"A Boy Named Goo", the fifth and first well-known Goo Goo Doll album, really began it all for them. Though, the band was highly popular in their hometown of Buffalo, NY, and with college radio across the country, it was the ballad "Name" that began their vast success. Really a culmination of ten years' hard work, "A Boy Named Goo" is a great rock album! With such powerful songs, like the Twister soundtrack favorite "Long Way Down", to the snazzy "Only One", to even the mildly popular "Naked", this album is not only one of the Goo's best, but rock's best as well. However loud guitars, a "bad" bass, and powerful drums only veil achingly truthful lyrics which are so potently delivered with John Rzeznik's divine voice. "A Boy Named Goo", with all the components of a great rock album, served up the success the band had so long deserved.