Goo Goo Dolls

While I was searching up songs on YouTube for my recent blog post on the Foo Fighters, in the recommended videos was the song “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls. I knew of the song but couldn’t put the melody to it so I checked it out. After listening to it I realized I was very familiar with this song and used to love it back in the day. Sadly, that was the only song I knew by the Goo Goo Dolls so like I always do, I decided to listen to some more songs and of course do some research on them!

Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls are an American Rock band that originated in Buffalo, New York (Where I am attending college right now!), in 1986. The band was founded by lead vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik along with bassist Robby Takac and drummer George Tutuska. Both George and Robby were long time friends in school and they met Rzeznik when he was playing in a different band with Takac’s cousin. Rzeznik quit his other band and joined the two friends creating the Goo Goo Dolls, whose name was inspired by a toy ad for a product by the name of Goo Goo Doll.

They started in local venues in their home town, with Takac as their lead singer at first. During this time they got picked up by record company in 1987 and released their first self-titled album. With the success of the first album they got picked up by a bigger record company. They produced their next few albums with this company until they got noticed and signed by a company with an even bigger budget.

In 1994, after completing their fifth album, they kicked their drummer out and replaced them shortly after with Mike Malinin in 1995. This is when fame really settled in for them. In 1997 Rzeznik was approached to write a song for a soundtrack and the ending result was their most famous and successful song, Iris. This song landed on the Billboards top 100, becoming the bands first huge break. From that point forward the band stayed on top, even to this day they are still coming out with great new music!

Selling more than 10 million albums worldwide and just recently in October of 2012 having their song Iris ranked as #1 on Billboard’s “Top 100 Pop Songs 1992-2012”, this band is well known and extremely successful. I highly recommend listening to all their music for you can tell the progression they went through since they first started the band over 20 years ago! Give them a listen!!

Bands Website —> http://www.googoodolls.com/

Check out one of their more recent songs, Slide! —- >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4qdefD2To

November 17, 2012. Uncategorized.