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On A Boy Named Goo, America's best known unknown band, The Goo Goo Dolls, up the alternative music ante with thirteen new songs that defy convention, the odds and your preconceptions.

Produced by Lou Giordano (who's worked with everyoune from Pere Ubu and Husker Du to Sugar and the Smithereens) and featuring the Goo's new single and video, "Only One," A Boy Named Goo puts the Goo Goo Dolls front and center in the back-to-basics revolution that began with the Ramones and continues unabated with this rabidly original Buffalo band.

"This is what we sound like to ourselves," asserts guitarist-vocalist Johnny Rzeznik.

It's a sound that has taken the Goo Goo Dolls a long way from their upstate New York stomping grounds, even as it remains true to their raw, uncompromising roots. The group, which also includes bassist/vocalist Robby Takac, got their start on the small, but lively Buffalo music scene in 1986.

Now, it's all come together on A Boy Named Goo. "I look at our career as having three stages," remarkds Rzeznik with a smile. "Drunk, hungover and sober. I wouldn't exactly say we're in our sober phase now, but we are dead serious about making the best music we can."

Which is exactly what the Goo Goo Dolls deliver on A Boy Named Goo: the very best from one of the most promising young bands in America.

This US rock trio, formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1986, consists of bass player and vocalist Robby Takac, guitarist and vocalist Johnny Rzeznik and drummer George Tutuska. The group's first two albums were compared to Cheap Trick and the Replacements. They started doing unlikely cover versions on Jed, when the professional crooner Lance Diamond sang guest vocals on a version of Creedence Clearwater Revival 's 'Down On The Corner'. He also sang on a version of Prince 's 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' on Hold Me Up. Both albums featured unpretentious pop punk songwriting, and the band was now being celebrated by a growing number of fans in the media. Their commercial breakthrough came with 1995's hit single 'Name' and A Boy Named Goo, which was produced by Pere Ubu, H�sker D� and Sugar accomplice Lou Giordano. Their career showed signs of stalling in 1997 following litigation with their record company Warner Brothers Records and the departure of Tutuska, although 'Iris', taken from the soundtrack of City Of Angels, was an endearing radio hit.