"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
talk about confusing two groups that sound nothing alike
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
nah Five For Fighting guy has a slight Dave Matthewsishness in his voice
― NO BLOGS WERE INVOLVED. (some dude), Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda, but the band's music isn't in the same ballpark
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Dave Matthews + Coldplay - Eno= Five For Fighting
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
no, it equals something that'll never enter my cd player
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
if i don't hear it, it doesn't exist
Do you never go to the grocery store?
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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"
― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4bFX1ZEKyA
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 26 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually really enjoy listening to a lot of these songs.
There, I said it.
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out..... --check out my malady (San Te)
Kinda otm
― ★ INXS ★ What You Need ★ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link