Magnetic Goo Goo Dolls

• 1 Rebel Beat 03:35
• 2 When The World Breaks Your Heart 03:34
• 3 Slow It Down 03:12
• 4 Caught In The Storm 03:58
• 5 Come To Me 03:45
• 6 Bringing On The Light 03:17
• 7 More Of You 03:26
• 8 BulletProofAngel 03:23
• 9 Last Hot Night 03:37
• 10 Happiest Of Days 03:32
• 11 Keep The Car Running 04:08
• 12 Home 04:36
• 13 Black Balloon 04:26
• Total Runtime 48:29

Info for Magnetic

Nach mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten als Band, neun Alben, einem Katalog an Songs, die tief im Pop-Bewußtsein verwurzelt sind und zahllosen Konzerten für Millionen von Fans fühlen sich die Goo Goo Dolls besonders gut mit ihrem neuen Album: Magnetic. Genauer gesagt: Die Goo Goo Dolls fühlen sich besonders gut, Punkt.

„Das Aufnehmen dieses Albums ging wirklich nach vorn und hat eine Menge Spaß gemacht“, sagt John Rzeznik, Hauptsänger des Trios, Songschreiber und Gitarrist seit der Gründung in Buffalo, New York 1986. „Ich glaube, wir haben lange nicht so ein Album gemacht. Wir hatten einfach eine tolle Zeit.“

All diese positive Energie merkt man dem Geist der neuen Songs auf dem Album an, das Rzeznik, Takac und Schlagzeuger Mike Malinin – die ständige Besetzung seit 1995 – zusammen mit Gregg Wattenberg (Train), Rob Cavallo (Green Day), John Shanks (Bon Jovi) and Greg Wells (Katy Perry) in New York, London und Los Angeles aufnahmen.

Von der feierlichen Single 'Rebel Beat' hin zur Ballade 'Slow It Down', die eine Liebe neu entdeckt. Von der Arbeiter-Hymne 'Keep the Car Running' bis zum romantischen 'Come to Me' ist Magnetic ein Album, das mit dem Geist der Erneuerung glüht. Nirgends wird dies deutlicher als bei 'Happiest of Days', einem der beiden Stücke von Takac.

John Rzeznik, guitar
Robby Takac, bass
Mike Malinin, drums

The Goo Goo Dolls
After more than two decades as a band, with nine albums, a catalog of songs that have become ingrained in the pop consciousness and countless concerts for millions of fans, the Goo Goo Dolls are feeling particularly good about their new album: Magnetic.

More to the point, the Goo Goo Dolls are feeling particularly good. Period. “This album was really upbeat and fun,” says John Rzeznik, the trio’s primary singer, songwriter and guitarist since it was founded in Buffalo in 1986. “I don’t think we’ve made a record like this in a while. Just had a great time doing it.” It’s a great time overall for the musicians. Bassist Robby Takac, whose partnership with Rzeznik has been the band’s foundation since the start, and his wife have just had their first child. And Rzeznik is getting married this summer. Not to mention that recently three of the band’s songs placed in Billboard’s Top 100 of 1992-2012, with “Iris” standing at No. 1. That song has also connected with a new generation, as Dolls fan Taylor Swift has been performing it in her concerts.

That joy is all there in the spirit of the 11 new songs on the album, for which Rzeznik, Takac and drummer Mike Malinin — the lineup steady since 1995 — recorded in New York, London and Los Angeles with Gregg Wattenberg (Train), Rob Cavallo (Green Day), John Shanks (Bon Jovi) and Greg Wells (Katy Perry). From the celebratory single “Rebel Beat” to the love-rediscovery ballad “Slow It Down,” from the blue-collar anthem “Keep the Car Running” to the meltingly romantic “Come to Me,” Magnetic is an album bursting with a spirit of renewal. And nowhere is it more explicit than in one of two Takac-penned songs: “Happiest of Days.”

“All the writing is an extension of ourselves,” Rzeznik says. “My life’s amazing. When I sit and think about my life, it really has been incredible.” No argument from Takac.

“It’s pretty amazing to me,” he says. “All these years now we’ve been playing in this band together and we still somehow manage to grow. That allows us to keep making it happen. We never denied what the situation was at the moment. Right now we’re here and living this moment, and some cool things are happening in our lives.”

It’s a contrast from the poetically introspective tone of 2010’s Something For the Rest of Us, which reflected some personal turmoil.

“This album feels like this is where we came out the other side and are in the daylight again,” he says. “Got a little dark on the last record. But that was something I needed to do, where I was at. This is where I am now. Yeah, you know — I got myself up, brushed myself off and looked around, and things were fine. Why not celebrate?”

Even a dark-sounding title, such as “When The World Breaks Your Heart,” reveals a world of happiness.

“That’s a song about friendship,” he says. “Real friendship. About when you find out who the people are who really care about you and love you, like on moving day, or times of need.”

With that in mind, the making of the album represented a break from past methods too. Rzeznik first worked with those collaborators on writing and pre-production of the songs.

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