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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 618320
Released: July 16, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Busted Stuff Track Listing:
1. Busted Stuff
2. Grey Street
3. Where Are You Going
4. You Never Know
5. Captain
6. Raven
7. Grace Is Gone
8. Kit Kat Jam
9. Digging a Ditch
10. Big Eyed Fish
11. Bartender
Editorial Review:
The brand new studio album from DAVE MATTHEWS BAND is an enhanced CD that includes 11 new songs. The enhanced portion of the CD features special access to unreleased material, video footage, performances, and interviews!
Description of Busted Stuff:
Dave Matthews doesn't exactly seem thrilled about this release. But how would you feel if you made an album with a producer you didn't like, dumped it, and then woke up one morning to find it leaked on the Internet and available at every bootleg stall in New York City? That's pretty much what happened with "The Lillywhite Sessions," the unreleased, darker predecessor to the blockbuster Everyday album. Rather than turn their back on the fans, however, Matthews and company returned to the studio to do the job right. On Busted Stuff, they revive those solemn songs with diligent intensity, creating lovely swaths of melancholy and transcendence. Elegant tracks like "Grace Is Gone" and "Digging a Ditch" replace the dreary gloss of the last album with dazzling intimacy, and even the band's usual tendency for meandering jazz-rock flights is kept in check by the sheer weight of the material. Impressive stuff, in spite of what Matthews apparently thinks. --Aidin Vaziri
Busted Stuff Reviews:
Should have kept the original Lillywhite session versions 
2009-12-08 - Basically this is a polished up version of the Lillywhite Sessions, which kind of a bad thing. The original versions had a certain feel to them that couldn't be duplicated (which I guess was the point). I think the world was very fortunate that the Lillywhite versions were leaked. I recommend search out the Lillywhite Sessions takes and decide for yourself. This is still a great album though. "Where Are You Going" and "You Never Know" are great additions.
Weary And Despondent
2009-06-30 - Busted Stuff was a work that almost never was, so when evaluating I try to remind myself that the outcome is better than having nothing at all.
I think the songs sound despondent and weary. However, a great deal of beauty resides within them as well. "Grace Is Gone", could you imagine if this song had been lost? The studio version sounds much more Jazz oriented (where as the live sounds country and is played to a slower tempo) and is breath taking. The loss of love has Matthews searching for the moment that he can move on with his life. The songs final jam, makes you feel as if he did find the strength and peace he was searching for.
Overall the music instrumentally is beautiful and stunning. I see colors when I listen to music and with each song on this album, I see a different color. The lyrics on this record reach a depth over the entire course of the album that I have only heard on "Before These Crowded Streets". When Dave sings of his search for peace within death on "Bartender" one can truly feel his awesome emotion pouring out from the contemplation of lifes ultimate mystery.
I think what really is sad though is the exclusion of JTR on the album. This song should have been included. However, the glass is still 3/4's full in my estimation. Not to mention, this is the last time that Dave Matthews Band sounded as themselves. "Stand Up" is okay, but not at all an album that reflects their brilliance in my opinion. "Big Whiskey and The Gruu Grux King" is good, by still very pop oriented, finally Leroi has tragically left this world and I don't even know when he plays on the album, I looked at liner notes and credits and got no indication. I miss him.
you never know 
2007-09-19 - 'you never know' is the closest ive heard them to pink floyd... and it is a most underrated song that demonstrates true genius of mr matthews.. loved that he played it last night in raleigh!!!
Rather Listen To Lillywhite 
2007-04-01 - I, along with many DMB fans downloaded the leaked "lillywhite Sessions" and although they were a darker Dave than we were used to it was very good material in my opinion. When "Busted Stuff" came out I was expecting more or less the same feel of Lillywhite but I was greatly dispointed. Busted Stuff came over as poppy cliches of the great material that was produced on Lillywhite. Maybe its just me but Lillywhite was much better and I would have been happier if Dave would have bootlegged it himself and made copies for everyone to buy in the stores instead of wasting the money to re-record it.
amazing album
2007-02-12 - very good album
"grey street" by itself makes the whole thing worth it. good vocals, out-of-the-world accompaniment
