Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
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Artist: Dave Matthews BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Pantala Naga Pampa
- Rapunzel
- The Last Stop
- Don't Drink the Water
- Stay (Wasting Time)
- Halloween
- The Stone
- Crush
- The Dreaming Tree
- Pig
- Spoon
Music reviews of Before These Crowded Streets
Music Review: More Personality But Not Enough Development
Rating: 3 Stars
I didn't have high hopes for this album, but I didn't think it would be like this. This album has high potential. Really high potential. Consider what they have here:
A vocalist that can't be imitated (despite the criticism, I like his vocals). Acoustic guitar and it's range of dynamics and flavors (I dig his playing). The grooving, peaceful, graceful, can do anything rhythm section of Carter and Steffan. A full time wind player and violinist. Tim Reynolds on every track playing electric guitar (in a great way instead of the the way that bogged down Everyday). And pianos, banjos, and organ the Chapman Stick, a trumpet, soulful background vocals from the Lovely Ladies, and the Kronos Quartet. A great variety of atmosphere and mood.
But it's too bad that this album wallows in unbearably repetitive. Some of the material here is excellent, but the rest of either too undeveloped and runs or unbearabley soft, unemotional, and BORING. The ballads are awful, muzak worthy with not enough melody and absolutely no conveying of emotion in Dave Matthews' voice. And a lot of the tracks on here run on too long with no real ideas and no real progression giving their time length. A lot of the songs end with jams, and they are interesting, but it's kind of hard to get to them with an endless flotation of weak melodies. Dave is also not very good at being angry in his vocals, and, for me, it's pretty bad. His lyrics sometimes are questionable to begin with, and it's apparent on this album as well.
But the good things? Well, they are there, and there are some great songs on here worthy if you like the band. The intro, of course, is fine, along with some of the other tracks, like Stay, Rapunzel (though the bridge jam part is boring), and The Last Stop. Crush is a great song, and it justifies the time length, which is what many of the songs should have been like, or at least an example: a variety, great jams like speaking, the like. Don't Drink The Water starts out great, though it kind of fades at the end with repetition. IT's not terrible, but there's a lot of material on this album not worth your time.
It's kind of sad really, that Dave Matthews Band would even be worse with the release of their next album, the craptastic everyday. You might like it more than I did, and I think you should at least check it out, along with their first albums.
5.5/10
Description of Before These Crowded Streets
The Dave Matthews Band moves its music forward by increments on Before These Crowded Streets. While the album offers more of the folkish melodies and vaguely internationalist rhythms that made this Charlottesville, Virginia, group a major record and concert draw, it also finds them adding new colorings to the mix. Alanis Morissette guests on two cuts, "Spoon" and the disc's first single, "Don't Drink the Water," and banjo whiz Bela Fleck sits in, too. More interesting, though, is the modernist string arrangement played by the Kronos Quartet on the driving "Halloween." Matthews's obvious hopes to lead something other than a jam band are at least partly fulfilled here; at the same time, Streets should keep his customers satisfied.--Rickey WrightGeneral CDs
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