Metal Hammer

UK No. 24 / Vol. 5 : Nov 19 - Dec 2. 1990

Every track's a winner, as the Goo Goo Dolls come back, older, wiser and ever so slightly more mature. As a band this three piece from Buffalo are once again blasting out three minute blazes of power chords, glancing melodies, and wasted vocals, all conducted with effortless poise and winsome dexterity. This is music for driving to, this is music for sitting in a darkened room to, this is music to grab a guitar and let it all hang out in front of your mirror to.

Three repeated plays in and it suddenly occurs to me that the Goo Goo Dolls have finally arrived at American  FM nirvana and are now a major label must. A frightening thought if Sonic Youth are anything to go by, but then there is always that indie self-destruct button festering away, buried down deep, which only has to threaten to make its menace felt. Just listen to the savagely under produced and over enthused slamming jam entitled 'Out Of The Red' and you see what I mean. Monstrous. 4/5

JOHN DUKE