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

Before These Crowded Streets is the most adult contemporary sounding album, but it is also too gross and horny to qualify.

My best friend and I often belt that Sting-o chorus to each other. That song was everywhere in summer '95 and has vanished except for loyal CVS shoppers.

I saw the motherfucker perform once at a free festival our local contemporary station put on.

I left one song into his boring set to go read a guitar magazine in a bookshop. I think during his other lesser song, "Keeper of the Flame"

When I came back, Sophie B Hawkins was singing "Damn, i wish I was your lover"

it was grafted onto my subconscious in childhood

xp excellent timing!

Half of BtCS is horny. The other half could be in Hadestown.

i love it when i'm unwinding in the bistro of a courtyard inn after a successful meeting with southern regional partners, and 'in the house of stone and light' comes on, as it always helps me realign my values.

What kind of a high-school student would fall in love with this band? I always thought of DMB as a form of adult contemporary. Shouldn’t one be discovering better music in teenage years?

This is an ahistorical take; DMB built their fan base via the college party circuit.

^^ otm

yeah, thank you. My college friends were fuckin' obsessed with them.

I don't recall them having any significant visibility/popularity in college (despite plenty of jam-band/Phish action there); must have been a quirk. Don't even remember when I first became aware of DMB – I guess just via "Ants Marching" on MTV.

They were musical guests on SNL in '95, and it was like 'WHAT MATTHEWS BAND!?!?'.

the kind of person who forges an upwardly mobile yet "conscious" social identity in college and never significantly modifies it is the kind of person who remains a dmb fan for life ime.

they were my first concert. my friends dad bought us tickets, i just had to say yes. i liked them ok. i was 13. remember nothing of that night except that there was a lot of saxophone playing lol.

I once posted that "In the House of Stone and Light" was "The poor man's 'In Your Eyes' and I stand by that characterization.

White dude world-muzak preexisted Dave Matthews, and it will outlive him.

Dave, at least, was actually born in Africa (unlike Paul Simon, Martin Page, Peter Gabriel, or Sting) so maybe he has even more right to play that sound than they do.

Now I have "Satellite" stuck in my head.

Self-XPS I remember Dave wore baggy -style pants onstage and I was like, "I guess anybody can be famous now."

I had a high-school friend who went away to Miami of Ohio in the mid-90s and came back a DMB superfan. He was a theater kid more than a jock, but he gravitated toward sort of a preppy/frat-boy style in general, so it wasn't much of a surprise.

did he become a lawyer

XPS "Pyjama-styoe pants"

I learned about them in elementary school. I had a gift card to Media Play, and my high school aged sister suggested I buy Live at Luther College. I really wanted to buy Quake, but my dad believed computer games would break the computer.

This is an ahistorical take; DMB built their fan base via the college party circuit.

― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 2:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

seriously, the first time I even realized how rabid the DMB fanbase was, was college. I was into them as early as 8th grade and lasting through high school, but I thought I was just a nerdy weirdo. but I got to orientation sign-in and this guy was like "do you like Dave Matthews Band?" and I was like "uhh yeah" and he stood up and yelled to the other RA "HEY THIS GUY LIKES DAVE MATTHEWS BAND" and she cheered from across the hall as did like three other people.

felt really bad when I robbed their dorm later that night

of dank nugs?

Ahem. Everybody here has strong anti-DMB opinions, and I get it.

But I am pretty sure I am the only person here who almost slept with someone whose roommate almost slept with their bassist.

And I am pretty sure I am the only person here whose band opened for a band that opened for the Dave Matthews Band.

Just sayin.

did you also know the guy who drove their bus.

Neanderthal: no, but my roommate's sister's cousin's dentist's niece once slow-danced with that bus driver. So basically we're kin.

"I guess anybody can be famous now."

This should be written on Dave's tombstone.

I feel like the time I stumbled into a place in Burlington, Vermont and every third person, knowing I wasn't from there, had to explain their relationship to members of the band Phish

careful breeding, I suppose

just feel the need to mention that the university of utah is an overlooked junior partner in the network of schools that gave 90s jam bands their sentience.

did you know that Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College was taped at Luther College in Iowa? that's here! Dave!

I mean, we used to joke back in 1997/8 that Big Ten universities must have issued DMB posters with the dorm rooms.

in Athens, GA around '99 there was a DMB cover band that would sell out the Georgia Theater charging $25 a ticket. the singer did the kermit voice and everything. they prob made a small fortune.

even when i was in college in reno there was a popular, obviously-former dmb cover band and their name was even the same construction (“[guy’s name] band”) and they were fucking godawful, no escape

to say nothing of how an open mic night i frequented was haunted by a guy who always covered “halloween”

a bold choice for the real daveheads

this all makes me think of the band Virginia Coalition

i wasn’t that bothered by it bc it’s one of the dave songs i still really like, gremlin voice and all

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

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

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

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"…

did he become a lawyer

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School psychologist iirc

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