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Buffalo, New York
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Buffalo is a city in western New York state and the county seat of Erie County, on the eastern shores of Lake Erie at the head of the Niagara River. As of 2014, Buffalo is New York states 2nd-most populous city after New York City, the metropolitan area has a population of 1.13 million. After an economic downturn in the half of the 20th century, Buffalos economy has transitioned to sectors that include financial services, technology, biomedical engineering. Residents of Buffalo are called Buffalonians, the citys nicknames include The Queen City, The Nickel City and The City of Good Neighbors. The city of Buffalo received its name from a creek called Buffalo Creek. British military engineer Captain John Montresor made reference to Buffalo Creek in his journal of 1764, there are several theories regarding how Buffalo Creek received its name. In 1804, as principal agent opening the area for the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott, designed a radial street and grid system that branches out from downtown like bicycle spokes similar to the street system he used in the nations capital. Although Ellicott named the settlement New Amsterdam, the name did not catch on, during the War of 1812, on December 30,1813, Buffalo was burned by British forces. The George Coit House 1818 and Samuel Schenck House 1823 are currently the oldest houses within the limits of the City of Buffalo, on October 26,1825, the Erie Canal was completed with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. At the time, the population was about 2,400, the Erie Canal brought about a surge in population and commerce, which led Buffalo to incorporate as a city in 1832. In 1845, construction began on the Macedonia Baptist Church, an important meeting place for the abolitionist movement, Buffalo was a terminus point of the Underground Railroad with many fugitive slaves crossing the Niagara River to Fort Erie, Ontario in search of freedom. During the 1840s, Buffalos port continued to develop, both passenger and commercial traffic expanded with some 93,000 passengers heading west from the port of Buffalo. Grain and commercial goods shipments led to repeated expansion of the harbor, in 1843, the worlds first steam-powered grain elevator was constructed by local merchant Joseph Dart and engineer Robert Dunbar. Darts Elevator enabled faster unloading of lake freighters along with the transshipment of grain in bulk from barges, canal boats, by 1850, the citys population was 81,000. At the dawn of the 20th century, local mills were among the first to benefit from hydroelectric power generated by the Niagara River, the city got the nickname City of Light at this time due to the widespread electric lighting. It was also part of the revolution, hosting the brass era car builders Pierce Arrow. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6,1901, McKinley died in the city eight days later and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at the Wilcox Mansion as the 26th President of the United States. The Great Depression of 1929–39 saw severe unemployment, especially working class men
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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One of the first popular alternative rock bands,
R.E.M. relied on
college-radio airplay, constant touring, and a grassroots fanbase to break into the musical mainstream.
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Kim Gordon and
Thurston Moore of
Sonic Youth
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Robert Smith of
The Cure rejects the genre labels like alternative,
gothic rock, and
college rock applied to his band. He has said, "Every time we went to America we had a different tag... I can't remember when we officially became 'alt-rock'".
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Kurt Cobain (foreground) and
Krist Novoselic with
Nirvana live at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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The
Ramones ' 1976
debut album laid down the musical "blueprint for punk", while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style.
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Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols
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The Clash, performing in 1980
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British punks, circa 1986
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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The gold, black and red label design used for Warner Bros. stereo albums from 1958 to 1968 and mono albums from 1964 to 1968.
Warner Bros. Records
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The grey, black, white and yellow label design used for Warner Bros. mono albums from 1958 to 1964 when it switched to the same gold label as the stereo version.
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"Cream Puff War" (1967), the first Warner Bros. single by
The Grateful Dead, showing the orange label with chevron border used on WBR's American 45s for much of the 1960s.
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Beginning in 1968, Warner LP and single label designs became identical. From 1968 to 1970, the label was called Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records. The basic design and colour scheme of the W7 label were retained after the company name reverted to Warner Bros. Records and the "WB" shield in 1970 and remained in use until 1973.
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John Rzeznik
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John Joseph Theodore Johnny Rzeznik is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the guitarist and frontman of the band the Goo Goo Dolls, of which he is a founding member. Rzeznik was born in Buffalo, New York, the youngest and only son of five children of Edith and Joseph Rzeznik, both of Rzezniks parents were musicians, playing the clarinet and flute. Rzeznik had a strict Catholic upbringing in Buffalos working-class East Side Polish neighborhood, All four of Rzezniks grandparents were born in Poland, the original pronunciation of his last name is Rzeźnik, Polish for butcher. Rzezniks father died on February 2,1981, from a coma at the age of 55. On October 26,1982, his mother died from a heart attack in the familys living room at the age of 53. Having lost both of his parents, he was brought up by his four sisters, Phyllis, Fran, Gladys and Kate. He paid for his own apartment using Social Security Survivor Benefit checks and it was during this period and while attending McKinley Vocational High School that Rzeznik began playing the guitar. Rzeznik briefly attended Buffalo State College, dropping out after his first year, Rzeznik met former model Laurie Farinacci in 1990, married her in 1993 but got a divorce in 2003, they did not have any children. He started dating Melina Gallo in 2005 and married her in Malibu, California, on December 22,2016, he and Gallo had their first child, a daughter, Liliana. In 1985, he formed the band became the Goo Goo Dolls with Robby Takac. Previously John had been in a band with Takacs cousin, called The Beaumonts and it is thought the band was originally called The Sex Maggots, however Rzeznik admitted this was a joke on stage one night, and he was never actually in a band called The Sex Maggots. They got the name Goo Goo Dolls from an ad in a True Detective magazine when a promoter asked them. In the early days of The Goo Goo Dolls, the performed at gigs relentlessly. They were soon picked up by a record label, Celluloid. Under Celluloid they released their first eponymous album on a $750 budget and this attracted the attention of a larger record label, Metal Blade, who released their next few albums. For the next few years the band toured, produced albums, following the album Gutterflower, John wrote Always Know Where You Are and Im Still Here for the Disney film Treasure Planet, which were also released as a single independently from the band. From October to December 2007, Rzeznik was a judge alongside Sheila E. and Australian Idol judge, on June 19,2008, John Rzeznik was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and was awarded the Hal David Starlight award
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Rzeznik performing Sweetest Lie on July 23, 2010 at Darien Lake Performing Arts Centre
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Robby Takac
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Robert Robby Carl Takac, Jr. is an American rock bassist and vocalist. Takac is one of the members of the Goo Goo Dolls. Takac was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in the Buffalo suburb of West Seneca with his parents and he graduated from West Seneca East Senior High School in 1982. He graduated from Medaille College with a degree in Communications, with an emphasis on Radio Broadcasting, in his college years, he played in several bands and interned and worked at a local Buffalo radio station. In 2008, Takac was named to the Medaille College Board of Trustees, Robby and his wife of many years Miyoko have a 4-year old daughter together named Hanna, who was born on January 22,2012. He is also a fan of Japanese culture and often follows in Japanese customs, in addition, he is an avid collector of PEZ dispensers having collected close to 2000 of them. Takac began his career as a member of the rock band Monarch, prior to joining the Beaumonts. He met guitarist John Rzeznik through the Beaumonts and together they found a drummer, George Tutuska and started a band which named the Sex Maggots, with Takac as the lead singer. In 1986, they changed their name to the more promotable Goo Goo Dolls, in late 1994, Takac and Rzeznik fired their first drummer, George Tutuska, and in early 1995 hired Mike Malinin as a replacement. Later that year received their first commercial success with the single Name. The 1998 follow-up Iris reached number one on charts, including the Hot 100 Airplay. Goo Goo Dolls have been releasing music and touring continuously since, in 2009, the band recorded Something for the Rest of Us in Buffalo, New York, at their studio Inner Machine Studios. That year, Takac opened the studio to the public as GCR Audio, in 2003, Takac joined with Brian Schulmeister to form the dance music collective Amungus. That same year, Takac started his own record label Good Charamel Records in Buffalo, with an initial focus on local acts, the first three bands signed to the label were Klear, The Juliet Dagger, and Last Conservative. Today the label primarily releases J-Rock music in North America by female-fronted bands such as Shonen Knife, Tsushimamire, Lazy Guns Brisky, Pinky Doodle Poodle, in 2004, Takac founded the Music is Art Festival, a not-for-profit organization, and operates as their President. MiA seeks to explore and reshape musics cultural, social, Takac primarily plays Yamaha BB-series bass guitars, but he has also played Fender and Zon bass guitars
Robby Takac
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Robby Takac performing at the Molson Amphitheatre on July 25, 2010.
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock music
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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).
Rock music
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for
Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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Chubby Checker in 2005
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The Beach Boys performing in 1964
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Iris (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Iris is a song by American alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls. Originally written for the soundtrack of the 1998 film City of Angels, Iris has contributed greatly to the bands success. The songs time signature alternates between 44 and 68, and features a guitar tuning in which most of the strings are tuned to D. Upon its release, Iris became second of a string of hits from the soundtrack, City of Angels. The song debuted at #66 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart on April 18,1998, however it was not allowed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 because no commercial single had been released. In December 1998, just after the songs airplay had peaked, as a result, the song debuted and peaked at number 9 and stayed on the chart for 14 weeks. On the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, Iris peaked at number eight, the song was the bands 2nd number one hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, following their 1995 hit Name. Iris stayed at one for five weeks on the Alternative Songs chart. The song spent a then-record 17 weeks at one on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart. The Goo Goo Dolls performed Iris on October 20,2001 at Madison Square Garden as part of The Concert for New York City to raise money for victims of the September 11 attacks, the song was also a major international hit. Iris spent 31 weeks on the charts and peaked at five on the Irish Singles Chart. Iris initially peaked at number 50 in the UK in August 1998, on 2 October 2011, following performances by auditionees on The X Factor, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number three. In May 2013, the song charted at number 12 after it was covered by Britains Got Talent contestant Robbie Kennedy and this song was also used in the production of The Bear by Anton Chekov performed by Rebecca Gove and Ioannis Bakogeorgos. Besides the songs success on the charts, Iris enjoyed critical acclaim, at the 41st Grammy Awards, Iris received nominations for Record of the Year and Pop Performance by a Duo or Group. The song also garnered Johnny Rzeznik a Song of the Year nomination, the single was certified Platinum by the RIAA on August 18,2008. The song was used frequently in the British comedy Gavin and Stacey, the song was ranked at number 39 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest pop songs. In October 2012, Iris was ranked number one on Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs 1992–2012 chart, the list also featured the Goo Goo Dolls hits Slide, ranking at number nine, and Name at number 24. The Goo Goo Dolls are the musicians to have three songs on the list, two breaking the top 10 and all three falling within the top 25
Iris (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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"Iris"
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Name (song)
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Name is an alternative rock song by the American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in September 1995 as the single from the album A Boy Named Goo. As the bands first hit, the song topped both the US Modern Rock chart and the US Album Rock chart, and reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Although the Goo Goo Dolls were considered a group prior to the singles release, Name crossed over to pop and adult contemporary radio. Prior to the release of the Dizzy Up the Girl album three years later, Name was the bands most successful single and it is currently their 3rd most successful single, after Iris and Slide. The band re-recorded this song for their album, Greatest Hits Volume One, The Singles. In an interview with Guitar World Magazine, the singer and songwriter Johnny Rzeznik explained, whenever I tried tuning a regular B string up to E, it would pop. It was really tough on the tension, ive seen guys play Name with regular tuning. Rzeznik says that the unusual composition happened quite accidentally. I just sat there and let my fingers play the fretboard openly, Rzeznik admitted to the inspiration in the book, saying I was trying to capture a moment. it was pretty interesting to have a song inspired by a moment. And I thought it was a sweet song. In October 2012, Name was ranked #24 on Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs 1992–2012 chart and this chart also featured the Goo Goo Dolls hits Slide and Iris. The Goo Goo Dolls are the musicians to have three songs chart on the list, two breaking the top 10 and all three falling within the top 25. They are also the only musicians who have back to back singles featured on the list, List of number-one mainstream rock hits Number one modern rock hits of 1995 List of RPM Rock/Alternative number-one singles Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Name"
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A Boy Named Goo
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A Boy Named Goo is the fifth studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1995 on Warner Bros. As a commercial success, it has been RIAA-certified as double-platinum and this is the Goo Goo Dolls last studio album with George Tutuska on drums, he was replaced by Mike Malinin just before the album was released. This album is the Goo Goo Dolls first studio album to not have 14 tracks. The song Stand Alone was written by George Tutuska, and because Johnny Rzeznik didnt want to exploit Georges efforts after his dismissal, on the wide-release version, it is replaced with Disconnected and Slave Girl, which were initially B-sides to the Only One single. On the same promo, Aint That Unusual was labeled as Someday, the two replacement songs are covers of songs by defunct Buffalo and Sydney punk bands The Enemies and Lime Spiders. The song Name is well known as the Goo Goo Dolls first hit, according to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik, the songs unusual composition came about quite accidentally. This album also marked the bands last with the Metal Blade Records imprint, all songs written by Johnny Rzeznik except when noted. The track listing for advance copies—before George Tutuska was fired from the slightly different. Haste the Day, a band, covered the song Long Way Down for their album When Everything Falls. The song Aint That Unusual was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film Angus, a remix of the song Long Way Down was also featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 film Twister. Johnny Rzeznik – lead and rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals Robby Takac – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 2,5,8,10, and 13 George Tutuska – drums Album Singles
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A Boy Named Goo
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Slide (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Slide is a song recorded by American alternative rock group The Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in September 1998 as the first commercial release from their sixth studio album. The song also debuted at #1 on Canadas Singles chart, the single was certified Gold by the RIAA on August 18,2008. In a 2002 performance on VH1 Storytellers, Rzeznik explained that the song refers to a girl in a strict Catholic environment who has become pregnant. She and her boyfriend are debating as to the possibility of abortion or marriage, the music video was directed by Nancy Bardawil and partially filmed at the El Dorado Hotel on South Spring Street, Los Angeles. In October 2012, Slide was ranked number 9 on Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs 1992-2012 chart, which also featured Goo Goo Dolls hits Iris, which topped the chart at #1, and Name ranking at number 24. The Goo Goo Dolls are the musicians to have three songs chart on the list, two breaking the top 10 and all three falling within the top 25. They are also the only musicians that have back to back singles featured on the list, Slide -3,33 Acoustic #3 -1,56 Nothing Can Change You -3,14 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Video on YouTube
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"Slide"
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Black Balloon (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Black Balloon is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in June 1999 as the single from the bands 1998 album. The song, according to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik, is based on a woman who is struggling with a heroin addiction and he has also said that it is about seeing someone you love that is so great just screw up so bad. Speculation as to the subject matter of the song has also been attributed to the ex-wife of bassist Robby Takac. Like many other songs by Goo Goo Dolls, Black Balloon uses an alternate tuning. Several electric guitars used in the introduction and the rhythm guitar are tuned to an open D-flat fifth chord. It was half-stepped on the album version, the video for the song opens with a woman blowing smoke into a soap bubble. The video then changes focus and shows scenes from a 50s or 60s era swim club while the band performs the song. Tracy Phillips is found in video as well. The video was done by Nancy Bardwell, during live performances of the song, fans can often be seen inflating black balloons and batting them around in the crowd. It also became the pop hit for the band, reaching number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Black Balloon"
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Broadway (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Broadway is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls. The song was released in January 2000 as the last single from their hit album Dizzy Up the Girl, although not as popular as their previous other singles Iris and Slide, the song still managed to hit number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song refers to the street on which many popular young-adult hangouts were located in a generation in Buffalo. The young culture migrated to parts of the city, leaving the old mans bars. Germany CD Single Broadway -3,58 Naked -3,39 Black Balloon -4,12 Broadway Part 1 Broadway Black Balloon Slide Naked Black Balloon Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Broadway"
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Dizzy Up the Girl
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Dizzy Up the Girl is the sixth studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls, released on September 22,1998 through Warner Bros. The album is noted for being the album which propelled the Goo Goo Dolls into success. Dizzy Up the Girl is the Goo Goo Dolls most successful album to date, the success of Dizzy Up the Girl can largely be attributed to the rock ballad Iris, which was also included in the soundtrack album of the film City of Angels. The song also reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, the Adult Top 40 and Mainstream Top 40 chart, along several other charts in the U. S and U. K. Iris and Slide were the 2 most successful singles from the album being the 2 songs that sold the very well. In addition to the success of Iris, Dizzy Up the Girl featured three additional top forty singles, with the songs Slide, Broadway, and Black Balloon. The album also produced the popular song Dizzy, which has since become a fan favorite. Along with top forty single status, music videos for all five singles reached VH1s Top 20 Music Videos chart upon release. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album 4 stars and stated, Like a less mannered and conflicted Let Your Dim Light Shine-era Soul Asylum, the difference is, they enjoy the mainstreaming of their music and respond with one of their catchiest sets of songs. Theres nothing new on the record apart from their willingness to polish their music so it reaches the widest audience and that will alienate whatever hardcore followers they have left, but that attitude will likely please anyone brought aboard with Name and Iris. Melodic. nets review was the most positive, with a rating of 5 stars, all tracks written by Johnny Rzeznik, except where noted. In some countries the album was released with a track, e. g. in Japan
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Dizzy Up the Girl
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Here Is Gone
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Here Is Gone is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in March 2002 as the single from their seventh studio album. It reached number 18 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, here is Gone peaked at number 21 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number 29 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. This was also the last song from the band to be played on CHR stations and he explained that living 3,000 miles away from home while being single and trying to figure things out is pretty much what was going on in this process. The video, directed by Francis Lawrence, portrays a somewhat vague story with multiple interpretations, the video shoot took place mostly in Lancaster, California. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Here Is Gone"
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Gutterflower
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Gutterflower is the seventh studio album by the alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in 2002 on Warner Bros and it is the follow up to their critically successful albums Dizzy Up the Girl and A Boy Named Goo. The album was successful upon its release, hitting #4 on the Billboard 200. All tracks written by Johnny Rzeznik, except where noted, here Is Gone and Big Machine have been the only two songs released from this album as singles and videos have been created for both. A video for the promotional single Sympathy was also released, john Rzeznik refers to this as his disco song. I’m really horrible at programming drum machines, but this was like pattern 74 on my drum machine, I called all my friends and said, Check this out, this is my disco song. He describes it as a tale of unrequited love. Big Machine was occasionally performed live on a smashed Stratocaster guitar that Rzeznik has fondly nicknamed The Half-Caster, despite being smashed in half, it still plays. It can be seen in a 2002 VH1 Storytellers special, Rzeznik stated that he had someone fix it up and it works just fine. John Rzeznik wrote this song on the phone talking to a friend. He asked his friend if he should take the chords up or take em down, and the friend told him to take em up and thats how he came up with the chorus and the rest of the song came together shortly thereafter. According to Rzeznik in 2007, the video for this song cost more to produce than the entire Gutterflower album itself, upon release, Gutterflower received generally positive reviews from critics. In fact, although The Goo Goo Dolls multi-platinum album Dizzy Up the Girl sold around 3,000,000 more albums than Gutterflower, in 2005, Gutterflower was ranked number 499 in Rock Hard magazines book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time
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Gutterflower
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Better Days (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Better Days is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in September 2005 as the first single off the album, the song peaked at number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and also rose up to number 3 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart. The music video for the song was filmed in Malibu, California, during the time that Hurricane Katrina had been televised, ABC and CNN used it as their theme for the Katrina coverage. The song was featured on the episode of CBS2006 TV series. The song also featured as the theme of WWE Tribute to the Troops 2006 and it was also used in many tributes following the Virginia Tech massacre that occurred on April 16,2007. At Orlando Magic home games, the song is played after every loss, canadian journalist and politician Michael Ignatieff used an altered version of the song for his campaign video at the Liberal Party of Canadas 2006 Leadership Convention. The version of the featured in his video had some altered lyrics. When speaking at the convention, Ignatieff began his speech by saying Tonight is the night the Liberal party begins again, in 2008, the police drama series Cold Case featured it as the first of six songs played throughout its fifth season finale Ghost of My Child. It was used in the trailer for the 2009 film Love Happens and it is the song for the NBC show. The song can also be heard in the 2011 film New Years Eve. Better Days -3,35 Well Be Here -3,24 Better Days -3,35 Iris -4,51 Better Days -3,31 Better Days Better Days -3,35 Well Be Here -3,24 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Better Days"
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Give a Little Bit
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Give a Little Bit is the opening song on Supertramps 1977 album Even in the Quietest Moments. The song was released as a single that year and became an international hit for the band. It was a hit in the bands native UK, reaching number 29 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was re-released in 1992 to raise funds for the ITV Telethon Charity event and its writing credits are given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although it is a Hodgson composition. Hodgson and Davies shared writing credits from 1974 until 1983, when Hodgson left Supertramp, the song is characterized by the ringing tones of 12-string acoustic guitars, which is joined by a Hohner Clavinet through a Leslie speaker in the bridge of the song. Drummer Bob Siebenberg recounted that Roger had been working at Malibu for quite a while on this tune, id hear the song in hotel rooms and places like that. He had the song on a tape when I first joined the band so I was quite familiar with the tune. We tried out various things and it seemed right to ride it along on the snare drum. Giving it something almost like a train beat, so its all on the snare and bass drum, with no tom-tom fills or anything. A short snippet of the song is played in the film Superman shortly before Lois Lanes death scene, the song, however, is not featured on the movies soundtrack. The song was used interwoven with the scenes and part of the end credits for the Ricky Gervais 2009 film The Invention of Lying. The song was used in 2014 for Stouffers, Coca-Colas Share Happiness commercials, give a Little Bit was recorded to be released on the live album Paris, but the song was dropped because the band members found all the available recordings of the song to be of unacceptable quality. After Hodgson had left Supertramp, it was included in almost all his live performances, the song has also been performed by Hodgson during his tour with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band in 2001, a recording appears on the album Ringo Starr and Friends. On Sunday 1 July 2007, Roger Hodgson sang this song as his finale for his set at the Concert for Diana. After Hodgsons departure from Supertramp, the band included the song for the first time in their set list in 2002 during their One More For The Road Tour, the song was sung by Jesse Siebenberg. They also played the song in their 70-10 Tour in 2010 and it peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February,2005. It was first covered in 2001, when guitarist/lead vocalist Johnny Rzeznik appeared in an ad for The Gap singing the song along with other artists. The song opened the live album Live in Buffalo, July 4th,2004 and it was also featured in an episode of Smallville, season 4
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"Give a Little Bit"
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Stay with You (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Stay with You is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in April 2006 as the single from their eighth studio album. The song is the single released from the album, following Better Days. It was released along with a re-release of the track Iris originally from Dizzy Up the Girl, the single was certified Gold by the RIAA in May 2009. Initial pressing Stay with You -3,56 Iris -4,51 Alternate pressing Stay with You -3,56 Iris -4,51 Let Love In Vinyl pressing Stay with You -3,56 Iris -4,51 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Stay with You"
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Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004
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Live in Buffalo, July 4th,2004 is a live album by the American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It includes a CD and a DVD, showing their concert in Buffalo, New York from July 4,2004, the concert included performances of all their major hits, including Iris, Name, and Slide. There are nineteen songs on the DVD total, plus a version of their Supertramp cover. The concert was shot and recorded in downtown Buffalo on Niagara Square in front of Buffalo City Hall, as for the concert itself, the performance was enigmatic, garnering comparisons to the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense from members of the bands crew. Over 60,000 fans attended the performance, braving a torrential downpour, the rain cleared in time for the Goo Goo Dolls to start the show, but during their performance of January Friend, the rain began pouring down again, harder than before. The band played on, finishing the set, despite being pulled off stage briefly for a safety precaution, all songs written by Johnny Rzeznik except when noted
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Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004
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Home (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Home is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls. It is the single from their ninth studio album, Something for the Rest of Us. Home was released to the Apple iTunes Store on June 8,2010, there are 2 versions of the video. Version 1, The video begins with the sitting on the table while people are eating at the table when they are frozen except for the band. After Johnny sang the chorus, he leaves the table and the scene shifts to a Japanese marketplace where the band are seen playing through the aisles, at the end of the video, the band ends up back at the table where they sat by the people. Version 2, A music video was filmed for the song and featured a young woman wandering around a city at different times of the day, sometimes walking the streets or sitting in a bedroom, the video emphasizes the loneliness and desperation behind the songs lyrics. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Home"
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Something for the Rest of Us
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Something for the Rest of Us is the ninth studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released on August 28,2010 in Australia and on August 31 in North America through Warner Bros. The recording process took place during the spring to fall of 2009 in the GCR Audio studio in Buffalo and Paramount Studios as well as the Ark in Los Angeles, with producer Tim Palmer. A single had originally slated to be released in November 2009 with an album release in February 2010. According to lead singer and guitarist John Rzeznik, this was done to further improvements on what they had previously thought had been a finished record. Several producers were brought in to assist on the process, including Butch Vig, John Fields, Paul David Hager. Something for the Rest of Us is the third Goo Goo Dolls studio album that Cavallo has produced, I wanna do something better, go deeper. I also wanted to have a life with my girlfriend for a while, I owed it to her to spend some time with her and be normal and be in one place. In one of the Ustream sessions, Robby revealed that the album will have 12 songs, in late May, John announced that Home would be the first single and was released onto radio and iTunes stores on June 8,2010. On July 13,2010, it was announced on the fan club website, Inner Machine. The EP is titled Waiting for the Rest of It and it contains 4 new songs from Something for the Rest of Us plus a recording of Broadway from the Something for the Rest of Us Tour. One particular song on the album is called “Notbroken. ”I got a letter from a woman whose husband was in Iraq and he was injured – paralyzed – and he doesnt want to come home. He wants to stay in the hospital, and she just wants to let him know that hes still everything that she ever wanted. I dont know, it just kind of came out and its kind of like I was writing a love letter to him on her behalf. These are really hard, trying times, and the way that affects people and their families, people losing their jobs and everythings so insecure, I just wanted to say something about that. Something for the Rest of Us has received mixed to favorable reviews, collating 8 reviews, the review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album an average score of 59%, which indicated a mixed or average response. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic awarded the three stars out of five, opining that the album delivers in its content if not in its sound. BBC Music writer Mike Diver gave a review, albeit praising the band for playing to their established strengths
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Something for the Rest of Us
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City of Angels (soundtrack)
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City of Angels, Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the film City of Angels, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 31,1998. Record executives and managers love big hits from soundtracks, especially when they dovetail into a new release by one of their artists, thats the case with both Morissette and the Goo Goo Dolls and its not a mere coincidence. Bob Bell, a new buyer for the Wherehouse Entertainment chain of stores in Torrance, California, said the marketing of the album was amazing. He said of the Goo Goo Dolls that the soundtrack helped to re-establish them, brought them back into our minds. Robert Scally wrote of Uninvited, Placing exclusives on soundtracks. has been a tactic for creating a buzz around the album while highlighting the musical artist. The City of Angels soundtrack debuted at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200 chart on the issue dated 18 April 1998. The following week it entered the top ten at number seven, City of Angels finished the year as the seventh highest-selling album of 1998. To date the soundtrack has sold 5.5 million units in the United States and has been certified five times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Additionally, it peaked at three on the Canadian charts and has sold over 700,000 copies in the country. Elsewhere, the soundtrack also performed well, reaching one in Australia, Germany. It has been certified Platinum in Japan and multi-Platinum in Australia and its two singles, the Goo Goo Dolls Iris and Alanis Morissettes Uninvited, were released to U. S. radio in March and were still receiving substantial radio airplay by the following August. An internet and radio leak of Uninvited in early March forced Warner Bros. to release the soundtrack to radio before it became available in stores. According to a publicity manager for Warner Music Canada, the measure was an inconvenience taken to radio stations from playing low-quality versions of the song downloaded from the internet. Iris reached number one on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks, Top 40 Mainstream and Adult Top 40 charts in the U. S. Uninvited reached number one on the Top 40 Mainstream and peaked inside the top five on the Adult Top 40. Best-selling albums in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began Number-one albums of 1998
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City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture
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Magnetic (album)
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Magnetic is the tenth studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls, released on June 11,2013, through Warner Bros. The album is available on CD, Vinyl and as a digital download, the recording process took place during the latter half of 2012 and into early 2013. Rzeznik thought of the title during a phone conversation with his manager. Magnetic was the first word that came to Rzezniks mind and this is the last album to feature drummer Mike Malinin who left the band in December 2013. During an interview with UpVenue on February 16,2011, Rzeznik confirmed that he had been writing new material for a new album during the Something for the Rest of Us Tour. On August 9,2012, the announced that it had started recording its tenth studio album. In a column for Japanese Rock magazine InRock, Robby Takac revealed some details about recording sessions for the new album, the new album is scheduled for an early 2013 release on the Warner Brothers record label. The band will use multiple producers like it did on Something for the Rest of Us, in August and September it had various recording sessions with John Shanks at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA and in October 2012 with Gregg Wattenberg at Quad Studios in New York City. More recording sessions are planned with Greg Wells in Los Angeles in November 2012, on January 18,2013, the band released the first single from Magnetic entitled Rebel Beat. Later on February 15,2013, the Goo Goo Dolls tweeted an exclusive first look at the Magnetic album cover, on April 3,2013, the band announced that the release date would be pushed back from May 7 to June 11. More than a month later on July 19,2013, the Goo Goo Dolls announced its second single from Magnetic will be Come to Me, the album was released in high resolution on HDtracks. com in 2013. The high res version has a dynamic range than the CD release. In a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre July 15,2014, Magnetic debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 29,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 98,000 copies in the US as of February 2015, Magnetic received mixed reviews from music critics upon its release. Melodic. net reviewer Johan Wippsson wrote, Overall, Magnetic is no masterpiece, but think it is a step in the right direction and that most fans will appreciate most of the songs. Brent Faulkner of PopMatters stated, All said and done, Magnetic is by no means a truly magnetic album and it is never bad, but rarely is it describable as being breathtakingly great
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Magnetic
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True Detective (magazine)
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True Detective is an American true crime magazine published from 1924 to 1995. It initiated the true crime genre, and during its peak from the 1940s to the early 1960s it sold millions of copies. True Detective Mysteries was founded in 1924 by publisher Bernarr Macfadden and it initially focused on mystery fiction, with a mix of non-fiction crime stories. In the 1930s, Macfadden realized the popularity of the non-fiction pieces, as such, True Detective Mysteries became the first true crime magazine. In 1941, Macfadden changed the name to True Detective, emphasizing the magazines move away from mystery fiction, True Detectives non-fiction stories retained some of the tone and style of noir fiction and mystery writing, laying the ground for subsequent true crime genre conventions. The magazine had few ambitions to purvey serious literature, although it did publish early work by respected writers like Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, and Ann Rule, among others. It appealed to the working class audience as its pulp fiction competitors and became a massive hit. MacFadden created a publication, Master Detective, and around 200 other true crime magazines emerged by the 1960s. Within the genre, True Detective was regarded as the bearer of quality and reliability. The pulp magazine industry declined in the 1960s, being out-competed by television, many magazines went out of business, but True Detective continued publication, though with increasingly sensational and sexualized content and declining quality. By the 1980s, it was one of only 11 true crime magazines still in print, the magazine went through several publishers, in 1995 it was bought out by Globe Communications, who shuttered the magazine. After the American magazine shut down, British publishers continued True Detective under a new format, with an focus on European, Australian. The Rise of True Crime, 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture, True Detective Mysteries at the Internet Archive
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Cover of the October 1961 issue of True Detective
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Goo Goo Dolls (album)
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Goo Goo Dolls, also known as First Release, is the debut studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. All of the songs are sung by bassist Robby Takac, who was originally the lead vocalist. It is the hardest to find of all the studio albums, being only an LP, out of print. The song Im Addicted was the song from Goo Goo Dolls represented on the bands 2001 compilation album, What I Learned About Ego, Opinion. The song Torn Apart was also included on the compilation album Volume Two, the album was recorded in three days during the winter of 1986, on a $750 budget at Trackmasters Studio in Buffalo. The band admitted in their 1999 VH1 Behind the Music special that the album was recorded under the influence of alcohol, Rzeznik stated a lot of beer, a lot of truck stop speed, a lot of pot. Dont remember a lot of it, Robby Takac - lead vocals, bass guitar Johnny Rzeznik - lead guitar, backing vocals George Tutuska - drums
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Goo Goo Dolls
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Jed (album)
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Jed is the second studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It is the first studio album in which John Rzeznik sang vocals for some of the tracks, the majority of the songs are sung by Robby Takac, with Rzeznik taking over for two. Fellow upstate New Yorker Lance Diamond sings vocals on track seven, track number six, Sex Maggot, shares a name with the bands original name, the Sex Maggots. The second track on the album, Up Yours, was the song from Jed found on the bands compilation album What I Learned About Ego, Opinion. The song No Way Out was also included on the bands most recent compilation album Volume Two, the album was re-released on CD on February 22,1994. The album was named after painter Jed Jackson, who was Robby Takacs art teacher at Medaille College and who painted the cover artwork, which is entitled Arkansas Sunset. Robby Takac - lead vocals, bass guitar Johnny Rzeznik - lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on Up Yours and James Dean George Tutuska - drums
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Jed
