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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Failure to Warn Sep 20, 2009
Seller failed to warn buyers that the last three tracks are unplayable due to skipping. Seller stated that CD was in good or great condition (I don't remember which). I will be avoiding the seller in the future.
 Dave at his best!!! Jun 10, 2009
My wife's classic Dave CD that needed replacing from being played about 1000 past its prime. Definitely put a smile on her face!!!
Spectacular Feb 09, 2009
It's been probably seven years since I've listened to this album, and just tonight I became reacquainted with it. These are honestly some of the most masterful auditory sounds I've ever heard. The definition of beautiful music.
It's rare that any album contains just one song that can make me feel like I'm in another world; this album contains three: Spoon (it is painful how perfect this song is), the Stone, and the Dreaming Tree. Pig and Crush are up there too.
PS - Like I said, it's been awhile, but when I was younger my DMB friend insisted that Under the Table and Dreaming was better. I've always highly preferred Before These Crowded Streets (seriously, those last five songs... inexplicably beautiful...)
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 More Personality But Not Enough Development Jul 17, 2008
I didn't have high hopes for this album, but I didn't think it would be like this. This album has high potential. Really high potential. Consider what they have here:
A vocalist that can't be imitated (despite the criticism, I like his vocals). Acoustic guitar and it's range of dynamics and flavors (I dig his playing). The grooving, peaceful, graceful, can do anything rhythm section of Carter and Steffan. A full time wind player and violinist. Tim Reynolds on every track playing electric guitar (in a great way instead of the the way that bogged down Everyday). And pianos, banjos, and organ the Chapman Stick, a trumpet, soulful background vocals from the Lovely Ladies, and the Kronos Quartet. A great variety of atmosphere and mood.
But it's too bad that this album wallows in unbearably repetitive. Some of the material here is excellent, but the rest of either too undeveloped and runs or unbearabley soft, unemotional, and BORING. The ballads are awful, muzak worthy with not enough melody and absolutely no conveying of emotion in Dave Matthews' voice. And a lot of the tracks on here run on too long with no real ideas and no real progression giving their time length. A lot of the songs end with jams, and they are interesting, but it's kind of hard to get to them with an endless flotation of weak melodies. Dave is also not very good at being angry in his vocals, and, for me, it's pretty bad. His lyrics sometimes are questionable to begin with, and it's apparent on this album as well.
But the good things? Well, they are there, and there are some great songs on here worthy if you like the band. The intro, of course, is fine, along with some of the other tracks, like Stay, Rapunzel (though the bridge jam part is boring), and The Last Stop. Crush is a great song, and it justifies the time length, which is what many of the songs should have been like, or at least an example: a variety, great jams like speaking, the like. Don't Drink The Water starts out great, though it kind of fades at the end with repetition. IT's not terrible, but there's a lot of material on this album not worth your time.
It's kind of sad really, that Dave Matthews Band would even be worse with the release of their next album, the craptastic everyday. You might like it more than I did, and I think you should at least check it out, along with their first albums.
5.5/10
 Before these Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band Jun 13, 2008
I always love their live stuff better, but this is still a worth while studio album purchase.
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