Audio Cassette review:
Goo Goo Dolls - Hold Me Up

Goo Goo Dolls - Hold Me Up

Band: Goo Goo Dolls Title: Hold Me Up Rating: Release Date: 09 August, 1994 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Laughing 2: Just the Way You Are 3: So Outta Line 4: There You Are 5: You Know What I Mean 6: Out of the Red 7: Never Take the Place of Your Man 8: Hey 9: On Your Side 10: 22 Seconds 11: Kevin's Song 12: Know My Name 13: Million Miles Away 14: Two Days in February

Customer Reviews Best of the Goos ) I don't mind the Goo Goo Dolls today, but they're just another mainstream band compared to this album. (First of all, I think the reviewer below me has this album confused with another one. Hold Me Up captrued the band at a transition between the extremely thrashy punk-inspired music of Jed and First Release and the more melodious, radio-friendly kind of music they would play from Superstar Car Wash on. This was the best time of their career. Their songs are catchy here, and yet they're still not watered down. Both Robby and John are at their best. Unlike Dizzy Up the Girl and all of their albums since, this doesn't sound like a Goo Goo Dolls who are yearning to play something more dynamic. This sounds like a Goo Goo Dolls who know exactly what it is they want to do, and they do exactly that. This album was a part of my childhood. I listened to this album at the same time as Dizzy Up the Girl. The difference is that Dizzy Up the Girl never stood the test of time. This album did. I just wrote this on the spur of the moment. Perhaps later, I'll write a better review. In the meantime, just know that people who consider themselves fans of the Goo Goo Dolls because of their radio hits should educate themselves, and this should be their first album. Recommended songs: ALL of them. This is Where The G.G.D.'s Sold Out The style,sound, and songwriting on here is a complete 180 from their first 2 records. As the title states, this was the end of the line for the goo's being a unique, passionate, relevant indie/punk band. There are a few decent ones, that is why I gave it a '2'. Unfortunately most of it veers towards the overrated watered down mainstream pop crap they put out to the present and the same type of stuff you heard on the radio over and over and over. They were still on Metal Blade for this release but you wouldn't know it. Johhny took over most of the songwriting and singing duties and it shows. From this record on, the material was saturated with overly cheesy ballads, ala Johnny. It is what made them successful, but in alienated me and other hard core fans who knew this was not the same band that used to make music from the heart. Each release after this got worse and worse, even though some of 'dizzy. . . ' was decent like this. Please do not buy anything of the g. g. d;s after "jed" as it is just pathetic how fast this band turned into a made for aor radio sellout so quickly. . Goo Finally Holds Up The record was intriguing. It was in 1990, when the rock group Goo Goo Dolls released their third album: HOLD ME UP. Mainly for the fact that the band was still in their experimental sound stage, and the music they produced was fairly decent. Johnny Rzeznik was definately the leader of the group. This is quite apparent with his fast paced scale based guitar licks and inversions of his chords. His performance was still in a progression, for Rzenzik still had to learn how to keep in time with his other band members. The rest of the band members needed work in this aspect of their musical performance as well. There are points within the songs that the players loose time and the piece slows or rushes. There are other times when the players get off in the beats within their rhythms they are suppose to perform. What stands out about this record is; Goo Goo Dolls still have their originality and are obviously having fun experimenting within their genre. Rzeznik's lyrics like always, are an admirable trait, and fit well with the pieces' style that the band performs. HOLD ME UP is classic Goo Goo Dolls sound, the style the band performed before hitting the Mainstream. It is a record to give attention to by Goo Goo Dolls fans because this is the album that the band's sound had progressed further than just hard, grudgy, and wailing rock. Stand out tracks include: "Laughing" "Just the Way You Are" "There You Are" "Hey" "A Million Miles Away". . You can see a complete list of all Goo Goo Dolls discography, or go back to the Goo Goo Dolls tabs