Friday, September 10, 2010

Bands That Suck Balls: DAVE MATTHEWS BAND


Yesterday the NFL season kicked off (finally) with a pretty boring and uneventful 14-9 game between the Saints and Vikings. The only bad thing about the NFL season kicking off is that every year the NFL feels the need to put football fans through an NFL Kickoff concert. This concert is inevitably comprised of bands that completely suck balls. You would think they qould select bands that..I don't know..appealed to actual football fans. NO. They just pick random ass popular acts that no self respecting football fan has ever cranked on his radio. I guess they do this to appeal to non-football fans, but who cares what those people want to see. They are lame, and can change the channel if they want, the NFL is not exactly dying for better ratings. This year I unfortunately missed this musical shitxtravaganza that featured Country pop twat Taylor Swift and this week's Band That Sucks Balls: DAVE MATTHEW'S BAND.

Dave Matthews Band is better known in their wide fan circle as "DMB," "Dave," or "Dave Bro." This is because they have the single lamest band name in history so changing it to something that sounds a little cooler and more hip is definitely a necessity. Seriously Dave Matthews you are a lazy fuck. There have been plenty of bands throughout history (that actually rocked) that had a main frontman that masterminded their music but they at least gave some credit to their backing band with a cool name. Tom Petty...and The Heartbreakers. Bruce Springsteen...and The E Street Band. Shit even Bob Dylan had "The Band." You however are just Dave Matthews Band. Well why didn't you just call your piece of shit outfit Dave Matthews and just completely disregard the rest of the group?

Despite the band being named after him, Dave Matthews is by all accounts (even amongst his fans) the least talented member of "DMB." He writes the songs I guess (which suck balls). He plays shitty acoustic guitar. He sings in an annoying nasally whisper with the token voice crack thrown in once every couple of lyrics. Dave Matthews Band music is kind of like taking an entire album of acoustic Pearl Jam numbers and adding a horn section to the tracks. AKA fucking awful. Imagine listening to Eddie Vedder's "Into the Wild Soundtrack" with a saxophone solo in each song. Also horn sections are only cool if you are a funk band. If you are an acoustic rock jam band take the fucking horns out of your show.

Perhaps more annoying than "DMB" themselves are their annoying fanbase. I went to college in Virginia (Where DMB was birthed) so I was exposed to the super-douches more than most. Dave fans, like their closely related Buffet parrothead species are just there for "the scene." None of them actually have entire albums from Dave Matthews catalog memorized. They may not even have one favorite song. All their bros however are going to the show and they've always "heard" that Dave live shows are amazing. So they fork over $6o to check out "the scene." Chick DMB fans can at least answer that they have two favorite Dave songs: "Saaaaateliiiiite" and the equally shittastic "Craaaash into me." Thanks a lot for profiting off these awesome ballads DMB. You inspired John Mayer to think he could have a career.

Tonight Dave Matthews Band comes to my town. I obviously am not attending because I would rather have my testicles stabbed with a corkscrew than listen to a rocking live rendition of "Saaaaateliiiiite." Instead I will be going to law school trivia night. Yes you read that correctly...I would rather participate in trivia night with law students than go to a fucking Dave Matthews Band show. I hope while I am dominating at naming 80s movies and obscure rock albums, for all our sakes somebody grants DMB's wish to have someone "Craaaash into me." Preferably somebody with a very large airplane to take out Dave and his entire losertown usa audience.

29 comments:

  1. Wow, you are probably the most ignorant idiot I have encountered. You know nothing about how the band actually got 'stuck' with that name. Dave did not actually choose the name at all, in fact, he himself doesn't even agree with the band name. And the fact you would write more words about this band than I ever have for any school paper shows that the band is very well known, widely liked, and has an astonishing effect on haters of the band like yourself. I wonder why they are at the top of the charts in ticket sales since 2000, and are the only band to have 8 albums in a row come out at the No. 1 spot on Billboard? Do you know?

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    1. Dear DMB fanboy, the band sucks balls. Sorry to (pop!) burst that fucking bubble, but it is true.

      Back in high school, during the lip sync/cover song event my school did, he did the wussiest version of All Along the Watchtower I ever heard. The kid next to me, annoyed by my constant complaints and boos said "It's not the Hendrix version, it's the Dave Matthews version!" I said "Well, whatever, it fucking sucks, and hurts my ears!"

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    2. jlow, no this idiot has no idea about Dave that's y he posted this bs but we as Dave fans know he's the God of music.

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  2. Slayer could skullfuck every member of Dave Matthews band without even breaking a sweat.

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    1. Slayer sux i like to listen to something i can understand what they're saying like Dave Matthews. Not screaming

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  3. u r an uneducated moron n obviously ur jealous of Dave's musical talent n the amount of fans he actually has. My bestie n i know EVERY note, EVERY album, EVERY song, EVERY band member. Carter dominates on drums, Stefan w/ his enormous energetic electric sets, Boyd even w/ his carpel tunnel kills it on his violin n RIP Leroi who was incredible on sax tho Rashawn is just as amazing! Get ur facts straight before posting stupid shit like this.

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    1. Also ur gonna piss off the wrong person someday n i wld pay $60.00 to b a part of that scene hahahahaha.

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    2. Also i am a football fan so i was extremely happy to c Dave on the kickoff special last season i hope he's on it again but sadly i know he won't b cuz he's on tour but that goes to show u, u don't know shit about Dave n football fans

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  4. Dave Matthews is a clown. An actual clown has talent and is more entertaining, however.

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  5. Wow jlow you've never wrote more words in a school essay than 5 paragraphs? I hope you enjoy still working at McDonalds

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  7. There is no stellar guitarists in DMB. And the singing is not great. So basically KISS (who also sang like shit) had Ace Frehley (pre drug addict he was good) and was better

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  8. So your reasoning for why DMB sucks is because of the name, because SOME of the fans are not actually real fans, and because you've heard TWO of their songs, both happening to be one of their crappy radio hits. Right...let me know when you've got a legitimate argument.

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  9. Omg! I completely agree with you.everything you wrote get off my lawn guy, i say it myself all the time i hear that shit music on my jobs play list.i loathe it so much!

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  10. So so true! Dave Mathews and his band are shit. Music that is actually intellectually degrading. I love the morons on here defending the band. Y’all should go high five each other!

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  11. Hi sorry for the late reply. Another band that sucks is matchbox 20. I can't stand any of their songs. And I hate the song shiny people by REM. I detest when new bands try to capture the 60's and 70's peace n love movement. The music back then was mostly the best music ever created. The great stuff has already been done. Some people say they were all drugged out back then....well if that's the case and great music came from then because the drugs opened their minds. Then great! It only shows that since most bands nowadays promote anti-drugs...it reflects in their very shallow lyrics and music. Empty music from empty minds for empty minded fans. Haha....

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  12. Thanks so much for your previous reply. High five to you to. 😅😃😂

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  13. High five to you to for being one of the people that knows great music.vs shitty music. It's a crying shame that most people who like new music have nothing to compare it to but equally shitty music. Some of them will never know the great stuff. And if they ever hear it they sadly may be too brainwashed by then to get it. Haha

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  14. Jlow520646 never had to write much of a paper lengthwise have you?

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  15. I just think it sounds like the rock equivalent of elevator music. If I had it on tape... I'd tape over it.

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    1. Perfect comparison. I just hope it gets trashed instead of actually being used in elevators, or as hold music.

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  16. I. just bought a house..and the very first thing i bought for it was a can of spraypaint..you see when we did the walkthrough i noticed somebody wrote "DMB in the tool shed..spraying over that was my top priority..i didnt want anyone thinking i was "DuMB

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  17. Haha that is so funny. I like that DuMB also. I would have painted over that immediately to. 😂😂😂🤗🤗🤗😍😍😍

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  18. Still selling out shows 27 years later. Sorry your life sucks pal

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  19. Well the band formed in VA, so the fact this band ever took off is really a reflection of this lame, cultureless state that has to constantly remind you of history and politics in order to distract from the fact that it is presently a waste of space.

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  20. All you stupid fucking people that have no class and taste!! How in the fuck could you not like him! I hope all I negative nancies get exactly all that shit you were talking comes back on ya!!! See ya in hell u negative fucks!

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  21. 11 years later and Dave Mathews Band is still sucks balls. And DMB fans are still crying over people calling out how shitty their favorite band is......great read, thanks.

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