Dizzy Up The Girl: 15 Years To Goo Goo Dolls Album

The Goo Goo Dolls, an Alternative Rock band from Buffalo, New York, were playing together for over a decade and recorded five studio albums until 1998. Most of us don't remember what they did earlier, but their sixth album, Dizzy Up The Girl, became the most successful album they released thanks to a movie called City Of Angels. This movie was a remake of Wim Wanders' German movie Wings Of Desire (Which is better than the remake, of course) with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage as the main actors. The song Iris was one of the most beautiful songs in this soundtrack, which helped Goo Goo Dolls earn a lot of popularity. Dizzy Up The Girl is not a one hit wonder album. It contains few other songs that sound very nice even today, fifteen years after. For my opinion, it's the best release they made so far. Here are five songs from that album, which might help you decide...

Black Baloon

Hate This Place

Iris

All Eyes On Me

Acoustic #3

Balloon (Pick Word #7)

After a long hiatus, I'm getting back to some lists about special issues. Today's issue is Balloon, which is part of Museum Of Flight series. The rubber balloon which most of us know, was invented by Michael Faraday in 1824 after a few successful experiments. Since that invention, we can watch a lot of balloon releases, especially on Political celebrations or sports events. I've chosen five songs about balloons by Wendy & Lisa, The Kills, Tim Hardin, The Civil Wars and Goo Goo Dolls, enjoy!

1) Wendy & Lisa - Balloon (Taken from White Flags Of Winter Chimneys, 2008)

2) The Kills - Black Balloon (Taken from Midnight Boom, 2008)

3) Tim Hardin - Red Balloon (Taken from Tim Hardin 2, 1967)

 

4) The Civil Wars - Girl With The Red Balloon (Taken from Barton Hollow, 2011)

5) Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon (Taken from Dizzy Up The Girl, 1998)