A Boy Named Goo
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The cover of A Boy Named Goo
A Boy Named Goo is an album by Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1995 on Warner Bros.
- Certified gold (500,000 copies sold) on 11/16/95
- Certified platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) on 2/8/96
- Certified double-platinum on 7/17/96
Label
Warner Brothers
Track listing
- "Long Way Down"
- "Burnin' Up"
- "Naked"
- "Flat Top"
- "Impersonality"
- "Name"
- "Only One"
- "Somethin' Bad"
- "Ain't That Unusual"*
- "So Long"
- "Eyes Wide Open"
- "Disconnected"
- "Slave Girl"
- "Stand Alone"*
"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 song "Name" is well-known as the Goo Goo Dolls' first hit; "Quite accidentally," says lead singer Johnny Rzeznik. He wrote it as a love ballad, reflecting his childhood as an orphan.
A remix of the song "Long Way Down" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 movie, Twister.