Stay (Wasting Time)

Infobox Single
Name = Stay (Wasting Time)


Artist = Dave Matthews Band
from Album =
Before These Crowded Streets
Released = 1998
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 5:35
Label = RCA
Producer = Steve Lillywhite
Last single = "Don't Drink the Water" (1997)
This single = "Stay (Wasting Time)"
(1998)
Next single = "Crush"
(1998)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Before These Crowded Streets
Type = studio
prev_track = "Don't Drink the Water"
prev_no = Track 4
this_track = "Stay (Wasting Time)"
track_no = Track 5
next_track = "Halloween"
next_no = Track 6Extra tracklisting
Album = The Best of What's Around Vol. 1
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Say Goodbye (Live)"
prev_no = Track 3
this_track = "Stay (Wasting Time) (Live)"
track_no = Track 4
next_track = "Everyday (Live)"
next_no = Track 5

"Stay (Wasting Time)" is a song by the Dave Matthews Band, released as the second single off their album "Before These Crowded Streets". As a single, it reached #8 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, #33 on the Top 40 Mainstream, and #20 on the Adult 40. The song features The Lovely Ladies — Tawatha Agee, Cindy Myzell, and Brenda White King — on background vocals.

The song has been used as a set closer or as an encore many times. To this day it has been a set closer 79 times and in an encore 54 times.

This song is one of the few which do not differ greatly from its studio version when performed live. The only major difference that occurs during live performances is that sometimes the ending of the song is jammed.

ingle track listing

#"Stay (Wasting Time)" (Remix Edit) — 4:30
#"Stay (Wasting Time)" (Album Edit) — 4:30
#"Stay (Wasting Time)" (Album Version) — 5:35

Live releases

A live performance of "Stay (Wasting Time)" is featured on the following albums:
*"Listener Supported"
*"Live in Chicago 12.19.98"
*"Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado"
*"The Central Park Concert"
*"Live Trax Vol. 1"
*"Live Trax Vol. 2"
*"Live Trax Vol. 6"
*"The Best of What's Around Vol. 1"
*"Live Trax Vol. 9"
*"Live at Piedmont Park"

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