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Originally Posted by njdevil26
You're crazy.
Everyday, Busted Stuff, Stand Up, Big Whisky, and Away from the World are FIVE albums over the span of 12 years with FIVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SOUNDS.
So what band HAVE you been listening to the past 17 years?
... and another thing. Do you expect a band to grow up for 20 years, have a member pass away and be replaced by someone else, have a piano replaced by an electric guitar, and have a trumpeter added... and they are supposed to sound like the albums released in the 90s?
Some DMB fans are just looking for a reason to complain or dislike whatever the band puts out. Understand that we are not getting another #41 or Stone or Dreaming Tree. If that's what you want, you should have stopped listening in 2000.
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I'm expressing my opinion. "Crazy" as it might be, last time I looked this is a forum for discussion, and that means you're going to get the negatives as well as all the gushing "this is the bestest album EVAH" positive responses.
As to what I've been listening to, it's obviously not the same album some of you are.
So I don't like it, and I have the temerity to actually state that, so I get blasted for it? OK, I can live with that...
FWIW, I am a
big Dave Matthews fan - so much so, I count one of
THE best evenings I have spent in my 50 + years as the evening in the Maida Vale studio in London, sat on the floor five feet away from Dave as he performed for less than a hundred people. I have listened to their music since '95 and have all their studio albums and some live ones. I've been lucky enough to catch them live in the UK when they deem to visit us.
Sure, the death of Leroi was a bad time for the band and I miss his playing. No argument there.
I fully agree that the bands sound has evolved over the years, and I'm sure if you trawl back through previous album specific threads here, you'll get similar responses about all the albums you mention. "Big Whisky" isn't one of my favourites if I'm honest but I play it. But forgive me if I feel that this album isn't the best - it has one or two reasonable tracks and if it was a Dave solo then I'd probably be a little more forgiving but for a DMB album? Sorry, not for me - no doubt it will get some more plays if I do a shuffle of DMB albums, but I won't be searching it out specifically if I want to listen to the band...
Just my two pence worth...