Goo Goo for Transformers
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 3:15AM CDT
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"Actually we just finished recording a song for the Transformers film, which is coming out the 4th of July. I think we're going to work that one.”
He was asked about how the band got the opportunity to record the song.
"Michael Bay and Lorenzo from the film, they approached my manager about getting me in there to do it. It's sort of the love theme, of course. That's what everybody wants from me. I'm more than happy to oblige. It's an awesome movie."
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Posted by Powermaster Jazz on May 1st, 2007 @ 3:20am CDT
Posted by Leonardo on May 1st, 2007 @ 3:25am CDT
Posted by Skullgrin140 on May 1st, 2007 @ 3:44am CDT
Posted by zhgingaah on May 1st, 2007 @ 3:53am CDT
Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
Yeah, Stan Bush was working on one too, let's hope hemakes the cut also!
A lot of blockbusters combine the theatrical score with pop songs these days, heck even going back to that nonsense Back to the Future... Spiderman 1 & 2, Godzilla (eurgh, lol) - Is more merchandise for us to lap up!
Posted by Burn on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:07am CDT
Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Posted by bagofbest on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:23am CDT
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."
Posted by Leonardo on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:44am CDT
Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.
Posted by Anonymous on May 1st, 2007 @ 5:28am CDT
But at what cost to the fans?
I don't want a human love story in there! I want chaos, destruction, violence, carnage, metal twisted and snapped. I want millions of years of struggle between two factions of the same robot race--I want HISTORY. I want a war with giant transforming robots, damnit!
Okay, I am better now. Where is the Zoloft?
Posted by Psychout on May 1st, 2007 @ 6:32am CDT
Posted by Gaijin on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:04am CDT
Posted by Archanubis on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:18am CDT
Posted by D-340 on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:22am CDT
Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
I would. Everything I remember them doing was pop.
Posted by RogueDeathangel on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:45am CDT
zhgingaah wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
Yeah, Stan Bush was working on one too, let's hope hemakes the cut also!
A lot of blockbusters combine the theatrical score with pop songs these days, heck even going back to that nonsense Back to the Future... Spiderman 1 & 2, Godzilla (eurgh, lol) - Is more merchandise for us to lap up!
What was wrong with Back To The Future?
Kinda intrigued by this, but hey, it shouldn't really matter to the fans, I mean, did that god-awful song for Spider-Man 1 ever have a noticable negative effect on the franchise, or the fans? I think not.
Posted by Leonardo on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:48am CDT
RogueDeathangel wrote:zhgingaah wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
Yeah, Stan Bush was working on one too, let's hope hemakes the cut also!
A lot of blockbusters combine the theatrical score with pop songs these days, heck even going back to that nonsense Back to the Future... Spiderman 1 & 2, Godzilla (eurgh, lol) - Is more merchandise for us to lap up!
What was wrong with Back To The Future?
Kinda intrigued by this, but hey, it shouldn't really matter to the fans, I mean, did that god-awful song for Spider-Man 1 ever have a noticable negative effect on the franchise, or the fans? I think not.
They did a song for Spiderman?
Posted by Wheeljack35 on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:55am CDT
Posted by Starscream on May 1st, 2007 @ 7:59am CDT
Posted by TheMuffin on May 1st, 2007 @ 8:17am CDT
Posted by Swerve on May 1st, 2007 @ 8:32am CDT
Posted by Brakethrough on May 1st, 2007 @ 8:52am CDT
Posted by Sunstar on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:03am CDT
bagofbest wrote:"And I don't want the world to see me
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."
I nearly choked eating a carrot reading the first two lines.
Posted by jgilkinson on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:07am CDT
Posted by trailbreaker on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:14am CDT
Posted by TheMuffin on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:19am CDT
Sunstar wrote:bagofbest wrote:"And I don't want the world to see me
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."
I nearly choked eating a carrot reading the first two lines.
Same here. Took me a minute to realize what it was parodying though.
Posted by Fireblast on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:25am CDT
Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:51am CDT
Posted by Stormrider on May 1st, 2007 @ 9:51am CDT
Posted by WhiteRabbit on May 1st, 2007 @ 10:23am CDT
Thunderscream wrote:This does not bode well for the soundtrack.
QFT
Posted by Ultra Magnus on May 1st, 2007 @ 10:24am CDT
Posted by zodconvoy on May 1st, 2007 @ 10:53am CDT
Nobody my age even listens to them.
Good for you but I was in High School/ College when they were popular so it a band I actually like. Not everything in music is geared to 12 year olds. Not that I know how old you are but I agree its better than Fall Out Boy. They probably figured in out by target audience demographs. The original Trandformers audience was under ten when the Transformers came out so we would have been in high school/ college in 1996-99 when Goo was most popular and that is the age range when most people are most interested in music. What at first seems like a strange decision about this movie once again explained by mathimatics!
Posted by Swerve on May 1st, 2007 @ 11:03am CDT
Nightwatcher wrote:Sunstar wrote:bagofbest wrote:"And I don't want the world to see me
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."
I nearly choked eating a carrot reading the first two lines.
Same here. Took me a minute to realize what it was parodying though.
I thought the song went:
"And I don't want the world to see me
so I transform into a truck
I also have to hide my mouth from you
'cause my lips make me look like a duck."
Posted by OptimusIsHot on May 1st, 2007 @ 11:26am CDT
Posted by jonusjaxon on May 1st, 2007 @ 11:37am CDT
Posted by Quaternion on May 1st, 2007 @ 12:10pm CDT
Posted by TheMuffin on May 1st, 2007 @ 2:12pm CDT
Swerve wrote:Nightwatcher wrote:Sunstar wrote:bagofbest wrote:"And I don't want the world to see me
So i transform into a truck
There's some news about the soundtrack
But no-one could give a........ Damn."
I nearly choked eating a carrot reading the first two lines.
Same here. Took me a minute to realize what it was parodying though.
I thought the song went:
"And I don't want the world to see me
so I transform into a truck
I also have to hide my mouth from you
'cause my lips make me look like a duck."
Ok that's even better. I choked on my burger.
Posted by Roboto750 on May 1st, 2007 @ 2:45pm CDT
Crap in a hat.
I hope Stan Bush gets his song in!
Posted by Burn on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:13pm CDT
Leonardo wrote:Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.
So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?
I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.
And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.
Posted by Venomous Prime on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:28pm CDT
Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.
So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?
I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.
And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.
That's exactly what I was going to say.
Armageddon was a good movie.
and the Goo Goo Dolls are amazing
Posted by AbsumZer0 on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:38pm CDT
Remember way back in the mid-90's when films like The Crow, Tank Girl, and Romeo and Juliet had alternarock soundtracks filled with songs that actually sounded different from one another? Now it's like the Spider-Man soundtracks... crap by has beens and soon to be forgottens that never actually gets played during the film and is probably only associated due to corporate handshaking rather than appropriateness or popularity.
EDIT: and that's not meant as a dig towards the Goo Goo Dolls... I'm personally not a fan at all but I'd estimate they're probably going to be the album's headliners and the song probably won't be their best.
Posted by Swerve on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:40pm CDT
Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.
So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?
I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.
And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.
Oh now what's wrong with the Spice Girls? Did you know that if you wanted to be one of their lovers you had to get with her friends? Most girlfriends don't like or appreciate it when you get with one of their friends let alone all of them.
Posted by Shadowman on May 1st, 2007 @ 4:51pm CDT
Apollyon wrote:And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.
Apollyon wrote:Armageddon was a good movie.
Phew. And I thought people wouldn't agree with me on that.
Goo Goo Dolls are pretty good. I wonder if they'll do a cover of Dare, or maybe Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way
Posted by Swerve on May 1st, 2007 @ 5:22pm CDT
Shadowman wrote:Apollyon wrote:And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.Apollyon wrote:Armageddon was a good movie.
Phew. And I thought people wouldn't agree with me on that.
Goo Goo Dolls are pretty good. I wonder if they'll do a cover of Dare, or maybe Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way
I never thought of the Goo Goo Dolls doing a modern cover from the original Transformers Soundtrack. That would be cool. Either way I kind of hope that whatever they do is kind of upbeat like "Name" and less of a ballad like "Iris".
Anyone else wonder if The Strokes are doing a song for the movie? I noticed that Shaia is wearing a t-shirt for The Strokes in several of the screen caps.
Posted by Gierling on May 1st, 2007 @ 5:46pm CDT
(It was the soundtrack for that Nicholas Cage/Meg Ryan flick where Nick Cage played the guardian angel that fell in love)
Posted by Bartrim on May 1st, 2007 @ 10:08pm CDT
Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.
So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?
I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.
And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.
From my ever so brief (about 3 months) timein the industry basically anything that makes the charts is classified as pop because pop is short for popular music. Brittany, Spice Girls etc are branded as bubblegum pop.
As far as the metal bands go I saw an intersting debate on VH1 once with Lars from Metallica and some total tool that was claiming Metallica sold out doing a pop song (re: Enter Sandman) Lars response was "We didn't sell out we just hapened to write a song that 20 million people enjoyed"
BTW I enjoyed Armageddon too. I'm proud enough to say I own the dvd.
Hang on Keith David who is doing the voice for Barricade was in Armageddon ... We are through the looking glass here people
Posted by Supreme Convoy on May 1st, 2007 @ 10:11pm CDT
Count me in.
Posted by Leonardo on May 2nd, 2007 @ 2:17am CDT
Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:Burn wrote:Leonardo wrote:So we're getting pop songs then?
I wouldn't call Goo Goo Dolls pop.
Why not? They're a popular band, they've had chart hits. That makes them pop, surely.
So by that definition that would make the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard ... well basically all rock/heavy metal groups "pop"?
I'd consider Goo Goo Dolls "soft rock" while "pop" is left to the likes of Britney, Pussy Cat Dolls, and no doubt your favourite, The Spice Girls.
And I guess i'm the only one who enjoyed the Armageddon soundtrack, oh wait, I enjoyed the movie as well.
Well, yes, I would call all of those bands pop. Rock and heavy metal can be pop as well, especially ones that are so popular as the ones you've listed.
I don't know who the Pusscyat Dolls are, but I don't like Britney or the Spice Girls! Or Kylie, before you bring her up, but they're all pop, too.
Posted by Burn on May 2nd, 2007 @ 7:55am CDT
Pop music (often called simply pop) is a genre of popular music distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music.[1] The term indicates specific stylistic traits such as a danceable beat, simple melodies and a repetitive structure. Pop music often includes elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R&B, funk, and sometimes even folk. The pop music genre often involves mass marketing and consumer-driven efforts by major record companies, which makes it an often scorned genre by other musicians.
So how about a concession?
There's two definitions of "pop music".
The genre, which is the point i'm trying to make, and the version which means anything "popular" which depending on who you are can range from Britney Spears to Metallica to Dennis Leary.
Posted by Leonardo on May 2nd, 2007 @ 7:59am CDT
Concession it is. I say we shake on it.
Posted by Burn on May 2nd, 2007 @ 8:40am CDT
Leonardo wrote:I say we shake on it.
I have no idea where your hand has been!
Anyway, pointless Goo Goo Dolls information.
In addition to "Iris" from the "City of Angels" soundtrack, they've also contributed done other soundtracks.
"Lazy Eye" from Batman and Robin
"Wait for the Blackout" from Tommy Boy
"Fallin' Down" from Son in Law
"Ain't that unusual" from Angus
"Don't change" from Ace Ventura:When nature calls
"I'm Awake Now", "You Know What I Mean", "Two Days In February", all from Freddy's Dead:The Final Nightmare
Plus they've had a few of their songs featured on tv shows. See their IMDB listing for which ones
Oh and Wiki also classes them as "Rock", "Alternative Rock" and when they first started out, "Punk rock".
There. Everything you needed to know about Goo Goo Dolls and their work on soundtracks.
Posted by Leonardo on May 2nd, 2007 @ 8:44am CDT
Seriously, four of those films I've heard of, three I've seen and none of them did I like. Of course, a film is not necessarily the measure of a good OST or song. I can't remember anything they did for any of those films.