new Goo Goo Dolls cd on the 25th

[mgoblue]

Anyone else interested in this? I really liked Dizzy Up The Girl, and A Boy Named Goo is great too. Bout time they released a new cd.

CDnow link to Let Love In

[bgeno]

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I always like Goo Goo Dolls... I dont listen to many of their songs, but I wish I did. I'm gonna have to grab some more songs from them. They've always got sort of catchy tunes but their always good.

[Scottdau]

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I always like Goo Goo Dolls... I dont listen to many of their songs, but I wish I did. I'm gonna have to grab some more songs from them. They've always got sort of catchy tunes but their always good.

Yeah, I like better days!

[BGarrett7]

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It'll be worth a download, but probably not an actual purchase. It's not exactly a CD I expect to end up in my Top Ten for '06.

[Zer0xray]

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better days is a great song. kinda surprised their 3rd (i think) single big machine wasnt that popular from the last album. prob one of the best songs they put out

[aukevin]

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I like their older stuff, I really didn't like Better Days much at all. Something about it I guess, but I would always switch it off the radio. I'll listen to the new album before I get it to make sure they don't all sound like Better Days. I really songs of thiers like Name, Slide, Iris, Sympathy, Naked, etc..

[Nivek]

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It'll be worth a download, but probably not an actual purchase. It's not exactly a CD I expect to end up in my Top Ten for '06.

Damn, your subname speaks volumes. Use to listen to them a little bit in high school, might be a purchase I'd make a few weeks down the road.

[pk500]

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The Goo Goo Dolls are a guilty pop pleasure of mine, although I sometimes wonder what the band really could have been.

Living in upstate N.Y., I remember hearing about a band from Buffalo in the early 90s that was whispered to be the "next Replacements." And Johnny Rzeznik certainly wrote Westerberg-like lyrics in some of the Goos early stuff, with songs to match.

But then "Iris" struck gold, the Goos became a staple of teen girls crying over lost love at age 14 and a fixture on pop radio. The band never has turned back, as its standard pop formula of clever hooks, intelligent lyrics for pop and a ballad or two have made it a ton of money.

So, yeah, the Goos turned to intelligent, power pop instead of being the intelligent rock band it could have been. But give the Goos credit -- the band does smart power pop as well as anyone and is a good listen when you're in the mood for that.

Take care,
PK

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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Good album. If you like the music they have already put out, then you'll probably enjoy the new album.

[BGarrett7]

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Damn, your subname speaks volumes.

Well, it's true. I've never enjoyed them enough to purchase an album from them, but they are good for a listen to from time to time. I mean, every thing I've read about this album has all-but explicitly stated that it's "just another GGD album." Plus, my list of highly anticpated CDs this year is absolutely stacked, there is hardly room on it for a band that I only have mediocre interest in like the Goo Goo Dolls. Not to mention, there are just way too many power pop bands out there who do what Rzeznik and company do, only much better.

[mgoblue]

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Not to mention, there are just way too many power pop bands out there who do what Rzeznik and company do, only much better.

can you list off a few? more interested to expand my horizons, and i admit i like the power pop type stuff (though I agree with PK that their earlier stuff is better in a different way)

[BGarrett7]

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can you list off a few? more interested to expand my horizons, and i admit i like the power pop type stuff (though I agree with PK that their earlier stuff is better in a different way)

Marvelous 3 was the quintessential power pop band, continuing through Butch's solo work
Counting Crows, sans This Desert Life
Toad the Wet Sprocket, Glen is a much more gifted songwriter than Rzeznik
The first two studio records Rob Thomas recorded, pre-Mad Season
SR-71 has drifted away from mainstream radio, but continue to put out excellent music
The first three Live albums, especially Secret Samadhi
Athenaeum and Collapsis didn't put out a bad album, and Mike Garrigan continues to be magnificent
Of course, any of the albums from Collective Soul
Oleander also released three superb major label albums
There have been some excellent recent power pop releases from The Academy Is... and The Fray
Anything Ben Folds has released, be it solo or with Robert and Darren
David Ryan Harris has done some amazing work on his own and with the short-lived Brand New Immortals
Sister Hazel also hasn't released a bad album
Suburban Love Junkies from Birmingham are also brilliant songwriters and performers

[RockyTop1]

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if you like this kind of music, pick up The Fray's cd. It's great.

[RockyTop1]

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anybody picking this up today? chepest ive seen it is 11.99 at best buy and target

[pk500]

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I have "obtained" it, yes. It's a Goo Goo Dolls' album -- slicky produced power pop with catchy hooks and nothing that really grips me as incredible or memorable. Still, easy on the ears and not a bad listen.

Take care,
PK