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(Message started by: nmf009 on Nov 16^th, 2007, 8:36pm)

Title: Buffalo News GHV1 review
Post by nmf009 on Nov 16^th, 2007, 8:36pm

Disc review: The Goo Goo Dolls' 'Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles'

Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles [ Warner Bros.]

Right here there are 3 stars, but they don't show up

Hardcore Goo Goo Dolls fans won�t find anything here they don�t already have, save a new recording of the massive hit �Name,� granted a more spacious, slightly ethereal arrangement this time around. There�s also the �Transformers� soundtrack surprise hit �Before It�s Too Late� making its debut on an official Goos release.

The rest of �Greatest Hits� is exactly that � a collection of the band�s radio hits, culled from its three most successful, and most pop-oriented efforts: �Dizzy Up the Girl,� �Gutterflower� and �Let Love In.� As a hits-based playlist, the record quite successfully captures the guitarbased pop songcraft of John Rzeznik, who has become increasingly adept at penning memorable melodies and marrying them to big, fat hooks.

Sadly, there are no Robby Takac tracks included here, but that probably means they�ll be included in the forthcoming �Volume Two� collection, which is said to be slanted toward Bsides and deeper album cuts.

What �Volume One� offers is a moving primer in latter-period Goo Goo Dolls power-pop. These tunes can�t miss. � J.M.

Leave it to Jeff Miers to understand why the album is what it is.