Cracked Rear View
Cracked Rear View | ||||
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Studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish | ||||
Released | July 5, 1994[1] | |||
Recorded | November 1993−March 1994 | |||
Studio | NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California[2] | |||
Genre |
Roots rock, pop rock, alternative rock | |||
Length | 43:04 | |||
Label |
Atlantic 82613 | |||
Producer | Don Gehman[2] | |||
Hootie & the Blowfish chronology | ||||
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Singles from Cracked Rear View | ||||
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Cracked Rear View is the debut studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994 by Atlantic Records.[1] The album became extremely popular and remains one of the best-selling albums in history.
Recording
Don Gehman was chosen by A&R man Tim Sommer as a producer because of his previous work with John Mellencamp and R.E.M..[3]
Reception
Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | B[4] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
Rolling Stone | |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide |
Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album. It was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone, eventually shipping 21 million copies to retailers by May 21, 2018. It is the joint 19th-best-selling album of all time in the United States.[8] Cracked Rear View reached number one on the Billboard 200 five times over the course of 1995. The album also reached number one in Canada[9] and New Zealand.[10] Three million copies were sold through the Columbia House mail-order system.[11]
Critical reviews of Cracked Rear View were mostly positive. The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four and a half stars out of five, and said that it was "the success story of 1994/1995." He also said, "Although Hootie & the Blowfish aren't innovative, they deliver the goods, turning out an album of solid, rootsy folk-rock songs that have simple, powerful hooks."[1]
Track listing
All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.
- "Hannah Jane" – 3:33
- "Hold My Hand" – 4:15
- "Let Her Cry" – 5:08
- "Only Wanna Be with You" – 3:46
- "Running from an Angel" – 3:37
- "I'm Goin' Home" – 4:11
- "Drowning" – 5:01
- "Time" – 4:53
- "Look Away" – 2:38
- "Not Even the Trees" – 4:37
- "Goodbye" – 4:05
- Includes hidden track "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) – 0:54
In 2001, the album was re-released on DVD-Audio with the disc featuring a discography, photo gallery, and video of a live performance of "Drowning".
Personnel
Hootie & the Blowfish
- Mark Bryan – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal percussion, mandolin on "Only Wanna Be with You", piano on "Not Even the Trees",
- Dean Felber – bass guitar, clavinet, vocals, piano on "Only Wanna Be with You"
- Darius Rucker – vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
- Jim "Soni" Sonefeld – drums, percussion, vocals, piano on "Look Away" and "Goodbye",[12] glasses on "Not Even the Trees"
Additional musicians
- David Crosby – background vocals on "Hold My Hand"
- Lili Haydn – violin on "Look Away" and "Running from an Angel"
- John Nau – piano on "I'm Goin' Home", Hammond organ
Production
- Jean Cronin – art direction
- Don Gehman – production, engineering, mixing
- Michael McLaughlin – photography
- Wade Norton – assistant engineering
- Gena Rankin – production coordination
- Eddy Schreyer – mastering
- Tim Sommer – artists and repertoire
- Liz Sroka – assistant mixing
Charts
Album
Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA)[13] | 7 |
Canada (RPM)[9] | 1 |
Germany (Media Control)[14] | 45 |
New Zealand (RIANZ)[10] | 1 |
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[15] | 16 |
UK (Official Charts Company)[16] | 12 |
US Billboard 200[17] | 1 |
Decade-end charts
Chart (1990–1999) | Position |
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US Billboard 200[18] | 7 |
Awards
Year | Winner | Category |
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1996 | "Let Her Cry" | Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Cracked Rear View – Hootie & the Blowfish". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
- 1 2 Cracked Rear View (CD liner). Hootie & the Blowfish. United States: Atlantic Records. 1994. 82613-2.
- ↑ Sommer, Tim (July 14, 2016). "My Life in the Bush of Hootie: How I Signed the Biggest Band of 1995". New York Observer. Jared Kushner.
- ↑ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Hootie and the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
- ↑ Evans, Paul (October 20, 1994). "Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 26, 2007. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ↑ Randall, Mac (2004). "Hootie & the Blowfish". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 390–91. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ↑ RIAA Top 100 Archived January 17, 2010, at WebCite
- 1 2 "RPM — Item Display : Top Albums/CDs — Volume 62, No. 3, August 21, 1995". Library and Archives Canada. March 31, 2004. Archived from the original (PHP) on February 2, 2014.
- 1 2 "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish". charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Archived from the original (ASP) on February 2, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
- ↑ Zaleski, Anne (June 9, 2015). "Four Columbia House Insiders Explain the Shady Math Behind '8 CDs for a Penny'". The A.V. Club.
- ↑ Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View @Discogs.com Retrieved 10-15-2017.
- ↑ "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish". australian-charts. Hung Medien. Archived from the original (ASP) on February 20, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
- ↑ Steffen Hung. "Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". swisscharts.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ↑ . Official Charts Company http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/scottish-albums-chart/19950312/40/. Retrieved 17 February 2013. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish". Chartstats. United Kingdom: The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original (PHP) on August 23, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
- ↑ "Hootie & the Blowfish — Billboard Albums". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
- ↑ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade — The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010.