Busted Stuff received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Entertainment Weekly similarly praised the band's new interpretations of the songs in comparison to their Lillywhite counterparts, saying the album is "such a fascinatingly different take on (mostly) the same material that it almost whets your appetite for a third rendering."
Track listing
Personnel
Dave Matthews Band:
- Carter Beauford – drums
- Stefan Lessard – bass guitar, Dobro, piano, Hammond organ
- Dave Matthews – acoustic and electric guitars, lead vocals
- LeRoi Moore – saxophone, penny whistle, flute
- Boyd Tinsley – electric violin
Production personnel:
- Stephen Harris – producer
- John Alagía – mixing
- John Nelson – engineering
- Leff Lefferts, Enrique Müller – second engineers
- Jared Miller – assistant second engineer
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Jonathan Adler – assistant editor
- Henry Luniewski – drum technician
- Robert Montgomery – guitar technician
- Erik Porter – bass & violin technician
- David Saull – horn technician
Artwork:
- David J. Matthews – art direction, design
- Thane Kerner – art direction, design, digital collage portrait
- Danny Clinch – art direction, design, photography
- Catherine Dee – art direction, design
- Gary Ashley, Hannah Connors – photography assistance
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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! scope="row"|Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
| 78
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!scope="row"|Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
| 23
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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200
| 37
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