Who hear owns a copy of Hootie and the Blowfish's debut album?

How such an innocuous record can inspire such fear & loathing is an eternal mystery to me. I thought "I Only Wanna Be With You" sounded pleasant in the background back in '95, and that's the extent of my feelings toward 'em.

What sounded pleasant to you sounded phenomenally bland and empty to me and other people I knew who hated it, far beyond the level of Matchbox 20, say. And it was so ubiquitous for a long time. Everything about it, the tune, the changes seemed so blatantly rote and default-setting, and the singing was totally lacking in anything resembling dynamics or character. Now, I've softened a lot on radio rock since then, and I haven't heard this in a while, but I doubt my opinion would change much.

I don't know what I did before that moment, or afterwards, but the feeling of that particular moment is crystalized in my mind forever. Those kids in that truck in that weird little suburb were the perfect sociological representation on that album ever.

Kevin Sutton went to Michigan State after school. He probably has a slightly chunky wife and a decent home in the burbs somewhere, they probably planning to have their first child after his promotion next year. He turns 28 next June.

I am completely broke, I don't know how to make friends, and my only ambition is to learn more about western leftist terrorists on the late 60's early 70's (BaaderMeinhof. Weathermen, Red Army Faction...) and Viennese Actionism. I am reading Elementry Particles by Michel Houellebecq and it is rasing serious issues about my body iimage and my own sense of mortality. I often wonder why anyone bothers to live past 30.

Kevin Sutton totally won at life. From this, I draw the conclusion that Hoootie and the blowfish were a better band that Joy Division, who I considered vastly superior at the time.
Inane consensus pop will always superior to weird marginal arty angst music. Throbbing Gristle is for fuckheads, I think the music of Hoobastank is far more profound and meaningful.

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Jeanine Garafolo did this schtick a few years ago about being slightly envious of people who were blissfully ignorant and listened to Hootie, DMB and Enya.

But then I know quite a few people like that through work, and I just can't see how that life would be fulfilling. But it takes all kinds; more power to them.

And she listens to what, bad indie rock? Jeez....

I just meant "I Only Want to Be With You" BTW, not the album, which I've never heard as I said. I'm quite willing to believe that everything else they put out was much better.

er, ingenuousness

And she listens to what, bad indie rock? Jeez....

"My Sharona"?

I've often wondered what the hell all the fuss seems to be about the Baader Meinhof gang. You see these references in music to these things and then you look them up (or at least I do) and then you think "um...so what is so great about that?" Perhaps it's just another way to get attention to reference these things, like JD and the Nazi stuff...

Wow and I'm even keeping my mouth shut about how much I LOATHE Hootie & The [insert disdainful clever wordplay here]!

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This shit is everywhere right now.

Radio is playing some Hootie everywhere I turn. Hootstalgia is in full effect.

I don't mind Hootie. I wouldn't go out and buy any of their CDs, but if "Only Wanna Be with You" or "Old Man and Me" came up on the radio, I wouldn't complain.

a black man embraced as eagerly as Carl McCall by white people loath to think of themselves as "prejudiced"

Jeez, Christgau is such a wanker. "See, people COULDN'T POSSIBLY be buying this album because they (gasp!) honestly enjoy listening to the music. They're just buying the album to prove to everybody that they're not racists!!"

I want to hear more from Disco Nihilist. Wow. Everybody I know went through that Houellebecq poisoning thing in 2004, most of them just quit smoking and joined a gym.

Hootie singer has hilarious phrasing. He sings like a keyboard patch.

A notebook reveals an intimate history of Hootie & The Blowfish’s seminal album, ‘Cracked Rear View’

http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/29/3537402/a-notebooks-reveals-an-intimate.html

I already regret not making a "How America Got Hootied" parody thread

someone was recently telling me the CD went out with horrible backing vocals and they had to go in and re-do them and re-release the CD. sounds like a musical urban legend but maybe its true.

also i guess the main guy is a huge country star now.

David Crosby being one of the people overdubbing new backing vocals fwiw

The band performed this in their early years when they played a lot of colleges in the South Carolina area, and a shorter version of the song was released on cassette they put together in 1993 called Kootchypop, which they sold at shows. This version had very little background vocals and few instruments. When Atlantic Records signed the band, they had them re-record the song and released it as their first single.

David Crosby, famous for his work with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, sang backup on this and some other songs on the album. Crosby is known for his ability to harmonize.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2894

i wanna luuuuuhhhhv yewww, the beeeest that, the beest that ah caaaa-aaaaan

fuck you Hootflake

crosby did do background vocals on that album, or at least one song, from waht I can see.

A year or two ago I bought the first four Hootie albums (not Kootchypop, I'm not that hardcore). They're pretty good! Sometimes if I'm feeling alienated and hopeless, Hootie can reel me back in with their trite lyrics and jangly feelgood southernized guitar pop.

then he wakes up sweating

This was going to be the revive of the year and you just had to ruin it.

On Let Her Cry. I got a lyric wrong, but I'll let the piece stand.

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/49/4d/e0/494de0f6c2e6a1408bb3e112beecba00--s-nostalgia-friends-tv-show.jpg

When that episode aired, I wondered if Monica’s claim of getting a hickey from a Blowfish constituted an actionable defamation tort.

Hickey & the Blowfish

it would be really dope if someone posting here did, in fact, own a copy of hootie and the blowfish's debut album, and could post a picture for us.

omg i just burst out laughing imagining like flappy bird posting a picture of the Cracked Rear View vinyl

that sort of reminds me, i think jim o'rourke is on record in an interview somewhere admiring mmm mmm mmm mmm by the crash test dummies

O'Rourke's next project is, tentatively, a personal crusade upon music which has been labeled "bad" by the music world - an album of covers, as he puts it, of "songs that are generally not considered to be good songs." Songs like Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is."

"It's just to present that these are good songs. I'm not trying to be like, 'I'm the person who can show you that these songs are good,'" says the mild-mannered O'Rourke from New York's West Park Hotel. "[If they're sub-par, it's] through bad recording or arrangements or because of the time these songs were done."

He cites the Crash Test Dummies' "Superman's Song" ("the mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm song") as another diamond in the rough. "Oh! That song is really fucking good. There's too much piano playing and there's some bad bass playing, oh man, the guy's like 'LOOK AT ME I CAN PUT SOME EXTRA NOTES IN HERE,' but for the most part, I think it's a really amazing song."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, August 23, 2004 2:54 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(I think O'Rourke's abandoned that idea, though: that was written in 1997.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, August 23, 2004 2:54 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bruce hornsby's 'the way it is' is a fuckin stone-cold banger fuiud

I own a cassette copy of Hootie and the Blowfish's debut album, Cracked Rear View! Unfortunately it's at my mom's house so I can't post a photo.

(I know I've mentioned this elsewhere on the board, but I bought it because I enjoyed their cover of 'Hey Hey What Can I Do?' on the mostly very shitty Led Zeppelin tribute album entitled Encomium. I was, uh, not thrilled with the results of that purchase. Either purchase.)

Not only did I own a copy (one of my first purchases), I also left it lying on the windowsill while my family went away on holiday, and returned to a partly melted cassette, which I promptly replaced, only to find that the replacement copy was virtually inaudible, a great big sludge of Hootie's vocals and other nauseous sounding instruments.

Clearly it wasn't meant to be.

a great big sludge of Hootie's vocals and other nauseous sounding instruments.

How could you tell the difference? HAR HAR HAR!!

(apologies - someone was gonna do that, figured it may as well be me.)

my mom bought this CD when it first came out. it was one of the first CDs our family purchased and turned out the disc was defective, we had to replace it.

i never listened to it but i did own a personal copy of Crash Test Dummies and loved that record when i was 13/14

When I think of Hootie I think of Kevin Sutton(a kid who cried in class because his dad was going to be pissed that he only got a B+in Western History) in the back of a Black F-150 on a neighborhood street in Livonia Michigan in 1995 with a bunch of dorky people from school. They were blasting an album cut from Cracked on the car stereo. I remember looking at a blonde girl under the orange glare of a streetlight who I thought was pretty at the time, not beautiful, but pretty, and thinking to myself I didn't realize this girl was a dork.
I don't know what I did before that moment, or afterwards, but the feeling of that particular moment is crystalized in my mind forever. Those kids in that truck in that weird little suburb were the perfect sociological representation on that album ever.

Kevin Sutton went to Michigan State after school. He probably has a slightly chunky wife and a decent home in the burbs somewhere, they probably planning to have their first child after his promotion next year. He turns 28 next June.

I am completely broke, I don't know how to make friends, and my only ambition is to learn more about western leftist terrorists on the late 60's early 70's (BaaderMeinhof. Weathermen, Red Army Faction...) and Viennese Actionism. I am reading Elementry Particles by Michel Houellebecq and it is rasing serious issues about my body iimage and my own sense of mortality. I often wonder why anyone bothers to live past 30.

Kevin Sutton totally won at life. From this, I draw the conclusion that Hoootie and the blowfish were a better band that Joy Division, who I considered vastly superior at the time.
Inane consensus pop will always superior to weird marginal arty angst music. Throbbing Gristle is for fuckheads, I think the music of Hoobastank is far more profound and meaningful.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Friday, October 22, 2004 12:18 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This brightened my day.

Yeah, I c+p-ed that in the 'posts which continue to haunt your thoughts' thread a while back. It's all-time.

I gotta be honest, he seems like a solidly good guy who's done well for himself -- advantage Hootie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktsutton

Fuller profile

http://www.luskalbertson.com/attorney-kevin-t-sutton/

Still lives in Livonia and his kids probably go to the same school he and mjt went to

Mr. Sutton often presents on topics relevant to his school clients, including transgender student rights, social media in schools, student/staff investigations, student privacy rights/FERPA, and student/staff discipline.  On the issue of transgender student rights, Mr. Sutton is recognized as a legal expert, having been invited by the Michigan Department of Education to help develop guidance for supporting LGBTQ students.  Mr. Sutton has presented to education groups across the State of Michigan on this important topic.

wkiw kev sutton

The world might be a more OK place if everyone who bought Cracked Rear View turned out that well.

goes without saying but incredible find, eephus

Disco Nihilist seems to be putting out lots of records and generally doing fine too

https://twitter.com/disconihilist

xp all I did was google Kevin Sutton and Michigan State

The real challenge would be to identify the blonde girl in the orange glare

well you did that and no one else did so pat yourself on the back

Disco Nihilist seems to be putting out lots of records and generally doing fine too

https://twitter.com/disconihilist

Still yearning for the apocalypse though

Tiiiiiiiiiiime
Why you punish may

It appears that I may have purchased one of the defective copies of Cracked Rear View.

Somehow I had no idea until recently that Darius Rucker has been a pretty big country musician for a while now. I guess it's not a huge jump stylistically from Hootie to contemporary nashville so no huge surprise.

I love "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"

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like the Braves in '95

Seeing this made me listen to 2/3 of "Let Her Cry" (which sounds like it could have been a decent Counting Crows song) and half the Kootchypop version of "Only Wanna Be With You" but then it all just made me wonder if Sister Hazel was as bad as I remember. (Yes.)

Did '90s Phish-heads hate all these not-quite-jammy bands like DMB, Sister Hazel, Blues Traveler, Hootie?

Lol Western that's the ONLY thing I remember from Fairweather Johnson.