Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and The Blowfish, Counting Crows (the Why is DMB so Hated Thread has gotten too huge to load quickly) [some nonworksafe spanking be here]

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Okay, all sarcasm and anger aside...
I have two questions:
One) Of these three* which do you think is the most (insert a random virtue**) of the the three and why?
Two) If forced to choose, which would you have the least problem going to see. Assuming you could get free tickets, a free meal, free (insert appropriate mood altering chemical of your choice) and a decent seat where you can (see|hear) the band clearly.

* = I've deliberately left both Phish and Matchbox 20 out of this, because they are both sound different enough to qualify as a different sub-genre. (They've never played Horde tour, have they?)
** = "Niceness" is too vague.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a free country and I refuse to choose among the slop.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

There are positives to each! The first Counting Crows album is good, and "A Long December" was a great tune. Hootie's great summer driving rock. I always liked "Hold My Hand." Under the Table and Dreaming is a solid record. I don't like much else by them tho.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

But I think Hootie wins cuz they don't take themselves nearly as seriously as the other two.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

There we go, spread the love. Positive energy is good.
...
anybody wanna play hacky sack?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

SHUT UP

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Hootie easy

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wowwww, Doooood....you are rreeeeeallly Hos-tile."
(*offers joint to Jon Williams*)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

jon don't be a dick.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Just who is that poor little girl on the motorcycle?

Dave Matthews Band - Desperately, hopelessly, edgelessly dull, but I'll say this in their support -- they're certainly more musically capable and inventive than Hootie & the Blowfish could ever conceivably hope to be.

Hootie & the Blowfish - Virtually the antithesis of everything I appreciate about music. By comparison, Hootie makes the Dave Matthews Band sound like fuckin' Captain Beefheart fronting Killing Joke with Motorhead's Philthy Animal Taylor on drums performing a confrontational medley of Missing Foundation numbers. I cannot fathom a more boring band than Hootie. Meatnecked sports fans with instruments making yawnsome drivel for frat schmucks and daterape jocks.

Counting Crows - I'd spare the lives of the band members, but Adam Duritz is such an affront to the last shredded embers of the dignity of humankind that he MUST be uttery destroyed as soon as possible.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know the context of your picture, Jon...but it frightens me and I wish to distance myself from it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

(alex, please don't hurt me)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

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context

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

see I might've picked Counting Crows on the basis of liking one song of theirs (and another song Duritz just sings on) more than anything by the other, but Adam Duritz is such a prick.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm. Swap your descriptions of Hootie and Counting Crows and I'd agree with you. Though Darius Rucker might be the only good thing that band has. (Which doesn't explain the shittiness of his solo record.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seriously, august & everything after's a pretty solid rekkid. i think "mr jones" is prolly the worst song on there.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The subject = gold.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

[some nonworksafe spanking be here]
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

August and Everything After reminded me way too much of what I didn't like about mid-eighties R.E.M. and late-80s 10,000 Maniacs. Nothing but love for "A Long December" though!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

its more of an arse grab than a spank

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

It was the expression on his face mixed with the robot-like motion that was so unnerving and sad.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, yr on point with REM (the only records I like by them are New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Up) and 10,000 Maniax (who I've got nothing against. My stepmom loves 'em). It's a little too fey, but I really like the middle ground that Duritz finds between "Dead Flowers"-esque Mick Jagger and "T.B. Sheets"-esque Van Morrison (i.e. singing from the back of yr throat with a twang affectation). He kinda lost it after that record -- stretched it too much.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The biggest fight I ever got in was while August & Everything After was playing. I was on a camping trip with some friends and a few football d00ds who I didn't like showed up. One of them tossed a beer bottle in the bed of my friend's truck and it shattered. "Thanks man, that's really considerate of you," I told him. He started to walk away and then a drunken me yelled, "FOR A FUCKING ASSHOLE!" He turned around and decked me and it turned into a fairly nasty brawl. I got roughed up pretty bad. He was much bigger than me. He ended up playing ball at Virginia Tech. Caleb Hurd or something was his name. I still fucking hate him.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the facial expression caught me off guard too. its like its gone beyond pleasure, and into necessity.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Hootie back at a DC club in 1991, a few years before Cracked Rear View -- seemed like a decent enough bar band at the time (though hearing Darius sing "Roxanne" several octaves below Sting's range was, well, not quite Sisters of Mercy absurd but still pretty odd), and nothing I've heard since has changed that impression. Counting Crows I saw at a big radio-fest after their first album, and couldn't abide them even with a raging buzz and random make-out partner to take my mind off of it. DMB I've never seen, so I'd probably choose them just to complete the set. (Seeing as I'm the one who invoked the dread "niceness" term on the last thread, I'll sit the first question out...)

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i kinda liked that dave matthews band song where he is in the rain forest in a trance and he keeps saying "don't drink the water, don't drink the water" or something like that. it's weird. and it kinda reminds me of November Spawned A Monster for some reason.(although it coulda used mary margaret o'hara that's for sure)

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

pre-fame hootie? grassroots!

― call mr. lee (call mr. lee), Friday, 18 July 2003 06:43 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

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― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Got here as I'm taking the plunge and reading the DMB thread.

The Baby MotoGP is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Counting Crows anger me most deeply of the three because of Duritz pseudo-urgency and pseudo-profundity.

Hootie is the most harmless of the three.

Dave Matthews is the most talented.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually saw Counting Crows live once.
Paula Cole opened and she sang "Jolene" and I bought her first CD the next day.
Duritz came out and lay on the stage, fucked out of his mind and performed the whole set on his back. He mostly just talked through the show. The audience was unsure as to how to respond to this and basically, didn't.
Strange days, them.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

this thread is priceless

― Eisbaer, Monday, 24 December 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

Caleb Hurd or something was his name. I still fucking hate him.

Yanc3y, if you're out there, let it be a salve to your wounds to know that Caleb Hurd was victim of the worst injustice since Plessy vs. Fergusson

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

this thread combines three of my great loves - Hootie and the Fugu, the David Matthews Band, and Asian Childrens' Motorsports

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

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