No. 26

Where Are You Going - Dave Matthews Band (2002)* Video - A story that only a Dave Matthews Band fan would find interesting - in 1999 and 2000, DMB worked with producer Steve Lillywhite on a new album. Dave was apparently hitting the bottle pretty hard and since he wrote all their music, what resulted was, in his words, "a lot of self-pity." The band wasn't pleased with their efforts and the whole project was scrapped. A year later, Dave Matthews wrote the entire Everyday album in a week, the band recorded it and it was released with much success. Concurrent with the launch of Everyday, a bootleg version of what fans would call The Lillywhite Sessions hit the Internet.

Many DMB fans who found Everyday too poppy found The Lillywhite Sessions right down their alley, more like the old albums. Based at least partially on the positive response to the bootleg album, DMB took the 9 original songs from The Lillywhite Sessions added "You Never Know" and "Where Are You Going" and called it Busted Stuff, which was released in 2002. So, if the record doesn't get stolen and downloaded and downloaded several million times, we might never have experienced "Where Are You Going" and we certainly wouldn't have my No. 5 song of all-time.