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

Bottom line: DMB sucks, and therefore you must suck for liking them.

Case closed. Next?

DMB sucks -> Alex (et al) doesn't like them.
DMB sucks -> You suck for liking them.

.. just as clarification ...

I love how the sarcasm of this one doesn't really hit til the ironic punchline about all those exciting PJ Harvey and Le Tigre and (this is the obvious clue) Yo La Tengo records. Like, if only all those clueless Counting Crows fans heard those, they'd never turn back!

The other funny (and clearly intentional) thing is that Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Le Tigre, and Yo La Tengo present themselves as just as "earnest," if not more so, as Hootie and the Crows! (Not to mention the stupid dismissal-of-random-r&b-act-as-meaningless crap.)

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0112/catucci.php

There's a special ring in Hell that awaits me where these are the only two musical options.

hahahahaha

Can this be the cover?

DMB sux. U R all gay.

btw- DMB=the band that people who like jambandlite prefer.

and they suck.
phish are better. but only by a country mile.

This thread will outlive me.

U

R

ALL

GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Thank you.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15208,00.html?tnews

this thread will become the milestone by which all threads will be measured.

all shall pass thru the DMB thread, or they shall perish.

Hi! Long-time fan here (9 years, 34 shows), and I couldn't resist chiming in to tell you all how much I love this thread. It's provided much entertainment to a previously hum-drum day (I'm not trying to be a sarcastic bitch either, you really have great senses of humor and kept me chuckling). I'm hesitant to say more because of the criticism random "Googlers" have taken for being... random googlers (aside from adding unintelligible posts and making your point about tDMB fanbase resoundingly clear, but what can you do), but I'll try to watch my p's and q's. Most DMB fans are quite used to the hating at this point, and so don't bother to comment on the subject, but thank you Allison for truly Representing. I too, was a hater once, for about 10 minutes, until a copy of Crash landed in my stereo. From the first 5 seconds of Two Step I was a goner. I can't argue the technical merits of tDMB's musicianship because I'm not even a very good air-drummer, but their music spoke to me then and speaks to me still. That's really all I know. Oh, and that I never ever get tired of intoducing new music into my system; rock, jazz, and bluegrass being my favorite forms (DMB just happens to meld all three harmoniously). My other favorites include Badly Drawn Boy, Wilco, Zero7, Prince, Steely Dan, Nikka Costa, Marvin Gaye, Taj Mahal, Ben Folds/Five... just the first few that come to mind. I'm starting to listen to Death Cab for Cutie and digging them, and might just poke around this site some more to see what else I should be listening to right meow. Hope no one minds... :)

The Dreaming Tree

Standing here
The old man said to me
"Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree"
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
Now he's falling hard
And feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree
Conquered fear to climb
The moments froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby"
Mommy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died

Oh have you no pity
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask for much
But won't you speak
Please

From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her way
She gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
She feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart
She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her
"You'll always be my baby"
"Daddy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died"
(shake't shake't) x4
Oh if I had the strength to
I would leave you up
to your own devices
will you not talk
can you take pity
I don't ask for much
won't you speak
please
(to much time)
Take me back x7
Save me please
(take me back)

~Dave Matthews

Not at all. Welcome!

DMB represents an MOR sensibility and the fetish of musicianship without anything resembling good songwriting. Taken alone, they are not unlike many of the boring bands that populate vh1 (john mayer, jack johnson, natalie merchant, nelly furtado, etc, etc.)

This would not be a problem but for their omnipresence, especially in cities with grocery stores that offer a myriad of granola options. DMBs main appeal is to jam band lovers, who are nice yet repugnant. Their secondmost audience is aging (sub)urbanites who crave eclecticism in only the slightest of doses. As much as I'd like to say that a band's audience doesn't color my impression of a band, it just isn't true in practice.