Under the Table and Dreaming, the Dave Matthews Band's first major-label album, was their popular breakthrough, bringing their mildly eclectic sound to a mass audience. Although the group appeals to the same audience as Blues Traveler, Hootie & the Blowfish, and the Spin Doctors, the Dave Matthews Band has more influences than their peers. Fusing together folk-rock, worldbeat, jazz, and pop, the band is arguably the most musically adept of all their contemporaries. However, they have trouble coming up with engaging hooks, as their third album, Crash, proves. Although the band continues to get better -- their musical cross-breeding is effortless and seamless -- they often don't have an attractive frame for their skills. Strangely, the lack of memorable melodies doesn't particularly hurt the album -- it actually emphasizes the band's instrumental talents. Nevertheless, since there's a lack of strong pop hooks, Crash is an album that will please fans, but not novices.
http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/19/dave-matthews-band-member-dead/ I have no words people... he's gone & it's unreal. hey kiddies... hit my man Tallpo's post for the words I couldn't & still can't find... http://mog.com/Tallpo/blog/183682
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I don't know what I enjoyed more over at the Onion's AV Club: sordid tales of the most awful concerts, or the bickering that followed over contributor Matthew Borlik. They are just so serious, aren't they?My worst concert experience wasn't terrible, just terribly mediocre. It was the Dave Matthews Band at Hershey after the release of Crash. Of course mentally-vacant teens would mistake uninspir...
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leaving a point...Dave Matthews definetely took the Greatful Dead's intention of different sound from a rock perspective seriously, along with Spin Doctors and the Old School Hootie & the Blowfish....and the fact that Dave is known for giving away the spotlight in a Jam-Band manner by walking off stage and letting the band improv for 20 minutes, very cool to see stuff like that these days, to h...
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This week,or last, Hillary Clinton introduced a bill that would require hospitals to offer emergency contraceptives and antiretroviral drugs to anyone who's been sexually assualted no matter whether their ability to pay.Now, maybe I'm the only one but I always thought that this was standard practise-standard requirement- of hospitals, but I guess that's not the case judging from the bill...but ...
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In anticipation of seeing DMB at Tweeter Center in beautiful Camden next week I figure why not post a track."Let You Down" - This song comes from a December 8, 1996 show. The venue was the 14,000 seater Charleston Civic Center Coliseum located in Charleston, WV. The band only played 2 shows there in their history. This show in 1996 and later in 1999.According to DMBAlmanac, it has been 3,694 da...
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Everyone should take a look at the upcoming MOG Gazette! Yours truly will be making an appearance!
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In my opinion, his best album. It just flows beautifully from start to finish. I would take late night spontaneous drives with this cd (when gas prices were 1/3 of what they are now) and just chill. If I was having a bad day or having some sort of anxiety attack, I could always count on this cd to calm me down. This song in particular, it was always soothing to whatever wasn't going my way. I t...
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