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Something for the Rest of Us is an album to play on the drive home.
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Something for the Rest of Us is every bit as easy on the ear as each of their albums has been since 98's big-league breakthrough, Dizzy Up the Girl.
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The set has a fullness and energy-not to mention an arsenal of layered guitars-that give it the kind of muscle we haven't heard from the band in quite some time.
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Kerrang!So while it's a typically polished affair, it is by no means lacking in genuine emotion. [4 Sep 2010, p.51]
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Maybe the label was hoping to get back some of the Goo Goos' 90s magic, but that doesn't happen.
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Always something of an underdog themselves, throughout their career the Goo Goo Dolls have quietly championed society's own underdogs. With Something for the Rest of Us, they craft a near-perfect, emotional album that gives a voice and a window into the individual struggles of the large number of "the rest of us" out there.
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Q MagazineThere's enough here to satisfy the faithful, if nothing to enlist new recruits. [Oct. 2010, p. 108]
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Frontman John Rzeznik remains an assured singer. But amid his vocal polish is a new sense of strain, and for a band this lightweight, the additional anxiety doesn't flatter.
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