Crash (Dave Matthews Band album)

Crash
Studio album by Dave Matthews Band
Released	April 30, 1996 (1996-04-30)
Recorded	October 1995 – January 1996
Genre	Rock, funk rock
Length	68:51
Label	RCA
Producer	Steve Lillywhite
Dave Matthews Band chronology
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994) Crash (1996) Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
Singles from Crash
"Too Much" Released: 1996 "So Much to Say" Released: 1996 "Two Step" Released: 1996 "Crash into Me" Released: 1996 "Tripping Billies" Released: 1996

Crash is the second studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 30, 1996. It includes the band's most successful single, "Crash into Me".

The album has been certified 7× platinum.^[1]

Track listing

All songs by David J. Matthews except when noted.

1. "So Much to Say" (Matthews, Greisar, Tinsley) – 4:06
2. "Two Step" – 6:27
3. "Crash into Me" – 5:16
4. "Too Much" (Matthews, Moore) – 4:22
5. "#41" – 6:39
6. "Say Goodbye" – 6:12
7. "Drive In, Drive Out" – 5:55
8. "Let You Down" – 4:07
9. "Lie in Our Graves" – 5:42
10. "Cry Freedom" – 5:54
11. "Tripping Billies" – 5:00
12. "Proudest Monkey" – 9:11

Recording

Recording for the album began in October 1995. The sessions ended in January 1996. There were only a few known songs from the Crash sessions that "didn't make it to the final cut".^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	(B+) [4]

People magazine said that "the Matthews ensemble sounds even crisper on their solid followup and proves that their previous record was not just an intriguing oddity."^[5] Comparing DMB to their musical contemporaries (like Hootie and the Blowfish), Jim Derogatis with Rolling Stone magazine said "Snappier violin-driven excursions such as "Tripping Billies" mix the progressive rock of U.K. or Eddie Jobson-era Roxy Music with the earthy folk rock of Fairport Convention. This eclecticism gives Matthews a slight edge over his peers, but that's sort of like saying you prefer vanilla ice cream to vanilla frozen yogurt. Me, I dig Cherry Garcia."^[6]

Personnel

Dave Matthews Band

• Carter Beauford – percussion, drums
• Stefan Lessard – bass
• Dave Matthews – guitar, vocals
• LeRoi Moore – saxophone, flute, horns
• Boyd Tinsley – violin

Additional personnel

• Tim Reynolds – electric guitar

Songs cut from the album

Songs that were recorded during the sessions, but weren't included on the final cut:

• "True Reflections" – later re-recorded for Boyd Tinsley's solo album of the same name
• "#36" – later evolved into the song "Everyday" from the band's album of the same name
• "Get in Line"
• "Deed Is Done" – a live acoustic version from 1996 was later released on the album Live at Luther College
• "Little Thing" - was later released on Live at Luther College and was re-worked for Dave Matthews's solo album Some Devil as "An' Another Thing"

References

1. ^ "Timeline". Rock On The Net. http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-m/davematthewsband_main.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-19. 
2. ^ Crash (Dave Matthews Band album) at Allmusic
3. ^ Robert Christgau
4. ^ Crash (1996) Dave Matthews Band, Reviewed by Tom Sinclair. Entertainment Weekly
5. ^ Abrahams, Andrew (1996-05-06), "Crash". People. 45 (18):25
6. ^ DeRogatis, Jim; Gardner, Elysa (1996-05-16), "Recordings". Rolling Stone. (734):64 (accessed 2009-01-07)