Do not buy this record! In what feels like a case of emptying the last of the vaults before the band leaves the label, the Goo Goo Dolls has milked their past once again for a collection of acoustic and remixed versions of songs we already know. Do we need an \u201cacoustic\u201d version of \u201cName?\u201d It\u2019s already acoustic! The tracks are supposed to be from 1995-2021, but this live stuff could have been recorded at any point. The only really good B-side is a Damned cover, \u201cHit Or Miss,\u201d from 1995 that I wasn\u2019t familiar with. It\u2019s good, it shows the band just before they lost their edge.<\/p>\n
They already released a collection of covers and B-sides back in 2007 that came with a DVD of most of their music videos. There\u2019s only so much one can say about acoustic renderings of songs that you\u2019ve already heard. This is destined for the absolute godhead diehard Goo fans that are left and don\u2019t already have these songs. Like other people need two different versions of \u201cNaked\u201d or \u201cBlack Balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll Be Here (When You\u2019re Gone)\u201d is passable, but it\u2019s bad when the live songs don\u2019t even really sound \u201clive.\u201d They even used a promo-only cd single recording of \u201cTake Me Out To The Ball Game\u201d from 1996 that fades too early. <\/p>\n
This was thrown together for a quick buck and nothing really more. There have to be songs that were never put on an album or promo disc or something like that that could\u2019ve easily been released instead of this pitiful thing.<\/p>\n
I used to dig the Goos back when I was younger, but I can barely tolerate them at all now. Putting out product like this only justifies my continual downgrade of their catalogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6074],"rating":[11203],"class_list":["post-46189","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-goo-goo-dolls","rating-rating-d-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46189"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46189"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}