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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Metal Blade
Salesrank: 1248014
Released: February 22, 1994 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Jed Track Listing:
1. Out of Sight
2. Up Yours
3. No Way Out
4. 7th of Last Month (Or Iggy the Cat Gets a Bath)
5. Love Dolls
6. Sex Maggot
7. Down on the Corner
8. Had Enough
9. Road to Salinas
10. Em Elbmuh
11. Misfortune
12. Artie
13. Gimme Shelter
14. James Dean
Jed Reviews:
Second GGD album - Second Best 
2007-02-06 - Well for all you bandwagon jumping goo goo dolls fans that came aboard after they put out 'iris' and became big, this is for you. This record was the goo's continuing with their pop-punk style started on their first one. It is slightly toned down but not by much. The release after this one, hold me up, would veer towards what the g.g.d.'s now play everyday. Mainstream overrated pop rock. Buy this one and experience what true unique, fun, inspired punk music is all about. Robby on vocals was the better choice and that was why he was their original singer. His style and vision, although may not have gotten them their mainstream success, is still what makes this and first release great. Very few cheesy ballad songs, aka Johnny songs. You find the goo goo dolls the way they were meant to be here. Do not buy anything after Jed if you are a listener with a brain and some musical sense. I don't care if people say they sold out with "a boy named goo". I say they sold out beginning on "hold me up" and never returned to the real goo goo dolls with talent, relevance, and ballz...
True Goo
2006-05-06 - This is album is example what the Goo's are at heart, a great punk/jangle rock band. Unfortunately the Goo's Earlier albums are dismissed as bratty, trashy noise by mainstreamed critics. It's disappointing to see the Goo's go mainstream. The fun enjoyable music of the Goo's is nonexistent in albums from "Dizzy Up The Girl" and forward, it's sad to see it go. They need to move back to Buffalo and take a BIG step back and see what they've become. "Dizzy Up The Girl" and "Gutterflower" are respectable, mainstreamed cds and they don't bother most whole-hearted Goo fans, but the new "Let Love In" doesn't even show their musical talent. They've crossed the line and gone TOO mainstream. "Goo Goo Dolls", "Jed", "Hold Me Up", "Superstar Car Wash", and "A Boy Named Goo" are reminders of the "True Goo".
Amazing.
2006-02-07 - I, like many others, first heard the Goos in "Iris", and fell in love. I bought Dizzy up the Girl, then, because I liked that so much, decided I wanted to hear how they had changed since they started, bought What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art and Commerce. After a while, I had managed to find all of them except this and their first release (which, by the way, I still haven't found). I was a little iffy when I first got Hold Me Up, but now I love it. I loved Jed the instant I heard it, but it would have taken me a long time to adjust if I didn't have Hold Me Up. So buy Hold Me Up first, and if you like that, go ahead and get Jed. I don't understand how people can say that they like the Goo Goo Dolls now, but not then, or then, but not now, because they've yet to write a song I don't like. But if you first heard the Goos in their more recent work, off Gutterflower and Dizzy Up the Girl, then definitely get Hold Me Up before this one.
Wickedly fun
2005-11-24 - This album is a must-have for an avid Goo Goo Dolls fan. I absolutely love the album, but if you aren't very interested in the Goo Goo Dolls, you probably won't appreciate this album. the songs are fun and bring a smile to my face every time I play them. This album definitely shows the growth of the GGDs from then to now. This album rocks!
The Goo Goo Dolls Did This?! 
2004-08-11 - Boy have the Goos come a long way! This album is atrocious! The singing sounds like it sung by a drunken hungover reveler. 99% of the songs sound like they were written by someone who was either high on crack or suffered severe head trauma. The guitar work and drumming is soooo sloppy and noisy. Don't get me wrong; I love the Goos. I bought this album when I was 17 or 18 and it was so bad that I through it out in the same bag that I scooped my cat's litter box out with. The 1% of good on this album is for the song James Dean and Down On the Corner. This has to be the worst Goo album I ever heard and I heard all of their albums except their debut album. Get Hold Me Up instead of this album if you want to hear some of the Goos earlier work. Even Johnny said that Hold Me Up was their REAL first album.
