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The Goo Goo Dolls recently released their eighth album, Let Love In, which contains the single "Stay With You." John Rzeznik, Robby Takac, and Mike Malinin currently make up the trio that got their start as thrashy punkers in 1985. In 1987 they released their self-titled debut album.
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The Goo Goo Dolls poured it on at a sold out show at the Riviera last Wednesday night. The group culled heavily from their latest album, Gutterflower, which has received mixed reviews ... far. Lead singer Johnny Rzeznick spotted a fan holding a sign that read "Gutterflowers is your best album!" He asked the fan for the poster and said "I should send this to all the music critics! Rzeznick, with all of his golden boy good looks, made the girls swoon with his raspy vocal warblings. They hit their trademark sound with the choppy and fruitful renditions of Tom Petty's "American Girl," the slick and greasy "Slide" and the rhythmic "Broadway."
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Not that the Goo Goo Dolls haven't had to deal with the same kind of criticism. When they broke out with 1990's "Hold Me Up," they were punished for being mere copycats of the Replacements, the rowdy punk group from Minneapolis. The Dolls fully acknowledged the Replacements' influence in 1993, when their album "Superstar Car Wash" featured a single written by Replacements' leader Paul Westerberg. Since then... Dolls works have leaned toward the soft, particularly after the acoustic ballad "Name" from 1995's "A Boy Named Goo" landed in the Top Five. In a style they would more or less continue with 1998's "Dizzy Up the Girl," Dolls had shifted from menacing musical toughs to mainstream pop rockers.
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Like vintage Replacements (their most obvious influence), an outback Dictators or the blue-collar spawn of early Cheap Trick, the Goo Goo Dolls brandish power-punk riffpop that just keeps getting better. Although recorded two years apart, the Buffalo, New York trio's first two albums are virtual carbon copies of each other, flashes of brilliance ("I'm Addicted," the acoustic "James Dean") shining amid silly covers and scrawny adolescent yapping about such standard things as "Messed Up" and "Up Yours." The debut has breathless rips through Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love"; Jed boasts a ferocious version of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and a crunching pisstake of Creedence's "Down on the Corner" sung by Buffalo lounge crooner Lance Diamond.
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In 2006, the Goo Goo Dolls released their eighth studio album, "Let Love In," which included a cover of Supertramp's "Give A Little Bit" and the singles "Better Days, "Stay With You," and the title track. Their new single, "Before It's Too Late" is featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie "Transformers."
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When Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik sat down to pen his last studio album, 1998's Dizzy Up the Girl, he was frozen by writer's block for months before he finally loosened up enough to write. But between then and now, Rzeznik has undergone a minor transformation. He's still as self-deprecating as ever, but as he worked on his new record, Gutterflower — which comes out April 9 — he learned to keep his pessimism and doubt from crippling his creativity.
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