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

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.