Goo Goo Dolls

成立于美国纽约水牛城的三人摇滚团体。成军15年以来发行过6张专辑，前4年摸索期所发行的两张专辑并未让他们尝到成名的滋味，却使得其乐风在乐坛中留下良好的印象。1991年的第三张专辑开始渐露头角，逐渐发展起来。
在这淘汰率快速且变化多端的摇滚乐坛中，能成军超过15个寒暑，并且愈战愈勇，后势强劲的团体，已不多见了，但这组来自纽约水牛城由Johnny Rzeznik(主唱/吉他)、Robby Takac (贝斯)与Mike Malinin (鼓手)三位所组成的Goo Goo Dolls却以他们扎实的表演水准，引领独特流畅的音乐潮流经历15个年头至今仍然屹立不摇！
1985年便成军的Goo Goo Dolls以原始的团名The Sex Maggots加上原始鼓手George Tutuska在各个俱乐部中以专门翻唱别人作品的摇滚团四处走唱。很快的他们于97年被一家专门出版重金属摇滚的厂牌Metal Blade签入旗下发行首张同名专辑，陆续的在87-90年间发行了三张专辑，直到93年的专辑《Superstar Car Wash》的发行，终于以单曲“We Are The Normal”进驻现代摇滚榜并打开知名度，获得乐界一致好评。
日益成熟的作品，更加流畅的旋律让95年的第五张专辑不但销售一举大破两百万张，单曲“Name”更是挺进流行单曲榜Top 5。此时原鼓手George Tutuska求去换上新任鼓手Mike Malinin接着他们整装再出发，继续绽放灿烂火花，发行了他们于乐坛中立下的新里程碑专辑《Dizzy Up The Girl》辑中一曲为电影《City Of Angels》所谱写的作品“Iris”不但稳坐点播榜18周冠军，更入围41届格莱美最佳年度唱片、年度歌曲及最佳流行演唱团体三项大奖提名，整个90年可说是Goo Goo Dolls开花结果丰收的年代！
Early in their career, Buffalo natives the Goo Goo Dolls were frequently dismissed by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, the band refined and mainstreamed their sound enough to become of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the 90s, selling millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with their inspirations. Thats no knock on the band, either — their music simply improved in craft and accessibility as the years progressed, and radio happened to be receptive to what a decade earlier would have been considered collegiate power pop. Thus, the band landed two huge hits with the acoustic ballads Name and Iris.
The Goo Goo Dolls were formed in Buffalo, NY, in 1985 by guitarist/vocalist Johnny Rzeznik, bassist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska, initially under the name the Sex Maggots (the new name was chosen from an ad in True Detective magazine at the behest of a local club owner). Originally a cover band with a taste for power pop and classic rock & roll, the group soon began writing its own songs. Their early sound recalled the Replacements origins as a bratty punk band (circa Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash) — melodic, snotty, and a little bit thrashy. That sound was the reason the band attracted the interest of the heavy metal label Metal Blade, which issued their debut album in 1987 (known either as The Goo Goo Dolls or First Release). 1989s Jed continued in a similar vein; the college radio breakthrough came with 1990s Hold Me Up, a Replacements-ish power pop record.
1993s Superstar Car Wash was the Goo Goo Dolls artistic breakthrough; though it did nothing to quell the Replacements comparisons, it was a finely crafted pop/rock record, and its lead single, We Are the Normal, was co-written with Replacements leader Paul Westerberg himself. Still, Superstar Car Wash wasnt the commercial force the band hoped it would be, especially in light of the success of similar bands like the Gin Blossoms. That all changed with 1995s A Boy Named Goo, when an L.A. rock station put the acoustic-driven ballad Name into heavy rotation. It was eventually released as a single nationwide, and went Top Five late in the year; platinum sales for the album followed close behind. Unfortunately, drummer Tutuska was no longer around to enjoy the bands success; prior to the albums release, hed been sacked and replaced by drummer Mike Malinin.
Dissatisfied with the royalty rates in their Metal Blade contract, the band waged a legal battle that wound up allowing them to jump to parent company Warner Brothers. Somewhat drained, Rzeznik and the band shook off a case of writers block to contribute the ballad Iris to the soundtrack of the 1998 Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan romance City of Angels. Appearing that April, the song was a monster smash, although it was never released as a single (so its official Top Ten pop chart status doesnt convey how popular it was); for a better indicator, Iris spent nearly a year on Billboards airplay charts, including an astonishing 18 weeks at number one, and was nominated for three Grammys. The bands next album, Dizzy Up the Girl, was released in September, during the middle of Iriss marathon airplay run, and sold over three million copies. Its clean, polished sound completed the Goo Goo Dolls transformation into mainstream pop/rockers who happened to have alternative roots. Further hits from the record followed over the next year, including Slide, Dizzy, and the Grammy-nominated Black Balloon, and the band toured heavily in support. The Goo Goo Dolls revamped their sound for 2001s career retrospective, Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce. A year later, the trio hit the charts with Here Is Gone from their seventh studio album, Gutterflower. The CD/DVD combo Live in Buffalo: July 4, 2004 helped fans endure the long wait for the bands next studio album, Let Love In, which didnt appear until 2006.