least bad & hated Dave Matthews Band single

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

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"

damn now you're making me want to switch my vote to "What Would You Say"

I do remember loving Don't Drink the Water when it came out.....

Strange that such a long and storied career produced but one memorable single (What Would You Say).

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

that's crash into me

oh srsly what the fuck that song makes your body is a wonderland sound charming and tender jesus

i wonder how many people played that song at their wedding

I kind of like the one that say "tomorrow let's go back to being friends" whatever the fuck that one is.

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"

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."

talk about confusing two groups that sound nothing alike

nah Five For Fighting guy has a slight Dave Matthewsishness in his voice

kinda, but the band's music isn't in the same ballpark

Dave Matthews + Coldplay - Eno= Five For Fighting

no, it equals something that'll never enter my cd player

if i don't hear it, it doesn't exist

Do you never go to the grocery store?

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?