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POP MUSIC REVIEW: Spirited Set by Goo Goo Dolls

Concert ReviewFebruary 11, 1993Los Angeles Times

By RICHARD CROMELIN“This song was supposed to make us famous, but it didn’t,” the Goo Goo Dolls’ singer-guitarist Johnny said Tuesday at the Whisky in introducing “There You Are.” The remark typifies the Buffalo trio’s self-deprecating, utterly unpretentious attitude, and the 1990 non-hit embodies the Buffalo band’s oeuvre : anthemic, thrashing attack buoyed by ringing hooks and harmonies, expressive of adolescent yearning and confusion.If the Dolls haven’t found their place in the sun, it might be because they’re doing their spirited stuff deep in the stylistic shadow of the Replacements. Of

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