Name

"Name"
Single by Goo Goo Dolls
from the album A Boy Named Goo
Released	September 26, 1995
Format	CD single, Cassette Single
Recorded	1995
Genre	Rock
Length	4:30 (album version) 4:03 (single edit)
Label	Metal Blade Records/Warner Bros. Records
Goo Goo Dolls singles chronology
"Flat Top" (1995) "Name" (1995) "Naked" (1996)

"Name" is a single from the Goo Goo Dolls' album, A Boy Named Goo. The song, the band's first hit, topped both the US Modern Rock chart and the US Album Rock chart, and reached as high as number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[1] Until the release of the Dizzy Up the Girl album three years later, "Name" was by far the band's most popular and well known song.

The band re-recorded this song for their compilation album, Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles. The new version is much more raw with a very stripped down production compared to the original 1995 recording.

Track listing

1. "Name" - 4:30
2. "Nothing Can Change You" - 3:14
3. "I Want to Destroy You" - 2:34

German promo single

1. "Name" (Single edit)

Cassette Single

1. "Name"
2. "Burnin' Up"

Song composition

According to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik it happened "quite accidentally". Rzeznik explained how he came up with the songs' unusual tuning, D-A-E-A-E-E while performing at a KFOG private radio show on 11/30/98. "It was weird, I was just sitting on my couch randomly twisting the tuning pegs, and I couldn't figure out what notes the guitar was tuned to, so I had to grab my tuner to find out, and then I jotted them down on a post it." Rzeznik then proceeded to say "I just sat there and let my fingers play the fretboard openly, and that is what became the progression of 'Name'.". In a recent quote, he stated the following. "I wrote this song about feeling like I was wasting time, and my life; just wasting everything, and this song is what came out of it."

Chart positions

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