After Manny's thread, I was wondering what DMB songs ya'll like the best. There's so many to choose from This is gonna be tough. I'd have to say Ants Marching or Tripping Billies.
I really like Ants Marching. DMB has quite a few good songs...I'm glad that the Lillywhite CD is finally gonna be released, but I bet you a million dollars after all of this campaigning by his fans to get them to release it that it will be their worst selling CD so far. Mark my words this CD wont come close to the others in sales.
Here's my top: 1. Pig 2. #41 3. Two Step 4. Dancing Nancies 5. Ants Marching 6. Lie in Our Graves 7. The Best of What's Around 8. Big Eyed Fish 9. Everyday 10. Two Step
Two Step!!!!!! followed by: #41 Crush Ants Marching and tons others!! very few DMB songs I don't like!
My top-10 1. Ants Marching 2. Tripping Billies 3. Satellite 4. Crash Into Me 5. Crush 6. Track 34 7. Space Between 8. Drive In, Drive Out 9. Everyday 10. Typical Situation Man too many to list! BTW, RM95, Crush was badass live.
Unpopular opinion alert: my favorite has always been "Too Much". Here's a "my top ten Dave Matthews Band songs" list I wrote last October (so it can't have been influenced by anything that was popular or unpopular on this board ). 1. Too Much 2. Dancing Nancies 3. So Much To Say 4. Rhyme and Reason 5. Don't Drink the Water 6. Tripping Billies 7. Ants Marching 8. Drive In Drive Out 9. Two Step 10. Satellite Other honorable mentions: Typical Situation, Say Goodbye (beautiful song although the message kind of disturbs me... is it really that easy to "go back to being friends"?). I don't like their newer stuff.
I agree with your opinion on the message of Say Goodbye...especially since the other person has a man. Still, it's a beautiful song. "We'll turn this better thing to the best of all we can offer"
I like DMB, and I have "Under the Table and Dreaming" and "Crash" but I am not a diehard fan. As a matter of fact, it has been awhile since I listened to them. (hangs head in shame) With that being said, I voted for "Crash into Me", which has one of the best ends of a song that I have heard. I love how Dave sings about being a "king of the castle" (?) or something like that and the violin playing by Tinsley (?) at that point of the song.
I voted #41, but could have just as easily gone with Crush, Crash Into Me, Everyday, Two Step, or Rapunzel.
My Top 12: 1. #41 2. Drive In - Drive Out 4. Dancing Nancies 5. Two Step 6. Rapunzel 7. Jimi Thing 8. Watchtower (cover) 9. Bartender 10. Seek Up 11. Say Goodbye I think that "Crash" was their best release to date. Every song on that album kicks ass......
what is the message behind Say Goodbye? sometimes i listen to lyrics quite carefully...other songs I don't seem to as much... for that matter, what's the meaning behind Typical Situation. Two Step reminds me of my wife...as does Crush.
It's basically about hooking up with a friend on a stormy night. "So here we are tonight, you and me together, with the storm outside, and the fire's bright, oh and in your eyes, I see what's on my mind, you got me wild, turned around inside..." There's a line about going back to your man, my world, back to being friends.
I couldn't possibly pick a top 10. I do have a no. 1, but that's as far as I can go: Best of What's Around other than that, it's <b>ALL</b> good.
GREAT song -- especially cool when John Popper guests. In some concerts he says "It's: Hot/Warm outside" and does it with a "heat" theme -- kindof a neat twist on the song. I'm really pleased that they've been playing it on occasion this tour -- I was afraid it was going to subside into the same state as Sweet Up and Down, #36 and Typical Situation (among others). Also wanted to mention to people who may have missed my thread before: I have the 5/5/02 and 5/4/02 shows from this past tour (the two Houston dates). If you want one/both email me: vengeance@typicalsituations.com
Typical Situation is based on a poem by Robert Dederick called "A Prayer in the Pentagon". Excellent read. Here's the text: <blockquote>A Prayer In the Pentagon by Robert Dederick Nine planets, Sir, endlessly circle, Sir, one yellow star among Sir's galaxies: Pluto Neptune Venus Jupiter Saturn Uranus Mercury Mars and this-- this watered and this aired this favored one where all that crawl and swim and fly and run that drove and swarm and herd and flock are in with tooth and leg and lung and claw and fin created clothed and colored are by Sir Eight colors (counting white) Sir's rainbow makes when whiteness on Sir's broken waters breaks arched over tidal blue and branching gray and grazing green and foaling brown down and away with gorsing yellow glow and honeyed hay and petalled blush and mottled winging whir; the limpid eyes each of Sir's colors wakes dark-irised are and cleared and curved by Sir Seven tossing seas Sir's pent-up lands divide where silver shoals in aching green-ness glide turn suddenly and dart and flatly lie break surface plunge and from each other hide and stare as though by staring they aver what sweet surprise had widened each wide eye that once looked early on creating Sir Six senses there were then in us who were salt-tasting all along the salt-scented shore who felt crust cool and looked on shrinking sea and heard gull-cry on draining estuary and found back of these five a something more: a sense of self and back of self--Sir Five fingers though (counting a thumb) were what we mostly were aware of as we fought Sir's elements and cleared Sir's forests and sought creation-wise new metalled ways to go by spinning wheel and wing off runway. So? Four quarters of our world began to grow too few and of Sir's yellow star we thought equations scribbled bubbled in retort distilled its hot explosive secrets. So? Three questions pose themselves now as we wait: did Sir not know how to end what Sir began? Or could we choose? Or did Sir always plan? Two hands of ours to bring us soon or late bent to destroy what the hands of Sir had wrought One day when we and all our world are brought to Nought?</blockquote>
if any of you remembered, i made a thread asking help to make a dmb tape for a friend. i just finished it last week and let me tell you its a real byitch. anyway here it is. pantala naga pampa (opener) say goodbye crash into me #41 two step crush stay (wasting time) ants marching dont drink the water the last stop (i like this song. dont know why. no one else does) pig spoon cry freedom let you down lover lay down satellite
Vengeance, An answer to your e-mail since I can't seem to send...yes I want both and yes I saw them in San Francisco...I'll e-mail you details later. Thanks bud.
