Goo Goo Dolls (album)

Goo Goo Dolls

Studio album by Goo Goo Dolls

Released

June 9, 1987

Recorded

Winter 1986, The Farm Surrey

Genre

Punk rock

Length

34:00

Label

Mercenary, Celluloid

Producer

Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls chronology

First Release
(1987)

Jed
(1989)

Alternative Cover

Reissue cover

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Goo Goo Dolls, also known as First Release, is the debut studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. All of the songs are sung by bassist Robby Takac, who was originally the band's lead vocalist. It is the hardest to find of all the band's studio albums, being only an LP, out of print, and not in wide circulation to begin with. The song "I'm Addicted" was the only song from Goo Goo Dolls represented on the band's 2001 compilation album, What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce. The song "Torn Apart" was also included on the compilation album Volume Two, which consisted of other album tracks, b-sides and rarities.

The album was recorded in three days during the winter of 1986, on a $750 budget at Trackmaster's Studio in Buffalo. The band admitted in their 1999 VH1 Behind the Music special that the album was recorded under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Rzeznik stated "[We had] a lot of beer, a lot of truck stop speed, a lot of pot...[I] don't remember a lot of it."

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Torn Apart"	2:05
2.	"Messed Up"	1:49
3.	"Livin' in a Hut"	2:40
4.	"I'm Addicted"	2:58
5.	"Sunshine of Your Love" (Cream cover)	2:48
6.	"Hardsores"	1:31
7.	"Hammerin' Eggs (The Metal Song)"	2:27
8.	"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Blue Öyster Cult cover)	2:18
9.	"Beat Me"	2:26
10.	"Scream"	1:50
11.	"Slaughterhouse"	3:38
12.	"Different Light"	2:04
13.	"Come On"	2:14
14.	"Don't Beat My Ass (With a Baseball Bat)"	3:12

Personnel

Robby Takac - lead vocals, bass guitar
Johnny Rzeznik - lead guitar, backing vocals
George Tutuska - drums

References

↑ "Goo Goo Dolls - The Goo Goo Dolls". Allmusic.

Goo Goo Dolls

John Rzeznik Robby Takac George Tutuska Mike Malinin

Studio albums	Goo Goo Dolls Jed Hold Me Up Superstar Car Wash A Boy Named Goo Dizzy Up the Girl Gutterflower Let Love In Something for the Rest of Us Magnetic Boxes

Extended plays	Just the Way You Are EP Bang! Dizzy EP Platinum Play EP Rolling Stone Original Waiting for the Rest of It

Live albums	Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004

Compilations	What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce iTunes Originals Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles Vol.2

Videography	Music in High Places: Live in Alaska Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004 Live and Intimate

Singles	"There You Are" "I'm Awake Now" "We Are the Normal" "Only One" "Flat Top" "Name" "Naked" "Long Way Down" "Lazy Eye" "Iris" "Slide" "Dizzy" "Black Balloon" "Broadway" "Here Is Gone" "Big Machine" "Sympathy" "Give a Little Bit" "Better Days" "Let Love In" "Stay with You" "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" "Real" "Home" "Notbroken" "All That You Are" "Rebel Beat" "Come to Me" "Caught in the Storm" "So Alive" "Over and Over"

Other songs	"Laughing" "So Far Away"

Tours	Something for the Rest of Us Tour 2013 Summer Tour Canada 2014 The Otis Midnight Sessions 2014 Summer Tour Boxes Tour

Related material	Discography

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