10 Worst Number One Rock Albums Of The 1990s
5. Fairweather Johnson - Hootie & The Blowfish
For modern international fans, Hootie & the Blowfish are just those people from that Friends episode (one of them gave Monica a hickey). However, to American audiences from the 90s, they were a big deal.
Their first two albums, Cracked Rear View and Fairweather Johnson, both topped the charts, and they scooped two awards at the 1996 Grammys, which will mean something to someone.
Cracked Rear View was praised for carrying the same earnest, down-to-earth qualities as a local bar act, which some people would probably describe as their worst nightmare. By the time Fairweather Johnson came around in 1997, even this defence had vanished.
Hootie and co. were labelled as too safe, too rigid, too bland by the musical press at the time, who got to the end of their sophomore release still with little idea what it was even about. It's a collection of decent toe-tappers, but nothing more, and that just wasn't going to cut the mustard.
The music-buying public didn't seem to care, sending it to number one for two weeks. Also, one of the Blowfish got it on with Courtney Cox, so who's the real winner here?