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Crash
: essential recording:It's tempting to label the Dave Matthews Band as torchbearers of the Grateful Dead's moderate rock fusion and send them off on the next summer tour featuring either Blues Traveler or the Spin Doctors. But there is more at work here, particularly on the band's second major-label release. Crash pairs soothing sounds (flute, acoustic guitar, six-string bass) with a dark emotional undercurrent. The South African (by way of Virginia) frontman reveals a rare intensity on the title ...
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Under the Table and Dreaming
: essential recording:With popcorn acoustic guitars, trampoline fiddles, bumper-car bass lines, and caramel-coated sax, the Dave Matthews Band's major-label debut is like an evening at the fair. 'The Best of What's Around' and 'What Would You Say' swirl like the amusement-park ride on the album's cover, sweeping the exhilarated and lightheaded listener higher as the ride spins faster. 'Satellite' glides breezily like the prettiest horse on the carousel, 'Ants Marching' runs around hitting the bell with the sledgehammer and ...
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Before These Crowded Streets
: :The Dave Matthews Band is moving its music forward incrementally. While Before These Crowded Streets offers more of the folky melodies and vaguely international rhythms that made this Charlottesville, Virginia, group a major record and concert draw, it also finds them adding subtle new colorings to the mix. Alanis Morissette guests on two cuts, 'Spoon' and the disc's first single, 'Don't Drink the Water'; banjo Bela Fleck steps in, too. Most intriguing, however, is the modernist string arrangement from ...
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Live at Piedmont Park
: :The Dave Matthews Band is moving its music forward incrementally. While Before These Crowded Streets offers more of the folky melodies and vaguely international rhythms that made this Charlottesville, Virginia, group a major record and concert draw, it also finds them adding subtle new colorings to the mix. Alanis Morissette guests on two cuts, 'Spoon' and the disc's first single, 'Don't Drink the Water'; banjo Bela Fleck steps in, too. Most intriguing, however, is the modernist string arrangement from ...
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Busted Stuff
:Album Description:The brand new studio album from DAVE MATTHEWS BAND is an enhanced CD that includes 11 new songs. The enhanced portion of the CD features special access to unreleased material, video footage, performances, and interviews! :Dave Matthews doesn't exactly seem thrilled about this release. But how would you feel if you made an album with a producer you didn't like, dumped it, and then woke up one morning to find it leaked on the Internet and available at ...
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Everyday
: :With three years passed and a new producer at the helm, the Dave Matthews Band find themselves stretching beyond the borders of Before These Crowded Streets to more emotionally explorative territory. On Everyday, Matthews's clenched-jaw delivery has an unrelenting constancy that's cunning and determined. 'I Did It' opens the CD in an aggressive groove, while 'When the World Ends' follows with clipped licks that dive into a muddier, open-flowing chorus. From there on out, the floodgates open into something ...
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The Best of What's Around, Vol. 1
: :With three years passed and a new producer at the helm, the Dave Matthews Band find themselves stretching beyond the borders of Before These Crowded Streets to more emotionally explorative territory. On Everyday, Matthews's clenched-jaw delivery has an unrelenting constancy that's cunning and determined. 'I Did It' opens the CD in an aggressive groove, while 'When the World Ends' follows with clipped licks that dive into a muddier, open-flowing chorus. From there on out, the floodgates open into something ...
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Live at Fenway Park, Boston MA
: :With three years passed and a new producer at the helm, the Dave Matthews Band find themselves stretching beyond the borders of Before These Crowded Streets to more emotionally explorative territory. On Everyday, Matthews's clenched-jaw delivery has an unrelenting constancy that's cunning and determined. 'I Did It' opens the CD in an aggressive groove, while 'When the World Ends' follows with clipped licks that dive into a muddier, open-flowing chorus. From there on out, the floodgates open into something ...
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The Central Park Concert
: :With three years passed and a new producer at the helm, the Dave Matthews Band find themselves stretching beyond the borders of Before These Crowded Streets to more emotionally explorative territory. On Everyday, Matthews's clenched-jaw delivery has an unrelenting constancy that's cunning and determined. 'I Did It' opens the CD in an aggressive groove, while 'When the World Ends' follows with clipped licks that dive into a muddier, open-flowing chorus. From there on out, the floodgates open into something ...
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Stand Up
:Album Description:The DVD side of the DualDisc will feature a 20+ minute film featuring the making of STAND UP with in-depth interviews with DMB at their recording studio in Charlottesville, VA. :Don't let the headless CGI dancer on the cover fool you. While Stand Up has a more organic feel than 2001's radio-ready Everyday, it is hardly an invocation for carefree days spent twirling on the grass. Instead it is a call to arms that carries over much of ...
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