Fucking Dave Matthews
May 10th, 2002
I hate Dave Matthews. I hate his whiny voice. I hate his juvenile, yet trying-to-sound-deep lyrics. I hate his pretentious arrangements. I hate the frat-boys that love Dave.
Now, I have a more personal reason to hate Dave Matthews. It took me twice as long to commute home today, because he’s playing the Pepsi Center. I-25 south packed from guardrail to median with twenty thousand derivative, unoriginal fucks. I hate them all.
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Dave Matthews is a fucking musical genius and I’m sure if you took time to listen to one of his songs rather than critisize him you like his music, ass.
Hey, Cam, you think I hate him because of his looks? Of course I’ve listened to some of his songs. Go away.
Listen to A dave matthews song and realize its the same as every other song he sings. Congratulations on selling the same song 18 times per cd and making millions….hes a true genious
ass faces
Hello Dude!?! Have you even sat down a really listened to his lyrics? they’re not wanna-be deep they are deep. I’ve been a DMB fan for like 10 yrs, and he’s the only artist who really seems to know what it’s like to have a messed up life.
matt moore, youre a fucking tool, do you think anyone is interested in your opinion, so you hate Dave, and………….. get a life idiot
You claim you’re not interested, and yet here you are, commenting on my blog.
I never ‘claimed’ anything moron, i simply asked you why YOU thought anyone cares or not about your hatred of Dave Matthews.
Actually, maybe Dave cares……..naaa, prob not, he’s too busy trying to spend A Billion dollars and getting laid while you’re home jerking off to Star Trek re-runs.
Didn’t do very well in school, did you, David? I’ve found that many DMB fans have trouble with simple things like apostrophes and question marks, so at least you’re not alone.
matt
we were sitting in the cafe last week when some tool–the waiter I think–slipped in some ass crap that I didn’t recognize, but my friend was ’savvy’ enough to identify. We suffered we suffered we suffered. an hour later my friend was still singing ‘don’t drink the water’ in a psuedo pained voice. She said “i’m going to google I hate dave matthews. I bet 20 000 web sites will come up devoted to the true and deep hatred of this fucker”. and here we are
i hate dave mathhews.
Dave Mathews is one of the most retarded bands I have listened to in my entire life, those of you fuck heads that actually listen to his gay as lyrics should be shot, he sings about the most retarded shit I have ever heard, and half the time when he’s singing it sounds like hes a forty year old going through puberty…
At one end you have Dave Matthews— Richest in America.
At the other end you’ve got the fans — poorest in America
Nothing like spreading the wealth where it’s most deserved. I hope there’s a special Matthews ring in Hell waiting for all of you — the band, the idiots that listen to them, and their customers…
All u dave fans are a bunch of faggots. None of you understand that he is the epitome of uniroginal, gay music and the downfall of the past two generations. It is the ignorance of all of you fuckers that makes a bad name for our youth. All of you homosexual dave fans can lick my ass and go listen to some drunk with a voice that sounds like he’s grubbin’ on cock. But, don’t forget to watch that goofy black guy on left stage. He must be cool cause he’s black and so is the drummer. go fuck yourselves.
Virginia,
Yes, there is a Santa Claus. But, there is NO Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews is no more than an actor (Tom Hanks) with a bad voice over from another actor (Adam Sandler) who happens to be reading/mumbling bra ads from a Mexican Wal Mart Flyer. For you see, Virginia, in this PC world of banality, todays frat boys are no longer allowed to pleasure their own burgeoning sense of Meister Brau self worth by posing to Motley Crue and copping a feel off of the passed out chick from Domee Nowish Delta Pi. They must seem ’sensitive’ yet trendy! The pallette of America no longer tongues the Whitesnake of yesteryear, so they must spoon up this warm, watery, bland, vanilla pudding upon the paper plate of the mislead. This is where Big Tabacco has shifted its gears and seek to reap fortune by underestimating the taste of the American public.
No Virginia,
There is no dave Matthews.
And when you see your mother, please tell her:
SATAN!!! SATAN!!! SATAN!!!
oh my. You guys that hate dave are just jealous little pricks who are too lame to actually listen to his music and try to understand its meaning. he is a lyrical genius and his guitar skills are immaculate. i love his music. i love his voice. i love how deep and full of feeling his lyrics are. basically, i adore him and the whole concept of his band. so, before you knock him - take a minute to listen to him and notice all the good he’s done for charitable organizations. And before you call him unoriginal, notice that there are only so many who are like him cause they ‘imitate’ him. don’t knock them either, imitation IS the best form of flattery.
losers.
mandyyyy
Hey- I love a challenge! Unfortunately Mandyyyy… you are not much of one:
“oh my. You guys that hate dave are just jealous little pricks who are too lame to actually listen to his music and try to understand its meaning.
well, paddy, you, suck at life. but lets go into detail. In that wonderfully gramatically correct you managed to diss dave a lot, i hope you didnt hurt his feelings. Its too bad that that’s all you did. you insulted him, and told people that he’s not a good guitar player. Well, lets see, he usually does have fairly simple melodies in his songs, but what reason does he have to make them more complicated? he plays his stuff perfectly in concert, and for hours at a time, which gets very hard, considering he is singing with everything he has at the same time. the lyrics to his songs, which you didnt really refute, not that you could have, are amazing. with the exception of a couple songs that he did just for fun, his lyrics are deep and exhilirating. “Cry Freedom,” for example, written about the Aparteid happening in his home country at the time. Cry freedom, cry
From a crowd 10,000 wide
Hope laid upon hope
That this crowd will not subside
Let this flag burn to dust
And a new a fair design be raised
While we wait head in hands,
Hands in prayer
And fall into a dreamless sleep again.
those lyrics are deep, poetic, without even involving music. but when dave sings those so smoothly, it is just so moving. His voice is so unique. in Halloween he comes out with so much anger and frustration that is all captured by his voice, and in songs like Crush, Crash or I’ll back you up, it is just so smooth. Honestly, no arguement should ever be made that his songs sound alike. It doesnt even make sense. If you listen to more than just What would you say, and so much to say, you’d realize it. and the band that he is in, is full of 4 of some of the most amazing performers in the world. Boyd tinsley, just amazing. NOt the best violinist in the world, but maybe the best rock violinist. He’s also an amazing plucker, and those riffs became the basis of a couple great song. But in concert, he is just the most energetic person, jumping around and dancing, all while playing violin at lightning speed. Stefan Lessard, just an amazing bassist. not very flashy, but just very skilled. not to mention he’s can play about 8 other instruments, drums, electric guitar, harmonica, and others. Leroi Moore. HOnestly, just a amazing. Can play about every instrument that you have to blow through, alto sax, bass sax, flute, trumpet, just to name a few. Tim reynolds, not officially in the band but plays with them so much that i’ll mention him. Paddy, your a guitar teacher. is there anything you’d like to say to him. Can you lick his nuts maybe? He’s one of the worlds greatest guitar players, undoubtedly. theres not even much to say about him. He can play scales faster than basically anyone, and his slides can make a guitar sound like about anything. And finally, Carter Beaford, on the drums. Pretty much the worlds greatest living drummer. And all while chewing some bubble gum. He plays with a set up of about 30 different percssion instruments,not many people that do that, but its because he needs all those because the songs are so different and complex. Dave Matthews, well he ties it all together. He writes all the lyrics, most of the melodies and rhythyms and has the voice and guitar skills to keep it going. His scats are just unbelieveable. HE is an amazing, deep, individual, who writes songs about so many different things. His father dying of cancer, his siter being murdered, his girlfirend turning him down for marriage, being in love with his wife, god/religion, his kids, and his country, just to name a few. His songs are very complex, in so many aspects. His voice takes so many different forms, passionate, soothing, angry, happy, sad, everything. Honestly, i dont want you to get mad at this. AIM me sometime, Swearbynow. His music, is just good. theres no way to deny it. if you dont like frat boys im sorry, im not one of them and i cant help you there. but you cant dislike him because of his fans. Ill go ahead and leave some lyrics on my way out, you cant say that they are “trying to be deep”
Share the time again
I spend with you
A friend is always good to have
But a lover?s kiss is better than angels raining down at me
I dream of you at times when you?re by my side
Dream you?re not just like you are
So troubled and doubling my pain
Just one more tear
You shed for me
I wish I could climb inside your mind
And spend some time and hug and hold you
And mold you into what I?d like
But no I can?t do this
Just a kiss to spend a while by you
And your familiar smile and voice
I remember thinking
I’ll go on forever only knowing
I’ll see you again
but I know
the touch of you is so hard to remember
but like that touch I know no other
and for sure we have danced
in the risk of each other
would like to dance
around the world with me
I’ll be falling all about my own thing
and I know your the heaviest weight
when your not here that’s hung
around my head
and your lips burn wild
thrown from the face of a child
I could never love again
So much as I love you
Where you end, where I begin
Is like a river running through
Take my heart, take my eyes
I need them no more
If never again they fall upon the one i so adore.
Standing here
The old man said to me
Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
Now he’s falling hard
He feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree
Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she’d be his
Remembered mother’s words
There beneath the tree
No matter what the world
You’ll always be my baby
Mommy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died
Hey, my love, I came to you with
best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just
what I’m seeking
Love , you drive me to distraction
Hey my love do you believe that we
might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this,
our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up
Tie me down
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for
certain
We’re climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
These things we cannot change
Hey , my love, your can to me like
wine comes to this mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart and you
quench my mind
That is just a taste of dave, noone with an IQ that is greater than their height can so that those lyrics are “all the same”, “trying to be deep” or any other bull crap. If your still not convinced, go listen to Crush, live in central park, if you dont feel the emotion that dave has, you must not like music.
and yes i have graduated fourth grade. so if i made a spelling mistake, or didnt put an apostrophe in, why dont you cry about it, and hope that if you make fun of ME, it will make your arguement sound better, k homeboy?
SO…
i’m so proud of myself! it seems as though i may have struck a nerve?! whatever. i’m not going to keep coming into your sad little attempt of a forum to defend Dave Matthews. It’s simple. If you know so much about everything, why is it that nobody knows YOUR name or has forums and blogs dedicated to insulting you?! I can answer that one for ya, so you don’t have to strain the last 3 hairs out of your comb-over… it’s cause nobody cares about you because you are a sad, strange, obsessive-compulsive, jealous, mediocrity of a man who OBVIOUSLY has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much time on his hands. oh… and nobody, not even your mother, could really give a shit whether you take your next breath.
thanks for the entertainment.
i think i’ll go listen to some Dave Matthews Band, now.
Later, paddy
Mandyyyy
Dave Matthews - wow!
aww. no response?! btw, make fun of my ‘mandyyyy’ all you want, but if my name were “Paddy”, i’d just have to keep that a secret. You must’ve had a rough time in grade school, huh?! Poor thing. No wonder you’re trying to be an internet tough-guy. It’ll be okay, sweetie. Talk to your therapist about it. =) *paddys ya on tha back*
:p
Dave Matthews Band set list:
1 You Make Me Feel Deep
2 Nose Yodeling
3 Metaphysical Manifestations
4 Pondering Pontifications
5 Me, Myself And I
6 Blats And Bleeps
7 Nothing To Say
8 Nose Yodeling, Part 2
9 Strummy Strum Strum
10 Rummy Tum Tum On The Drums
11 Cover Version Shame
12 Twenty Minutes Of Musical Fidgeting
and that was just stupid and not very funny at all
Dave Matthews Band
The sound is a terribly unique one; intriguingly distinctive, almost defying conventional music. A curiously grooving sound, that if you hear from a distant radio, it makes you say to yourself or more likely out loud, “ooh, who’s that?
Good god, man, you DMB fans are fucking crazy.
That’s Dave Matthews Band for you all who need to be enlightened on the subject. A piece of advice: Don’t knock something until you try it. Give them a listen, secondly, don’t be jealous or envious of their successes. They cannot control how prosperous they have been and I’m personally extremely happy for them, how else would the world know of them? That is how music spreads and is appreciated. They are a simply phenomenal band and my patience grows very thin and tired with the ignorant assholes who bash them. I understand very well everyone is entitled to their opinions, but it is ironic and often funny to me that those who criticize and land personal attacks on Dave Matthews Band are those who may have never heard their music or maybe just one or two songs. You have to listen to various albums. Just realize these ARTISTS still produce music (in this pop, rap, “all about your image,” entertainment world) that really matters; music that has a message and I tell you that is very, very rare nowadays. What these guys do is important. And, hell, they sound damn good at the same time.
Craaaaazy.
man. i agree. us DMB fans are crazyy. i enjoy it. oh and you got pwn3d.
Yeah, maybe I like DMB a little too much and it’s a little crazy but I can’t and, honestly don’t want to help it. They are my favorite band and, trust me, not the only band I listen too. I love The Beatles, The Stones, Hendrix, Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Richie Havens, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Simon & Garfunkle, Neil Young, Ben Harper, David Gray, Jack Johnson, The Band, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, Buddy Guy, CCR, I have been through pretty serious phases with all the musicians and bands I listed, and Dave still remains my, personal favorite. My favorites, in order: DMB, then Crosby, Stills & Nash, then The Beatles, The Stones, Dylan and Hendrix
Because you said so, Brian?
DMB is a frat band. They got their start playing lawn parties for drunk jocks who prenteded to like them so they could get laid. You guys got played by a promotion machine that is selling the band as something meaningful when they’re just a wanky band with crap lyrics written by a singer for whom English is a second language.
As much as I think Brendan is crazy, I kinda like him. At least he knows how to use a comma, an apostrophe, and his fucking shift key.
Haha, thanks Matt, and I don’t mean to come across as too crazy, although it does seem that way. The thing is, I can never bash anyone who means what they do (true artists) and I truly believe that is the case with this band. So, you may not like them, or hate them, but everyone has different tastes. I’m just saying, I can’t knock someone for having meaning and message in their work, even if I do not particularly like their work(s).
And, I’m sorry but I was reading some of the previous, earlier posts and it sounds to me that the so called, “DMB Haters” seem much more uneducated than the actual DMB fans. Calling DMB fans, “homosexual” and “faggots” and telling us to “lick their asses.” Yes, very sophisticated and mature I’d say. Could it be that the hate for DMB fans is stronger for many of you than the actual band and their music? I mean that’s what you’re supposed to be debating, right? The Band. Not the fans, it’s pretty weird, crazy and somewhat sick that people have that much against fans of a band. I mean I don’t hate Bob Marley fans because they smoke weed. And generalizing a group of fans, generalizing a group of people is what we call prejudice, it’s just as bad as stereotyping a race or religion, honestly there is no difference. And I’m not trying to be dramatic here, but I cannot even argue with anyone that says “DMB fans are faggots,” yeah, great word usage there, real classy and politically correct. I like the comment calling DMB fans “fuckheads” and “retarded” too, yeah you guys have it all figured out and are very mature, very educated, very abouve the whole “DMB crowd.” Well, you certainly don’t come across so well now, do you?
i just wanted to know what kind of music/bands the dmb bashers listen to
What kind? Ummm… any. Frankly.
Black Mountain. Wolf Parade. Broken Social Scene. Arcade Fire. Rufus Wainright. Martha Wainright. Loudon Wainright. Caribou. Buck 65. Royskopp. Collapsar. Stars. Dears.
The problem isn’t that DMB aren’t good musicians. Sure, they’re talented. Technically, they can all play their respective twangers and ponkers pretty well.
The problem is that they’re tirelessly boring and completely uninteresting. The music is endlessly “hook-y”, with no real structure or adventure. They never try anything new, they never do anything. They’re like the luncheon meat of music. Filler that doesn’t make you nauseous.
And the lyrics aren’t great. The lyrics are tired. The lyrics are luncheon meat too. Good lyrics leave something to puzzle out. They don’t finish. Good lyrics open questions, they probe. They’re poems. Take one single line from a Stars song:
“This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin”.
That’s a good lyric. Put in the context of the song, it’s a fucking brilliant lyric. Add to the brilliant music of “Your ex-lover is dead”, and it’s a transcendent lyric. DMB simply doesn’t have the capacity to put out anything great.
I like the Dave Matthews Band music!, and if you dont like it… FUCK YOU MATT!
Look you mother fucker, why do you care, you don’t have to listen to it… if you’re paying dave for his service to bring you music fine, if you’re paying to fuck him in the ass, then fuck him in the ass… mother fucker, get a life. And you know what shit head, don’t come back with something like “hey you need a life if you’re reading this” well margaret, i’ve got one, i just stumbled upon this place and it got my interested… so kiss my dick nancy
Nice fans Dave has.
Rory, check the date on the post. It’s over three years old. It’s a post about a traffic jam (a traffic jam that, unlike the crap DMB songs on the radio, I couldn’t avoid) from three and a half years ago. Think maybe I’ve moved on by now?
I’m sorry you think you have a life.
Dave Matthews is outrageously fuckin’ AMAZING! ..Some of you idiots have lost your damn minds!.. But whatever, I know I’m right
Wow, Matt, you’re just an idiot. I won’t even grace you with more than that.
Paddy. Get more than an Associates degree before you begin your condescension. You made an ass of yourself here. I’ve been a gigging musician for over twenty years, have a Master’s in music from Berkley and I’ll tell you that you sound like a very petty and undereducated whiner. Knock at the heels of someone you have a prayer of topping and then you’ll have ground upon which to stand. Also, if you thought you had a position from which to snipe me, try again, I teach as well, at a university. I’ve earned my voice. So, sit down and be quiet, child.
You spend a lot of that voice you’ve “earned” establishing your credentials, but do you actually have a point? Besides, I mean, the my-dick-is-bigger-than-Paddy’s posturing?
I want to see Dave cover this song!
http://www.metzae.net/soapbox/files/bananas.swf
You all need a fucking life. Are you all fucking serious. How much time you spend wrighting those novels for crist sakes. I like Dave but shit i am not gonna spend all the time like you queers did to say how much you like him or not. You all need to stop wright long ass comments on this page, and spend that time trying to get laid. You all are fucking queers.
If you guys hate him so much that you have to take up your sorry ass lame time to make a post about him and argue over it…you have no lives…so get some…and stop spending your fucking lives bashing on him because he has come alot further than everyone in here…
Damn. At first I couldn’t decide what to post. Everyone here is so passionate about their side of the arguement. They sound like musical experts. Maybe I should just listen. Can we just agree that what makes a good song is its effect on you? Does it make you feel good? Screw all this dissecting Dave’s musical prowess and voice quality. History has proven that some of the most favored memorable music of the past has been delivered by rough imperfect voices, and simple chords. Complexity and difficulty of composition doesn’t directly effect the resulting impact or value of the song when heard. Sure the height of DMB’s career may have been the 96/97 maybe 98 years. They’re getting older, it’s evident by a significantly slower-tempo and higher precision to the songs. To me, they seemed more likeable when they were alittle rougher and improvisational. But hey, this happens to every artist that keeps creating and actually lives long enough. All in all, he’s a better artist than the majority these days. Maybe that isn’t saying alot. Whatever, listen to songs and artists you like, that make you feel good.
Besides, most negative comments about DM are irrevelent, and posed by those who have some sort of axe to grind with their concept of typical dave fans. I for one am a fan that doesn’t appreciate his scene anymore, but still like most of the music he puts out.
Listen to music you like, save your aggressive/destructive music-critic tendencies for something better.
Dave Matthews has one song, which they play over and over. Once is enough. Same mopey mush ad infinitum. It’s like Jackson Browne. He had one song “Doctor My Eyes” and the rest of his career was trying to ride the wave of that one flash in the pan.
Dave Matthews is like tofu. He runs the gamut all the way from A to B. Yawn. Precious Moments, brought to you by Hallmark. Go have a Starbucks, get a new tattoo, and twirl your dreadlocks before you go back to your cubicle. Boring. Yecch.
Dave Matthews’ lyrics are primarily juvenile, offensive, and perverse references to sex. I am not a prude, but I prefer to listen to music that has meaning more than just being an ode to a blow job.