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List Price: $18.97 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 1422
Released: September 27, 1994 |
| Our Price: $6.00 |
| Used Price: $0.72 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Under the Table and Dreaming Track Listing:
1. The Best Of What's Around
2. What Would You Say
3. Satellite
4. Rhyme & Reason
5. Typical Situation
6. Dancing Nancies
7. Ants Marching
8. Lover Lay Down
9. Jimi Thing
10. Warehouse
11. Pay For What You Get
12. #34
Editorial Review:
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
Description of Under the Table and Dreaming:
Vibrant, broadly accessible adult rock that features soaraway, acoustic-based melodies, intriguing fusion overtones (check the sax/violin interplay on "Dancing Nancies" and "Warehouse") and a vocalist as cool and poised as Sting. Jeff Bateman
Under the Table and Dreaming Reviews:
LOVE the album, HATE the copy protection! 
2008-05-18 - I am not a HUGE DMB fan, but I do have about 5 albums of theirs. Love them all--one of the few bands I can listen to the entire CD of, not just select tracks.
HOWEVER, I have been trying to get this particular CD on my PC (to transfer to my MP3) for about 5 years now. Have tried my copy, friends' copies, the library's copy--to no avail.
Copyright law states that a consumer may make one back-up copy of any copyrighted material, so there should be no copy-protection anyway. I just want to put the album on my MP3 so I can listen more often. I even thought I would purchase the MP3 album (and pay ANOTHER $12!!!!!) just so that I could have it--but they don't offer MP3 album through Amazon.
DMB, rethink this copy-protected garbage. As another reviewer pointed out, your albums sell quite well and you tour often. Some of us DO ALREADY pay the money for your work but want to actually be able to USE it!
love dave! 
2008-01-12 - I'm a fan, turned my teen onto Dave and now she's a fan. Love this album and most of the others from track 1 to end...
Dave Mathews is never displeasing!
2007-11-12 - What can I say other than this is one of my favorite CDs now? Dave Matthews is an excellent musician, backed up by excellent musicians. A must own for the Dave Matthews fan.
Great Album! No Apologies to the People Who Hate This Review 
2007-09-23 - Well here it is: The ever controversial Dave Matthews Band. It's a band that has so many fans and lovers as much as passionate haters who think they are one of the most irritating pieces of shlock to ever come from the popular music scene. Heh. Yeah right. I initially wasn't sold on Dave Matthews Band, thinking they would probably go under boring, adult contemporary junk like John Mayer. While Dave Matthews would eventually far for that, I found them to be a pleasant surprise.
DMB are talented, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. With great dynamics courtesy of the acoustic guitar, the drums and bass are really talented. They have a grooving mindset, and they have mounds of talent, especially when it comes to the drumming.
People also complain that when they solo, they just turn into a mind numbing jam. Huh? I think whenever they solo, it's no different from the best, most passionate guitar solos that speak to me. When the soloist(s) take the lead, there's always the other parts of the band to give it cushion and move everything along gracefully. It's the live jams they are known for jamming like crazy, but since this is the studio album, what do I care? There isn't anything that will annoy you (unless you are totally against solos). These guys really know how to play being able to show good songwriting skills by working together.
And also, I personally dig Dave Matthews singing. In fact, I think it kicks arse. Sounds pretty interesting to most, but I personally think it's an excellent voice.
This is easily their best album. They would automatically go downhill with Crash, but everything on here is great. Even the seven minute song, Wharehouse, has enough to keep you interested. The ballads, as usual, are the weakest tracks on the album, but these ones are actually easy to listen to, with some beauty. Dave Matthews hasn't exaclty impressed me with ballads, as Before These Crowded Streets suffered big time thanks to those ballads. When Dave goes upbeat, he hits gold. There's more this time around, with songs like The Best of What's Around and What Would You Say. Fairly emotional songs like Rhyme and Reason, Satellite, well, this whole album is great listening.
This is easily the best DMB album. DMB, unfortunatly, never got to have consistency in releasing albums. I recommend this, Crash, and at least to give Before These Crowded Streets a chance. The rest of their albums would fall into boring, bland, and one dimensional radio _______. No worries, you'll learn to love these albums and spin them again and again.
8.5/10
It amazes me that DMB fans riot. 
2007-08-12 - It amazes me that DMB fans riot at many of his concerts. I was working at a venue that hosted DMB and there were cars flipped over and then set on fire in the parking lot. The ironic thing was a few weeks previously we had Marilyn Manson and the riot police and protesters were in full force and the worst incident was a teen getting busted with some drug or another.
But the more I think of it the less it shocks me that there are riots and fires and chaos at DMB shows... it's basically Woodstock for frat boys, and what better way to celebrate the band you love after a couple rounds of flip cup than to go out and flip cars? Oh I know a better way! Light them on fire afterwards! ALL RIGHT, DMB ROCKS!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!!!
One thing I REALLY don't understand is the "WOOOOO!" Why is it every time you show a crowd of these people on camera the only thing they can do is shout "WOOOO?"
Anyway, enjoy the CD. This band has enough albums to make a complete set of coasters.
