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(Message started by: Shannon on Feb 12^th, 2008, 10:49am)

Title: GGD: Disc 1 review on Jerusalem Post!
Post by Shannon on Feb 12^th, 2008, 10:49am

I found this review today and liked it so much I thought I'd post it ....

GOO GOO DOLLS
Greatest Hits Volume One:
The Singles
(Hatav Hashmini)

Listening to the Goo Goo Dolls is always a guilt-inducing experience. Their clean, polished modern rock sound could be appropriate for light beer or automobile commercials, and almost every one of their lyrics could be based on a made for TV romantic drama.

Like Bon Jovi, they're a band whose songs are too easy to like, therefore they should be hated, or at least dismissed. But John Rzeznik and company's songwriting and performing craft have the knack of simply melting away the cynicism of even the most jaded critic. That's never more evident than on their first collection, Greatest Hits: The Singles, which displays that winning formula to its strongest effect. Songs like "Let Love In," "Slide" and "Name" are punchy, accessible, and contain enough college guitar jangle to satisfy both alt rock and mainstream fans. The same can be said for almost all of the 14 tracks, most notably "Stay With You" and "Broadway".

The collection is light on the power ballads that have been the source of most animosity toward the band, but if you want the chance to vent, "Iris" is there in all its overwrought splendor. There's always been a place for mainstream meat and potatoes arena rock, and Goo Goo Dolls are among its most proficient practitioners. So let's play this CD with pride, and be guilty no more.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742135876&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Title: Re: GGD: Disc 1 review on Jerusalem Post!
Post by DWG on Feb 12^th, 2008, 12:14pm

Oy. The guilt.

Title: Re: GGD: Disc 1 review on Jerusalem Post!
Post by nmf009 on Feb 12^th, 2008, 12:30pm

on 02/12/08 at 10:49:18, Shannon wrote:

The collection is light on the power ballads that have been the source of most animosity toward the band, but if you want the chance to vent, "Iris" is there in all its overwrought splendor. There's always been a place for mainstream meat and potatoes arena rock, and Goo Goo Dolls are among its most proficient practitioners. So let's play this CD with pride, and be guilty no more.

1. The cd with all of the best known songs is light on power ballads but yet the people who tend to have animosity are the ones who only know the singles. Brain just melted...

2. I wouldn't call their music arena rock...