Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Singles

Performer: The Goo Goo Dolls
Engineer: Joe Brown; Bill Malina; Jack Joseph-Puig; Don Chase; Jimmy Hayson; Doug McKean; Ken Allardyce; Michael Brauer; Dean Nelson; Kevin Mills; Alek Edmonds; Steve Genewick; Greg Collins; Paul David Hager; Darrell Thorp; Bill Mims; Kevin Meeker; Rick Santizo; Allen Sides; Scott Campbell
Producer: The Twins; Richard; Rob Cavallo; Goo Goo Dolls; Paul David Hager; Glen Ballard
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: The Goo Goo Dolls: Johnny Rzeznik (vocals, guitar); Robby Takac (vocals, bass guitar); Mike Malinin (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Brad Fernquist (guitar); Korel Tunador (piano). Although often derided as a poor man's Replacements in the earliest years of their career, the Goo Goo Dolls quickly matured into a cannily melodic and smartly commercial alternative rock band with a knack for flannel-clad power ballads ("Iris," "Name"). GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1: THE SINGLES delivers just what the title offers: the a-sides of all of the Goo Goo Dolls' singles starting with those from 1995's commercial breakthrough album, A BOY NAMED GOO, through 2006's LET LOVE IN. By ignoring the band's first four albums, this set caters mostly to latter-day fans who only want the radio hits.

The angst-ridden alt-rock that bands like Nirvana popularized in the early-1990s eventually branched off into a softer, more mature sound with such groups as the Goo Goo Dolls. Formed in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, as raw and rowdy Replacements-style rockers, Johnny Rzeznik and company hit paydirt a decade later with the pop ballads "Name" and "Iris." They would remain steady hitmakers for over a decade.

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