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(Message started by: Shannon on Sep 16th, 2006, 8:52am)
Title: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by Shannon on Sep 16th, 2006, 8:52am
Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls

Spun
September 14, 2006
by Kenzie Love �Let Love In

One has to feel sympathy for the Goo Goo Dolls. Their songs--reportedly based on personal experience--are rife with tales of distant lovers and doomed romances, they lost out to Celine Dion at the 1999 Grammies and lead singer Johnny Rzeznik was orphaned as a teenager. With their tenth release Let Love In, they offer up another profoundly sad album, one that makes you wonder why no one from the band has wound up dead yet.

One reason, of course, is that the Goo Goo Dolls make good money from their misery. Let Love In is mostly a series of bland retreads from their far-superior 1999 album Dizzy Up the Girl that are quickly forgotten, but it's poised to succeed nonetheless. The band's members are lucky they can get away with such laziness, but there are hints that even they might be getting a little bored. It's telling that one of the album's most energetic offerings is their take on a song they didn't write: Supertramp's "Give a little bit."

If the Dolls want to live out the rest of their days as a cover band, they've earned the right. Alternatively, while bass guitarist and sometimes-singer Robby Takac lacks Rzeznik's range and polish, the raw honesty and anger in his voice on the two songs he penned -- "Listen" and "Strange Love" -- suggest another promising direction the band could move in if they found their cajones. Both developments are unlikely, but it's something for the Dolls to ponder as they cry on their way to the bank.

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Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by Johns_chick on Sep 17th, 2006, 8:03pm
ohhhh jeez here we go again! what is this Mrs. Michael Christopher!?
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by a_dude_named_goo on Sep 18th, 2006, 3:01pm
Yeah, we just need to be ready for it everytime there's a new album out. Everytime it's the same thing, critics hate ggd. But it's cool, if they were so good they'd be making records themselves instead of sitting behind a keyboard typing dumb stuff like this.
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by tkc1989 on Sep 18th, 2006, 4:13pm

on 09/18/06 at 15:01:23, a_dude_named_goo wrote:
Yeah, we just need to be ready for it everytime there's a new album out. Everytime it's the same thing, critics hate ggd. But it's cool, if they were so good they'd be making records themselves instead of sitting behind a keyboard typing dumb stuff like this.


Amen
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by Shannon on Sep 18th, 2006, 4:40pm

on 09/18/06 at 15:01:23, a_dude_named_goo wrote:
Yeah, we just need to be ready for it everytime there's a new album out. Everytime it's the same thing, critics hate ggd. But it's cool, if they were so good they'd be making records themselves instead of sitting behind a keyboard typing dumb stuff like this.

Exactly!
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by a_dude_named_goo on Sep 19th, 2006, 12:55pm
I'm sorry, but back in the day I used to let that stuff get to me. Remember when Blender put ggd on their worst bands ever list? That really pissed me off, and I got all bent outta shape. Now, I'm a little older, a little wiser, and I would just rather not give a crap. We all like them, and we'll always support them, regardless! :)
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by Shannon on Sep 19th, 2006, 1:27pm

Quote:
Now, I'm a little older, a little wiser, and I would just rather not give a crap. We all like them, and we'll always support them, regardless!  

You're absolutely right.
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by Pon on Sep 21st, 2006, 8:28pm
LOL! Really...ourch! I love these reviews cuz it tells me how great the goo's are. Some of u may get pissed, but really, I would start to worry when nobody criticized them.
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by gooRZEZgoo on Sep 23rd, 2006, 1:56am
totally unrelated...

but was anyone at the springfield show this summer when rzez forgot the words to "let love in" ?   it was totally cute! he just started laughing and pointed the mic to the crowd for the rest of the song.

love ya goo! viva goo!! :nanner:
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by Shaun on Sep 24th, 2006, 7:49am
He always does :P tis very amusing
Title: Re: Spun: The Goo Goo Dolls �...... ouch!
Post by sympathy_0 on Sep 24th, 2006, 6:29pm
Haha oh well. I would probably write something similar about some other bands so im not mad! haha!


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