Matthews went on to form Dave Matthews Band (DMB). Reynolds has occasionally joined the band in the studio, as on the albums Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, Before These Crowded Streets, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, Away from the World, Come Tomorrow and as a touring member of DMB.
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The American rock band Dave Matthews Band has released nine studio albums, eighty-five live albums, three compilation albums, eight video albums, two extended plays, twenty-nine singles (including one as a featured artist), and twenty-one music videos. DMB has sold over 33 million albums in the United States.[citation needed]
After signing with RCA Records, Dave Matthews Band released its debut studio album, Under the Table and Dreaming (1994). In the United States, the album peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200[1] and was certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[2] The group's next studio album, Crash (1996), peaked at number two on the Billboard 200[1] and was certified seven times platinum by the RIAA.[2] Before These Crowded Streets (1998) reached number one on the Billboard 200[1] and was certified four times platinum by the RIAA;[2] the band's single "Crush", which became the band's first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, appeared on that album.[3] Before These Crowded Streets was followed by Everyday (2001) (which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200,[1] was certified three times platinum by the RIAA,[2] and featured the band's first top 40 hit, "The Space Between"[3]), Busted Stuff (2002) (which reached number one on the Billboard 200,[1] was certified two times platinum by the RIAA[2] and included another Top 40 hit, "Where Are You Going"[3]), Stand Up (which reached number one, was certified platinum,[1][2] and contained the band's most successful single to date, "American Baby"[2]), Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (which debuted at number one[1] and was certified platinum by the RIAA[2]), Away from the World (2012), and Come Tomorrow (2018).
The group has released multiple live albums throughout its career. While always encouraging fan recordings of concerts for personal enjoyment, the success of the band led to the illegal sale of such recordings. Such copies were often very expensive and of low quality. To meet the demand of the illegal distribution of such recordings, the band released its first concert album, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, in October 1997.[4] As of August 2021, the band has released a total of 96 live albums, including 56 from the Live Trax series and 23 from the DMBlive series.
Prior to his passing in March 2016, the great Phife Dawg managed to complete his contributions to A Tribe Called Quest's final album, the instant classic that was "We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service". Yet while working with his old crew, he was also working on what would be his second-ever solo album, "Forever", which would finally see the light of day in 2022. Given his only other solo offering came in 2000 and seemed to take not-so-thinly-veiled shots at bandmate Q-Tip, it's a delight to hear the two work again on "Forever", which is filled with warm vibes and a love of old-school beats. Featuring a rogue's gallery of producers (9th Wonder, J Dilla, the always-underrated Potatohead People) and superstar guests (Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Little Brother, Redman, Dwele), the sepia-toned memories of "Forever" point to an era of rap music that simply doesn't exist anymore. "Thought I'd chop you out, son, see how you're doin'," he says to the late J Dilla on "Dear Dilla", "Come back to earth, homie / Hip-hop is in ruins." There's smart samples, funky beats, and even some light orchestration to give buoyancy to Phife Dawg's rhymes. It feels like a perfect final act from one of rap music's all-time greats.
While Dave Matthews is the chief songwriter and figurehead for the Dave Matthews Band, even he knows the "Band" part of the equation is what made the group what it is today, as DMB is a tight, eclectic unit of profoundly talented musicians who often elevate Matthews' songs to new heights. LeRoi Holloway Moore was one of the band's founding members and a dynamite saxophonist whose fingerprints are all over DMB'd discography. Yet when he was in an ATV accident in 2008, his healing and re-hospitalizations are what ultimately led to his passing in August of that year. Matthews and Co. were crushed by the news, which is why "Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King" was designed as a tribute to Moore, as "GrooGrux" was a made-up word to describe the kinetic energy shared among Moore, Tim Reynolds, and Tim Wicks. Although reviews were mixed and the album was a bit more rock-based than jam-based, fans still embraced it, and although the Grammys failed to include Moore on the In Memoriam reel that year, "Big Whiskey" still ended up getting a nomination for Album of the Year.
There are few things linear about The Doors' career arc, and that's largely because Jim Morrison was assuredly not a linear person. Although he died in July 1971, no less than three Doors albums were released after that: 1971's "Other Voices" and 1972's "Full Circle" each featured the other members doing their own songs and vocals without Jim. However, 1978's "An American Prayer" is credited to both Jim Morrison and The Doors as separate entities, as the band simply provides musical accompaniment for Morrison's detailed and sometimes hypersexualized spoken word poetry. Although the music is certainly engaging, there is little harmony between the various tracks, save for a gimme-gimme add-on in the form of live cut "Roadhouse Blues," which reminds us of the power and the chemistry that the band had together when doing songs and not backing a poetry reading. Is it a good full-length record? It remains up for debate even to this day. Yet as a rock music curiosity, well, few albums are as curious as this.
In all likelihood, you heard of the band Sublime when everyone else did: After it had become defunct. While the group's first two albums endeared them to the Cali ska-punk scene, their early efforts were notoriously immature despite showing some real promise. Their sophomore album, "Robbin' the Hood," showed the group expanding its musical knowledge with an increasing fascination with dub music, but it was 1996's "Sublime" that was the group's major-label debut and what was aimed to be its breakthrough moment. As it turns out, bolstered by the immediate connection people had with songs like "What I Got", "Santeria," and "Wrong Way," "Sublime" was a bon afide smash, even as the band was reeling from the tragic overdose of lead singer and guitarist Bradley Nowell two months prior to the record's release. "Sublime" is so easily the band's best album that remaining members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh were left with few options, soon forming the Long Beach Dub Allstars and even revisiting their past glories with the outfit Sublime with Rome later on. No matter what iteration they take, the truth is that their legacy will always live on in the form of that stoner-slacker classic that is "Sublime."
In February of 1996, 2Pac put out "All Eyez On Me," a positively overwhelming double-album of new material that would go on to become one of the best-selling rap records of all time. In September of that year, a drive-by shooting ended his life, shocking the entire nation. Eight weeks later, Death Row Records released "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory," and it proved to be one of the most polarizing, divisive records of his career. Had Tupac lived, he would've seen the harsh reaction to it, wherein the political aims of his early work had been abandoned for aggressive gangster rap posturing, especially on the firey, name-calling opener, "Bomb First (My Second Reply)."
Two months before the release of "Closer," Joy Division's sophomore effort, singer and lyricist Ian Curtis took his own life at age 23, shocking the band on the day they it was about to start a tour of North America. While Curtis certainly had his demons, it's hard not to view the cryptic, brooding "Closer" as Curtis' way of working through his issues, confronting death and also his failing marriage amid the band's tight, paranoid backing. Arguably the most "post-punk" album there ever was (save, of course, for the band's 1979 debut, "Unknown Pleasures"), raw guitar fuzz and repeating bass lines create a terse atmosphere where Curtis pours (and shouts) his feelings out. "This is the crisis I knew had to come," he sings on "Passover,
So deliberate in its pacing and tone, the band was even running high off the success of its poppy one-off single "Love Will Tear Us Apart," which explicitly wasn't included on "Closer" as it had no thematic place amid the rest of the masterfully chilling tracks. Following Curtis' passing, the rest of the band ended up moving on and forming New Order, and while that was a hugely successful outfit on its own, the boys' legacy still stands squarely on the shoulders of "Closer," one of the most influential albums of the '80s.
Let's gather around and be honest with each other for a second: With only a handful of exceptions, Queen was never an album's band, 1975's "A Night at the Opera" withstanding. Its albums had a wild variety of styles contained within, largely because the group was comprised of songwriters of different castes. Yet at the end of the day, as disparate as the parts were, the band always knew how to release impactful, layered, striking singles that sounded like they were from a unified creative unit. Following frontman Freddie Mercury's passing in 1991 due to complications from AIDS, the rest of the band took some time off before coming back together and looking at the vocal and piano scraps that Mercury hadn't gotten around to finishing. The album that was crafted out of those pieces, "Made in Heaven," was comprised of an astonishing bland series of ballads, mid-tempo numbers and oddball experiments that showed how out of touch the band was with the current zeitgeist.
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