I LUV THE GOO GOO DOLLS AND WITH GREAT SONGS LIKE;ALL EYES ON ME,I HATE THIS PLACE,DIZZY,BULLET-PROOFAND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE IRIS THIS IS A MUST BUY!!! all of the songs have good meanings, r thought pro-voking and some r quite touching and extremely well preformed!!!

Pardon me while I clean up my vomit to make room for more vomit. Still trying to understand the garbage these kids are listening to these days. They call this alternative rock, and by that I think they mean alternative to real music. This music should be on sesame streets "let's get funky with the alphabet" hour or whatever they call it. Blank tape has more substance than this music. This group sounds like part of the mainstream corporate giant consisting of hundreds of talentless bands just like this one good for only one thing, killing good music as we know it. Ok kids, this music is ok for now, but once you get potty trained it's time to move on. That way you won't need someone else to help you remove crap from your cd collection.

The song Iris is probably one of my alltime favourite songs...a good cd to buy on the whole.Other good songs in the album are black baloon and slide.

This album contains some of their most well knwn songs - such as 'Iris', & 'Slide'.

But even with the lighter sound, the album contains some of their best songs, some of them even biographical.

If you are like me, you know that the album as a whole is just as important as the songs in the album. What makes Dizzy up the Girl so special is that it doesn't just have that new sound that is what really made Goo Goo Dolls super-popular (first hinted at in A Boy Named Goo, but not fully realized yet), but that they also put all the great songs together into a nearly perfect album. This means that it has to have:

1) Great songs--with both flair, individuality and variety. Each song must sound different from other bands sounds (unless they are deliberately emulating it to the other band's credit), but also different from the other songs in the album (this is where groups like Third Eye Blind fail).

2) The right songs--a great song may not belong in the album if it doesn't fit. Each song must contribute to the album as a whole and also find a way to stand out. Every song in this album stands out for something without drowning out the other songs on the album.

3) The right arrangement--each song must be in the right place within the album. It really does matter whether the song is in the middle, begining or the end. It matters which song comes before and after which song, and especially what song comes first and what comes last. This album accomplishes this difficult, yet very rewarding task.

Any album that meets these criteria is a notch above the masses of songs out there. Anybody can create an album with one or two hit songs, but this album is special because of the collective experience from listening to the entire album (which should give you some insight as to why I am against the idea of downloading individual songs off the internet for 99 cents--it destroys the art of the album and is like downloading only some of the chapters of a book!)

Now for Dizzy up the Girl in specific:

Dizzy - A great starter song, getting you into the groove of whats to come. Dizzy lets you in without giving it all away. Perfect intro all around.

Slide - Nothing is better than following up a great song with a second great song (nothing is more annoying than having only the first song on an album be any good). Slide is one of their chart toppers, which means more mainstream acceptance but not necessarily better than the rest of the songs. Catchy, soft-gritty love song.

Robby Takac - Spaced well throughout the album is bassist Robby Takac, whose voice is rather whiny and annoying at first, but you soon realize that, first, he balances John Rzeznik's "pained but smooth" style and, second, his lyrics are pretty catchy. Robby Takac has changed his music less than John Rzeznik has changed his.

Hate This Place - Perfect last song, from the transition from Extra Pale to the last note. This song wraps up the album by being a median between the highs and lows of the other songs. All the peaks and valleys of the album are spaced throughout the album, and this song takes us back to where we began with Dizzy.

In conclusion, this album transecends boundaries and is still great by today's standards. It is one of the best albums ever made.