Better Days
The Goo Goo Dolls | Artist Essentials
First released: 2005 (year verified)
Original 2006 studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: A simple piano figure anchors the gradual arrival of the full band and answering voices.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 2005 (year verified)
The original band studio track has its own 2005 release metadata before the associated album. In particular, Better Days was already public in 2005 before Let Love In in 2006. Only the supported year is published; the album date is not substituted for the single date.
Recording: Original 2006 studio recording
Credit: The Goo Goo Dolls
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: Better Days
Goo Goo Dolls - reviewed public distributor recording metadata
Actually retrieved JSON supplies all selected original album track titles, The Goo Goo Dolls artist credit and individual release dates. Iris 1998, Slide 1998, Here Is Gone 2002, Better Days 2005 and Stay with You 2006 have track dates earlier than their associated album dates. Only year precision is published; no phonogram or January 1 placeholder is used. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Let Love In - original album and individual track metadata
The associated public distributor lookup identifies the original 2006 album and its tracks. Better Days has a distinct 2005 track release date; Stay with You has an advance 2006 single date. The compound phonogram years do not establish first release. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
In the yearly lists
These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
The actual retained 2005 single agrees with the individual original track release year, before the 2006 album.
Let Love In - original album and individual track metadata
The associated public distributor lookup identifies the original 2006 album and its tracks. Better Days has a distinct 2005 track release date; Stay with You has an advance 2006 single date. The compound phonogram years do not establish first release. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Goo Goo Dolls - reviewed public distributor recording metadata
Actually retrieved JSON supplies all selected original album track titles, The Goo Goo Dolls artist credit and individual release dates. Iris 1998, Slide 1998, Here Is Gone 2002, Better Days 2005 and Stay with You 2006 have track dates earlier than their associated album dates. Only year precision is published; no phonogram or January 1 placeholder is used. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls grew out of Buffalo's local music scene and developed an international audience while retaining a strong connection to the city. Their studio records moved between forceful electric guitars and more exposed acoustic arrangements. Name brought the quieter side into focus before Iris reached listeners through the City of Angels soundtrack. The band's catalog also includes compact rock songs and increasingly layered productions on Gutterflower and Let Love In. Original studio recordings, soundtrack presentations and concert performances are kept distinct here.
Artist background sources
Goo Goo Dolls - Buffalo History Museum career context
The museum describes the band's roots in local Buffalo venues, its later international reach, and its relationship to the city's cultural life through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Event and membership information is not biographical evidence. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
John Rzeznik - original Iris recording account
The artist interview introduction identifies the original 1998 City of Angels soundtrack release and explicitly distinguishes the version heard in the film from the familiar released recording. It also identifies Name as a 1995 song and the Buffalo origin of the band. No lyrics or unsupported inspiration paraphrases are copied. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Dizzy Up the Girl - label original program
The label explicitly identifies the original 1998 album and its original thirteen-track program. The modern anniversary product date is not used. Iris has a separately reviewed earlier soundtrack release, while Slide has its own 1998 advance-single metadata. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Gutterflower - label original studio program
The label explicitly identifies the original 2002 album and original twelve-song program, including Big Machine, Here Is Gone and Sympathy. The contemporary vinyl product date is not used as first release. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Let Love In - original album and individual track metadata
The associated public distributor lookup identifies the original 2006 album and its tracks. Better Days has a distinct 2005 track release date; Stay with You has an advance 2006 single date. The compound phonogram years do not establish first release. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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