Again, I hate his voice, he sounds like a muppet.
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Your choice, Ms. Spears -- the Neptunes or Dave Matthews?"
"Hmmm..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sure, plenty. The production is empty and lifeless with no surprises or innovative ideas, his vocal style is grating and cloying, I hate that "funky acoustic guitar strumming" thing he does, and on and on.
"He does all sorts of music."
This is not a virtue in and of itself.
"Acoustic stuff"
So?
"does good improvisational stuff"
No. Only if you consider hippie-jam-band technique to be "improvisational". (I do not).
"is great live"
Never seen him.
" has respect of fellow musicians like sting,peter gabriel, allanis,sheryl crow,Meredith Brooks,Counting Crows,Santana."
I don't respect a single one of those people - the endorsements are empty.
"All the mebers are great musicians."
Technically proficient /= great.
"And the actual songs are good."
Nope.
"He wouldnt have such a rabid cult fanbase if he wasnt any good."
That's what people said about Hitler.
"The likes of Britney would love to work with him. "
And this is of importance why?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Edd Hurt (delta ed), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I KNEW the fraternity system is a cult!
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
like dead.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John McAteer, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
John Darnielle and Momus -- please write songs like Dave Matthews.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
To play devil's advocate (heh) for a second - how could they have "controlled" sales of their first alb?
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
... Get Dave Matthews to sing on it.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
(come on alex you're a killing joke fan)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why not?
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Im sorry couldnt be helped)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
And it could be worse. You could be one of a dillion Athenians who flock to see DMCB. Yes, "David Matthews Cover Band".
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
this all makes me think of the band Virginia Coalition
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:29 (seven months ago) link
i wasn’t that bothered by it bc it’s one of the dave songs i still really like, gremlin voice and all
― ivy., Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:30 (seven months ago) link
drummer in my high school band was a fan of the stuff with Tim Reynolds. He would listen to that stuff in his truck with the treble cranked up so you could really feel those acoustic stabs
― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:38 (seven months ago) link
I used to see Tim play with Cosmology back in the 80s
1st time I got real stoned was at B0yd the violin player's apartment, again prob 7-8 years before the band formed
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:50 (seven months ago) link
Dropping in to suggest the Bandsplain on DMB with Grayson Haver Currin
― Indexed, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:55 (seven months ago) link
I've long had a theory that much of the affection that, like, basic-ass people who have attitudes about music and culture that ILMniks would look down on have for DMB might be a grade school or early high school immersion in Graceland…like, these folks went to dead shows in the late 80s/early 90s, liked to party, and were not going to be concerned with Paul Simon's cavalier attitude towards credit, or the consequences of a UN boycott, would not be interested in listening to township jive and african music but have a dopey reverence for "the 60s"…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:13 (seven months ago) link
did he become a lawyer― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
School psychologist iirc
― jaymc, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:21 (seven months ago) link
― Indexed, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 12:55 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Why are they talking like Dennis Miller?
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:23 (seven months ago) link
To make a three-hour podcast episode about DMB a good time
― Indexed, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:35 (seven months ago) link
I'd never call three hours of Dennis Miller a good time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (seven months ago) link
I'm assuming someone out there has a podcast called What Would You Say?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (seven months ago) link
Dennis Miller Band
Paging e everything, who got the hooch to thread
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:37 (seven months ago) link
Dennis Miller Bland
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 21:25 (seven months ago) link
Go Gauchos to yasi, but "Lover Lay Down" is a bad track
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 01:21 (seven months ago) link
disturbing to learn about lilywhite's own horndog leanings
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 01:58 (seven months ago) link
DMB + YLT @ CBGB: https://www.jambase.com/article/dave-matthews-band-yo-la-tengo-cbgb
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:50 (seven months ago) link
(…plus Love Child!)
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:51 (seven months ago) link
WARNING: Any and all comments including “tour bus” “sewage” and “Chicago river” will be deleted by my assistant Chylene.
lol
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:40 (seven months ago) link
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
― brimstead, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:51 (seven months ago) link
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.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 August 2023 05:25 (seven months ago) link
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.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2023 05:44 (seven months ago) link
I'll bite, why is that fucked up?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2023 13:39 (seven months ago) link
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.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2023 14:15 (seven months ago) link
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!"
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2023 14:35 (seven months ago) link
thought Grey Street was about their bus driver having a repeat folly with the waste tank
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:04 (seven months ago) link
the woman is depressed because her kayak was loaded up with excrement like a shit pide.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:10 (seven months ago) link
Hike up your fecal coliform levels a little more
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:20 (seven months ago) link
Lol - "Don't Drink the Water" indeed.
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:49 (seven months ago) link
Shits Marching
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:14 (seven months ago) link
Shat Would You Say
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:44 (seven months ago) link
Shatellite
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:45 (seven months ago) link
Chylene?! Chylene! We need you in here, STAT.
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 22:48 (seven months ago) link
Chylene, Chylene, Chylene, Chylene
I'm beggin' of you please don't drain my van
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:51 (seven months ago) link
#2
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:53 (seven months ago) link
Big Eyed Flush
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:57 (seven months ago) link
I shit too muchI piss too muchtoo muuuuch
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 August 2023 23:04 (seven months ago) link