in defense of the god damn goo goo dolls

The cheesi­est, least de­fen­si­ble record that means the most.

Some­thing that means some­thing. A record I’ll ad­mit to lov­ing while im­me­di­ate­ly ex­pect­ing to have to ex­plain why.

Okay, let’s begin.

Maybe it’s the sim­ple, heart on sleeve lyrics (which I think is more pro­to emo than some would admit) 

Maybe it’s the ef­fi­cient sin­ga­long pow­er­pop crunch (which I’m al­ways a suck­er for) 

Maybe it was the times 

That per­fect pre-Dook­ie sum­mer when every­one was the best friend you ever had and even punk-fla­vored pow­er­pop stirred a dis­crim­i­nat­ing if small au­di­ence of the best people. 

Be­fore the dark times. Be­fore Blink 182. 

Hard to say,
but to this day the Goo Goo Dolls 1993 un­sung clas­sic reach­es places no oth­er al­bum quite can for me. 

It’s all sum­mer nights and pre-Run dance par­ties and speed­ing to a rave in the mid­dle of nowhere with all the win­dows open lis­ten­ing for the beat so you could find the place. 

I’m not even sure fans of this record hear it the way I do and that’s fine. I don’t know how this one would play to fresh ears but to mine it will al­ways be ab­solute­ly vital.

No judg­ment.

Also,
un­less I just got a not great one, Im­pos­si­ble Burg­er is a very rea­son­able fac­sim­i­le of a McDonald’s sausage pat­ty that’s been left in a glove­box for a few days.
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2019 Ja­son Malmberg.

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