Name

...Rock chart, and reached as high as number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Until the release of the Dizzy Up the Girl album three years later, "Name" was by far the band's most popular and well known song. The band re-recorded this song for...

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...booked the band, he requested they change the name, as the local newspaper could not print their current name. The trio picked the current name out of a True Detective ad for a toy called a Goo Goo Doll. "We were young and we were a garage...

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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. This was "quite accidentally," according to lead...

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...their breakthrough album, 1995's A Boy Named Goo. This song is often overshadowed by the low-key ballad Name , which launched the band to household names. "Long Way Down" was also part of the soundtrack for the 1996 film ''Twister ''. "Long...

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...and the Goo Goo Dolls singing backup vocals for their younger selves. The album is not a typical best-of compilation, as "Iris ," "Name ," and virtually all of the Goo Goo Dolls' other mainstream hits are absent. Instead, the selection is a...

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...2006's gold-certified Let Love In. The DVD features all 24 of the Goo Goo Dolls' music videos, including their three No. 1 smashes "Name," "Iris," and "Slide," as well as the Top 10 singles "Black Balloon," "Dizzy," "Broadway," "Here is...

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...Girl" and Supertramp's "Give A Little Bit." The DVD features all 24 of the Goo Goo Dolls' videos, including their three No. 1 hits: "Name," "Iris" and "Slide." In addition, the DVD features six live tracks from their June 2007 show at...

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...a dozen of the New York trio's biggest songs, many of which simply happen to be string-driven, midtempo epics with one-word titles ("Name," "Slide," "Iris"). With that cleared up, we spoke with front man Johnny Rzeznik, who is also a judge on...

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...dip into the mainstream ocean, A Boy Named Goo, is here only in spirit. Their breakthrough hit, 1995's inescapable acoustic ballad "Name", is on the collection as a watered-down re-recorded version captured for this collection. It completely...

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...past -- and its future. "The Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 -- The Singles" comes out November 13, featuring 14 chart entries since "Name" gave the band its first Hot 100 berth in 1995. The album includes chart-toppers such as "Iris"...

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