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Originally Posted by bartender_man
Yeah I do remember that hype as well. As usual-OVER hyped. Just like the entire record.
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Anything DMB does is going to be overhyped. The fan base has been disappointed in some capacity since 2001. So AFTW is no different than its predecessors in that regard.
I don't think DS is a masterpiece of music in the way we think of say Two Step or Last Stop.... But it's as "epic" (a word that I've come to despise it's so misused as a description for anything) as anything the band has released on an album since 2001. I quite like it, and it's a fantastic and fun studio song. I thinks it's so easy to try to analyze DMBs music, that we forget to just enjoy stuff sometimes.
I think a lot of this underscores the fact that DMB hasn't had a huge live song emerge from the catalog in a long time. Another Bartnder, Ants or DDTW. They need one. Hello Again could've been, but it's fizzled out of the live setting.