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

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.

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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.

If anyone is still looking for good songs to download, some of my favorites are Seek Up (live at Red Rocks), Captain, Halloween (live at the Gorge - the video is even more kickass though), JTR, Lie In Our Graves, Warehouse, too many to list - but my all-time favorite DMB tunes is #41!

(from Seek Up)

I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you
Or appease you
Look at this crowd
Five billion proud
Willing to punch it out
Right wrong, weak strong
Ashes to ashes, all fall down

~Dave Matthews

He'll rip your heart out, make you eat your own lips.
Then crack your elbows, and crush fingertips.
He'll make you wish that you didn't exist.
Cause Sargent 'D' is coming, and you're on his list.

Don't cut the line, cause he'll cut off your legs.
Don't take your time or you'll spend time with the dead.
Don't try to trick him, he'll fill you with lead.
Don't beg for mercy, he'll piss on your head.

He'll kill your sister, then mail back the tits.
He'll beat you senseless, then break out the whips.
He'll make you wish that you didn't exist.
Cause Sargent 'D' is coming, and you're on his list.

He'll put gas on your kids, then throw them a match.
He'll back the car over grandma, then dissect het cat.
With his Stormtroopers of Death, he'll come to your town.
Their Uzi's rip through flesh, then it's time to chow down.
Their cause is justified, their reason is clear. T
he word revenge is all that they hear.
He'll make you wish that you didn't exist.
Cause Sargent 'D' is coming, and you're on his list.

- SOD "Sargent D & The SOD"

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VENOM!

You're right. I'm quite skeered.

may this thread continue into oblivion.

we've already had milk & cookies. what should be on the menu this time around?

A few peeps in half-hearted defense of the Davester.

In Richmond, Virginia, circa 1992, when I was a silly college student playing drums in a bad jazz band, these "Dave Matthews" chaps were a prominent regional band who were not yet famous. I never opened for them, but I did open for Bio Ritmo and Bio Ritmo sometimes opened for Dave. (So, by the transitive property of opening bands, I could kinda say I opened for Dave Matthews.)

They played every Wednesday at the Flood Zone, I think, and some friends of mine always went to see them. A girl I knew had a huge crush on Stefan Lessard, the bass player who is from some other country. A couple times, we were a few tables away from them at a bar or some such, but I never actually met Dave or anything.

The first song of theirs that I heard was "Satellite," from the album that had a cool magic-eye optical illusion on the cover (psychefuckinDELIC, man!). It has a very clean guitar intro that is in a weirder time signature than I had heard in rock and roll up to that point. And I still think that "Satellite" is a good song. (Though I can't get into all that followed it.) And I think that Dave's duet with Emmylou Harris, "My Antonia," was not half bad.

Whoever said that thing about some people wanting their eclecticism in very measured doses is mean but probably right.

Still, the band should be commended (with reservations) for popularizing different instrumentation from your standard rock band.

Yes, I know, the Velvets had the viola, blah blah blah Sugarcubes blah blah blah Jethro Tull. I'm not saying that the BMD is groundbreaking--rather that DMB's very large audience has a model for a different way a band can be, and that is worth something.

Last week, I heard an actually quite good rock band with a cellist, and suspect they were more inspired to break away from standard rock instrumentation by Dave and his crew than by, say, Rasputina.

;)

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In addition to Dave Matthews Band, the 2005 Bonnaroo Confirmed Artists are:

Widespread Panic (2 shows)
The Allman Brothers Band
Jack Johnson
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Modest Mouse
Gov't Mule
Bela Fleck Acoustic Trio
The Mars Volta
John Prine
Yonder Mountain String Band
My Morning Jacket
Keller Williams
STS9
Earl Scruggs & Friends
Joss Stone
O.A.R.
Toots and the Maytals
Umphrey's McGee
Iron & Wine
Ozomatli
Rilo Kiley
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Drive-By Truckers
Particle
Joanna Newsom
Xavier Rudd
Ray LaMontagne
The Gourds
Secret Machines
Donna The Buffalo
John Butler Trio
Ollabelle
Citizen Cope
Brazilian Girls
M. Ward
Madeleine Peyroux

Specific performance days and times for each artist will be announced in the
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