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Old 03-28-2012, 06:00 AM   #1
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I was just listening to Busted Stuff this morning at work and I was thinking if the Lillywhite Sessions were never heard or the whole thing never happened and Busted Stuff was still an album, would it be considered Big 4? I personally think it would be, I really like the album. Wanted to see your guys thoughts.
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    Oh boy.... Not this again....
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    Re: Busted Stuff

    There's plenty of archived thoughts throughout here in threads with the same subject or general discussion.

    But I'm sure there's some newer members that have not weighed in on it since the last time this was a thread. Or maybe some people have changed their argument or found new evidence to support their old thoughts. Right?
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    Absolutely.
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    I actually do consider Busted Stuff part of a Big 4.

    It's actually my 2nd favorite album behind BTCS.
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    In my mind yes. Even with the LWS Busted Stuff is still a good album.
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    In my mind yes. Even with the LWS Busted Stuff is still a good album.
    That's also my opinion.

    However, I do think Busted Stuff might be viewed more favorably with fans had they not heard and liked tLWS. Big 4? Not sure but more favorably because there couldn't be the argument about Bartender vs. Bartender.
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    That's also my opinion.

    However, I do think Busted Stuff might be viewed more favorably with fans had they not heard and liked tLWS. Big 4? Not sure but more favorably because there couldn't be the argument about Bartender vs. Bartender.
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    Yes, if the 2000 tour happened with the same sets and the LWS were just never leaked, I think we would.
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    My bad. I thought this was for me
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    That's what I thought...the comparison between the LWS vs. BS songs which in my opinion are better, but I think without LWS BS would be in that category of Big 4. I actually really love the album, I haven't listened to it all the way through in awhile and I just thought it would get much more love if LWS never happened.
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    Busted Stuff is great. Probably the 3 in my Big 3, so yeah, I definitely think DMB has a great Big 4.
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    I do not consider Busted Stuff to be on the same level as the Big 3 as an album. Personally, I like Everyday better than Busted Stuff, even though in a live setting I prefer the songs from Busted Stuff . I don't know if that makes sense to anyone, but it does to me.
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    I really lump the complert BS and LWS music together. So, taken as a group of songs, it is right up there with the Big 3.
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    I do not consider Busted Stuff to be on the same level as the Big 3 as an album. Personally, I like Everyday better than Busted Stuff, even though in a live setting I prefer the songs from Busted Stuff . I don't know if that makes sense to anyone, but it does to me.
    Makes perfect sense. As a studio album I actually like Stand Up, but live I'm not a huge fan except a certain few. I would go as far to say that going to a concert I would prefer hearing all of BS over all of BTCS. Love BS songs live.
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    Busted stuff/Lws songs turn a show from good to AMAZING and FUN
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    Re: Busted Stuff

    I prefer Busted Stuff over UTTAD, to be honest. Especially when you add Monkey Man, SUAD and JTR from the LWS, it's a phenomenal record!

    Also, I've been sort of listening to Stand Up lately... it's not as revolting as I thought. I remember liking the album when it first came out, and some of those emotions are coming back.
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    ALL HAIL BUSTED STUFF. (the album)

    except for the childish and stupid name.

    listening to this on top, top, top quality headphones and i am blown away (yet again).


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    Remarkably, these songs not only retain their emotional core even after they've been cleaned up, but they perhaps even gain more resonance in this setting.

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    A masterwork filled with heavy violins, silky woodwinds, a driving soprano sax, a haunting bass guitar, and expert melding of jazz and rock, with Latin beats and bluesy overtones.

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    Busted Stuff is marked by luxuriously long tracks that maximize the skills of the band.

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    The best album of Dave Matthews' career--the most coherent and graceful, the least wanky and aw-shucks messianic.
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    By far my favorite set of songs...BTCS better as a full-on listen through
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    LWS still better
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    Busted stuff is a great album, we are lucky to even have. The LWS are superior by far, but we were never suppose to those recorded versions. If the LWS were never leaked, there is a very good chance busted stuff never gets released and many of those songs could have gone the way of many of the 04 and 06 songs.
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    BTCS is my favorite album but as a complete set of songs Lillywhite Sessions / Busted Stuff might be my favorite group, Busted Stuff is great on its own
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    Although unfinished, The Lillywhite Sessions is my favorite DMB album of all time, just a notch above BTCS.

    1a LWS
    1b BTCS
    2 Crash
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    4 Busted Stuff
    5 Everyday
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    I don’t know about anyone else, but after listening to the Steve Harris interview it gave me a whole new appreciation for Busted Stuff as an album. It’s always been an album I’ve loved and come back to many times but had that nagging, “what could have been…?” in the back of my mind given the Lillywhite Sessions. Most of us, especially those of us old enough and lucky enough to have experienced the Lillywhite Sessions leak, tend to favor “what could have been” over what ultimately was. But I’ll be damned if Busted Stuff doesn’t belong on some sort of DMB album wall of fame.

    I’m a huge fan of music history and the inner workings of bands. Sometimes, all it takes is a good documentary to spark my interest in a bands music, because it adds more context. In the case of Busted Stuff, I felt Matt Norlander’s interview with Steve Harris offered great context to the album and made me appreciate it even more. The fact that it’s the ONLY album with just the 5 original members is special in it of itself. Then to contextualize it with the fact that Everyday was such a glossy polished diversion from the bands sound and they come back just a year later with an album that returns to form just the 5 of them is perfect. It also shows just how great those tracks are that they didn’t need the fancy production Lillywhite brought to the table in the first three albums.

    It’s funny, on the flip side, the interview Norlander did with Lillywhite made me care for those sessions less because of how uninteresting that story ended up being. I mean, JTR, Captain and Grace is Gone are still masterpieces from those sessions, but there’s a stronger fuller energy in the collective release that is Busted Stuff. Lillywhite Sessions really do sound pretty lifeless. Example: Sweet Up and Down.

    If there were a Big 4, Busted Stuff certainly deserves it. Top tier DMB album.
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    I don’t know about anyone else, but after listening to the Steve Harris interview it gave me a whole new appreciation for Busted Stuff as an album. It’s always been an album I’ve loved and come back to many times but had that nagging, “what could have been…?” in the back of my mind given the Lillywhite Sessions. Most of us, especially those of us old enough and lucky enough to have experienced the Lillywhite Sessions leak, tend to favor “what could have been” over what ultimately was. But I’ll be damned if Busted Stuff doesn’t belong on some sort of DMB album wall of fame.

    I’m a huge fan of music history and the inner workings of bands. Sometimes, all it takes is a good documentary to spark my interest in a bands music, because it adds more context. In the case of Busted Stuff, I felt Matt Norlander’s interview with Steve Harris offered great context to the album and made me appreciate it even more. The fact that it’s the ONLY album with just the 5 original members is special in it of itself. Then to contextualize it with the fact that Everyday was such a glossy polished diversion from the bands sound and they come back just a year later with an album that returns to form just the 5 of them is perfect. It also shows just how great those tracks are that they didn’t need the fancy production Lillywhite brought to the table in the first three albums.

    It’s funny, on the flip side, the interview Norlander did with Lillywhite made me care for those sessions less because of how uninteresting that story ended up being. I mean, JTR, Captain and Grace is Gone are still masterpieces from those sessions, but there’s a stronger fuller energy in the collective release that is Busted Stuff. Lillywhite Sessions really do sound pretty lifeless. Example: Sweet Up and Down.

    If there were a Big 4, Busted Stuff certainly deserves it. Top tier DMB album.
    Not trying to be antagonistic, but I had an opposite experience. I hadn’t listened to BS in years til I heard the podcast. So it intrigued me to go back and give it a chance again. It’s still flat and lifeless for me. Still sounds kind of “ok, let’s just finish this”. You never know is the highlight for me. Maybe grey street, but it just doesn’t have the meat that the Big 3 do. There’s not much of a reward for multiple listens. Little treats that you catch on the 10th tile through.

    It is very much a bare bones OG 5 album.

    I live those songs live. I can take or leave the album. Everyday is still the 4th best for me. Followed by Big Whiskey and then BS.
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    BS is just missing a certain edge and energy in the recordings as a collection. WAYG and YNK being exceptions. I feel like Captain is more sure-footed on BS, but still feels flat somehow. You can almost feel the band thinking 'here we go again' on many of the recordings. Had we never known studio LWS recordings existed, "Raven" in particular still would have felt like a downgrade from the live renditions prior. It's not a bad record, certainly head, shoulders, and dangle above Stand Up, just not a part of a Big 4 IMO. Which is a shame because I love a lot of those songs.
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    I agree I think it would be big 4 for me. Back in the day I wasn't that great at downloading songs on the internet so I actually listed to Busted Stuff long before I hear tLWS. I'm kinda glad it happened that way. I think it allows my perspective to be slightly different than those that heard tLWS first.
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    I don’t know about anyone else, but after listening to the Steve Harris interview it gave me a whole new appreciation for Busted Stuff as an album. It’s always been an album I’ve loved and come back to many times but had that nagging, “what could have been…?” in the back of my mind given the Lillywhite Sessions. Most of us, especially those of us old enough and lucky enough to have experienced the Lillywhite Sessions leak, tend to favor “what could have been” over what ultimately was. But I’ll be damned if Busted Stuff doesn’t belong on some sort of DMB album wall of fame.

    I’m a huge fan of music history and the inner workings of bands. Sometimes, all it takes is a good documentary to spark my interest in a bands music, because it adds more context. In the case of Busted Stuff, I felt Matt Norlander’s interview with Steve Harris offered great context to the album and made me appreciate it even more. The fact that it’s the ONLY album with just the 5 original members is special in it of itself. Then to contextualize it with the fact that Everyday was such a glossy polished diversion from the bands sound and they come back just a year later with an album that returns to form just the 5 of them is perfect. It also shows just how great those tracks are that they didn’t need the fancy production Lillywhite brought to the table in the first three albums.

    It’s funny, on the flip side, the interview Norlander did with Lillywhite made me care for those sessions less because of how uninteresting that story ended up being. I mean, JTR, Captain and Grace is Gone are still masterpieces from those sessions, but there’s a stronger fuller energy in the collective release that is Busted Stuff. Lillywhite Sessions really do sound pretty lifeless. Example: Sweet Up and Down.

    If there were a Big 4, Busted Stuff certainly deserves it. Top tier DMB album.


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