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The Goo Goo DollsLive In Buffalo July 4th 2004 Warner Who deemed 2005 the Year of the Unnecessary Live Album? If Train's recent live effort was akin to having blunt, rusty nails hammered into sensitive parts of your body, this is equivalent to having them removed with cooking tongs dipped in molten lava. The Goo Goo Dolls (and believe me, I'm wincing every time I type that) have made their release even more annoying by book-ending it with one of the most needless covers in living memory: Supertramp's Give A Little Bit. What could possibly drive anyone to do that? Pure hatred, that's what. Everything about 'Live In Buffalo July 4th 2004' screams that the Goo Goo Dolls hate you. Why else would they release this crap? Do they think people actually want to hear it? And just who are these people at the show? Are they screaming with enthusiasm? Or fear? Is there some depraved Goo Goo Patrol that forcibly makes people attend the band's shows? Watch the accompanying DVD (talk about compounding the horror) and it becomes all too clear who these people are. Go straight to 7 minutes 18 seconds and have a look at the Goo Goo fan at the left of screen. Scary, huh? Now go just over a minute further and watch him. Now quick, turn away; and be forever thankful that the wind didn't change direction, or you may have just become one of them, which would seemingly entail finding these bland songs and inane stage banter actually entertaining. Someone once wrote that Matchbox Twenty is "music for people who don't like music". The Goo Goo Dolls are standing right behind them, with a higher annoyance factor and a hundredth of the record sales. This is a triumph of the bland. This is totally and utterly unnecessary.  |
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