Bad opinions • Page 909

“Long Way Down” rips.

 

Big Machine, Ain’t That Unusual, Long Way Down, or All Eyes on Me. Hard to narrow down.

 

gotta be here is gone for me, sorry

 

Everyone is giving the right answer.

 

Couldn't name a song other than the one

 

great band with a better catalog than most bands talked about all the time here, it's worth digging into

 

Oh that's just me being an idiot. I think radiohead is really great and also I think matchbox twenty is really great that's all for my comparison haha

 

haha i dont know much about matchbox but id love to hear their Kid A moment now

 

Broadway is the best goos song that isn’t Name imo. Saw them a month ago for fun and it was just as much a highlight live, too.

 

my second favorite goos song is “naked”

“truth is a whisper” was also a good answer

 

Bro, “Name”?

 

The name of the song is “Iris”

 

obviously

 

I got to see them touring Gutterflower which, as far as I know, was they last time they were regularly playing anything pre-Dizzy besides “Name”. Got both “Naked” and “Cuz You’re Gone”. Shame they basically just threw aside that whole back catalog

 

I wouldn’t have a problem putting Yourself or Someone Like You over any goo album. It falls off a bit in the back half but overall it’s just a phenomenal 90s radio rock album.

 

there are def at least three goo goo dolls records that are better than the entire matchbox twenty discog

i kept quiet these past few pages but

 

The thing about Yourself or Someone Like You is it has a couple songs that are nice but really have aged production-wise worse than the Goos or 3eb. I’m thinking of “Argue” and “Girl Like That”, etc. Solid, memorable Melodie’s but nothing to hang your hat on musically or arrangement-wise.

I hate to say it cause I’ll always love the song, but “Real World”, too

For my 2022 ears, their best album is More Than You Think You Are

 

Thinking about how memorable melodies are apparently nothing to hang your hat on musically and despairing for the future.

 

i'd rather hear bent than pretty much any song by any of the other bands and i feel like i like GGD more than most

 

No Phoebe wrote that song and they covered it

 

More Than You Think You Are is definitely the best Matchbox album. Still can’t get over the fact that there’s a fucking Mick Jagger co-write on that record.

 

The stumbling block with the Goos for me is that I just cannot deal with Robby's voice. The fact that he gets four songs apiece on Dizzy and Gutterflower singlehandedly takes those albums down a peg from all-timer status to "very good" for me. Let Love In is less good than either of those albums in a lot of ways, but I might play the vinyl more because it's got less Robby.

 

Soft pop rock from the 2000s is legitimately good. I’m talking talking The Fray, Finger Eleven, Five for Fighting, Howie Day, Train, Lifehouse, Snow Patrol, Edwin McCain, Daniel Powter, The Script, Matt Nathanson, Mat Kearney, James Blunt, etc.

 

Yeah, I love most of these, haha

 

As a Finger Eleven fan, I have to somewhat correct you here, as they are not a soft pop-rock band. They definitely became more alternative after "One Thing" took off, but their earlier albums are very nu-metal and they've kept some of that influence in their work even in the current day.