Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love in
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Artist: Goo Goo DollsBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Stay With You
- Let Love In
- Feel The Silence
- Better Days
- Without You Here
- Listen
- Give A Little Bit
- Can't Let It Go
- We'll Be Here (When You're Gone)
- Strange Love
- Become
Free Music Notes for Let Love in
Free Music Review: They're back - in spectacular fashion!
Hit: 5 Stars
They're back!
The second ever band I became a real "fan" of (definition of "fan": having every single studio and live record in their discography and actively following release dates and news) - the first was Jars of Clay - the Goos hold a special place in my musical influence. Classics like Name heavily dictated the course of my musical preferences for years to come; specifically slow to mid-tempo well-produced, drum-heavy melodic tunes interspersed with subtle atmospherics, and ideally paired with a husky-voiced male lead and elements of post-Grunge Californian stuff and anthemic prog rock (and they say musical genres these days are getting too complicated. What rubbish! :P).
The Goo Goo Dolls pretty much define this genre, and indeed are regarded as one of the founding fathers of "Alternative Rock", and I was captivated by the incredible melodies of songs like Iris, Black Balloon and Slide. But all their albums have been pretty much hit and miss (bar the pseudo-Greatest Hits Ego, Opinion, Art and Commerce), with a few select gems amidst the heavy lashings of their punk roots, which I abhor. I always wished they would dispense with the punk and head-banging nonsense already - melodic rock is where it is. They had yet to release a non-skip-track album.
Until now.
Let Love In is a sterling effort for the extended length of time they spent behind the studio doors to release their first record in four years - their tenth, no less. The legendary Glen Ballard was hired to produce this piece (their first collaboration), and it seems that Glen's surname is no coincidence. The pace has mellowed considerably, with most songs offering up a mid-tempo pace with absolutely no sign of the spiky-haired trash that marred some of their previous efforts. The melodies are strong and range-pushing, and the choruses rousing. Johnny, of course, sounds sexier than ever; his distinctive gruff vocals adding sex appeal to the entire production. His anaemic sidekick, bassist Robby, only gets two tracks of the eleven offered, which in my opinion is two too many.
Every single song is so unmistakably Goo, but yet the whole album has a very "soft" feel compared to their predecessors. Goo purists will probably say Rzeznik and co have gone the way of radio playlists and chart listings - basically gone "pop". Similar accusations were levied against Canadian heavies Our Lady Peace when they released their first ever album to breach the border in a big way, Gravity. But in both cases, they earn my respect, simply because the music is just soooooo much better.
My favourite track is Better Days, which is a hollow, anthemic, lyrically-strong and moody piece with an incredible orchestral pre-chorus build-up and a one-finger piano riff throughout guiding the musical atmosphere.
The only criticism I would levy on Let Love In would be the near-monotonous feel of the whole album. They all follow the same basic formula, and even though said formula is right up my alley, the record is missing an acoustically-driven power piece (a la Iris), which have in the past proven to be incredible highlights of their songwriting career, and a slightly harder-edged head-bobber (a la Slide). I also dread the inevitable overplaying of some of the tracks on pop radio stations, and the consequent dilution of the band's legacy as teeny boppers in every secondary school across the country tell all their friends about this cool "new" band they heard the other day. Folks should be forced to listen to old school stuff before being laden with the new work to fully appreciate the musical spectrum and evolution chronology plays on some bands - if only kids today had full access to Bon Jovi's entire back catalogue in their home collections. But I digress.
Bottom line - it's a good 'un.
Definitely my record of the moment. And the best part is? I just know it's a grower.
Joy is finding an absolute gem of feel-good music. The sort where you sit back and let yourself drown in the melodies. The sort where without trying, you know all the lyrics within a couple of days of first hearing the songs. The sort where the first time you hear the record your soul takes on a strange sort of suspension, as if time stands still.
Let Love in Poster
Better days are here again as one of America's favorite rock bands, The Goo Goo Dolls, returns with its first studio album since 2002. Opening the doors for Let Love In-with the renowned Glen Ballad producing the band for the first time. Let Love In welcomes The Goo Goo Dolls back to the top of rock.The Goo Goo Dolls have long since traded the bracing, Replacements-lite abandon of their early days for an ethos of heart-on-their-sleeve emotionality wed to a solid heartland pop craftsmanship that's too easily been casually mislabeled. Superstar producer Glen Ballard (who shares many a writing credit here as well) pushes that latter sensibility to its logical extremes, ensuring a slick sonic experience that won't disappoint those who hitched themselves to the Dolls' wagon circa their mid '90s commercial breakthrough. But there remains a nagging sense that this is a band that isn't pushing itself very hard: even the hook-solid opening single "Stay With You" seems downright cautious. Coupled with Ballard's penchant for polish, Johnny Rzeznik's introspection on "Without You Here" hews close to the center line before Robbie Takac's "Listen" gives the album a much-needed jolt of energy. The album's featured cover, a faithful, contemporary AOR-friendly take on Supertramp's "Give a Little Bit," is emblematic of the Goo Goo Dolls fortunes here: They often seemed boxed in by a past that's not necessarily their own. --Jerry McCulley
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