least bad & hated Dave Matthews Band single

This is p obviously "what would you say"

― ronan's revenge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 25, 2011 11:21 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark

there is something adorable about the days when 16 bars of John Popper GOIN IN was what it took to break through on the radio

lol
xp and lol again

What Would You Say vs. Sister Hazel's "All For You"

I remember hearing "So Much To Say" on the radio as a kid and being like, dude, wtf, you obviously don't have all that much to say because you just keep repeating those 4 words

"Satellite" was good tho, I always dug it and didn't even realize it was by the same band until later

"So Much To Say" is kinda dope imo, might get my vote

I am listening to "Two Step" for, I am pretty sure, the first time — hard to imagine this as a single, but it's enjoyable

yeah I don't remember ever hearing Two Step as a single...

"I Did It" is tolerable without the video.

God, I still have "Don't Drink The Water" in my system. DON'T DRINK THE WAW-TER BLOOD ON THE WATER EEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHV EEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAHEEYEAH

okay I'm seeking out "What Would You Say?" now based on the above praise — top youtube comment says "one of the weridest video of all time!", which is making me leery... DENIS

OHHHhhh I remember this song now, duh. very Sister Hazel/Blues Traveler early 90s harmonica folk-funk

i c&p'd the list from wikipedia, which included a lot of songs that i guess were officially released as singles but did not chart and may as well be thought of as album tracks

I mean who gives a shit really

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND FANS OUTRAGED AS CRITICS SHOWER PRAISE ON OBSCURE 'DEEP CUT'

"one of the weirdest video of all time!" = straight Sledgehammer bite

I think I am going to vote "Satellite" without relistening, then stop thinking about this band again

I think I'm gonna dig up the infamous DMB thread on ILX

I think I'm gonna have to force myself not to read it if I want to get anything done today :/

(but still wholeheartedly support this idea)

LOL know the feeling

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

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.

Why I Am
You And Me

I read this as "Why I Am (You and Me)"

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 love for "Ants Marching"?

two step

"Ants Marching" is definitely vying for my 2nd place along with "Stay" and "What Would You Say"

The sax on "Ants Marching" = the stench of death

Crush

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.)

(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.)

sooo tempted to vote for 'don't drink the water' because of ALANIS

AND I LIVE WITH MY JUSTICE

gotta be ants marching

SHE wakes up in the morning

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.

well hello old friend Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

don't even know half of these

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.

xposts to max: oh "ants marching" is that one — yeah that was a pretty catchy song

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

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.

what's with this dude's eyebrow

http://images.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/US/2007/09/03/DaveMatthews_300x300.jpg
http://www.empyrelounge.com/images/grammy/dave_matthews.jpg
http://www.relix.com/images/2010/10/21/24826/dave-matthews1-353x-300x.jpg
http://www.celebritybabies.info/wp-content/uploads/dave_matthews.jpg

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

he is raising an eyebrow quizzically. he has a question.

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.

(Stay) Wasting Time reminds me of Summer 98.

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.

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

What Would You Say and So Much To Say are the same song, less satanic than their others.

~deep trax only~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ZhDN_HBbI

oh hey, which is the one where he goes "it's a typical situation in these typical times"? that one blows chunks too, and I'm glad nobody (I hope?) has defended it on this thread

that one is called..."Typical Situation"

don't eat the floaters--dave matthews

xp oh durr

i've heard what would you say on the radio a few times recently and it really doesn't sound that bad, tho it has its share of awful lyrical clunkers. but now that i am considering what else i could vote for i remember that all dmb songs have terrible lyrical clunkers.

so yeah, what would you say.

plus the breakdown is pretty fun

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wtf just happened

aaahhhhhhhaaahhhhhhghghhhhh you terrible people

Ha! That's amazing. <3 u secret DMB loving lurking heart of ILX

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

www.votefortheworst.com

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

play with fire

don't play with firrrrrre, there's burn in the fire

lol awesome

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~~~~~!"

Do we still get this many DMB lurkers?

DMB lurkers all voting for "Crash Into Me"?! No sir, it is the unfamiliar who are voting...

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.

not voting for "Crash Into Me" = actually giving some semblance of a shit...

"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

smooth rider got robbed

Was 41 not a single?