[sdre-l]: DMB and SDRE!? Not for me...
I have always been a whole anti-Dave Matthews advocate... it would crush my spirits if they toured with that band... really... I had DMB tickets once due to a strange accidental situation and I gave them away. That would really kill me... Especially since No Knife is such a lovely band for them to tour with!! Oh, and I've always wanted to say this... Isn't it funny how quite a few people on this list seem not to like the Rising Tide or How it Feels too much?? I just think it's HILARIOUS because this is the official SDRE fan list, and if I'm not mistaken, SDRE is currently the band that released both of those albums... the very band that will also continue to release similar beautiful albums... just a thought that has always caused me to smirk... I got to hang out with Jeremy in the parking lot before the Detroit show, and he said that quite a few of the songs on TRT were supposed to be solo songs, but also that they were always made two million times better when sacrificed to the band... He also said that he's got to finish his SubPop contract, and that he might not use much orchestration on the next one(s)... He thinks that drummers can be pretty silly too... but then again, he did play a bit on the latest album... He said that Will didn't play on Tearing in My Heart because he couldn't really grasp the simple beat well enough... you know, because it was too damn easy and weird or something... Will is the best drummer ever... it almost looks when he plays as though it's killing him. That would mean that he is literally dying for his fans! What a great boy!! I hope I haven't wasted too much of everyone's time tonight... I hope you all have wonderful lives for some reason! Dan Sunny day is really my cup of tea... DMB might belong at a place more like Starbucks, but that doesn't help their situation at all in my opinion... hehehe...
Re: [sdre-l]: you wanna hear some kids?
Actually, I have been listening to that (I just got back from France a while ago...) and my friends and I can only make out a few things... at the end, it sounds like he sasy something about "doing the water" which could mean drinking it or spraying or dumping or throwing it... I don't know... we'll try harder though... Dan "Sometimes you see right through me..."
[sdre-l]: OK... last call Chicago fans...
This may come too late, but I have one extra Chicago ticket for sale at face value (it may be alittle higher, because I paid with a surcharge ((tips accepted too!!))) I have to leave before one o'clock (which I think is noon in Chicago time) but if someone could e-mail me privately before then, then you can have it. I will be at the show tonight wearing a ridiclously tight bright blue polo style shirt with a little white Boys Choir logo on the upper right hand side... if you see me there, (I should be standing outside either directly in front of the door, or acrossed the street if it's that type of place (I've never been there...)) then you can come up to me and just ask for it -I'll give it to whoever e-mails or sees me there first. I don't want to scalp them though, because that's silly. I guess the show sold out, so I'm sure I'll see quite a few of you there! Have a glorious night if I don't see you anyway! Daniel F. Wier "Don't tell me you've gone astray..." I was just listening to ROTFQ in my car and singing along... I can't wait to see that boy doing it in person!
Re: [sdre-l]: Gandhi is rubbing my most intimate hairs
That really makes me think... what were you thinking just saying that such beautiful songs are simply "BAD"!!? That's quite a silly thing if you ask me... also, I sincerely agree with that Dan who said that all the albums were rather similar despite [un]popular belief. I've always always thought that Diary was great, How it Feels was great, and Lp2 was great... and that Lp2 is almost like a perfect transition between the two others... they all almost link to eachother in ways that I can't really describe... I say that otherwise, instead of being bitter about how The Ocean doesn't sound how you want, you should be happy to the point of ridiculousness that the band is still together! The fact that they're still together should be more than enough to keep any REAL FANS beyond happy... One thing that I did notice though, was that his voice seems more like it did on the live cd to me than on any of their other albums... It's got this new texture that makes me smile. You should all smile too. THE DAYS ARE GOLDEN! Dan W. (too many Dan's on the list confuses Dan!) http://lazygenius.homepage.com (if anyone cares to see some pictures of me smiling) my silly band site
[sdre-l]: Crazy thought....
I was looking through the Diary lyrics the other day, and I noticed something
a bit interesting to me. In "Song About an Angel"...{my favorite song by SDRE
that is}... Jeremy sings, "Although you hit me hard I come back!.." in a
triumphant and beautiful singing voice of course... And then in "Sometimes",
he also sings... "Although... you hit me hard... I come back..." in a
different sort of way where it's sort of drawn out. The thing I thought was
interesting, was that "Song About an Angel" lists Dan first in the credits,
and "Sometimes" lists Jeremy first... I think that means that one wrote the
lyrics to one, one to the other. I just wondered if anyone knows wether or
not the first name is the one who usually wrote them, or vice versa... it
just struck me as interesting for both songs to have that exact same line,
yet they have different credits... It's not exactly such a typical line
either... maybe they did it on purpose to make me think...
Dan
I'm very glad that the list is up and running again of course...
Re: [sdre-l]: what would you recomend...
Actually, I heard Diary first, and I was completely blown away, so I would definitely recommend that first... (especially since I'm a drummer and this is my favorite to date as far as Will's stuff goes)... but second, I heard HIFTBSO, because they didn't have lp2 at the store I went to at the time. I was blown away by that one too, but to me, I've always thought that after hearing the first, then third, then second in that order, it seems to me that somehow, lp2 is a perfect mix/transition from Diary to HIFTBSO. The drums are still pretty hectic, but as was mentioned, the vocals lean more towards HIFTBSO... and there is less of Dan's singing it seems on lp2 than on Diary, but more than on HIFTBSO It almost seems as though the band knew that they were going to make their third album in a different way than their first, but they helped lead the fans from one to the other with lp2. I guess that's a weird opinion, but I have some friends who agree. Any thoughts? Dan W. On the live album, my favorite is track six, "Song About an Angel", but it's always been my favorite anyway. It's an excellent song to sing along with or drum along to. Kudos to William Goldsmith, my favorite drummer, and to everyone else in the band, which I guess can include "Joe Bass" on the live album/video too. And if that guy didn't think that SDRE was good live, then he must have been under some sort of an influence, and he probably hasn't seen the video yet...
