What are you currently listening to? (DMB edition)
 

We have threads dedicated to official releases, studio albums, Jason's "Listening to Every Show" [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and even Rob's "Rate a Show" [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] thread, which are really great and fun threads. But we don't have a thread for single-song performances.

So with that in mind, I'd like to know what people are currently listening to.

Right now I'm listening to #41 w/ Victor from 6/16/13. Haven't listened to this one in a while. Leading up to Vic's introduction was a great moment, mentioned in the crew notes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

If you're one of those who really focuses and hates the slow and lulling outros you'll 100% be annoyed here but it's a really solid performance.

What are you listening to?

This was a great performance. And I loved the lets go Bruins chant before that worked perfectly.

That must have been one of the last crew notes they wrote for a show. Miss those little posts. And that #41 with Victor is a gem.

I'm listening to Two Step D&T 2/19/99. Quality show.

Even the crew got bored.

I just finished listening to Live at Sweet Briar College and I'm thinking of listening to Live Trax 39, but haven't made my mind up to pull the trigger and buy it.

Last Stop - DMBLive 30 November 1998

beautiful. damn.

Great thread idea. :upyours

Dave & Friends - 12/22/03

That Sweet Up & Down bust out was amazing. Trey sounds great on it.

Have this one handy?

:upyours

The Radio City show from this year. Particularly Iko Iko and The Maker

The 11.11.92 Two Step (LT37) is utterly amazing. Could be my favorite released version of it. If anyone on here has yet to check it out...do it now and thank me later.

Love 2/19. Probably my least favorite month of that tour but still so damn good

Busted Stuff - 8/25/00 (DMB Live 25)

Butch on the organ during the chorus is such a great touch, and it's really cool to compare it to LT3 just a couple of nights later.

2.19.99 was a fun watch :upyours


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Streaming LT11 on Spotify, haven't listened to it in a while (aside from the LIOG which gets regular listens from me).

I was listening on youtube:

This Recently man. So so good.

So smooth

7/21/92

Proudest Monkey (Mansfield 6/7/96) from Warehouse 8 Volume 1

Leroi is fabulous. One of my favorite versions despite Dave and his ramble about CNN :smoke

Roi’s intro to PNP>Rapunzel from Orlando ‘98 is just phenomenal. It’s him at his best, even if it’s a short one. Love it.

Bouncing around the D&T 3 nights at Riveria Maya

Another new Copperpot video:

Really would be sweet if Trouble gets some play this summer with DMB..a song everyone would welcome that they definitely don't need Boyd for. I wouldn't be surprised if that one's a lock. They might play a lot off that album for that exact reason that they don't need the violin for it. Wouldn't hold my breath, but makes sense. Some of these classic songs are going to be utterly brutal though without him. Despite his crappy playing, The sound of the violin missing in these songs is going to be tough for stuff like Billies, Ants, Crush, Nancies, Warehouse, etc. every night. I don't know if I can handle it. Maybe for once they'll decide to give those songs a break for this tour like they did with Two Step in '16--only play them a couple times each. One can dream.

Aside from performances where he obviously stands out with a solo, One Sweet World from 8/5/00 is one of my favorite performances featuring Butch. His additions within this version are so fluid and make me miss him more than ever. What he added to songs like this is what I truly miss.

A lot of really great performances of OSW over the years but this version from 8/6/00 is easily in my top 10, right behind 4/20/02.

Man, I miss old One Sweet World.

I always drift back to the '97 tour during the winter months

Wrong date?

8/6/00 doesn't have a OSW: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

Yeah sorry about that, meant 8/5/00.

Really great mix on this too. It almost reaches 12/31/95's level in terms of Roi's solo for PM.

Same here bro.

Absolutely nothing better in DM world.

God damn...with or without guests Cortez The Killer is such a great cover.

Without guests, just the five, no Butch: Cortez The Killer - 12/4/00 (segued from #41)

Love that version.

Me too and I am thoroughly enjoying it. If this wasn’t the post lillywhite sessions record, I think I would have been able to appreciate it more at the time. But this record has grown on me significantly over time.

Love the build up in this version b/w Boyd, Mayer and Carter :smoke

#41 w/ John Mayer 9/6/07

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Full review to follow.

:lol

Me too. And that's a straight sign as to how bad things got post 2001. I used to heavily judge Everyday, now I really like it. Sad..

It’s bad that you now like music that you once didn’t?
Wtf

Granny, studio version. So happy we have this!

People People from the last Warehouse disc... really nice to have an official release of this, good version, like the song a lot :upyours

Totally forgot we had this recording. :nod

Seek Up - 5/11/99

Roi's a beast on this outro.

I've been listening to everything DMB I have uploaded to my Google Play Music cloud on shuffle this week, skipping through whenever I feel the need. Currently: Crush from the Live Trax 2008 release. Such a badass outro.
Next up: PNP->Rapunzel from Live at Wrigley Field, haven't listened to this release much.

:upyours

Help Myself (studio cut)

I love this damn recording. :rawk

Made a compilation “album” of my favorite studio tracks since 2005:

Squirm
Lying in the Hands of God
American Baby
Broken Things
#27
Hello Again (AUS Release)
Beach Ball
Eh Hee
Why I Am (Demo)
Joyride
Seven
Rooftop
Write a Song
Snow Outside
Drunken Soldier

Not a bad little album.

It's still not as good as any individual album before 2005 though.

Not at all. I even listened to Everyday in its entirety yesterday and really enjoyed it. What a world.

Everyday?

Looking for a good 2000 show to listen to. It's been awhile since I've listened to one from that year and I've got some time tonight so looking for any good recommendation.

Getting pumped up for the new album with some Mark & Carter Jam.....

6/23/00
7/13/00
9/10/00

:upyours

That run from Typical to the end of the set is just killer. One of my favorite Recently’s.

Sugar Will - Stand Up bonus disc live version.

"What do you think about that?"

Fair point, but even there it's pretty close.

I had Warehouse issued upper reserved seats for the first time at that show, good times. :upyours I never have made it to Deer Creek again.

Yep. 9.3.04 is my standard and go-to Sugar Will.

Thanks so much. I actually wasn't able to have the open time I thought I was going to so I'm going to try one of these today.

That's the best thing to ever come out of Stand Up :lol

Seriously though, it's killer, one of my most listened to tracks :upyours

It's the best because it really had nothing to do with Stand Up.

Seek Up - 5/19/95 (Dead Opener)

Still can't believe we have the SBD of this after so many years. What a fun listen.

:upyours that was a great get

Sorry for being a pain, if anyone is willing to DM a copy of 7/13/00 I would be estastic, having issues getting it right now.

On it.

Live Trax v18, by the way.

Thank you so much!

A Dream So Real

One of the most underrated tunes in my opinion.

We do?

Thanks. But I just checked a folder where I have a pile of DMB-related stuff to get to, and it's already there. :lol

I wonder if the other two nights will eventually come out.

Listened to BTCS straight through for the first time in a couple years last week.

I remember when I started listening to DMB, people said they were better live, but this album is damn good from the studio.

I honestly believe it's a perfect album. Even Stay fits so nicely in that 5 spot. It's flawless.

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To this day, it's my favourite album of all time. And I'm not intending to be ignorant, I consider myself someone with a very solid knowledge of music. BTCS is prefect.

Isn’t it funny though that our favorite DMB album also gave us our least favorite guests in the Lovely Ladies?

Honestly... I don't hate 'em. They're often not used properly, but I gotta say, when I'm at a show and they're out there for Stay, it's always such a highlight.

Agreed :upyours awesome little tune

There’s absolutely no question about it. Steve Lillywhite is one of the best known and most highly respected producers in the business, and even if you put it up against the rest of his work, it’s easily one of his best jobs. Every part of that project was operating at the absolute peak of their ability.

Agree 100%. It's a masterpiece, and the first two albums were really damn good also so that speaks to how good BTCS really is. Honestly, I think LWS would be right up there with the Big 3 if it was finished. The songs on that album are so good also.

I have always found it a testament to just how firggin' phenomenal BTCS is that it is universally considered their best album. You have the big 3, but streets is unquestionable their best. Whether it is SLW, people on this site, or Batson the other day. It is never even a question.

Conversely, I think this is why the LWS exploding hurt so bad. Especially with what we have. You had an honest chance to give it a run for its money.

I do absolutely think it would have had a chance to give it a run for its money. Everything really felt like the band was on a roll song writing, etc. and then it all just exploded.

Big Whiskey

I still think this is a pretty diverse sounding album, like a carnival of sorts. Would it have been different with Roi? Probably. More Boyd involvement? Hopefully. But they really tried with this one. And it's all I ask of them.

I think I'd rank Big Whiskey above Away from the World. At least I find myself listening to it more often straight through. AftW is definitely the better produced effort, but I prefer BW's sound. I think there's a difference, subtle as it may be. Cavallo captured the energy of the band whereas Lillywhite gets the musicianship.

Couldn't agree more. AFTW "sounds" more like DMB and like the old school records, but the songwriting is far superior on Big Whiskey, it's not close imo. There's some bad ones on that album too, but overall I think it's more solid, and definitely way more listenable. AFTW isn't an album I can listen to all the way through. I only did that once when it came out, now I just go to select tracks. I listened to Big Whiskey start of finish well over 10 times for sure. The songs have more life to them and they are more interesting and dyanmic to me. If you took the best songs off of BW and the best ones off of AFTW, you'd have a great album that would fall right behind Busted Stuff or maybe even equal it. People rank albums objectivley (or try to) but for me, if I can't stand to listen to it from start to finish multiple times then it's not a good album to me.

I think Big Whiskey sounds like how 3.0 DMB is supposed to sound, where as AFTW was the band trying to sound like they used to, and it kind of came off that way to me. I always say, they're not the same band anymore, and they shouldn't feel the need to be. There's a lot about 3.0 I don't like, but I've really embraced it at this point. If they fine tune things (less Rashawn squealing, more Jeff, more subtle Tim, Less loud Carter) it would be miles better. I'd much rather them move in a specifc direction than try to be a shell of what they used to be.

I mean as awesome as BTCS, it doesn't sound at all like they do live. But I don't mind that. The studio is different, and should be.

Right behind or equal to BS? Stop.

11/5/98 - The Last Stop

Unless Tim is using a strange effect in here, it sounds like LeRoi is playing the flute in places. Either way, I like it.

:upyours the best version ever