Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets (w/ guest Matt Pischl)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Musician Matt Pischl stops by to help Bill and Brian talk about what makes Dave Matthews Band's Before These Crowded Streets (1998, RCA) great. Formed when a shy songwriter approached the local musicians he admired to collaborate, the band has gone on to become a popular concert attraction and bestselling group. Matt tells us how playing the saxophone all throughout elementary and high school led to his ear taking note of Leroi Moore's contributions to DMB's unique sound and eventually transitioning to guitar as his own main instrument. The guys talk about the band's image as a stoner jam band, the portion of their fanbase that is just bros, Steve Lillywhite's influence on the band's sound and development, the impressive musicianship throughout, cool guest contributions (Bela Fleck, Alanis Morissette, the Cronos Quartet), happy hippie music, cutting songs for the single version, Matthews' carpe diem lyrics, and a track by track review!

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0:00.0	Walking just the other day.
0:25.6	And it was so hot outside.
0:29.6	Are you good Friday?
0:33.6	Go.
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to The Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:38.4	And I'm Brian.
0:39.2	And Brian, what are we talking about today?
0:42.0	Talking about the Dave Matthews Band, and their album before these crowded streets came out in 1998.
0:49.2	Their third.
0:50.3	Yeah, their third album.
0:51.2	Third studio album.
0:54.0	Yeah, they had done a couple things.
0:55.7	They did kind of early stuff recently in EP and remember two things, which had what,
1:01.9	like seven kind of studio-ish songs and a couple live tracks.
1:06.8	Yeah, but their third proper studio album, the third major release.
1:12.0	So if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.
1:19.3	We're going to do a little bit of talking about how we relate to the music, and we're going to talk a little bit about the history of the band and leading up to
1:28.6	the production of this album and then we're going to do a track by track review oh really yeah
1:35.1	that sounds like a good idea let's do that today yeah we do that every week so it might be a good
1:40.4	idea today too pretty much yeah it's and just a little caveat here this is a convers idea to do it today too. Pretty much, yeah. And just a little caveat here.
1:45.9	This is a conversational music podcast.
1:48.0	It's about music appreciation.
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