Gutterflower

Infobox Album
Name = Gutterflower
Type = Studio album
Artist = Goo Goo Dolls


Released = April 9 2002
Recorded = August-December 2001 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA, and House of Blues Studios, Encino, CA
Genre = Rock
Length = 41:40
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = The Goo Goo Dolls and Rob Cavallo
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3027gjyr36ib link]
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/googoodolls/albums/album/104905/rid/5943618/ link]
Last album = "What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce" (2001)
This album = "Gutterflower" (2002)
Next album = "" (2004)

"Gutterflower" is an album by the Alternative rock band The Goo Goo Dolls, released in 2002 on Warner Bros. Records.

Track listing

# "Big Machine" – 3:10
# "Think About Me" – 3:59
# "Here Is Gone" – 3:59
# "You Never Know" – 3:08
# "What a Scene" – 4:27
# "Up, Up, Up" – 2:58
# "It's Over" – 3:36
# "Sympathy" – 2:58
# "What Do You Need?" – 3:49
# "Smash" – 2:27
# "Tucked Away" – 3:13
# "Truth Is A Whisper" – 4:00

ong information

"Big Machine"

John Rzeznik refers to this as his "disco song". "I’m really horrible at programming drum machines, but this was like pattern 74 on my drum machine, which said 'disco.' I called all my friends and said, 'Check this out, this is my disco song!'" He describes it as "a propulsive tale of unrequited love".

"Here is Gone"

John Rzeznik wrote this song on the phone while talking to a friend. He asked his friend if he should "take the chords up or take 'em down?" and the friend told him to "take 'em up" and that's how he came up with the chorus and the rest of the song came together shortly thereafter. The buildup to the chorus of the song has been described as "epic" and has drawn comparisons to Radiohead's "High and Dry".

According to Rzeznik in 2007, the video for this song cost more to make than the entire Gutterflower album.

Personnel

*Johnny Rzeznik – guitar, Vocals
*Robby Takac – bass, vocals
*Mike Malinin – drums, percussion

Miscellanea

*"Here Is Gone", "Big Machine" and "Sympathy" have been the only three songs released from this album as singles, and videos have been created for all three.
*The ballad "Sympathy" is also known to some fans as "Acoustic #4".
*"Big Machine" is reputed to have been recorded on a smashed Stratocaster guitar that Rzeznik has fondly nicknamed "The Half-Caster". Despite being smashed in half, it still plays. It can be seen in a 2002 VH1 Storytellers special. Rzeznik stated that he had someone round it off and it works just fine.

Charts

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