To say nothing of the shark-jumping video called “I Only Wanna Be With You.”
This girl on my dorm floor had Cracked Rear View a good 8 months before they really hit it big; she bought the CD because she liked the band name. As for me, I hated everything about them, except I thought Hootie had a cool voice.
I saw Hootie last summer. The played for 3 hours for $15 a ticket. Not a bad night’s entertainment.
I was a fan when they first came out and as far as I am concerned they are still a great, fun, band to go see.
They had that “Goodbye Girl” cover that TNT played every 20 minutes for a week a while back. It was pretty good the first 18 times.
They’ve been on tour (on and off) for the past six months, and they have dates scheduled through the summer. As for a “best” song, I can’t help you there.
Does the “best song by the Hooties” have to be a song written by the Hooties? or is it O.K. if they recorded it but didn’t write it?
I ain’t no Hootie fan, but I am a Susan Cowsill fan (yes, of the Cowsills- she was the 8 year old) and the Hooties did have the admirable taste to cover the Susan Cowsill-penned Rain Song on the album they released last year.
So, I vote for The Rain Song.
Darius Rucker, I hope, has done the Leonard Nimoy-like thing and finally given in to the fact that the public at large wants to address him by a moniker he doesn’t necessarily prefer.
Maybe one day, Rucker will write a book … “I AM Hootie.”
It was geometrically better than that dreadful remake. Patricia Heaton is going to smoke a turd in Purgatory for that one.
Darius Rucker was a guest host a few months back on the Dan Patrick Radio Show on ESPN Radio. He is actually a pretty funny guy.
(Funniest joke from Jerry Maguire was “Are you Hootie?”)