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

Some Mexican dude zipped by the other day on his Harley, and he was blasting some music that sounded exactly like DMB, only in Spanish.

First rock and roll band ever to sing the lyric "Mom it's my birthday"

it is more of a shouting tbf

or a saying, if the narrator is reliable

a complex piece

i find it really strange that frat dudes listen to this guy and Jack Johnson. It just doesn't compute to me at all.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/dmb2_zpsvqwgequ7.jpg

i find it really strange that frat dudes listen to this guy and Jack Johnson. It just doesn't compute to me at all.

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:18 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Having gotten to know a lot of (former) frat dudes over the years, esp in law school, it computes to me perfectly well. To the extent there was a "profile" at all, it was not the aggro, alpha-male type you see in 80s movies, it was more of a mellow, straight-laced, don't-rock-the-boat kind of guy. Nice, risk-averse, usually not severely neurotic or suffering from low self esteem, but confident only up to a certain point.

agreed with that description, up until the booze flows

otm description, def casually racist too

Daaaaaaave

yeah maybe so. the guys I knew were mostly from northeastern colleges and maybe the frats there leaned a little more liberal than average

plus it's unchallenging mid-tempo stuff that undiscerning dudes can purport to be discerning about on the basis of, like, "musicianship."

yessssss

also earnest John Mayer heads

I kind of like the break in the middle of WWYS, where the band drops out and it's just guitar, and then there's a sax solo. Freed from its context, I feel like it could mesh well into a good DJ set.

dated a jam-band guy in the late 90s so i've seen dave in all his splendor. not my most pitiable concert-going experience, which might be papa roach. tbh there are a number of contenders.

I would see DMB 1000 times before sitting through another youth lagoon show

it is more of a shouting tbf

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:04 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or a saying, if the narrator is reliable

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:04 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a complex piece

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:05 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com

Never forget. Dave Matthews' bus dumped 800 pounds of poop into the Chicago River 13 years ago today https://t.co/f36UBMdAa9 pic.twitter.com/NijTwvTYLe

— DNAinfo Chicago (@DNAinfoCHI) August 8, 2017

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdKFaN_XUAEQSlZ.jpg

i have to say that he came across as rather likable in that interview

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/boyd-tinsley-misconduct-allegations/

I feel very odd about the “dude looks like The Predator” jokes I used to make about this guy

a think he looks like a predator if not The Predator

yikes
https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/boyd-tinsley-text-message-1.png

This week, Dave Matthews addressed Boyd’s departure from the band for the first time in an interview with Vulture. “I have a deep love for Boyd, and he has to deal with his stuff. In many ways, I’m sure it would’ve been a lot easier for him to just say, ‘I’m good. Let’s go play.’ But you can’t just throw yourself away, your wellness away, because you play violin in a band. It doesn’t make any sense to do that.

“I can’t say, ‘I can’t wait till he comes back,’ because I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Matthews added. “But right now being away is better for him. Nobody is happy about this situation. Except that we’re happy he can figure some stuff out. I hope he does. But I’m going to miss having that whirling-dervish Adonis-Muppet over there on my right. I know the audience is, too. But we can’t serve that desire.”

o_O

Guess that brings this thread full circle...

on a library computer which wipes all cache and cookies and info and such and when you type in 'ilxor' the first suggested result is 'ilxor dave matthews name your reasons' lmao

iconic thread

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/acting-attorney-general-matt-whitakers-old-tweets.html

True or False: Dave Matthews is the Jimmy Buffett of our time?

the two bands matt whitaker knows about

don't drink the margarita
there's blood in the margarita

these acts have very little in common. dumb can manifest in very different ways.

Jon BonJovi knows how to be a rockstar.

Not just for Dave Matthews Band fans, Ryley Walker's The Lillywhite Sessions is a reminder that taste is subjective, timing is everything, and you don't always choose the ones you love.

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/ryley_walker-the_lillywhite_sessions

yeah it's pretty good! but also the lillywhite sessions is prob the best dmb album (so, of course, it was shelved so that dave could record a terrible record in a week with glen ballard)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKk-EFUwsaA

this didn't even make busted stuff, which was full of re-recordings of the lillywhite sessions material, and it's better than most dmb songs imo

also the original version of "bartender" is the *best* dmb song possible i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRlyOokh6k

don't get me wrong this band still sucks

interesting. i'm not a fan of lillywhite sessions/busted stuff. you can tell that some of the songs were written with the same guitar patterns he'd used for sketching out songs since forever. for example, grey street is very similar to tripping billies where david matthews has written a repeating melody for everyone to mimic by moving two fingers up and down the guitar neck. the band maybe felt the initial guitar ideas they had to work from in the lillywhite session were stale. they may have also toured that material too heavily and burned out on it before recording? so they switched to the baritone guitar for Everyday and shook things up. This was the band-sanctioned narrative at the time, but I agree with it now. Everyday is way better than the other stuff they were up to.

... everyday is a really terrible record idgi

the band narrative was that this material was too depressing and they weren't having fun recording it. they should have less fun

i tried everyday again but it is actually impossible to get through "i did it"

Everyday sounds a bit like the other side of the band's collaboration on Santana-Supernatural. So it's kind of bad and annoying and awesome in the same way that Santana-Supernatural is those things.

yeah, skip i did it. it is annoying.

I usually start with Dreams of Our Fathers

don't know why i'm italicizing song titles. just a quirky dave-ism, i guess.

I remember reading an interview with him once where he was talking about how much he loved oral sex and how he could survive by just drinking/eating? the fluids of women.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:59 AM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think about this, and the fact that this band dumped half a ton of their own feces from a bridge and onto innocent boat tourists.

how have i never heard of this story??

yeah me neither wow

dude being obsessed with and gross about oral sex is unsurprising if you've heard any percentage of his music