Amazon.com 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 winning the largest stuffed animals at the target-range booths, and "Lover Lay Down" is the quietest moment on the disc--like the sun setting on a baby's sleeping, snow-cone-stained face collapsed on her daddy's shoulder. --Beth Massa
Amazon.com: Vibrant, broadly accessible adult rock that features soaraway, acoustic-based melodies, intriguing fusion overtones (check the sax/violin interplay on "Dancing Nancies" and "Warehouse") and a vocalist as cool and poised as Sting. Jeff Bateman
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - LOVE the album, HATE the copy protection!
I am not a HUGE DMB fan, but I do have about 5 albums of theirs. Love them all--one of the few bands I can listen to the entire CD of, not just select tracks.
HOWEVER, I have been trying to get this particular CD on my PC (to transfer to my MP3) for about 5 years now. Have tried my copy, friends' copies, the library's copy--to no avail.
Copyright law states that a consumer may make one back-up copy of any copyrighted material, so there should be no copy-protection anyway. I just want to put the album on my MP3 so I can listen more often. I even thought I would purchase the MP3 album ... Read More
Rating: - love dave!
I'm a fan, turned my teen onto Dave and now she's a fan. Love this album and most of the others from track 1 to end...
Rating: - Dave Mathews is never displeasing!
What can I say other than this is one of my favorite CDs now? Dave Matthews is an excellent musician, backed up by excellent musicians. A must own for the Dave Matthews fan.
Rating: - Great Album! No Apologies to the People Who Hate This Review
Well here it is: The ever controversial Dave Matthews Band. It's a band that has so many fans and lovers as much as passionate haters who think they are one of the most irritating pieces of shlock to ever come from the popular music scene. Heh. Yeah right. I initially wasn't sold on Dave Matthews Band, thinking they would probably go under boring, adult contemporary junk like John Mayer. While Dave Matthews would eventually far for that, I found them to be a pleasant surprise.
DMB are talented, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. With great dynamics courtesy of the acoustic guitar, ... Read More
Rating: - It amazes me that DMB fans riot.
It amazes me that DMB fans riot at many of his concerts. I was working at a venue that hosted DMB and there were cars flipped over and then set on fire in the parking lot. The ironic thing was a few weeks previously we had Marilyn Manson and the riot police and protesters were in full force and the worst incident was a teen getting busted with some drug or another.
But the more I think of it the less it shocks me that there are riots and fires and chaos at DMB shows... it's basically Woodstock for frat boys, and what better way to celebrate the band you love after a couple rounds of flip ... Read More
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