#25: Turning on Dave Matthews Band After they Released Everyday

In the 1990's, The Dave Matthews Band were beloved by nearly everybody. Their pop sensibilities, masterful musicianship, and racially diverse lineup made them the act we could all agree on.

All of that changed in 2001 when the band teamed up with Alanis Morisette's producer to release their fourth studio album, a slicker, more electric, and less rootsy album called Everyday. From that point forward, hating Everyday but loving everything that came before it (while making sure to praise the bootleg Lillywhite Sessions in the process) was the only acceptable position for any serious DMB fan.

Luckily for Dave Matthews and his band, everyone who hated Everyday also purchased the album. Newly armed with the knowledge that they could release sub-par material with minimal effort and still become increasingly wealthy, the band continued to release successively worse albums, culminating in 2009's Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, a dissonant amalgamation of nonsensical syllables and musical phrases that sold over 1,000,000 copies and was nominated for two Grammys.

"I used to like Dave Matthews."

"Yeah, me too, you stopped listening to them after Everyday, right?"

"No, I'm really only into Remember Two Things and some of the early Trax recordings. Not the officially released 'LiveTRAX' series of course, but the soundboard recordings from the actual club Trax where they used to play in the early 90's. Once Peter Griesar left, it just got too commercial."

"I see. Well played."