Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's, Formed: 1985 in Buffalo, NY
The Ramones, The Plimsouls, Cheap Trick, The Replacements, Richard Marx, The Lemonheads, Superchunk, Neil Young, Soul Asylum, Bryan Adams, Tom Petty, Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr., Michael Bolton, Black Flag, The Beatles, R.E.M. Paul Westerberg, Collective Soul, Shawn Mullins, Bash & Pop, Everclear, Super Deluxe, Fastball, Semisonic, Soul Asylum, Grandpaboy, Perfect, Dishwalla, Matchbox Twenty, The Clarks, Enuff Z'nuff, Buffalo Tom, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees Filmmaker, Mainstay, The Iveys, Elcodrive, 30 Seconds to Mars, Rookie of the Year, The Fray, Secondhand Serenade, David Cook, The Damnwells, Third Eye Blind, Avril Lavigne, Matt Nathanson, Dashboard Confessional, 3 Doors Down, Evan & Jaron, Train, Emre Aydin |  |
Early in their career, the Goo Goo Dolls were frequently dismissed by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, they refined and mainstreamed their sound to become one of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the 1990s, selling millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with their influences. That's no knock on the band, either -- the music simply improved in craft and accessibility as the years progressed, and radio happened to be receptive to a style that, one decade earlier, would have been considered collegiate power pop. Thus, the band landed two huge hits with the acoustic ballads "Name" and "Iris," followed by a string of Top Ten singles.
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