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This collection marks the fifth live Matthews collection in eight years. But while previous surveys have chronicled the band"s nascent ambitions (<I>Remember Two Things</I>)+ initial fame (<I>Live at Red Rocks</I>)+ solo pretensions (<I>Live at Luther College</I>) and PBS-ready charms (<I>Listener Supported</I>)+ this double-disc set+ recorded at the final show of their "98 tour+ seems bent on formally crowning Matthews and company as arena-filling superstars--warts and all. <p> With a set listing culled largely from the pop-oriented <I>Crash</I> and more internationally experimental <I>Before These Crowded Streets</I>+ the proceedings held some promise. But+ like most arena bands before them+ the DMB generally amps the nuances right out of the mix here. "The Last Stop" recalls where Led Zep"s own world-music pretensions led them+ while "Pantala Naga Pampa" skirts dangerously close to Kenny G. territory before finding its jazz-funk stride. Though they groove mightily and consistently throughout+ the DMB"s oft-criticized jam-band ethos often seems strangely burnished and studio-overdubbed to homogenous extremes here. And while legend Maceo Parker"s sax further ignites the crowd-pleaser "What Would You Say+" as guitarist and frequent Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds plays guest guitar god throughout+ it"s Matthews"s own shamanic+ oft-trancelike vocal excursions that barely keep this one from lapsing into DMB"s McLive album. Try Budokan next time? <I>--Jerry McCulley</I>
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Two Step
Holiday: Sounds of the Season 2002

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Holiday music featuring artists such as Dave Matthews Band Cher Toni Braxton Vertical Horizon and Barry Manilow.
Weekend On The Rocks [live CD &amp; DVD]

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To loosely paraphrase the traditional Passover question: What makes this Dave Matthews live album different from the last one he recorded at Denvers Red Rocks amphitheater a decade previously? Theres a savory cover of The Zombies chestnut Time of the Season strategically frontloaded but this edition revolves largely around the iStand Up album he was ostensibly promoting on this 05 tour stand at his beloved Rocks as witnessed by focused renditions of the title track American Baby and Dream Girl here. But as the sets workout of Louisiana Bayou forcefully argues their sense of energetic economy (and occasional timely politicking) infuses much of the rest of Matthews jamfest ethos with renewed muscular wallop as well. The presence of a horn section and guest keyboardist Butch Taylor on some tracks ups the ante considerably though even core band renditions of staples like disc ones expansive closer Bartender seem charged with renewed passion. The running order here occasionally betrays the collection was edited from four nights and a considerably wider range of performances but the included bonus DVD gratifyingly expands upon the audio rather than simply replicating it with complimentary performances of Crash Into Me Recently and Jimi Thing. Jerry McCulley


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Dave Matthews Bands WEEKEND ON THE ROCKS captures highlights from the bands four-night stand at one of the most magnificent venues in the country Red Rocks Amphitheater. WEEKEND ON THE ROCKS includes numerous tracks that have never been released on previous DMB live recordings including songs from the bands most recent studio release STAND UP. PWEEKEND ON THE ROCKS is as a special value 2-CD/1-DVD set containing over 3 hours of music and video-recorded in stereo 5.1 audio. PRecorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison CO September 9 10 11 12 2005.
Stand Up

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Dont let the headless CGI dancer on the cover fool you. While iStand Up has a more organic feel than 2001s radio-ready iEveryday 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 the insurrectionary spirit the Dave Matthews Band brought to 2004s Vote for Change Tour. Matthews sounding rawer than ever swerves between optimism (To change the world you only start with one step he sings on You Might Die Trying) and angst (See the man with the bomb in his hand/Everybody wake up on Everybody Wake Up [Our Finest Hour Arrives]) while producer Mark Baston best known for his small-time work with big-name pop acts like Beyonce and 50 Cent responds by putting the marching band rhythms of Carter Beauford in the front and galvanizing the music with a crisp RB edge most evident in the totally--okay partially--crunk Stolen Away on 55th 3rd. Aidin Vaziri


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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.
Maximum Dave Matthews
Live at The Gorge (CD &amp; DVD set)

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Think what you will of the Dave Matthews Band but they certainly know how to keep their fans satisfied. Just eight months after the release of the lavish Central Park Concert package comes another generous helping of live material this time in a limited edition three-disc set compiled at the bands 2002 concerts at Washington States scenic Gorge one of its favorite venues. With more than three-hours of music and video recorded in 5.1 audio and shot with over 20 high-definition video cameras even fans that missed the shows will feel the mosquitoes buzzing around their ears. And its easy to see why Seattle resident Dave Matthews and his cohorts feel at home here--the natural backdrop provides the perfect setting for their gently inspiring music. I feel like Im making a racket in a place that should be quiet the frontman says at one point in the documentary which may suggest why this is a more reverential detail-oriented performance than its Manhattan predecessor particularly in songs like the acoustic Gravedigger and the leisurely 15-minute-plus version of Lie In Our Graves. Aidin Vaziri
The Space Between

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Second single of the 2001 album Everyday. 3 tracks The Space Between (Remix Album version) What You Are. This is an enhanced CD.
The Central Park Concert

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Dave Matthews Bands the Central Park Concert captures this Falls historic benefit show in all of its spectacular grandeur. Staged on Central Parks Great Lawn on September 24 2003 with an audience estimated at over 100000 people DMB thrilled concertgoers for thre hours with one of its most amazing sets ever!
Live at Folsom Field - Boulder&#43; Colorado

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The fortunes of the Dave Matthews Band have been so tied to its legendary live performances that its arguably led to some well-documented searches for direction in the studio. The success of IEveryday was hard won its originally rejected material eventually revived reworked and released a year later as IBusted Stuff. But those creative struggles have paid double dividends here arguably pushing Matthews and company to a compelling new plateau on stage. Recorded in Boulder Colorado on July 11 2001 fully half of this two and a half-hour show is culled from the results of those stormy sessions including brooding versions of IBusteds then-unreleased Bartender and Digging a Ditch. But its the wider more challenging musical palette of IEveryday that takes center stage stretching from the lyrical cinematic drama of The Space Between and What You Are to the smoky blues-jazz tinged Angel and loping funk of When the World Ends. That sense of adventure helps reinvigorate even Matthews staples like Crash into Me and What Would You Say with new musical dimensions and helps make this collection more than just the bands sixth live album. It sounds like the beginning of a promising new chapter. Jerry McCulley
Busted Stuff

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Dave Matthews doesnt exactly seem thrilled about this release. But how would you feel if you made an album with a producer you didnt like dumped it and then woke up one morning to find it leaked on the Internet and available at every bootleg stall in New York City? Thats pretty much what happened with The Lillywhite Sessions the unreleased darker predecessor to the blockbuster IEveryday album. Rather than turn their back on the fans however Matthews and company returned to the studio to do the job right. On IBusted Stuff they revive those solemn songs with diligent intensity creating lovely swaths of melancholy and transcendence. Elegant tracks like Grace Is Gone and Digging a Ditch replace the dreary gloss of the last album with dazzling intimacy and even the bands usual tendency for meandering jazz-rock flights is kept in check by the sheer weight of the material. Impressive stuff in spite of what Matthews apparently thinks. Aidin Vaziri


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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!
Chantoozies
Live in Chicago at the United Center 12.19.98

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This collection marks the fifth live Matthews collection in eight years. But while previous surveys have chronicled the bands nascent ambitions (IRemember Two Things) initial fame (ILive at Red Rocks) solo pretensions (ILive at Luther College) and PBS-ready charms (IListener Supported) this double-disc set recorded at the final show of their 98 tour seems bent on formally crowning Matthews and company as arena-filling superstars--warts and all. p With a set listing culled largely from the pop-oriented ICrash and more internationally experimental IBefore These Crowded Streets the proceedings held some promise. But like most arena bands before them the DMB generally amps the nuances right out of the mix here. The Last Stop recalls where Led Zeps own world-music pretensions led them while Pantala Naga Pampa skirts dangerously close to Kenny G. territory before finding its jazz-funk stride. Though they groove mightily and consistently throughout the DMBs oft-criticized jam-band ethos often seems strangely burnished and studio-overdubbed to homogenous extremes here. And while legend Maceo Parkers sax further ignites the crowd-pleaser What Would You Say as guitarist and frequent Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds plays guest guitar god throughout its Matthewss own shamanic oft-trancelike vocal excursions that barely keep this one from lapsing into DMBs McLive album. Try Budokan next time? Jerry McCulley
I Did It
Everyday

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With three years passed and a new producer at the helm the Dave Matthews Band find themselves stretching beyond the borders of IBefore These Crowded Streets to more emotionally explorative territory. On IEveryday Matthewss clenched-jaw delivery has an unrelenting constancy thats 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 that often recalls Peter Gabriel which is ironic given that the band replaced producer Steve Lillywhite whose work with Gabriel is legendary with Glen Ballard whose work with Alanis Morissette is of equal note if not acclaim. The album is Gabrielesque in scope from Matthewss deepening rasp to the epic instrumentation. Yet whats lacking is Lillywhites ability to capture a sense of naked honesty. Instead Ballard dosses down the tracks in designer-suit production unable to save a band that might simply not be up to the task on such an ambitious sonic endeavor. That combined with Matthewss tendency to eschew conventional hooks leaves the album stalled between the groups jam-band compulsion and radio-friendly packaging. To capture the latent majesty of this album youre going to have to hear it live and with this band thats always been precisely the point. Beth Massa
Maximum Audio Biography: Dave Matthews
Listener Supported

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If youre of the opinion that the Grateful Dead comparisons that dog the Dave Matthews Band ring false consider that with the release of iListener Supported Matthews has put out more live albums (four if you count iLive at Luther College a duet album with Tim Reynolds) than studio efforts (three if you dont count the iRecently EP). Thats a lot of live albums but Matthews fans probably wouldnt have it any other way. Now its more possible than ever to haggle over which version of say Warehouse--which appears on Live at Red Rocks iLuther College and the new album as well as on iRecently and iUnder the Table and Dreamings definitive. But Warehouse aside the Matthews Band isnt making the same album over and over. iListener Supported contains a nice mix of tunes albeit with a fair emphasis on their most recent studio effort iBefore These Crowded Streets. Among the highlights is a funky freewheeling take on Rapunzel and gorgeous readings of #41 and the traditional country tune Long Black Veil. With over two and a half hours of music the album is enough to sate most DMB fans at least until the next live album turns up. Daniel Durchholz
So Much to Say

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Australian Release featuring Three Tracks Including #41 and Two Versions of the Title Track.


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1996 single featuring two versions of So Much To Say (Edit Album Version) plus #41. So Much To Say is taken fromtheir hit album Crash. Slimline jewel case. An RCArelease.
Crash into Me

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Australian Release featuring Three Versions of the Title Track.


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Three mixes of their adult post modern hit: Edit Acoustic and Album Version.
Don&quot;t Drink the Water

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The first single from their album Before These CrowdedStreets a top five hit in Billboards Modern Rock Trackschart. Alanis Morrissette Bela Fleck guest on the tune.Contains Dont Drink The Water (Edit) and live versions ofTripping Billies and th
Too Much

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Top 10 hit in Billboards Mainstream Rock chart. Features two versions of Too Much (Edit Album Version) and Jimi Thing(acoustic). Slimline jewel case. 1996 RCA release.
Ants Marching

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Australian Exclusive Re-Issue.


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1995 single from their hit album Under The Table And Dreaming. Its backed with What Would You Say Typical Situation (Edit) and a live version of Ants Marching recorded at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel in Providence Rhode Island. Picture disc. Slimline jewel case. An RCA release.
Stay (Wasting Time)

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Australian Exclusive Single.


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Australian-only release the second single from their hit1998 album. Contains two versions of Stay (Wasting Time)(Edit Album Edit) plus the non-album track Lover LayDown. Slimline jewel case. 1998 RCA release.
Before These Crowded Streets

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The Dave Matthews Band is moving its music forward incrementally. While IBefore 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 discs first single Dont Drink the Water; banjo Bela Fleck steps in too. Most intriguing however is the modernist string arrangement from the Kronos Quartet on the driving Halloween. Matthewsat least partly fulfills his obvious hopes to lead something other than a jam band here; at the same time IStreets should keep his fans satisfied. Rickey Wright
Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95

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Like a lot of his jam-band compatriots Dave Matthewss personality can come off as muted in the studio but really spreads out live--which makes this a must-have for fans who dont already have the bootleg or nineteen more from the same period. But absent a hits sampler ILive at Red Rocks could also be the best Matthews album for more tentative listeners. It draws heavily from the IUnder the Table and Dreaming material as well as from the then-upcoming ICrash. All Along the Watchtower previously only available on an indie EP ends the set. Gavin McNett
Remember Two Things

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Dave Matthews Bands first album IRemember Two Things was self-released in 1993 and was reissued by RCA in 1997. Truly serious Dave Matthews fans all have well-worn copies on the original Bama Rags label and will tell you they bought them from Dave himself. But if youre less of a hard-liner this package will do nicely. Its a live album with the exceptions of Seek Up and Minarets and the bands sound is pretty much all there. So are the radio hits from IUnder the Table and Dreaming. If you want only one live document ILive at Red Rocks has more key tracks. But no Dave Matthews fan wants only one live document. Bonus Track (of sorts): Seek Up (Reprise). Gavin McNett
Recently
Crash

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Its tempting to label the Dave Matthews Band as torchbearers of the Grateful Deads 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 bands second major-label release. ICrash 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 track and the free-form 41 while the group shows that its not afraid to let loose on songs such as the stirring Too Much. Producer Steve Lillywhite adds an impressive sheen to the recordings. Aidin Vaziri
Under the Table and Dreaming

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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. iJeff Bateman


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With popcorn acoustic guitars trampoline fiddles bumper-car bass lines and caramel-coated sax the Dave Matthews Bands major-label debut is like an evening at the fair. The Best of Whats Around and What Would You Say swirl like the amusement-park ride on the albums 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 babys sleeping snow-cone-stained face collapsed on her daddys shoulder. Beth Massa

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