Stand Up | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Label: RCA
Category: Music
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Rating:  615 reviews
Sales Rank: 9594
Format: Dualdisc
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 69288
UPC: 828766928822
EAN: 8287669288228
ASIN: B0008D5HMK
Release Date: May 10, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Dreamgirl | | • | Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back) | | • | Stand Up (For It) | | • | American Baby Intro | | • | American Baby | | • | Smooth Rider | | • | Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives) | | • | Out Of My Hands | | • | Hello Again | | • | Louisiana Bayou | | • | Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd | | • | You Might Die Trying | | • | Steady As We Go | | • | Hunger For The Great Light |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Don't let the headless CGI dancer on the cover fool you. While Stand Up has a more organic feel than 2001's radio-ready Everyday, it is hardly an invocation for carefree days spent twirling on the grass. Instead it is a call to arms that carries over much of the insurrectionary spirit the Dave Matthews Band brought to 2004's Vote for Change Tour. Matthews, sounding rawer than ever, swerves between optimism ("To change the world you only start with one step," he sings on "You Might Die Trying") and angst ("See the man with the bomb in his hand/Everybody wake up," on "Everybody Wake Up [Our Finest Hour Arrives]"), while producer Mark Baston, best known for his small-time work with big-name pop acts like Beyonce and 50 Cent, responds by putting the marching band rhythms of Carter Beauford in the front and galvanizing the music with a crisp R&B edge, most evident in the totally--okay, partially--crunk "Stolen Away on 55th & 3rd." --Aidin Vaziri
Album Description
The DVD side of the DualDisc will feature a 20+ minute film featuring the making of STAND UP with in-depth interviews with DMB at their recording studio in Charlottesville, VA.
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| Customer Reviews:
This is one I came to late, but worth the wait October 27, 2008
R. Kyle (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
And all things do come in the right time. I've always loved Matthews' smoky voice with the smooth blend of sax and drum rhythms behind.
"Stand Up" is an odd mix of political statement and romance. I think I'd be happier if they'd pick a theme here and stick to it. We've got two very distinct ideas here between romance and politics.
"Stolen Away on 55th and 3rd" is seeing an old love again.
"Steady as We Go" is an anthem for love--and life in general. Times may get rough but the good times are the 'gold.'
Of course, there's "Dreamgirl," too and "American Baby."
"Smooth Rider" talks about a guy getting in trouble with an angry father.
"Everybody Wake Up" is a call to action to open your eyes and 'see the man with the bomb in his hand.'
Good music, but for me it will need a remix to separate the two themes.
Rebecca Kyle, October 2008
 Wow - I never dreamed it could be so BAD - Negative points October 9, 2008
J. B. Fletcher (Cabot Cove)
It's rough. We like DMB and owe them so much for the pleasant memories. Hey DMB, ONLY your true friends are going to tell you the truth. This is GARBAGE but it has POTENTIAL. Yes we throw this thing around the office like a frisbee. We don't want to hurt you guys so we have a solution to this mess. Just get Reynolds on the line and have him mess with each song for about an hour. I PROMISE - you will have something interesting, creative, non-commercial and certainly not boringly pathetic. And get rid of that Bela Flek sax player and give some studio musician a chance. LeRoi Moore, a master, deserves better than to be replaced by some bela flek novice. Get Sonny Rollins or somebody with a clear understanding of Jazz and not Jazzercise. No offense to bela and his little band, your good enough to exist but you guys are not that great. Sad, at this point it would seem as though DMB disolved after crowded streets.
 Your music August 13, 2008
PhilosopherKing (Denver, CO)
This was on my grown daughter's Xmas wish list. Must be good because she has her dad's good taste.
Life is music August 11, 2008
wikyups (Somewhere USA)
I brought the Some Devil CD after watching a DVD with DMB's music.
I ran into Stand Up and I was interested as I liked what I heard on Some Devil and the picture on this Cd promised like music, so I thought. I gave it away. It really dissappointed me. I don't know that it's worth buying more of his music. Cult music is usually for specific groups and I'm not a groupee.
Fantastic Disappointment March 9, 2008
R. LaPerla (Orlando, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's hard to look forward and be hopeful and open minded about this album when there is so much great music in DMB's past. Jazz musicians of this caliber are enormously gifted and continually challenge convention. They usually despise repetition and are always looking for new challenges. Thinking outside the norm is what makes jazz. They are constantly moving on.
So when I see how far - yet how narrow the path - DMB has come from "Under the Table and Dreaming", "Busted Stuff", and my all-time favorite rock album "Crash", an exceptional and monumental work of elegant beauty, musical complexity, sweet emotion, sexual perversion, and pure jammin', kickin', rockin' music, it is very difficult for me to enjoy this work.
Given the serious amount of talent the band possess, efforts such as this are a fantastic disappointment. Not to say they should dig a happy rut and stay put, but the simplistic rhythms, lack of enthusiasm, repetitive and vapid licks, tone-free vocals and ineloquent lyrics are an insult to any fan of DMB. Maybe on the next album they will actually work up a sweat.
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