smooth rider got robbed

Was 41 not a single?