I gave it a 1 (no zero available) to help get it off the programme. Ecclectism has (hopefully) no limits by essence.
What's next ? The chicken dance ?

Ugh, I entered the 2 I felt this song deserves. It is marginal. Then, the score I sent caused a change from 5.6 up to 5.7! That is some tricky math. So, I had to revise with a 1 only to hold the line on the song's average . . .

This is like Jimmy Buffett trying to channel Elliot Smith, with the theme to Taxi playing in the background.

Request to Bill: When spinning DMB, sync to have *actual* Elliot Smith playing over on LRC.

Geecheeboy wrote:

Yah. One of my classmates is nuts over him/them. She hasn't missed them in the last 6-7 years when they've swung by (every summer).

For one class, we had a visit from Michael Santucci, an audiologist from Chicago who handles special ear protection for many musicians, including Mr. Matthews and co. My classmate immediately inquired about interning at Santucci's clinic.

Geecheeboy wrote:

I do. And I think his voice is incredibly sexy.

And no, I am not a member of a sorority and in general have a disdain for frat boys.

Check out a now disbanded band named From Good Homes if you like this type of music. They opened for DMB around 1993 and were so much musically better...

The actual CD track of this leads of with something like 30 seconds of rimshot. The slow buildup is one of my favorite parts of this recording.

DMB is the sort of music that I'm a bit embarassed to like. I really do think that a lot of their older stuff was fairly musically interesting. Don't much care for the new.

On the whole I am not a big DMB fan, but I do happen to think this is one of his better songs. He does have a few.

awfavre wrote:

Ya, drugs are bad.

Can't he write a song without adopting some righteous cause to make it meaningful?

The horns. Kill the horns!

Do you have to join a Frat to enjoy this band?? Sorry this brings back bad memories of Frat guys blasting DMB out of the windows of their Frat Houses. There is a reason this band virtually unknown outside the US.

Wake me when it's over.

physicsgenius wrote:

And the poop-dumping incident.

Geecheeboy wrote:


I do, for the most part.

4 at best and that's for all his stuff

This song always makes me smile. The wordplay, the music - it's a delight inspite of the downbeat tone of the lyrics. Good to hear a live version.

DMB would be unremarkable if it weren't for that crime-against-humanity voice.

mysteryplane wrote:

you say tom-A-to, i say tom-a-to

jarrudy wrote:

are you kidding? they suck because they *ARE* frat-boys, and they're lyrics rank among the most meaningless of all time.

betterdaze wrote:

i do. seriously. used to go see shows up until around 95 or 96. couldn't take the crowd after that. they suffer from exactly the same demise as blues traveller. great musicians. they had a few hits (and missses) and arent taken seriously on the jam band circuit anymore. horrible the damage a few drunk frat boys singing your songs can do...

musical arrangement: quite good
voice: table saw-like

please remind me to go back in time and give his parents a condom.

Headphones off.

Whatever people say about how talented he is...fine, but I hate this song :puke:

I used to see comments like "howcum Bill plays so much DMB?" - now I'm wondering why it is days and weeks go by and he doesn't play ANY!

Just noticed this comment on another DM song:

mrrmt wrote:
Sometimes i find his music to actually be entertaining and almost enjoyable, it is ashame i associate DMB with the annoying frat guys and sororiety girls that annoyed the @!*@*@* out of me in college.

Well, yeah, seriously. I know it's stupid to make gross generalizations, but anytime I have seen DMB played, the guys all jump up and sing along, trying to outdo each other and impress each other that they know the words, and dance with each other and the women roll their eyes and get their drinks refilled. And at parties I have been to, the frat boys, again, sing along as if he is one of them, and the girls have made pukeing motions. I mean, yeah, my experience is very limited, but from Clemson to CofC to Salt Lake City, I have seen the same thing. Maybe it's just the world I live in, but he seems to be the darling of the (now) mid 20's American male.

Geecheeboy wrote:

Seriously?

Never dug dave.. you can't deny the incredible musicianship, but dang... the songwriting? Just not my thing I guess.