Squirrel Nut Zippers

Dave wrote everything before Everyday. I imagine that the arrangement was like with Alanis Morisette and No Doubt and that type thing when they worked with Glen Ballard (who produced Everyday, after Steve Lillywhite produced all others, including the untitled, "unreleased" and not completely mastered Lillywhite Sessions), where Dave and Ballard cowrote. Before, what would happen apparently is that Dave would write lyrics and the band would evolve the song, and therefore two or three of the bandmembers would get credit for the song including Dave. A number of the songs, I think, are credited to the rest of the band and not Dave at all - some of the jam songs like 41 and Lie in our Graves from Crash, I'm reading, are credited to the rest of the band and not Dave. Most of the first major album was collaboration within the band. I don't own Beyond These Crowded Streets or Everyday so I don't know what the arrangement there but I'm certain a lot of the songs are Dave's, a number of them deal with his bad breakup in the late 90's.

 

as far as i know he does...when it's not his, it actually states on the album. he did most of the old ones. i have to check his everyday album. i bet he didnt some there. that album is not that good! well, except for the space between...IMO.

 

When the World Ends is ok, the title track isn't too bad.

 

I own Under the Table and Dreeaming and Crash but have never taken the time to look

 

dave matthews is a poet...they can say what they want. dave is a poet and an extraordinary artiste. gawd...i am starting to sound like some teenybopper!

ugh! i call it as i see it...

did you guys notice the new smileys? i am having fun with them...lookie, M!

 

m, is that you when you had the beard, or is that steven segal? my inquiring mind wants to know.

 

yeah, funny how two of my favorite bands' songs had such huge hits on songs that don't really sound much like them...Dave's was about a peeping Tom and Ben Folds' about abortion. So that drew a lot of teenage fans to the music, which is good. Just different. Luckily, at least I can say I followed each of them before they knocked one out of the park, even though in Dave's case there was a lot of popularity there long before Crash.
Anyway, yeah, he has a way with words that is rare...he puts a lot of raw thought into what he's saying, doesn't try to polish it up too much. I like it, very slice of a person at a differential time type stuff.

 

Just thought of something magnus..... this is only the 2nd subject that I know more about than you (the first is carrying mail)

Even though what you told me at Dixie's doesn't hurt you intelligence either? Do you remember what that was?

 

yeah but any body can carry mail.

How hard can it be to stick the mail in the wrong box?

 

Oh shit. Not a clue. drop the other shoe so I can stop worrying.