Additional personnel: Brad Fernquist (guitar); Korel Tunador (piano).

Although often derided as a poor man's Replacements in the earliest years of their career, the Goo Goo Dolls quickly matured into a cannily melodic and smartly commercial alternative rock band with a knack for flannel-clad power ballads ("Iris," "Name"). GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1: THE SINGLES delivers just what the title offers: the a-sides of all of the Goo Goo Dolls' singles starting with those from 1995's commercial breakthrough album, A BOY NAMED GOO, through 2006's LET LOVE IN. By ignoring the band's first four albums, this set caters mostly to latter-day fans who only want the radio hits.