With Listener Supported, Dave Matthews Band fans finally get a live album they can be proud of. 1997's flaccid Live at Red Rocks captured the band before its onstage incarnation clicked into the top-grossing, well-oiled concert behemoth it is today. Meanwhile, Matthews and guitarist Tim Reynolds' 1999 unplugged double-disc set, Live at Luther College, missed the boat entirely, stripping Matthews' material of the rhythmic interplay it sorely requires. What makes this official double live disc stand apart is its concision. The playing on Listener Supported is aggressive but not excessive; the album's restraint makes DMB's collective virtuosity feel earned. A surprising song selection helps immeasurably: In addition to hits like "Too Much," they throw in unreleased concert faves like "True Reflections" (sung by charismatic fiddler Boyd Tinsley) and impassioned covers of "All Along the Watchtower" and "Long Black Veil." Matthews even folds a verse of Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" into "Crash Into Me," an endearingly spontaneous moment of jam-band synchronicity. If you're an aficionado of Matthews' world-beat-funk-folk special blend, you'll definitely support this offering.

“Satisfied”

Only the genius of Tom Waits could combine the subject of mortality, a reoccurring theme in his work, with wordplay that name checks both Mick and Keith, whom he calls "Mr. Jagger" and "Mr. Richards," and the title of their magnum opus, "Satisfaction." And to show just how cool Waits really is, he even got Mr. Richards to play along, one of nine guest appearances the guitarist has made on three Waits albums. "This growling roadhouse stomp is a late-breaking response to the Stones' greatest hit," Rolling Stone said of the track.