DAVE MATTHEWS BAND FANS OUTRAGED AS CRITICS SHOWER PRAISE ON OBSCURE 'DEEP CUT'
― bernard snowy, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"one of the weirdest video of all time!" = straight Sledgehammer bite
― Destroy A. Monsters (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I am going to vote "Satellite" without relistening, then stop thinking about this band again
― bernard snowy, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna dig up the infamous DMB thread on ILX
― Destroy A. Monsters (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna have to force myself not to read it if I want to get anything done today :/
― bernard snowy, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
(but still wholeheartedly support this idea)
― bernard snowy, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL know the feeling
― Destroy A. Monsters (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Why I AmYou And Me
I read this as "Why I Am (You and Me)"
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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 BLOGS WERE INVOLVED. (some dude), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
no love for "Ants Marching"?
― absolutely clean glasses, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
two step
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ants Marching" is definitely vying for my 2nd place along with "Stay" and "What Would You Say"
― NO BLOGS WERE INVOLVED. (some dude), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The sax on "Ants Marching" = the stench of death
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Crush
― corey, Friday, 25 March 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 25 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
(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.)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 25 March 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
sooo tempted to vote for 'don't drink the water' because of ALANIS
AND I LIVE WITH MY JUSTICE
― Lady Miss K-Lo (donna rouge), Friday, 25 March 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta be ants marching
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
SHE wakes up in the morning
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ENBB, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
well hello old friend Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
don't even know half of these
― goole, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts to max: oh "ants marching" is that one — yeah that was a pretty catchy song
― bernard snowy, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
what's with this dude's eyebrow
http://images.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/US/2007/09/03/DaveMatthews_300x300.jpghttp://www.empyrelounge.com/images/grammy/dave_matthews.jpghttp://www.relix.com/images/2010/10/21/24826/dave-matthews1-353x-300x.jpghttp://www.celebritybabies.info/wp-content/uploads/dave_matthews.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
he is raising an eyebrow quizzically. he has a question.
― Mordy, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(Stay) Wasting Time reminds me of Summer 98.
― Simpsons Christmas Boogie (MintIce), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― check out my malady (San Te), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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"
― check out my malady (San Te), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
damn now you're making me want to switch my vote to "What Would You Say"
― NO BLOGS WERE INVOLVED. (some dude), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out.....
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Strange that such a long and storied career produced but one memorable single (What Would You Say).
― President Keyes, Saturday, 26 March 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 26 March 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
that's crash into me
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
oh srsly what the fuck that song makes your body is a wonderland sound charming and tender jesus
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 26 March 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder how many people played that song at their wedding
― NO BLOGS WERE INVOLVED. (some dude), Saturday, 26 March 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of like the one that say "tomorrow let's go back to being friends" whatever the fuck that one is.
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah, TWO! (chrisv2010), Saturday, 26 March 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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"
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
www.votefortheworst.com
― San Te, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― kl0pson (some dude), Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
play with fire
― "what's your name?" "silence...silence during class." (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 April 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
don't play with firrrrrre, there's burn in the fire
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
lol awesome
― "what's your name?" "silence...silence during class." (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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~~~~~!"
― major fashion inspiration (reddening), Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Do we still get this many DMB lurkers?
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
DMB lurkers all voting for "Crash Into Me"?! No sir, it is the unfamiliar who are voting...
― "what's your name?" "silence...silence during class." (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
not voting for "Crash Into Me" = actually giving some semblance of a shit...
― "what's your name?" "silence...silence during class." (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 April 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― sarraghmaclachlan (some dude), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
smooth rider got robbed
― Slag, Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Was 41 not a single?
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Saturday, 2 April 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link