Scattered Smothered And Covered Music Cd

Hootie & The Blowfish - Scattered Smothered And Covered

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Scattered, Smothered and Covered      Artist : Hootie & the Blowfish      List Price : $7.98 USD        Your Price : $7.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2000-10-24      Studio : Atlantic / Wea      Label : Atlantic / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (43 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Scattered Smothered And Covered      Waiting on Scattered, Smothered, and Covered 2      Rating:      I first heard this CD in my carpooler's car on the way to work. I loved it and immediately put it on my Christmas CD List for 2007. Unfortunately, nobody could find it, so I waited and when it was finally available, I jumped on it. I love the songs that were selected, some were new to me, and I love the way the guys put their own twists on them. My favorite is "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You" but they're all good. I'm hoping that they'll do a follow-up.     Customer Reviews for Scattered Smothered And Covered Cd      Great Rarities      Rating:      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. Editorial Reviews for Scattered Smothered And Covered Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Proudly wearing their reputation as the "ultimate bar band," Hootie & the Blowfish have proven decisively that in a pop-music taproom bristling with full-bodied micro-brews and exotic imports, there are plenty who still crave Budweiser--and often Bud Light. It's hardly surprising then that in compiling this rarities collection, the band invited its fan base to choose a third of the album's 15 tracks (and its cover design) by voting at the Web site of a beer company. The result is a de facto tribute to much of the band's own favorite music, from vintage staples such as Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby," "Use Me" by Bill Withers, and Zeppelin's "Hey Hey What Can I Do" (13.98% of the virtual pub poll) through R.E.M.'s "Driver 8," the Reivers' "Araby," and "Almost Home" (14.24%) to seemingly improbable choices such as an unplugged rendition of Tom Waits's "I Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You," Vic Chestnutt's "Gravity of the Situation," and the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (13.11%). Even on Kim Richey's countrified "Let Me Be Your Man" (the poll topper at 15.47%), Darius Rucker and company display an uncanny ability to unify--and homogenize--seemingly disparate material into their own endlessly bubbly brew. Even if all of it doesn't all taste great, it's definitely less filling. --Jerry McCulley