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〕 | Recorded = 1994 | Studio = NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California | Genre = Roots rock, pop rock, alternative rock | Length = | Label = Atlantic 82613| | Producer = Don Gehman〔 | Last album = ''Kootchypop'' (1993) | This album = ''Cracked Rear View'' (1994) | Next album = ''Fairweather Johnson'' (1996) | Misc = }} ''Cracked Rear View'' is the major-label debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994 by Atlantic Records.〔 ==Reception== ''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 16 million copies to retailers by March 31, 1999. It is the joint 16th-best-selling album of all time in the United States.〔(RIAA Top 100 ) 〕 ''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 and New Zealand. Three million copies were sold through the Columbia House mail-order system. 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."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cracked Rear View」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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