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Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It was the last official album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite until 2012's Away from the World and their first album recorded at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California.[11] The album title is taken from the lyrics of the song "The Dreaming Tree."[12] It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release knocking the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.[13]

Before These Crowded Streets
Studio album by Dave Matthews Band
Released	April 28, 1998 (1998-04-28)
Recorded	1997–1998
Studio	Record Plant (Sausalito) Electric Lady (New York)
Genre	Alternative rock jazz fusion progressive rock
Length	70:14
Label	RCA
Producer	Steve Lillywhite
Dave Matthews Band chronology
Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 (1997) Before These Crowded Streets (1998) Listener Supported (1999)
Singles from Before These Crowded Streets
"Don't Drink the Water" Released: 1998 "Stay (Wasting Time)" Released: 1998 "Crush" Released: September 8, 1998 "Rapunzel" Released: 1998

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Baltimore Sun	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
The Philadelphia Inquirer	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]
Spin	5/10[9]
USA Today	[10]

Track listing

Special guest Tim Reynolds is featured on all tracks.

Several short musical interludes appear between songs:

• A clip in which LeRoi Moore is heard answering his cell phone follows "Rapunzel."
• A clip of flute music follows "Don't Drink the Water."
• A string passage by the Kronos Quartet serves as a segue from "Halloween" to "The Stone."
• An outtake featuring Bela Fleck and Alanis Morissette follows "The Stone."
• A clip of "Doobie Thing," an early DMB instrumental song, follows "The Dreaming Tree."
• A clip of "Anyone Seen the Bridge?", a live show transition song, and a short excerpt of "Deed is Done," an unreleased song from the previous tour, follows "Pig."
• A clip now referred to as "The Last Stop Reprise" follows "Spoon."

Deleted songs

Songs that were recorded during the sessions, but were not included on the final cut:[14]

• "Help Myself" – Licensed for the Scream 2 soundtrack in lieu of "Halloween", which the band decided was too good to leave off the album.
• "Don't Burn the Pig" – Evolved into "Pig" during the sessions.
• "Get in Line"
• "MacHead"
• "#40 (Always)"

MacHead

"MacHead" was a song recorded during the album's sessions, but it was never completed, so did not make the album. Producer Steve Lillywhite named the song, claiming it sounded like a cross between the sound of Paul McCartney and Radiohead.[15] The song's existence is only known from an image on the 1999 fan calendar with a list of the working titles of the other songs on this album and from an alleged meeting in which Jake Vigliotti claims to have heard said recording.

"[MacHead] is a song that we were working on for [Before] These Crowded Streets and it's a song that we just never got to completion before we finished the album. Who knows, maybe one of these days we'll finish it and record it again, but we finished the album before we finished the song."[16]

— Boyd Tinsley, May 2006

Some fans familiar with the idea of "MacHead" speculated it had been developed, renamed, and added to the band's catalog.[15] They speculate that "MacHead" developed into "Bartender", which debuted in January 1999 at a Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds concert just months after the April '98 release of Before These Crowded Streets. In November 2009, Jake Vigliotti claims to have heard 6 different demo takes of "Machead" from an early 1997 recording session for the album,[17] effectively confirming its existence to the fan community.[18]

In a 2010 interview with Cali from CBS Radio, Stefan Lessard was asked to give his thoughts on Machead. He replied that "Machead's this little number that I believe was the last song to possibly make it on Before These Crowded Streets and I think there's a recording I have of it somewhere. So it's just finding a recording of it and listening to it and that's on our homework list."[19] As of February of 2022, no official recording has surfaced.

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[28]	Platinum	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[29]	4× Platinum	4,000,000
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Before These Crowded Streets

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[es] Before These Crowded Streets

Before these crowded streets es el tercer álbum de estudio de la banda estadounidense Dave Matthews Band lanzado el 4 de abril de 1998. Fue el último disco del grupo que fue producido por Steve Lillywhite. El nombre del disco fue tomado de la letra de la canción “The Dreaming Tree”.

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[ru] Before These Crowded Streets

Before These Crowded Streets — третий студийный альбом американской рок-группы Dave Matthews Band, выпущенный 28 апреля 1998.[1]

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