As the group over at Wikipedia is always telling me: “[We] know more about everything than you do.” And, well, I guess they know more about the public record of how the recording of “A Christmas Song” by Dave Matthews came to be popular enough that: above you will see a meanspeed speed graph of two live versions of this song. I classify this slow speed as “surreal.” In meanspeed music theory, everything 54 beats per minute and below is surreal. As in: dreamy, awesome, a time-out-of-mind experience. Below is Wiki’s take on how this song came to be. Thank you people at Wiki. Ian Schneider 1 November 2006 NY, NY

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Remember Two Things
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Remember Two Things
Remember Two Things cover
Live album by Dave Matthews Band
Released 1993
Recorded Trax, Charlottesville, Virginia; Flood Zone, Richmond, Virginia; The Muse, Nantucket, Massachusetts; Flat Five Studios, Salem, Virginia
Genre Rock
Length 55:12
Label Bama Rags Records
Producer(s) John Alagia
Professional reviews

* All Music Guide 3 out of 5 stars link

Dave Matthews Band chronology
Remember Two Things
(1993) Recently
(1994)

Remember Two Things is an album by the Dave Matthews Band, released independently in 1993. It was reissued by RCA on June 24, 1997. The album is known on the Internet by the acronym R2T. The album cover art is an autostereogram which, when focused on correctly, shows a person’s hand giving the peace sign.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by David J. Matthews except where noted.

1. “Ants Marching” – 6:08
2. “Tripping Billies” – 4:49
3. “Recently” – 8:41
4. “Satellite” – 5:01
5. “One Sweet World” – 5:18
6. “The Song That Jane Likes” (Matthews, Mark Roebuck) – 3:33
7. “Minarets” – 4:22
8. “Seek Up” – 7:20
9. “I’ll Back You Up” – 4:26
10. “Christmas Song” – 5:34

Following “Christmas Song” on track 10 is an outro to “Seek Up” followed by the ambient sounds of a thunderstorm and crickets.

Song Notes

“I’ll Back You Up” is the first song Dave Matthews ever completed.

Jane is Dave Matthews‘ little sister, and “The Song That Jane Likes” is thus named after her.

The first six songs are full-band live recordings. “Minarets” and “Seek Up” are full-band studio recordings and “I’ll Back You Up” and “Christmas Song” are Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds live recordings.

Personnel

The Dave Matthews Band

* David Matthews – guitar, vocals
* Carter Beauford – percussion, vocals
* Stefan Lessard – bass
* Leroi Moore – woodwinds, vocals
* Boyd Tinsley – violin, vocals

Additional musicians

* Greg Howard – Chapman Stick, synthesizer and percussion samples on “Minarets”
* Tim Reynolds – guitars on “Minarets”, “Seek Up”, “I’ll Back You Up”, and “Christmas Song”

/Ian Andrew Schneider/
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