Hootie & the Blowfish's debut album, Cracked Rear View, was the success story of 1994/1995, selling over 12 million copies. It's a startling, large number, especially for a new band, but in some ways, the success of the record isn't that surprising. Although Hootie & the Blowfish aren't innovative, they deliver the goods, turning out an album of ...
Led Zeppelin have been worshipped intensely by generations of rock musicians ever since the 1969 release of their first of eight massively influential studio recordings. Despite a near-constant, and unrealistically cool critical reception, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and John Bohnam's beyond-iconic status was hardly ever in doubt, ...
Following up a debut as successful as Cracked Rear View would be intimidating for most groups, but it had to be especially daunting for such a direct, straightforward combo as Hootie & the Blowfish. What made Cracked Rear View such a success was its very unpretentiousness; how each song sounded like it was the crowd-pleaser from the local bar band ...
Although Hootie & the Blowfish delivered a fine second album, they had no hope of matching the phenomenal success of their debut, Cracked Rear View, so Fairweather Johnson was perceived as a flop, even though it moved over two million copies. In a way, that perception of failure was the best thing that could have happened to the band. With the ...
Friends successfully targets the same demographic of the television show -- twentysomethings that have grown too old for the noise and clutter of college life, yet reluctant to give up the commraderie (and, indeed, friendship) that stress creates. So, it's a collection of '80s college rock favorites (R.E.M., Paul Westerberg), '80s college rock ...
Hootie & the Blowfish's fifth studio effort is the first to feature extensive co-songwriting credits, as well as a few well-placed guest musicians. Recording Looking for Lucky in Nashville after wrapping up the tour for their 2004 Best Of set, Hootie & the Blowfish were joined by Fairweather Johnson producer Don Gehman as well as engineer Nick ...
Ranging from hard rock to country and from rap to pop, this collection of 11 recordings covering the nominees for Grammy Awards in the categories of Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist demonstrated the diversity of popular music in 1994-1995. (Despite the "1996" in the title, the period of eligibility ran from October 1, 1994 ...
Like its two predecessors, A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 3 is a charity album featuring new recordings by superstars. Like Vol. 2, Vol. 3 is a little weaker than the first collection, but there are still a number of fun holiday songs on the record, including cuts by Sheryl Crow, Chris Cornell, Smashing Pumpkins, Tracy Chapman, Hootie & the ...
It's easy to make fun of Hootie & the Blowfish because they are what everyone says they are -- a bar band made good. Since they were a bar band from the early '90s, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they knocked out Smiths and R.E.M. covers along with songs from the Led Zeppelin and Bill Withers songbooks -- this was the music of the time, and ...
Adequately covering the rich legacy of Atlantic Records' first 50 years over only two CDs is an impossible task, even concentrating only on rock and R&B, so it would be difficult to expect Atlantic Records 50 Years: Gold Anniversary to offer anything more than a cursory overview. The compilation does illustrate the incredible depth and diversity ...
Hootie & the Blowfish never were cut out to be superstars. They were meant to be the best band at the local bar. They were ordinary guys, and they played ordinary music, the kind that could be heard in any college town on the East Coast or Midwest during the early '90s when the local bar wasn't having grunge night. It was the ordinariness of the ...
It's been five years since listeners last heard from Hootie & the Blowfish (not counting 2000's odds-and-ends assortment Scattered, Smothered and Covered), and those who might have been expecting a dramatic departure from the radio-friendly guitar rock of the band's previous three regular albums will be either relieved or disappointed, depending ...
Though it features some songs by relatively contemporary artists -- Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait" and Edwin McCain's "I'll Be" chief among them -- New Millennium Love Songs features too many selections from the '80s to truly live up to its title. While Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack's "Tonight I Celebrate My Love," Linda Ronstadt & Aaron ...
Billboard Top Hits: 1995 collects ten of the year's biggest singles, including Dionne Farris' "I Know," the Rembrandts' "I'll Be There for You," Take That's "Back for Good," and Rednex's "Cotton Eye Joe." Luniz' "I Got 5 on It" and Hootie & The Blowfish's "I Only Wanna Be With You" are some of the other highlights from this somewhat scattered ...
Today Show: Best of the Summer Concert Series delivers just what the title promises: a dozen live Today Show performances from artists like Donna Summer, the Doobie Brothers, Lionel Richie, and the Pretenders. Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy," Brian Setzer's "Rock This Town," Amy Grant's "Baby Baby," and Earth Wind & Fire's "September" are ...
The Absolute Hits Collection assembles many of the Atlantic label's biggest smashes of the mid-to-late 1990s; for casual fans of contemporary pop, it's a smart investment, as many of these singles (matchbox20's "3 am," Sugar Ray's "Fly" and Collective Soul's "The World I Know" among them) are much stronger than the remaining material on the ...
Stop Handgun Violence is a benefit album for the charity of the same name, featuring mostly artists who would be at home on both alternative and adult alternative rock radio. Most of the 19 tracks were previously released, featuring hits like Sixpence None the Richer's "Kiss Me" and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's "Go Daddy-O," but there are also five ...
This album presents some of the best Hard Rock Live performances, including "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders, "Outta Site, Outta Mind" by Wilco, as well as fine tracks from Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds Five, and Lou Reed, among others. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide
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