Monday, January 6, 2025
Time: 5:17 PM
Song: Ants Marching
Artist: The Dave Matthews Band
Mode of Consumption: MP3 – Drive home from work listening to MP3s on shuffle from my phone.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2FfZg072w8RoxlMOR7M4CT?si=6a35db6d52394d29
There’s an episode of the sitcom “Community,” which spoofs David Fincher thriller movies when the study group is working to save Greendale from the exploits of the “Ass-Crack Bandit,” an anonymous deviant who is terrorizing the campus by dropping quarters down the backside of unsuspecting bent over students and faculty. One of the few clues is that the perpetrator is a fan of Dave – that being The Dave Matthews Band.
When Alex “Starburns” Osborne, a middle-aged student/drug dealer surfaces after it was assumed he had previously died in a car accident, he is collared as the bandit and the campus celebrates with a party. While lights flash, the music plays and, of course, it’s Dave.
“Wait, who is this?” Starburns asks.
“Wait, what?” Jeff Winger, the leader of the study group and a former lawyer, responds. “You don’t know Dave.”
Winger, of course, knows that they’ve been duped into believing that Starburns in the culprit, a classic plot twist.
“Oh, yeah, I remember this,” Starburns said. “It’s from the 90s, it’s that guy that goes HE-Haw, He-HAAW.”
I can’t hear Dave Matthews without hearing that impression of his singing.
I received the album “Under the Table and Dreaming” in high school from my sister for my birthday. She chose it because it was the Matthews’ album that she most connected with. I’ve kept the CD, and while I enjoy this track and a few others, I’ve never grown into a huge Dave Matthews fan.
Still, I hold onto this album, because I think I look for what my sister heard in it. That is the great part of receiving music from others, particularly albums and artists that I haven’t necessarily requested. I know there’s a reason they picked it. It’s my challenge to hear what they hear.
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