Red Mosquito

@SkitchP wrote:Guys. I have become super obsessed with Hootie and the Blowfish. Not the music mind you, just trying to grasp how huge they were for like a year.

That first album was hooky inoffensive pop rock. I think some people were just ready to jump on something lighthearted after the perceived omnipresence of "depressing grunge"

But man, that album/band was completely inescapable for a year or two.

@SkitchP wrote:Guys. I have become super obsessed with Hootie and the Blowfish. Not the music mind you, just trying to grasp how huge they were for like a year.

They were the Huey Lewis and the News of the 90s

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

stip wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Guys. I have become super obsessed with Hootie and the Blowfish. Not the music mind you, just trying to grasp how huge they were for like a year.

They were the Huey Lewis and the News of the 90s

It's not even close. Huey Lewis and the news were popular. Hootie and the Blowfish were inescapable.

@SkitchP wrote:Guys. I have become super obsessed with Hootie and the Blowfish. Not the music mind you, just trying to grasp how huge they were for like a year.

I have to defend that album. The second half of it is pretty good. I think Drowning, Not Even The Trees and Goodbye are all solid songs

theplatypus wrote:Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

I like a bunch of the hits in an 80s guilty pleasure kind of way

It was apparently only the 13th best selling album in the US from the 90s. I would've guessed it was in the top five.

Though I guess in terms of copies actually sold in the 90s in the US, it was #7. Which I guess makes more sense.

stip wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

I like a bunch of the hits in an 80s guilty pleasure kind of way

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.

No matter what he says, nothing hip about being square.

theplatypus wrote:

stip wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

I like a bunch of the hits in an 80s guilty pleasure kind of way

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.

Robert Christgau article on Hootie from 1996 in which he compares Darius Rucker to Eddie Vedder:
http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/hootie-96.php

It really is amazing how all of the absolute top selling stuff to come out of the 90s sucked so hard. Or just the whole soundscan era

And who on earth is still buying that Bob Marley record?

None of you love the frames..i'm embarrassed for you individually and as a group

I like this record:

stip wrote:I have a lot of respect for the work that Bono does

I AL'd

Who is the Huey Lewis and the News of each decade?

BurtReynolds wrote:Who is the Huey Lewis and the News of each decade?

70s - Steve Miller Band
90s - Matchbox 20
00s - Pearl Jam
10s - Mumford & Sons

Probably.

What about the 80s?!?!!?

Ray Parker, Jr.