Hootie & The Blowfish - Scattered Smothered & Covered
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Free Music Review: if you like any hottie cd you'll love this one too
Hit: 5 Stars
this was the only one of their cd's i didnt have and i love it. so glad i added it to complete the collectionFree Music Review: HOOTIE IS ONE AWESOME BAND
Hit: 5 Stars
Hootie is one awesome band. There new album is sure to be great.Free Music Review: Looking back in a Cracked Rear View
Hit: 4 Stars
Let's face it: Cracked Rear View was a fluke, a cultural phenomenon that swept up a fun bar band and turned them into the next big thing. When it turned out that they only had one GREAT album in them, everyone turned away from two good ones. I may be in the minority, but I think Fairweather Johnson and Musical Chairs were fine albums that showed growth and maturity. The new album, named for hash browns of all things, the cheap kind you find on the road and consists of mostly grease, is a fun album, the kind you seldom see any more in this "serious rock star" world. If you went into any bar in America, had a nice cold beer, and the band played a set like the songs you hear on this album, you'd tell everyone you knew. Hootie and the Blowfish are just that - one of the best bar bands around. They take this opportunity to show off their influences and solidly place themselves as a halfway point between the dreamy jangle of R.E.M and the pop of countless groups like Matchbox 20. "I Go Blind" has been a concert staple for years and "Araby" is growing into a favorite of mine over my full 24 hours of listening - no, not non-stop. They make me work! While I can't pretend this is great, it is exactly what you would expect from a band named Hootie and the Blowfish - fun pop that sometimes makes you think, sometimes makes you smile, and a great addition to their collection.Free Music Review: Their most "mainstream" cd since CRV
Hit: 4 Stars
Basically, it doesn't really matter what anybody says about this CD, good or bad, because if you care enough about Hootie to even know that this CD is coming out (seriously, this album is getting NO publicity from Atlantic), then you are a big enough fan where you are gonna buy it anyways. But despite that, this CD is probably their most accessible and mainstream CD since Cracked Rear View, much more so than the excellent, but not popular folk/-rock of Musical Chairs. Some of these songs, like Renaissance Eyes, Araby, and the new version of Use Me with Edwin McCain, actually might have a chance to get played on radio (at least on A/C and mix stations). I wish that their label would consider releasing Fine Line to country stations, because I think that it could actually do good in that market. Basically this CD is a must-buy if you are a die-hard Hootie-fan, and a pretty good listen even if you are just a former Hootie fan (and really, who wasn't a fan back in the day?) who hasn't kept up with their new stuff.Free Music Review: Great Rarities
Hit: 4 Stars
An album that at first appears somewhat more eclectic than your average Hootie album. After a time of listening to it, the disparate styles of music, which cross from full-on bouncy pop (Araby) to mellow classics (Hey Hey What Can I Do?) to country (Fine Line) to golden oldies (Dream Baby), seem somewhat helter skelter in their scattering throughout this album. Yet after a while, the album seems to pick up a flow that almost begins to make complete sense. Sure, the styling is somewhat random, but the musical quality of the tracks selected, including a soulful live cut (I Hope I don't Fall in Love With You) allows the listener to enjoy the fullest range of Hootie's distinctive and easily identifiable sound. I am purchasing this album for a second time, since continuous play of the first copy left it so badly scratched that I am forced to purchase a second copy to make up for the unplayability of the first. I rate this album as perhaps the very best of all of Hootie's albums.