Name (song)
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| "Name" | ||
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| Single by Goo Goo Dolls | ||
| from the album A Boy Named Goo | ||
| Released | 1995 | |
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| Recorded | ||
| Genre | Alternative Rock | |
| Length | 4 min 30 s | |
| Label | Metal Blade Records/Warner Brothers | |
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| Chart positions | ||
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#5 (US Hot 100) |
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| Goo Goo Dolls singles chronology | ||
| "Long Way Down" (1995) |
"Name" (1996) |
"Only One" (1996) |
Name is a single of off the album A Boy Named Goo. This was the Goo Goo Dolls' first major hit. The song topped both the US Modern Rock and the US Mainstream Rock charts, and reached as high as number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Until the release of Dizzy Up the Girl three years later, Name was by far the band's most popular and well known song.
[edit] Song composition
According to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik it happened "quite accidentally". He says that he came up with the songs' tuning, D A E A E E, while he was sitting on his couch randomly twisting the tuning pegs of his acoustic guitar. He said "I didn't know what notes they were so I grabbed a guitar tuner to find out then just jotted them down on a yellow post-it note and when I started playing the fretboard, the progression of what would become "Name" just came out." He says that he wrote it as a love ballad, reflecting his childhood as an orphan.
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart | Position |
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| US Billboard Hot 100 | #5 |
| US Modern Rock Tracks | #1 |
| US Mainstream Rock Tracks | #1 |
| Adult Top 40 | #2 |
