Rank The Albums!

I’ll play the Killers game

1. Sam’s Town
2. Hot Fuss
3. Sawdust
4. Day & Age

I know Sawdust is a compilation, but it’s damn good and deserving. I’ve listened to all of their remaining albums and it’s all down hill. For me anyway.
Battle Born was ok but it seemed forced. Wonderful Wonderful & Imploding The Mirage are Flowers solo albums with Ronnie on drums. I’ve listened to Pressure Machine once and it’s a heavy album. Maybe too Springsteen for me.
Honestly, once Dave and Mark stepped away, the band should have either ended or gone on hiatus, but Brandon is a workaholic.
 
Dave Matthews Band

1. Before These Crowded Streets
2. Under The Table And Dreaming
3. Crash
4. Busted Stuff
5. Stand Up
6. Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King
7. Everyday
8. Come Tomorrow
9. Away From The World

8 & 9 are interchangeable. I put Come Tomorrow ahead because of Roi but Away could have been ahead because Steve Lillywhite seems to get the best out of this band.
I will say that Everyday is my least favorite album of theirs because of how it was made and it was also too damn poppy. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to it but I’ve been thinking about giving it a go here soon. It’s really a shame that the Lillywhite Sessions were scrapped because that could have been one of if not their best album.

There are rumblings of a new album this year to coincide with their tour. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll exist because Carter is going to turn 64 later this year and I would think that once he stops, the band would stop.
 
Manzig said:
Dave Matthews Band

1. Before These Crowded Streets
2. Under The Table And Dreaming
3. Crash
4. Busted Stuff
5. Stand Up
6. Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King
7. Everyday
8. Come Tomorrow
9. Away From The World

8 & 9 are interchangeable. I put Come Tomorrow ahead because of Roi but Away could have been ahead because Steve Lillywhite seems to get the best out of this band.
I will say that Everyday is my least favorite album of theirs because of how it was made and it was also too damn poppy. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to it but I’ve been thinking about giving it a go here soon. It’s really a shame that the Lillywhite Sessions were scrapped because that could have been one of if not their best album.

There are rumblings of a new album this year to coincide with their tour. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll exist because Carter is going to turn 64 later this year and I would think that once he stops, the band would stop.
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Carter is a machine, I could see him going to 80.
 
Manzig said:
Dave Matthews Band

1. Before These Crowded Streets
2. Under The Table And Dreaming
3. Crash
4. Busted Stuff
5. Stand Up
6. Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King
7. Everyday
8. Come Tomorrow
9. Away From The World

8 & 9 are interchangeable. I put Come Tomorrow ahead because of Roi but Away could have been ahead because Steve Lillywhite seems to get the best out of this band.
I will say that Everyday is my least favorite album of theirs because of how it was made and it was also too damn poppy. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to it but I’ve been thinking about giving it a go here soon. It’s really a shame that the Lillywhite Sessions were scrapped because that could have been one of if not their best album.

There are rumblings of a new album this year to coincide with their tour. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll exist because Carter is going to turn 64 later this year and I would think that once he stops, the band would stop.
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imo a criminally low rating for away from the world, especially with the caveat that everyday is your least favorite and the ones below it don't even register as worthy of a defnitive ranking. the lillywhite records, all of them, would be above any of their others in my rankings. he did bring out the best studio work in them. away from the world is not a great record, but it is their best, if not the most musically interesting post-2000 work, i feel.

edit: looking at your list, my rankings probably would swap stand up and away from the world, and move busted stuff down one to 5. if busted stuff was the lillywhite sessions as we know them, it'd stay at 4. alas.
 
Manzig said:
Dave Matthews Band

1. Before These Crowded Streets
2. Under The Table And Dreaming
3. Crash
4. Busted Stuff
5. Stand Up
6. Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King
7. Everyday
8. Come Tomorrow
9. Away From The World

8 & 9 are interchangeable. I put Come Tomorrow ahead because of Roi but Away could have been ahead because Steve Lillywhite seems to get the best out of this band.
I will say that Everyday is my least favorite album of theirs because of how it was made and it was also too damn poppy. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to it but I’ve been thinking about giving it a go here soon. It’s really a shame that the Lillywhite Sessions were scrapped because that could have been one of if not their best album.

There are rumblings of a new album this year to coincide with their tour. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll exist because Carter is going to turn 64 later this year and I would think that once he stops, the band would stop.
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I don’t think I can make reputable list since I haven’t listened to much DMB beyond Busted Stuff but I do have some notes.

What about Remember Two Things? I would take that over any from 5 down. Also, I know it’s not an official release but The Lillywhite Sessions > Busted Stuff.

I think that the Dave Matthews will tour regularly for as long as he is able maybe at some point he stops using the name “Dave Matthews Band” but they’ve kept the name after Leroy died and they parted ways with Boyd so you’d think that at this point DMB is whomever is backing Dave Matthews.
 
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AndySlash said:
imo a criminally low rating for away from the world, especially with the caveat that everyday is your least favorite and the ones below it don't even register as worthy of a defnitive ranking. the lillywhite records, all of them, would be above any of their others in my rankings. he did bring out the best studio work in them. away from the world is not a great record, but it is their best, if not the most musically interesting post-2000 work, i feel.

edit: looking at your list, my rankings probably would swap stand up and away from the world, and move busted stuff down one to 5. if busted stuff was the lillywhite sessions as we know them, it'd stay at 4. alas.
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I agree with what you’re saying about Away. Snow Outside & Drunken are great songs.I do enjoy it, but it’s ranked there because there’s no Roi. For me, he was the soul of the band. Jeff has done a fine job in the band, but it’s not the same.
I should do a listen through and see if my rankings change at all.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I don’t think I can make reputable list since I haven’t listened to much DMB beyond Busted Stuff but I do have some notes.

What about Remember Two Things? I would take that over any from 5 down. Also, I know it’s not an official release but The Lillywhite Sessions > Busted Stuff.

I think that the Dave Matthews will tour regularly for as long as he is able maybe at some point he stops using the name “Dave Matthews Band” but they’ve kept the name after Leroy died and they parted ways with Boyd so you’d think that at this point DMB is whomever is backing Dave Matth
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I think Remember is considered a live album, so I left that out. And I left out Lillywhite only because it wasn’t official.

I’m sure Dave will continue and probably do a Dave & Friends tour like he did with his solo album.
 
Manzig said:
I think Remember is considered a live album, so I left that out. And I left out Lillywhite only because it wasn’t official.

I’m sure Dave will continue and probably do a Dave & Friends tour like he did with his solo album.
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The first few tracks are live but after that there is some studio tracks. It does feel more like a demo than a full fledged album but I still prefer it to most of their newer releases.

Also it goes without saying (and I know it’s comparing apples to oranges) but I would take Live At Red Rocks over either UTTAD or Crash.
 
Colter Wall
•Songs of the Plains
•Live in Front of Nobody
•Western Swing & Waltzes
•Colter Wall
•Imaginary Appalachia

Tyler Childers
•Live on Red Barn Radio I & II
•Country Squire
•OurVinyl Sessions
•Purgatory
•Long Violent History
•Bottles and Bibles

Sturgill Simpson
•Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
•Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions)
•The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
•The Dead Don’t Die
•Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
•A Sailors Guide to Earth
•High Top Mountain
•SOUND & FURY
 
musicjunkiegreg said:
Opeth

1. Still Life (1999)
2. Blackwater Park (2001)
3. In Cauda Venenum (2019)
4. My Arms, Your Hearse (1998)
5. Watershed (2008)
6. Ghost Reveries (2005)
7. Morningrise (1996)
8. Orchid (1995)
9. Pale Communion (2014)
10. Sorceress (2016)
11. Damnation (2003)
12. Deliverance (2002)
13. Heritage (2011)
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Going back through the Opeth catalog before I see them tonight for the first time (listening for 20 years, can't wait). Damnation at 11...
 
TheMightyDucks said:
I’ll play the Killers game

1. Sam’s Town
2. Hot Fuss
3. Sawdust
4. Day & Age

I know Sawdust is a compilation, but it’s damn good and deserving. I’ve listened to all of their remaining albums and it’s all down hill. For me anyway.
Battle Born was ok but it seemed forced. Wonderful Wonderful & Imploding The Mirage are Flowers solo albums with Ronnie on drums. I’ve listened to Pressure Machine once and it’s a heavy album. Maybe too Springsteen for me.
Honestly, once Dave and Mark stepped away, the band should have either ended or gone on hiatus, but Brandon is a workaholic.
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Yep 100% on there with your first two. I really don’t have any time for anything else they’ve done other than singles, particularly that Runaways one, which I think is off Battle Born.
 
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