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The Goo Goo Dolls? Okay, it's like Aerosmith on Armageddon which wasn't very good. Props to Aerosmith for being successful even though I don't like their type of music they make. Anyways, I hate to burst your bubble but the Goo Goo Dolls suck. Nobody my age even listens to them. Anyways good choice for the band because it's a great way to go down the toilet along with the Movie and Hasbro as well since they fail to please most fans.

...kill me now if this is the kinda crap that's gonna be on this soundtrack.

The Goo Goo Dolls doing a Transformers song makes me think of the Aerosmith and Armegeddon as well.

Thunderscream wrote:This does not bode well for the soundtrack.

QFT

All I have to say is, at least it's not Fall Out Boy. Period.

Nobody my age even listens to them.

Good for you but I was in High School/ College when they were popular so it a band I actually like. Not everything in music is geared to 12 year olds. Not that I know how old you are but I agree its better than Fall Out Boy. They probably figured in out by target audience demographs. The original Trandformers audience was under ten when the Transformers came out so we would have been in high school/ college in 1996-99 when Goo was most popular and that is the age range when most people are most interested in music. What at first seems like a strange decision about this movie once again explained by mathimatics!

Nightwatcher wrote:

Sunstar wrote:

bagofbest wrote:"And I don't want the world to see me
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."

I nearly choked eating a carrot reading the first two lines.

Same here. Took me a minute to realize what it was parodying though.

I thought the song went:

"And I don't want the world to see me
so I transform into a truck
I also have to hide my mouth from you
'cause my lips make me look like a duck."

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I've loved the Goo Goo Dolls for a long time - probably over 10 years. I can't see myself buying the movie soundtrack, though. Soundtracks full of pop songs are rarely ever good. It's the score that I care about.

booo. I just hope they only play them over the credits and the movie score is really really good.

Swerve wrote:

Nightwatcher wrote:

Sunstar wrote:

bagofbest wrote:"And I don't want the world to see me
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."

I nearly choked eating a carrot reading the first two lines.

Same here. Took me a minute to realize what it was parodying though.

I thought the song went:

"And I don't want the world to see me
so I transform into a truck
I also have to hide my mouth from you
'cause my lips make me look like a duck."

Ok that's even better. I choked on my burger.

Just four words come to mind:

Crap in a hat.


I hope Stan Bush gets his song in!

Leonardo wrote:

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?

I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.

Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.

So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?

I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.

And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?

I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.

Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.

So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?

I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.

And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

That's exactly what I was going to say.

Armageddon was a good movie.

and the Goo Goo Dolls are amazing

Ugh. I'd thought/hoped The Goo Good Dolls had gone the way of Lit, Eve 6, and pretty much every soft rock band I haven't heard of in awhile... into the lack of Urban Myth to shoot gay porn with the Red Ranger.

Remember way back in the mid-90's when films like The Crow, Tank Girl, and Romeo and Juliet had alternarock soundtracks filled with songs that actually sounded different from one another? Now it's like the Spider-Man soundtracks... crap by has beens and soon to be forgottens that never actually gets played during the film and is probably only associated due to corporate handshaking rather than appropriateness or popularity.

EDIT: and that's not meant as a dig towards the Goo Goo Dolls... I'm personally not a fan at all but I'd estimate they're probably going to be the album's headliners and the song probably won't be their best.

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?

I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.

Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.

So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?

I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.

And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

Oh now what's wrong with the Spice Girls? Did you know that if you wanted to be one of their lovers you had to get with her friends? Most girlfriends don't like or appreciate it when you get with one of their friends let alone all of them.

Apollyon wrote:And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

Apollyon wrote:Armageddon was a good movie.

Phew. And I thought people wouldn't agree with me on that.

Goo Goo Dolls are pretty good. I wonder if they'll do a cover of Dare, or maybe Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way

Shadowman wrote:

Apollyon wrote:And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

Apollyon wrote:Armageddon was a good movie.

Phew. And I thought people wouldn't agree with me on that.

Goo Goo Dolls are pretty good. I wonder if they'll do a cover of Dare, or maybe Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way

I never thought of the Goo Goo Dolls doing a modern cover from the original Transformers Soundtrack. That would be cool. Either way I kind of hope that whatever they do is kind of upbeat like "Name" and less of a ballad like "Iris".

Anyone else wonder if The Strokes are doing a song for the movie? I noticed that Shaia is wearing a t-shirt for The Strokes in several of the screen caps.

Ironically their biggest hit (Iris) was written as a soundtrack song that they didn't expect to go far.

(It was the soundtrack for that Nicholas Cage/Meg Ryan flick where Nick Cage played the guardian angel that fell in love)

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?

I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.

Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.

So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?

I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.

And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

From my ever so brief (about 3 months) timein the industry basically anything that makes the charts is classified as pop because pop is short for popular music. Brittany, Spice Girls etc are branded as bubblegum pop.

As far as the metal bands go I saw an intersting debate on VH1 once with Lars from Metallica and some total tool that was claiming Metallica sold out doing a pop song (re: Enter Sandman) Lars response was "We didn't sell out we just hapened to write a song that 20 million people enjoyed"

BTW I enjoyed Armageddon too. I'm proud enough to say I own the dvd.

Hang on Keith David who is doing the voice for Barricade was in Armageddon ... We are through the looking glass here people

Maybe it's me but I liked "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" in Armegeddon. And I like Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris"

Count me in.

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Burn wrote:

Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?

I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.

Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.

So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?

I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.

And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.

Well, yes, I would call all of those bands pop. Rock and heavy metal can be pop as well, especially ones that are so popular as the ones you've listed.

I don't know who the Pusscyat Dolls are, but I don't like Britney or the Spice Girls! Or Kylie, before you bring her up, but they're all pop, too.

'cause Wiki is never wrong!

Pop music (often called simply pop) is a genre of popular music distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music.[1] The term indicates specific stylistic traits such as a danceable beat, simple melodies and a repetitive structure. Pop music often includes elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R&B, funk, and sometimes even folk. The pop music genre often involves mass marketing and consumer-driven efforts by major record companies, which makes it an often scorned genre by other musicians.

So how about a concession?

There's two definitions of "pop music".

The genre, which is the point i'm trying to make, and the version which means anything "popular" which depending on who you are can range from Britney Spears to Metallica to Dennis Leary.

Well, blow me, if anything's going to settle a debate on Seibs, it's Wiki!

Concession it is. I say we shake on it.

Leonardo wrote:I say we shake on it.

I have no idea where your hand has been!

Anyway, pointless Goo Goo Dolls information.

In addition to "Iris" from the "City of Angels" soundtrack, they've also contributed done other soundtracks.

"Lazy Eye" from Batman and Robin
"Wait for the Blackout" from Tommy Boy
"Fallin' Down" from Son in Law
"Ain't that unusual" from Angus
"Don't change" from Ace Ventura:When nature calls
"I'm Awake Now", "You Know What I Mean", "Two Days In February", all from Freddy's Dead:The Final Nightmare

Plus they've had a few of their songs featured on tv shows. See their IMDB listing for which ones

Oh and Wiki also classes them as "Rock", "Alternative Rock" and when they first started out, "Punk rock".

There. Everything you needed to know about Goo Goo Dolls and their work on soundtracks.