the goos are amazing and the only thing you need to get into them IMO is the live in buffalo dvd(get the concert on audio cd aswell)
its an amazing concert they are so good live.

definatly one of my fav bands johnny rzeznik is an amazing singer/frontman.
and to think he never was a singer(too shy) until the bassist from GGD told him to sing in the early days.

they were orinigally a punk band. johnny loved the sound of heavy metal guitars but never liked what heavy metal bands did with it.
so the stuff he has said he wants to create still hasn't been done.using the heavy metal sound guitars but doing something melodic with it.

the new album i heard will have hardly any ballad types like black ballon,iris,name one because he is not in that type of modd in his life now but he was back then.

johnny IMO is one of the best lyricist aswell.
black ballon,broadway,name,iris,slide,here is gone plus many many more are such great deep lyrics