A Boy Named Goo

Infobox Album
Name = A Boy Named Goo
Type = Studio album
Artist = Goo Goo Dolls


Released = March 14 1995
Recorded = 1994 at BearTracks Studios, Suffern, NY and Trackmaster Studios, Buffalo, NY
Genre = Alternative rock
Grunge
Length = 42:20
Label = Metal Blade Records/Warner Brothers
Producer = Goo Goo Dolls and Lou Giordano
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:imf8zfi8eh4k link]
* Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|dud [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=goo+goo+dolls link]
* "Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/googoodolls/albums/album/231093/rid/5944609/ link]
Last album = "Superstar Car Wash"
(1993)
This album = "A Boy Named Goo"
(1995)
Next album = "Dizzy Up The Girl"
(1998)

"A Boy Named Goo", sometimes referred to as "ABNG", is a studio album by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1995 on Warner Brothers Records.

This is the Goo Goo Dolls' last studio album with George Tutuska on drums; he was replaced by current drummer Mike Malinin just before the album was released. The song "Stand Alone" was written by George Tutuska, and because Johnny Rzeznik didn't want to exploit George's efforts after his dismissal, the song was only included on a promo version of the album. On the wide-release version, it is replaced with "Disconnected" and "Slave Girl." On the same promo, "Ain't That Unusual" was labeled as "Someday." The two replacement songs are covers of songs by defunct Buffalo and Sydney, punk bands The Enemies and Lime Spiders.

At the time of its release, Target and Wal-Mart stores refused to sell the CD because of the cover of the album. They thought that if people saw the adult hands over a small child with a red substance on the child's face, people might mistake it for blood and they might misinterpret the album as pedophilic. The substance on the child's face is actually red berries.Fact|date=August 2007

The song "Name" is well-known as the Goo Goo Dolls' first hit. This was "quite accidentally," according to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik. He wrote it as a love ballad, reflecting on his childhood as an orphan.

The song "Ain't That Unusual" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film, "Angus". A remix of the song "Long Way Down" was also featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 film, "Twister".

Haste the Day, a metalcore band, covered the song "Long Way Down" for their album "When Everything Falls".

Track listing

# "Long Way Down" – 3:29
# "Burnin' Up" – 2:29
# "Naked" – 3:44
# "Flat Top" – 4:30
# "Impersonality" – 2:41
# "Name" – 4:30
# "Only One" – 3:18
# "Somethin' Bad" – 2:31
# "Ain't That Unusual" – 3:20
# "So Long" – 2:33
# "Eyes Wide Open" – 3:56
# "Disconnected" (The Enemies cover) – 3:00
# "Slave Girl" (Lime Spiders cover) – 2:18

Personnel

* Johnny Rzeznik – guitar, Vocals
* Robby Takac – bass
* George Tutuska – drums

Charts

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