Music I can not live without!
The Goo Goo Dolls
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The Goo Goo Dolls first came together in Buffalo, New York,
and they released their self-titled debut in 1987. Since then, they've
continued to gain more and more popularity.
About their sixth album "Dizzy Up The Girl", John Rzeznik says, "Making this record was a
serious growing process for us. What I really wanted to do was be led by the music, rather than leading it. Sometimes, it felt like that was
never going to happen, but once it did, the feeling was incredible. This album has an ease of sound that I don't think we've ever captured
before."
That is what I think too, that this is a wonderful album! But I have just discovered the band so I can not compare it with their earlier recordings. In the movie "City of Angels" starring Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage, The Goo Goo Dolls is singing "Iris", wich I think is one of the best love songs ever. "Black Balloon" is also one of my favorite tracks on the album.
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Joan Osborne
Freshly transplanted from suburban Kentucky, Joan was a young NYU film student with a private passion for singing when, in the
late 1980s, friends spontaneously urged her onstage during open mic night at a downtown New York bar. "I got up and sang a little
Billie Holiday song," she recalls, "and the piano player suggested I come back next week." "Next week" segued into months, then
years on New York's rock and blues bar circuit, where she drew ever-expanding crowds while stretching the boundaries of a
voice Rolling Stone would later describe as conveying "whole choirs of feeling" -- choirs that shout with raucous urban blues, haunt
the trail of the lonesome pine, and mix sensuous, satin-sheet soul with rock-dive grit and the
testifying power of gospel. The novena she lights inside the dark heart of "Crazy Baby" on Relish dates back to that
work-in-progress period, when Joan released two albums on her own Womanly Hips label: Soul Show and the 1994 Blue
Million Miles EP.
Though those earlier efforts revealed a prodigiously gifted singer with a multi-faceted voice, it's Relish that finally unleashed
Joan Osborne's voice. Rich in visual wit and a filmaker's eye for detail ("my panties in a wad at the bottom of my purse"),
an alchemist's transmutations ("every stone a story like a rosary") and a tent show revivalist's fervor ("you give me a ladder
now/I surely believe I'll climb), it's a voice crying out in the wilderness which, as Billboard observes, "manifests an almost
mystical grasp of a culture in spiritual disarray."
Plus it's got a great beat and you can dance to it.
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Joan Osborne
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Savage Garden
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Both singer Darren Hayes, and instrumentalist Daniel Jones are born and raised in the land Down Under, Australia. They met 4 years ago while doing time on the local bar scene in Brisbane. Daniel advertised for a singer and Darren called him up. And it clicked between them. They started sending out demotapes at a feverish pace and response came quickly from publishers an record companies. Shortly after they started to work on their first album. It took 8 months to complete. This was what they had dreamt about and it was the biggest learning process ever, Daniel says.
Their first single became a hit in their home country, "I want you" was the highest selling Australian hit for 1996! The success continued, "To the Moon and Back" quickly went no.1, surpassing the sales of their debut single.
An international deal with Columbia materialized.
And now almost everyone, atleast here in Sweden have heard about Savage Garden. If YOU have not heard any of their songs you have really missed something!
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Savage Garden Fanzine
This is the homepage made by friends and family to Daniel and Darren. Here you can find lots of links to other sites dedicated to Savage Garden.
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