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

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He spawned that John Mayer and that HORRIBLE "Your Body Is a Wonderland" which really is a crime against humanity.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Just the whole combination of being so very very uninteresting and yet being so widely worshipped, is the main reason.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Least we witness all the unviersity students forming bands to sound JUST like him. And they all suck too.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The likes of Britney would love to work with him.

"Your choice, Ms. Spears -- the Neptunes or Dave Matthews?"

"Hmmm..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Any real or musical reasons to hate him?"

Sure, plenty. The production is empty and lifeless with no surprises or innovative ideas, his vocal style is grating and cloying, I hate that "funky acoustic guitar strumming" thing he does, and on and on.

"He does all sorts of music."

This is not a virtue in and of itself.

"Acoustic stuff"

So?

"does good improvisational stuff"

No. Only if you consider hippie-jam-band technique to be "improvisational". (I do not).

"is great live"

Never seen him.

" has respect of fellow musicians like sting,peter gabriel, allanis,sheryl crow,Meredith Brooks,Counting Crows,Santana."

I don't respect a single one of those people - the endorsements are empty.

"All the mebers are great musicians."

Technically proficient /= great.

"And the actual songs are good."

Nope.

"He wouldnt have such a rabid cult fanbase if he wasnt any good."

That's what people said about Hitler.

"The likes of Britney would love to work with him. "

And this is of importance why?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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. I say eeewwwwwww? I mean oral sex is a-ok in my book but between his comments of bowel movements and just the thought of his big assclown head shoved between some poor woman's legs...shudder.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

group named after its leader is usually bad. Dave Matthews is such a nothing name to begin with. We like to call them/him the "Dave Matthews," just as it's fun to refer to the "Medeski, Martin and Woods" or the "Sonic Youths." Or for that matter the "Ya La Tengos, they are my favorite band!"

― Edd Hurt (delta ed), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

sum-41 video to thread!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"He wouldnt have such a rabid cult fanbase if he wasnt any good."

I KNEW the fraternity system is a cult!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

So, I'm the only person on here that really likes the Dave Matthews Band, then?

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

No no no.. We all love him.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

right. this is all constructive criticism here, we just want him to be EVEN BETTER. or better yet, something else.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

because hippies like him and i hate hippies.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

>or better yet, something else

like dead.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Or mute.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

it's for his own good

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

and ours too.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

he sucks, huh?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I never understood all the 'Sounds like Hootie & The Blowfish and Sting" stuff. he sounds like neither. And its not like DMB has stolen any songs off him. DMB songs dont sound like anyone elses. Especially Hootie & The Blowfish.
Crash Into me and Space Between are 2 of the best songs written in recent years. Something Sting, Hootie or any of ILMers fave pop or indie bands could write(in my own personal opinion of course) I dont want to start fights. I just dont understand why he is so hated. But maybe thats because hes unknown over here in the UK. Most Americans seem to have an opinion on him.

― John McAteer, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

like a vacuum.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Something Sting, Hootie or any of ILMers fave pop or indie bands could write

John Darnielle and Momus -- please write songs like Dave Matthews.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

McAteet: even the Dave Matthews fans I know think the Space Between is awful; why do you think he eventualy released the lillywhite sessions - becuz all his fans were bitching about how awful everyday (and in particular the space between) was. Dave Matthews came from the same circuit as Hootie and has the same fans, the only difference is that Darius Rucker has a better voice than Dave Matthews and they made the mistake of having their first album be an impossible to followup megaseller. I doubt there's a single article on the Dave Matthews from 95 that doesn't paint them as the 'new' Hootie.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

...they made the mistake of having their first album be an impossible to followup megaseller.

To play devil's advocate (heh) for a second - how could they have "controlled" sales of their first alb?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ping Pong's first track was about as deep as it needs to be, now just extend it seven minutes with bongos and play it at the appropriate speed for bong hits.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

...but without black people, he (Dave Matthews) wouldn't be funky!
Dave Matthews...funky.
I'm sorry, but this does not compute. Those two ideas are mutually exclusive.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

To play devil's advocate (heh) for a second - how could they have "controlled" sales of their first alb?

... Get Dave Matthews to sing on it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

hstencil - by not writing such incredible songs of course! take a cue from Axl (he pulled "Don't Cry" from Appetite to save it for the followup) and spread the love!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

seriously, the label should've put the kibosh on videos and singles much earlier; same thing happened to alanis.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

not sure that's the band's fault, esp. one as yokel-filled as Hootie. "Yes, Mr. A&R Man, anything you say!"

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Just don't put the Kibosh on me!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The-guy-who-was-fired-from-Rolling-Stone-for-dissing-Hootie to thread

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

but Horace Mann's already here!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

you think DeRogatis has the spare time to be...4th on the Users list?
Geez, am I lame.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey...where is this users list? You got me curious.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure Dave Matthews and his band are perfectly nice guys, but y'know what? Their music is fucking * B O R I N G *.....which is, as far as I'm concerned, a worse crime that sounding like a muppet (which I don't hear at all). Dave Gedge of the Wedding Present sounds like Muppet, and I loved them. Dave Matthews Band (and...really, couldn't he have come up with a decent name for the band at least?) are just dull, dull and thrice verily dull.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and I *REALLY* hate their fucking fans as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

...sounding like a muppet (which I don't hear at all).
Nope, hstencil is right. He has a Kermit T Frog kinda vibe going on. But then again, so does Hootie (granted, he drops his voice a couple octaves to hide his plush-felt interior.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

hating the fans is not a reason to dislike the music.

(come on alex you're a killing joke fan)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Bland, blander, blandest.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"hating the fans is not a reason to dislike the music."

Why not?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

cuz it makes you an asshole

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

do you know every single dave matthews fan? are they all idiots just becuz they like that brand of music? etc etc

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Its not the band I hate,
its there fans.

(Im sorry couldnt be helped)

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate the band, not the fans (I like girls who wear abercrombie & fitch).

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

There's at least one reason to like the Dave Matthews Band.

And it could be worse. You could be one of a dillion Athenians who flock to see DMCB. Yes, "David Matthews Cover Band".

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(simon T is so gonna smack me.. again.)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

VERY aware of the Dave Matthews Cover Band (they play the same clubs Dave Matthews used to play). I used to joke about starting a Dave Matthews Cover Band Cover Band, and I'd write RUN on their flyers above DMCB. What's kinda insane is I know people who prefer the DMCB to Dave Matthews (cuz they focus on the era of Dave before he sold out, etc.)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

(when did Horace Mann = DeRo become accepted knowledge 'round here?)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You hate the band's fans??

???

That's like, you hate me.

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i think that the dave matthews band has descended into midtempo bore-rock for the past few albums, but those that insist that the group always has been boring (with lifeless production, etc) have likely not actually listened (with open mind) to Before These Crowded Streets, for instance - an album with enough darkness and life to defeat such criticism. it's not a masterpiece, but it's certainly not Hootie and the Blowfish. just ask the Kronos Quartet.

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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oh you’re surprised that frat music guy has better politics than, say, Radiohead? you thought 10/8 time signatures and a more experimental sound would mean more radical politics? touch grass my guy. crash into me bro. https://t.co/Wy3ZPJ4x6I
— BO (@bo_austin_) July 25, 2024

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Friday, 26 July 2024 00:00 (one year ago)

maybe it’s just me getting older but no why would I have any preconceived notions about a musician’s politics

also dmb didn’t code frat to me as much as “sophisticated”, “elevated”, wine drinking idk

― brimstead, Friday, 26 July 2024 01:31 (one year ago)

...also have not been popular with college-age people since 1997

DMB is a Gen X nostalgia thing

― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 July 2024 01:57 (one year ago)

hike up your tweet a little more

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 02:02 (one year ago)

also dmb didn’t code frat to me as much as “sophisticated”, “elevated”, wine drinking idk

did you attend an american college in the 1990s?

― jaymc, Friday, 26 July 2024 02:04 (one year ago)

it was def a frat band when I went to college lol

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 02:07 (one year ago)

kinda ruined them for me tbh

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 02:07 (one year ago)

maybe it’s just me getting older but no why would I have any preconceived notions about a musician’s politics

otm, this dumb 'u coulda seen the code in Radiohead's music that they would have a TERF in da band one day' posturing is really dumb like.

Dave Matthews coulda easily wound up being a fuckin Ted Nugent type but he grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which, despite being on the privileged side of him, probably informed his politics significantly.

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 02:15 (one year ago)

Wasn’t in college at the time, I was a young adolescent when he started popping off

― brimstead, Friday, 26 July 2024 02:33 (one year ago)

dmb came across more vh1 than mtv if you feel me

― brimstead, Friday, 26 July 2024 02:34 (one year ago)

are you just looking for the phrase "adult contemporary"?

― Evan, Friday, 26 July 2024 03:19 (one year ago)

playing frats around Virginia and the South was basically DMB's springboard to stardom ... like they were touring frats years before they were popular in *all* frats.

― alpine static, Friday, 26 July 2024 03:49 (one year ago)

pig poop balls
— tendency reveal at 1k (@etahetwha) July 26, 2024

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 03:53 (one year ago)

Athens, GA had its own DMB cover band that would sell out the Georgia Theater every weekend for $25 bucks a seat

― Heez, Friday, 26 July 2024 12:38 (one year ago)

i suppose at a certain point the DMB frat guys of the 90s grew up & mellowed into the wine-drinking attorneys and finance guys of the 2000s

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 July 2024 12:41 (one year ago)

yeah that makes sense. the frat thing is interesting, Dave just seemed really old and plain and not fratty to me. like Huey Lewis seemed old at the time.

― brimstead, Friday, 26 July 2024 14:07 (one year ago)

Can confirm, the two people in my extended orbit that I know go see DMB every summer are both finance guys.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 July 2024 14:29 (one year ago)

it took me a few seconds to parse that tweet bc I associate fussy 10/8 time signatures with DMB as much or more than I do with Radiohead

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 July 2024 14:42 (one year ago)

yeah I guess they're thinking of like Paranoid Android and its weirdness but even THAT song is in 4/4

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 14:54 (one year ago)

the late-high school and college-era DMB fans I encountered in the late 90s/early 00s were stereotypically the pukka shell necklace-wearing fraternity-type guys and the hippieish-adjacent women. not jam band enough to be restricted to jam band fans, not too soft rock to alienate others

by the late 00s Jack Johnson seemed to be feeding off the same people

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 26 July 2024 16:19 (one year ago)

Granola in all its forms

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 July 2024 17:23 (one year ago)

at least people are finally talking about DMB regarding topics other than poop-dumping or how gross the lyrics to Crash Into Me are, even if they are written from the character of a peeping tom

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 17:26 (one year ago)

enjoy while this lasts, because the 20th anniversary of the poop dump is on August 8th.

― StanM, Friday, 26 July 2024 17:58 (one year ago)

at least people are finally talking about DMB regarding topics other than poop-dumping or how gross the lyrics to Crash Into Me are, even if they are written from the character of a peeping tom

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal)

yeah but Lady Bird loved it.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2024 17:59 (one year ago)

we are on maybe the 3rd wave of dmb reassessment. we had the Ryley Walker album, Lady Bird, yasi salek on every podcast, etc.

― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 July 2024 18:08 (one year ago)

I need this thread to remain a safe space for naming why they are bad & hated

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 July 2024 18:16 (one year ago)

Venn diagram of late 90s college music with DMB, Phish and Ween

― Heez, Friday, 26 July 2024 19:52 (one year ago)

I don't think those overlap nearly as much as you think. All of my Ween loving friends in college HATED DMB with a fiery passion.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 July 2024 20:03 (one year ago)

it was kinda really ridiculous during orientation at FSU, I dont' remember if I told someone I was into DMB, or if I had a DMB shirt, but like, nobody would shut up about em.

in line we were discussing DMB and this guy yells across the room HEY SO AND SO, THIS GUY HERE LIKES DMB and this other girl started cheering loudly and that just kept happening throughout the day, I was like is this Jim Jones university, why the cult-like excitement

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 20:42 (one year ago)

and the funny thing is I'd still ride for the first three albums lol....but got tired of their steez real fast after Space Between

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 July 2024 20:42 (one year ago)

I probably mentioned it upthread, but I saw DMB like 7 or 8 times between 1995 and 2000. I was never a big fan, nor did I really hate them, mostly just went out of inertia because I had a lot of friends way into them and they played around us A LOT.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 July 2024 20:46 (one year ago)

I don't think those overlap nearly as much as you think. All of my Ween loving friends in college HATED DMB with a fiery passion.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Yeah the overlap wasn’t necessarily listening habits but random keg parties

― Heez, Friday, 26 July 2024 21:26 (one year ago)

DMB fandom overlaps with Dispatch, OAR, Rusted Root, and Blues Traveler in my experience

― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 July 2024 23:32 (one year ago)

i would say Radiohead has more songs in 5/4 (Everything In Its Right Place, Morning Bell, 15 Step, plus a couple Smile tracks) but DMB overall has weirder time signature stuff where there'll be changing the meter from one bar to the next and then dropping out or stretching a beat.

― some dude, Friday, 26 July 2024 23:37 (one year ago)

and Phish are 10x more prog and weird than either

― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 July 2024 23:39 (one year ago)

Technically I would say “Everything In Its Right Place” is in 6+4/4 (ie alternating 6/4 and 4/4 bars) but otherwise point taken

― laughter is the best weapon (DJP), Saturday, 27 July 2024 01:48 (one year ago)

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