Share your unpopular DMB opinions.

[SeanMH]

No DMB song should be over 10 minutes long.

[phatpig]

Originally Posted by yankeesguy86

It doesn't pack the punch it did in 04. I'm hoping to hear it this summer because I love it, but it's a perfunctory version compared to the original ones.

Listened to the LT8 from yesterday, and it's still one of the best openers I've seen.

I think Dave singing it with an unnatural country twang is what is annoying

[Jollymonkey]

Other than being overplayed, I don’t get why Sister gets so much hate.

[KevinTH]

Originally Posted by yankeesguy86

It doesn't pack the punch it did in 04. I'm hoping to hear it this summer because I love it, but it's a perfunctory version compared to the original ones.

Listened to the LT8 from yesterday, and it's still one of the best openers I've seen.

Damn, I’ve been thinking that while it may not be as good, it’s a lot closer to the 04 versions than it was in 10 and 18. Much more control and better tempo this summer.

[currupt3d**]

Originally Posted by phatpig

Hello Again is forced and annoying

This is a wild one

[joshg]

Originally Posted by currupt3d**

This is a wild one

Now it is. Not in '04. Now in general, for the majority of songs, the screaming is not as authentic, the scatting seems forced et al.

[splack03]

Originally Posted by kelchlsm

3rd verse completes the song, best verse and builds the choruses- saying it sucks and is the worst verse should be an unpopular opinion yes

I don't understand how anyone who thinks the third verse somehow makes this song worse or that Grey Street is otherwise a "tired" song still goes to DMB concerts. When I think of the songs that are truly great in DMB's catalogue, it's the songs that build to crescendos, whether mid-stream or at the end of the song. I'm not saying Grey Street is their single best song, but it probably exemplifies this "crescendo" technique more any other tune. Each chorus gets an additional section culminated with the "kicking out all the windows" piece. Skipping straight to the crescendo after the second verse misses the buildup. And that is before even discussing how the song is a dark story that begs for that third verse to finish the downward spiral.

I would accept arguments that the LWS version is even better (I prefer the Busted Stuff crescendo but that's my opinion), but I really believe anyone that would prefer Grey Street shorter without the third verse perhaps has just run their course with DMB. I've believed that this has been the single most perplexing live choice of the band over the last 20 years and its nice to see it rectified (btw, runners-up for perplexing calls have been to drop the one sweet world intro, to not have Tim play exclusively acoustic, to not use PNP into songs other than Rapunzel except for two times, to not re-work Spotlight's lyrics, and to never once try to do a Hello Again-->Halloween segue from the Hello Again drum solo breakdown, which I maintain would be perfection)

[SmoothRider[PL]]

So I asked my gf (she's not a DMB fan) to listen to WATM. I don't like the song, she said "maybe not the greatest one, but still good, something different". Then I played Bismarck saying "that's the most new oldschool DMB song", and she was like: "nothing special, sounds the same like everything else".

So maybe we, the hardcore fans, are still in the past and waiting for something that probably never happen?

[joshg]

Originally Posted by SmoothRider[PL]

So I asked my gf (she's not a DMB fan) to listen to WATM. I don't like the song, she said "maybe not the greatest one, but still good, something different". Then I played Bismarck saying "that's the most new oldschool DMB song", and she was like: "nothing special, sounds the same like everything else".

So maybe we, the hardcore fans, are still in the past and waiting for something that probably never happen?

Isn't the obvious point to be made here is that hardcores can discern a meh 4.0 song from a new old-school song while other people can't. Of course it would sound the same to her. Our nuanced ability to discern quality old school DMB from shit masquerading as DMB has been honed since the mid nineties.

[OneSweetMonkey]

Originally Posted by SmoothRider[PL]

So I asked my gf (she's not a DMB fan) to listen to WATM. I don't like the song, she said "maybe not the greatest one, but still good, something different". Then I played Bismarck saying "that's the most new oldschool DMB song", and she was like: "nothing special, sounds the same like everything else".

So maybe we, the hardcore fans, are still in the past and waiting for something that probably never happen?

I love them both. Bismarck more, but Walk Around The Moon is great.

[Foreverford05]

Originally Posted by Dannyyankou

You Might Die Trying isn’t a good closer… it’s a GREAT closer

This is a fantastic opinion. Thank you for having the correct opinion on this matter.

[joshg]

Originally Posted by Foreverford05

This is a fantastic opinion. Thank you for having the correct opinion on this matter.

No. Both of you are wrong. That's cool though.

[seanbrutus]

I don't mind it as the closer either. Not the best, but certainly worse songs have closed shows.

[stlbluespower]

Dave's greatest songwriting achievement: writing all of Everyday in two weeks. (I'm serious, here, but not sure what kind of existing material was brought to the sessions by Dave and Ballard).

[bowa36]

Mercy is a great song and I could take it at every show

[Route_2]

I prefer YMDT to SMLAM as a closer. Doubtful that is unpopular though.

[3beamsoflight6]

Album TGIY is very enjoyable.

[KevinTH]

Originally Posted by bowa36

Mercy is a great song and I could take it at every show

Love it. The end is so blissful to listen to and I have never understood how a die hard DMB fan doesn’t enjoy it more for that jam. It felt very ”old school” DMB when Boyd was still in the band and you could hear him. The way his line, the horns, the keys, all of it blended so beautifully like they played in the old days.

[ToySoldier#34]

Originally Posted by 3beamsoflight6

Album TGIY is very enjoyable.

So there IS one!

[Dannyyankou]

Squirm is one of the best sounding songs the band does these days

[Bearclaw_]

Agree on Mercy. Haven’t heard it live. Would like to get it in Chicago.

[joshg]

Originally Posted by KevinTH

Love it. The end is so blissful to listen to and I have never understood how a die hard DMB fan doesn’t enjoy it more for that jam. It felt very ”old school” DMB when Boyd was still in the band and you could hear him. The way his line, the horns, the keys, all of it blended so beautifully like they played in the old days.

It does. The lyrics sound very new DMB, but the music is very old school. Lyrics might kill it for a die hard.

[ToySoldier#34]

Originally Posted by KevinTH

Love it. The end is so blissful to listen to and I have never understood how a die hard DMB fan doesn’t enjoy it more for that jam. It felt very ”old school” DMB when Boyd was still in the band and you could hear him. The way his line, the horns, the keys, all of it blended so beautifully like they played in the old days.

Really liked this in person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWYVmPlvgs

[Sniper15]

Originally Posted by KevinTH

Love it. The end is so blissful to listen to and I have never understood how a die hard DMB fan doesn’t enjoy it more for that jam. It felt very ”old school” DMB when Boyd was still in the band and you could hear him. The way his line, the horns, the keys, all of it blended so beautifully like they played in the old days.

The 3-6-19 Munich version that was on the last WH disc is one of the best DMB performances from the last five years. Buddy's jazz playing and the Grazing in the Grass interpolation in the outro are perfection. Mercy's jam is listless and monotonous when Dave is on the keys, but the version they played with Buddy was amazing. Mercy has so much potential now that they have a real pianist who can improvise; I hope they bring it back this summer.

[karczews41]

YMDT is awesome, but Dave's gotten lazy with the end scat/improv part at the end. The Wrigley version is a good example of how good that part can be.

[Bearclaw_]

I’d be happy with never hearing any BW ever again. Holy crap is it overplayed.

[phatpig]

Originally Posted by Dannyyankou

Squirm is one of the best sounding songs the band does these days

Agreed, I think it's one of the best song's Dave has written since 2004. Fantastic live song as well.

[Xcacel]

Originally Posted by Sniper15

The 3-6-19 Munich version that was on the last WH disc is one of the best DMB performances from the last five years. Buddy's jazz playing and the Grazing in the Grass interpolation in the outro are perfection. Mercy's jam is listless and monotonous when Dave is on the keys, but the version they played with Buddy was amazing. Mercy has so much potential now that they have a real pianist who can improvise; I hope they bring it back this summer.

Yes, Sniper, I love that too. 03.06.2019 is my favorite version of the song. It is a slow, emotional, crescendo, then, at minute 4, it suddenly changes, due mostly to Buddy improvisation. They can do whatever they want with this track, it leaves so much space for creativity. Exactly the opposite of most of BW stuff.

[kelchlsm]

Originally Posted by stlbluespower

Dave's greatest songwriting achievement: writing all of Everyday in two weeks. (I'm serious, here, but not sure what kind of existing material was brought to the sessions by Dave and Ballard).

Haha i agree with some of this, at least lyrical wise-

Some of the lyrics are so beautifully written like on Space Between/ So right/ fool to think- its hard to believe it was that quick.

However the music you can tell only took 2 weeks cause, well- space between is really only two chords, so right was the monkey man chords, everyday was #36, Dreams of our Fathers uses little thing chords, etc

[crounsa810]

Apart from hearing it at a show with rain, I really don't understand the hype with JTR. Frankly, apart from its historic rarity, it kinda bores me when I hear it.