Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
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Free Music Review: DMB's Best Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Before These Crowded Streets holds a special place in the hearts of most DMB fans, as it was the only time the band took risks in the studio. Breaking away from the light-hearted carefree musing of "Under the Table and Dreaming" and "Crash", Dave and the boys really accomplish something amazing here.
Lyrically, this is Daves best work by far. The best examples of this are found in The Last Stop, Don't Drink the Water, The Stone, and Crush (the best love song Dave has ever written). The lyrics are mostly dark, deep, and mysterious. Concepts range from war (Last Stop), to religion (Spoon), and just about everything inbetween.
Musically, every band member contributes. Their most recent albums suffer in this aspect, as band members have been somewhat smothered in favor of shorter, tighter, songs. On BTCS, however, DMB is functioning truly as a band. Most noteably, listen to the last few minutes of The Stone to hear some of the best music that the band ever recoreded.
All in all, this is their best album, hands down. However, new fans might be better to start with Under the Table, or Crash, as these albums are easier to get into. Once you know that you want to keep listening, get BTCS. It will change your idea of music.
Free Music Review: Listen to the entire album to realize it's the best of dmb's work.
Hit: 5 Stars
Listen to the whole thing, because all the songs arelinked with little melodies at the end of almost each song. This is DMB's best album, but it is not for brand new fans, this is for people who have listened to crash ,and under the table and dreaming. Overall this is not only the best of dmb's work, it is the best album of the 90's.
1. Pantala Naga Pampa 5/5
2. Rapunzel 5/5
3. The Last Stop 5/5
4. *Don't Drink The Water 5/5
5. Stay (Wasting Time)
6. *Halloween 5/5
7. *The Stone 5/5
8. *Crush 5/5
9. *The Dreaming Tree 5/5
10. *Pig 5/5
11. Spoon
*= Reccommended Track
1= aweful 2= poor 3= decent 4= good 5= great
Free Music Review: Delightfully different
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a DMB fan for quite sometime and I have to say that "Before These Crowded Streets" is my all time favorite. This is not to say that the earlier releases are unworthy of merit, it just so happens that the creative forces that aligned for this album stood out. I especially enjoyed the longer tracks and the greater influx of instrumentation used. DMB has always brought together a large sampling of instruments and they have really outdone themselves with this release. Each band member participates in the tracks as well as some guests who sit in for a couple of jams.
Another enjoyable feature of this album is the eclectic mix of melodies and guest members to the ensamble. The listner is well rewarded with fluid tracks and a wide assortment of rhythms. Overall I think that this is a mature release for the band and it is a production that has not been matched since.
Free Music Review: Nostalgia For Good Music
Hit: 4 Stars
"Before These Crowded Streets" is honestly a masterwork of modern music and I believe that Matthews and the band have hereby captured many vital aspects of music that are often neglected. Music is an art and a random assortment of lyrical clichés, an oversimplified arrangement and a hackneyed vocal melody is like entering your family photo album into an art contest--anyone can do it and its nothing aesthetically spectacular. On "Before These Crowded Streets," Dave Matthews Band gives listeners more to think about than just the lyrics. "Rapunzel," the rhythmically disturbed track which follows the album's opening piece, takes several different time signatures, a complex polyphonic arrangement and an incredibly relaxed sense of charisma, throws them out on the table and somehow gets a tightly-woven, brilliant work of art. "Don't Drink The Water" carries with its cynical, multi-faceted sense of ambiance a profound message as well as some creative banjo-work and a somewhat disturbing battle cry from Dave that appears throughout. Yet a group that can have the line "Your father's spirit still lives in this place? Well I will silence you," followed by a song with the line "Oh we were dancing mouths open... and for a moment this good time would never end," deserves a good deal of merit. "Stay" is the kind of song you and your friends can gather `round a guitar and sing at the beach. "The Stone" still amazes me--everything from the free-form string arrangement bit that opens the track to Carter Beauford's truly mystifying choice of accented beats. "Crush" is an intoxicatingly memorable jazz piece and "Dreaming Tree," while a brilliant composition, does stay a bit longer than invited. The remaining four songs, "Last Stop," "Halloween," "Pig" and "Spoon" seem to stretch one, albeit brilliant, concept well beyond "mild" repetition. Despite this, the record is an exceptionally diverse and inspired tableau and I recommend it to anyone who misses the days when good music like The Beatles and Queen made the pop scene.Free Music Review: amazing cd
Hit: 5 Stars
All of you people who gave this cd a bad rating is not only full of complete bullcrap but has absolutly no taste or knowledge of music, whether you choose to believe it or not DMB is one of world's most talented bands and BTCS is one of the most sensational albums in history and if you stubborn people who gave the cd a bad rating don't think that then keep your pathetic reviews to yourself because either your just plain stupid or you know nothing about music.
and no i'm not under 13 years old im 17 i just wrote under the kids review