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ARTiST...: Goo Goo Dolls
ALBUM....: Gutterflower
GENRE....: Rock
LABEL....: Warner Bros.
LANG.....: English
TYPE.....: Normal
YEAR.....: 2002
SOURCE...: CDDA
RIP.DATE.: 06-03-2014
ST.DATE..: 04-09-2002
ENCODER..: FLAC 1.2.1 Lossless
GRABBER..: EAC v1.0 beta 2
QUALiTY..: 1076kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels
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01 Big Machine 3:10
02 Think About Me 3:59
03 Here Is Gone 3:58
04 You Never Know 3:07
05 What a Scene 4:27
06 Up, Up, Up 2:58
07 It's Over 3:35
08 Sympathy 2:58
09 What Do You Need 3:49
10 Smash 2:26
11 Tucked Away 3:13
12 Truth Is A Whisper 4:00
Total Size.: 12 Files/338.1MB/41:40 min
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Prior to "Name," nobody would ever have picked the Goo Goo Dolls
to be stars. Not only were they saddled with a terrible name
(there must be worse names in the history of rock, but outside
of Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, I can't think of one off the top of my
head), they were either seen as lovable ragtag group of
ne'er-do-wells (by their fans) or shameless Replacements
obsessives (by critics), and both rightly saw the group as
simply too modest for the big time. But that modesty paid off,
since it was the quality that gave their big hits ("Name" and
"Iris") humility. Since they arrived in an era where singles
could stay on the charts for a full year, if not more, and stay
on the radio for even longer, these two hits gave the impression
that the Dolls were bigger stars than they really were, even if
they sold many, many copies of A Boy Named Goo and Dizzy Up the
Girl. So, Gutterflower, their first album in four years, was
treated with the utmost care, crafted and polished on the level
of a superstar release -- thereby giving a glossy sheen to a
record that, at its core, is another Goo Goo Dolls album. Yes,
there may be some darker currents roiling underneath the surface
in Johnny Rzeznik's lyrics, but when the production glistens
like this, it takes some deliberate, intensive listening on the
part of the audience in order to discern it. Ironically, that's
the good thing about Gutterflower -- as it shifts from ballads
to chugging, layered mid-tempo pop, with Rzeznik's Paul
Westerberg being punctuated every few tracks by Robby Takac's
Tommy Stinson (these comparisons, for better or worse, still
hold up, well over a decade into the band's career), it all goes
down easy, smoother than any other mainstream rock album this
side of Matchbox 20. It's so expertly produced, so evenhanded in
its sound, that even if the songs sound hooky as they're
playing, they're hard to remember once the next starts. This, of
course, isn't the same thing as the songs not being memorable,
since repeated listens do reveal that both Rzeznik and Takac are
in good form (they better be after a four-year lay-off), but the
record is so slick, songs don't stand out, and the pain that
fuels some of Rzeznik's post-divorce lyrics is dampened by the
gloss. Now, the gloss is good and results in a very listenable
record, but given the sentiment of the album, that's probably
not what the Dolls had in mind when they made Gutterflower.
Still, it has given them a good, professional rock record, one
that sells their sound as if it was as the most commercial
imaginable, resulting in one of their most consistent albums.
URL: http://www.googoodolls.com/
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