Track Listing

1. Dreamgirl
2. Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back)
3. Stand Up (For It)
4. American Baby Intro
5. American Baby
6. Smooth Rider
7. Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives)
8. Out Of My Hands
9. Hello Again
10. Louisiana Bayou
11. Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd
12. You Might Die Trying
13. Steady As We Go
14. Hunger For The Great Light

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1883 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: DualDisc

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.

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

Customer Reviews

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This was on my grown daughter's Xmas wish list. Must be good because she has her dad's good taste.

Sloppily Produced, Poorly Played, and Easily Forgotten
I don't even know where to start with this album. It feels like it was so sloppily and quickly put together. The segue between Hello Again and Louisiana Bayou is truly terrible, not to mention the fact that they ruined Hello Again (a previously dynamite live song) completely. Dave's vocals slip past that "terribly lovable" stage and into the "so grainy and harsh that it hurts me" stage. Worst of all... where is the band? It feels like no one in the band is doing anything on this album, and when they are it seems simple and uninteresting.

Bottom line: there is not a single song worth listening to on this album. If you want to hear DMB at their absolute worst, listen to "Dream Girl," "Old Dirt Hill," or "Hunger For the Great Light." If you want them at their absolute best, pick up Before These Crowded Streets.

Everyday may have been a sell-out, but at least it created a buzz and made for interesting (if not disappointed) listening. Stand Up, on the other hand, warrants no listening at all.

Commits the worst crime of all: forgettability
I seem to have lost my copy of this record, and I'm not really mourning it--not nearly as much as "Busted Stuff." Yeah, DMB tried to write songs with the same types of melody and freeform as their early work, but this feels forced. And I remember exactly one musical phrase from the whole album, whereas I could sing you the entirety of "Under the Table and Dreaming" if you asked me to. Don't bother with this one, it's a dud.