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

Dropping in to suggest the Bandsplain on DMB with Grayson Haver Currin

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Why are they talking like Dennis Miller?

To make a three-hour podcast episode about DMB a good time

I'd never call three hours of Dennis Miller a good time.

I'm assuming someone out there has a podcast called What Would You Say?

Dennis Miller Band

Paging e everything, who got the hooch to thread

Dennis Miller Bland

Go Gauchos to yasi, but "Lover Lay Down" is a bad track

disturbing to learn about lilywhite's own horndog leanings

DMB + YLT @ CBGB:

https://www.jambase.com/article/dave-matthews-band-yo-la-tengo-cbgb

(…plus Love Child!)

WARNING: Any and all comments including “tour bus” “sewage” and “Chicago river” will be deleted by my assistant Chylene.

lol

saw dmb at two separate bridge school benefit concerts in the late 90s, gotta be honest i could not get into it and pretty much zoned out the whole time. dave and neil played “cortez the killer” together, but it was not very killer to me

I had a dream the other day that Dave Matthews Band played a show locally on a college campus, and a local, far-right conservative group leaked to a paper something really horrible and hateful that DM supposedly said, suggesting he was more of an ally to their causes, and they ran it. I'd witnessed the exchange and was calling the student paper to ask for a retraction, when Dave himself showed up on campus and threatened to beat all of their fucking asses with his guitar.

or maybe that actually happened i don't know

If you really take this stuff seriously, it is fucked up that they play 'Grey Street' to a bunch of bud guzzlers at the thunderdome.

I'll bite, why is that fucked up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZyQjQclmH0

It's a song about a depressed person that ends with her still depressed, and everyone is just loving it.

and I suppose the dancing people suit the music. The music already clashes with the lyrics. On the album, the songwriter and subject are trapped in a terrible dmb machine. In the show, the dancing audience are ghouls that beg the grotesque machine into motion. "We want to dance to the circus music about the lady who wants to die, dave!"

thought Grey Street was about their bus driver having a repeat folly with the waste tank

the woman is depressed because her kayak was loaded up with excrement like a shit pide.

Hike up your fecal coliform levels a little more

Lol - "Don't Drink the Water" indeed.

Shits Marching

Shat Would You Say

Shatellite

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Chylene, Chylene, Chylene, Chylene

I'm beggin' of you please don't drain my van

#2

Big Eyed Flush

I shit too much
I piss too much
too muuuuch

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— Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan) July 25, 2024

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

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

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

DMB is a Gen X nostalgia thing

hike up your tweet a little more

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?

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

kinda ruined them for me tbh

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.

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

dmb came across more vh1 than mtv if you feel me

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

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.

pig poop balls

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

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

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

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.

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

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