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Cracked Rear View
A collage of blurred photographs forms the album cover
Studio album by
Hootie & the Blowfish
ReleasedJuly 5, 1994 (1994-07-05)[1][2]
RecordedNovember 1993 − March 1994
StudioNRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California[3]
Genre
Length46:36
LabelAtlantic
ProducerDon Gehman[3]
Hootie & the Blowfish chronology
Kootchypop
(1993) 		Cracked Rear View
(1994) 		Fairweather Johnson
(1996)
Singles from Cracked Rear View
  1. "Hold My Hand"
    Released: July 18, 1994
  2. "Let Her Cry"
    Released: December 17, 1994
  3. "Only Wanna Be with You"
    Released: July 17, 1995
  4. "Time"
    Released: October 24, 1995
  5. "Drowning"
    Released: November 1995

Cracked Rear View is the debut studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994, by Atlantic Records.[2] Released to positive critical reviews, it eventually became one of the highest-selling albums in the United States, and also one of the best-selling albums worldwide, with over 20 million units.[4]

Recording[edit]

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.[5] It cost US$200,000 to make.[6]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Consumer GuideB[7]
ConsequenceB[8]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[9]
Kerrang![10]
MusicHound Rock[11]
Rolling Stone[12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[13]

Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album. Cracked Rear View reached number one on the Billboard 200 five times over the course of 1995. It was the best-selling album of 1995 in the United States, selling 7 million copies.[14] In April 1996, Time reported that the album had generated over US$100 million in gross revenues for Atlantic Records.[6] It has sold 10.2 million copies in the United States per Nielsen SoundScan as of 2012.[15] An additional three million copies were sold through CD clubs, which are not included in SoundScan's total.[16] The album has been certified 22x platinum (double diamond) as of 2018.[17] It is the joint 19th-best-selling album of all time in the United States.[18] The album also reached number one in Canada[19] and New Zealand.[20]

Critical reviews of Cracked Rear View were mostly positive. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine crowned the album as "the success story of 1994/1995." He also stated "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."[2]

The band won for Grammy Award for Best New Artist and "Let Her Cry" won Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards.[21]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, except where noted.

  1. "Hannah Jane" – 3:33
  2. "Hold My Hand" – 4:15
  3. "Let Her Cry" – 5:08
  4. "Only Wanna Be with You" – 3:46
  5. "Running from an Angel" – 3:37
  6. "I'm Goin' Home" – 4:10
  7. "Drowning" – 5:01
  8. "Time" – 4:53
  9. "Look Away" – 2:38
  10. "Not Even the Trees" – 4:37
  11. "Goodbye" – 4:05
Includes hidden track "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) – 0:53

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".

The 25th anniversary edition from 2019 includes the following bonus discs:

Disc 2: B-sides, Outtakes, Pre-LP Independent Recordings

  1. "All That I Believe" – 3:29
  2. "I Go Blind" (Neil Osborne, Phil Comparelli, Brad Merritt, Darryl Neudorf) – 3:13
  3. "Almost Home" – 4:02
  4. "Fine Line" – 3:33
  5. "Where Were You" – 3:55
  6. "Hey, Hey What Can I Do" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 3:56
  7. "The Old Man and Me" – Kootchypop Version – 4:29
  8. "Hold My Hand" – Kootchypop Version – 5:07
  9. "If You're Going My Way" – Kootchypop Version – 3:29
  10. "Sorry's Not Enough" – Kootchypop Version – 4:04
  11. "Only Wanna Be with You" – Kootchypop Version – 3:41
  12. "Running from an Angel" – 1991 Version – 3:57
  13. "Time" – 1991 Version – 4:28
  14. "Let Her Cry" – 1991 Version – 5:02
  15. "Drowning" – 1991 Version – 5:50
  16. "I Don't Understand" – 5:50
  17. "Little Girl" – 2:50
  18. "Look Away" – 1990 Version – 2:58
  19. "Let My People Go" – 2:37
  20. "Hold My Hand" – 1990 Version – 4:40

Disc 3: Live at Nick's Fat City, Pittsburgh, PA, February 3, 1995

  1. "Hannah Jane" – 3:36
  2. "I Go Blind" – 3:04
  3. "Not Even the Trees" – 4:40
  4. "If You're Going My Way" – 3:31
  5. "Look Away" – 2:36
  6. "Fine Line" – 3:23
  7. "Let Her Cry" – 5:15
  8. "Motherless Child" – 0:54
  9. "I'm Goin' Home" – 4:37
  10. "Use Me" – 5:00
  11. "Running from an Angel" – 4:06
  12. "Sorry's Not Enough" – 4:17
  13. "Drowning" – 6:12
  14. "The Old Man and Me" – 4:20
  15. "Only Wanna Be with You" – 3:53
  16. "Time" – 5:12
  17. "Goodbye" – 3:54
  18. "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (Lennon-McCartney) – 2:55
  19. "Hold My Hand" – 5:31
  20. "Love the One You're With" (Stephen Stills) – 2:50

DVD

Hi-Res 24/96 Bonus Tracks

  • "All That I Believe"
  • "I Go Blind"
  • "Almost Home"
  • "Fine Line"
  • "Where Were You"

Music videos:

  • "Hold My Hand"
  • "Let Her Cry"
  • "Only Wanna Be with You"
  • "Time"
  • "Drowning" – Live

Personnel[edit]

Hootie & the Blowfish

Additional musicians

Production

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Weekly chart performance for Cracked Rear View
Chart (1994–1995) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[22] 7
Canadian Albums (RPM)[19] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[23] 45
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[24] 1
Scottish Albums (OCC)[25] 16
UK Albums (OCC)[26] 12
US Billboard 200[27] 1

Year-end charts[edit]

1995 annual chart performance for Cracked Rear View
Chart (1995) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[28] 23
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[29] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[30] 2
US Billboard 200[31] 1
1996 annual chart performance for Cracked Rear View
Chart (1996) Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 19
US Billboard 200[33] 9

Decade-end charts[edit]

Decade-end chart performance for Cracked Rear View
Chart (1990–1999) Position
US Billboard 200[34] 7

Certifications and sales[edit]

Certifications and sales for Cracked Rear View
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[35] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[36] Diamond 1,000,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[37] Gold 10,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[38] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[39] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[40] 22× Platinum 22,000,000‡
Worldwide — 20,000,000[41]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Hard Report (July 1, 1994). "#3 Most Added". Hard Report, the (381): 9. from the debut album Cracked Rear View out July 5
  2. ^ a b c d Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Cracked Rear View – Hootie & the Blowfish". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Cracked Rear View (CD liner). Hootie & the Blowfish. United States: Atlantic Records. 1994. 82613-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ "Drumming Up Memories: Jim Sonefeld of Hootie & The Blowfish Book Signing Event". The New Irmo News. December 13, 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  5. ^ Sommer, Tim (July 14, 2016). "My Life in the Bush of Hootie: How I Signed the Biggest Band of 1995". The New York Observer. Jared Kushner.
  6. ^ a b Farley, Christopher John (April 29, 1996). "Music: Can 13 Million Hootie Fans Really Be Wrong?". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Hootie and the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  8. ^ Graves, Wren (July 6, 2019). "Classic Album Review: Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View". Consequence. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  9. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Hootie and the Blowfish". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  10. ^ Blake, Mark (March 18, 1995). "Albumz". Kerrang!. No. 536. EMAP. p. 48.
  11. ^ Yonke, David (1999). "Hootie & The Blowfish". MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. pp. 557. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Randall, Mac (2004). "Hootie & the Blowfish". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 390–91. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  14. ^ "HOOTIE'S WHO IN 1995". The Washington Post.
  15. ^ Caulfield, Keith (July 5, 2012). "Usher's 'Confessions' Album Hits 10 Million in U.S. Sales". Billboard. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  16. ^ "Four Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind "8 CDs for a penny"". The A.V. Club. June 10, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  17. ^ Doerschuk, Bob. "Hootie & the Blowfish set release date for new album 'Imperfect Circle'". USA TODAY. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  18. ^ RIAA Top 100 Archived July 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ a b "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.
  20. ^ "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish" (ASP). charts.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  21. ^ "Hootie & the Blowfish". The Recording Academy. n.d. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  22. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  23. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  24. ^ "Charts.nz – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  25. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  26. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  27. ^ "Hootie & The Blowfish Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  28. ^ "ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  29. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 2839". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  30. ^ "Top Selling Albums of 1995". The Official NZ Music Charts. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  31. ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1995". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  32. ^ "Top Selling Albums of 1996". The Official NZ Music Charts. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  33. ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1996". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  34. ^ Mayfield, Geoff (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.
  35. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  36. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". Music Canada. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  37. ^ "Danish album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". IFPI Danmark. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  38. ^ "New Zealand album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  39. ^ "British album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  40. ^ "American album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  41. ^ "Drumming Up Memories: Jim Sonefeld of Hootie & The Blowfish Book Signing Event". The New Irmo News. December 13, 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2024.

External links[edit]

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