Things That Piss Me Off, vol. 7

By brock on Thu 12 Oct 2006, 8:12 pm

Dave Matthews

Can we all PLEASE just agree that we're over him and get on with our lives? I can remember being in middle school, when Crash and Under the Table and Dreaming came out, when everyone was swooning over him and his posters went up in countless college dorm rooms across the country. It's been a decade since Crash came out, yet we're still swooning and the posters still hang. There's a time and a place for Dave, and that's the scene in the movie when the sensitive-guy protagonist walks dejectedly through the night streets after being informed by the true love of his life (who, incidentally, is engaged to an asshole) that she will go through with the wedding the next day, and then there's a shot of her looking absentmindedly in the mirror as her wedding gown is given a final touch-up and you know that he'll crash the wedding or she'll run from the altar and they'll leave town together in the back of a Greyhound bus that was just about to leave anyway.

The worst part is that I still like him so much. I was just checking the years on those two albums and saw a half-dozen tracks that bring back fond memories of my childhood. And maybe that's why I'm pissed: just the thought of his songs brings the same feeling as that cliche scene in the movie - it's going to turn out all right - but it took me ten years to understand why everyone likes him so much.

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5 Comments

There is nothing wrong with

Submitted by Jym Ferrier (not verified) on Thu 12 Oct 2006, 9:01 pm.

There is nothing wrong with Dave Matthews, it's the fans. They kids that are all pissed off they weren't teenagers in the 60's, missing out on that opportunity to be a dead head.

No, Dave Matthews and his

Submitted by grahams (not verified) on Thu 12 Oct 2006, 10:46 pm.

No, Dave Matthews and his fans suck.

And just for the record,

Submitted by grahams (not verified) on Thu 12 Oct 2006, 10:47 pm.

And just for the record, they've always sucked.

I'd have to agree with

Submitted by Cheston (not verified) on Sun 15 Oct 2006, 1:41 pm.

I'd have to agree with Grahams on this one, they have always sucked and I had to go through high school with every wanna be jock/frat boy telling me how awesome they were and how amazing they are in concert. Dave Matthews was one of the reasons I hated high school.

I think the nostalgia of

Submitted by TheViewfromDupont (not verified) on Tue 17 Oct 2006, 10:07 am.

I think the nostalgia of those songs is what makes them any good. I went to my first (and only) Dave Matthews concert this summer, and it was fun, but I felt a bit foolish, surrounded by college kids and aging hippies who all smoked up all day and night.

Maybe there's a time and a place for the memories AND the music.

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