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Dizzy Up the Girl by Goo Goo Dolls
Dizzy Up the Girl is an album by Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1998. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 105 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Iris”, on 50 lists and voted number one once.
Dizzy Up the Girl, the Goo Goo Dolls' sixth album, came out on Warner Bros. on September 22, 1998, and it's the record that lifted them out of the pack and into the big leagues. They'd had a taste of it already with "Name", the downbeat top-five hit of 1995, but this time they came armed with songs built for the mainstream from the ground up.
Rob Cavallo produced, and Mike Malinin made his album debut with the band behind the drums, joining John Rzeznik on guitar and lead vocals and Robby Takac on bass. The sound is clean and roomy, guitars that chime and then surge, with Rzeznik's rasp pushed right to the front. "Iris" is the one that aches, a sweeping, heart-on-sleeve slow burner, while "Slide" rides a bright, bouncing hook, "Black Balloon" broods, and "Dizzy" cranks the amps back up.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Dizzy Up the Girl on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iris | 50 | #1 | 1 | 1998–2026 | |
| 2 | Slide | 38 | #23 | – | 1998–2023 | |
| 3 | Black Balloon | 11 | #12 | – | 1999–2005 | |
| 4 | Dizzy | 6 | #42 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.