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Under the Table and Dreaming

Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Genre: Jam
Label: RCA
Release: Sep 1994
# of Discs: 1
Rating: 4.5 (279 votes)
UPC: 0078636644929
ASIN: B000002WQS
Personal Details
Date Added: 20 Jan 2007
Price: $18.98
Tracks
The Best Of What's Around
What Would You Say
Satellite
Rhyme & Reason
Typical Situation
Dancing Nancies
Ants Marching
Lover Lay Down
Jimi Thing
Warehouse
Pay For What You Get
#34
Summary
With popcorn acoustic guitars, trampoline fiddles, bumper-car bass lines, and caramel-coated sax, the Dave Matthews Band's major-label debut is like an evening at the fair. "The Best of What's Around" and "What Would You Say" swirl like the amusement-park ride on the album's cover, sweeping the exhilarated and lightheaded listener higher as the ride spins faster. "Satellite" glides breezily like the prettiest horse on the carousel, "Ants Marching" runs around hitting the bell with the sledgehammer and winning the largest stuffed animals at the target-range booths, and "Lover Lay Down" is the quietest moment on the disc--like the sun setting on a baby's sleeping, snow-cone-stained face collapsed on her daddy's shoulder. "--Beth Massa"