Songoftheday 5/5/20 - Push it through the doors because in between the lines, I'm gonna pack more lines so I can get in...
from the album Crash (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #39 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from the Dave Matthews Band, whose debut full-length studio album Under The Table and Dreaming was a big success, and spun off too top-40 pop radio hits with "What Would You Say" and "Ants Marching". The group went back in the studio with producer Steve Lilywhite to record their sophomore effort and what would be their biggest-selling album, Crash. The first song from the record to be promoted to radio was "Too Much", a funky jam that sounded like a lite Red Hot Chili Peppers free-association track about overexcess in humanity today. Written by the band, the song certainly was the most experimental single release of their tenure...
"Too Much", like Matthew's previous hits, wasn't released as a physical single, so it was unable to place on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart, but it got enough radio love to return the band to the top 40 of the airplay component or the chart in June of 1996. The song also made both the Mainstream (#9) and Alternative (#5) rock radio charts as well. Internationally, the single rose to #23 in Canada. The Crash album was their first top ten in sales, selling over seven million copies in the U.S.. At the Grammy Awards in 1997, "Too Much" was nominated for Best Rock Song, losing out to Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason", while the Crash album was up for Best Rock Album, which went to Sheryl Crow for her self-titled sophomore set.
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The band performed "Too Much" at Bill Clinton's inaugural ball in 1997...
...and later that year on Letterman...
Here they are in concert on their Listener Supported live album from 1999...
Next is from their show in Central Park in 2003...
And lastly, in concert in 2013...
Up tomorrow: An electric number for a Whoopi Goldberg basketball movie.
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