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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 13355
Released: April 25, 2006 |
| Our Price: $6.92 |
| Used Price: $4.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Let Love In Track Listing:
1. Stay With You
2. Let Love In
3. Feel The Silence
4. Better Days
5. Without You Here
6. Listen
7. Give A Little Bit
8. Can't Let It Go
9. We'll Be Here (When You're Gone)
10. Strange Love
11. Become
Editorial Review:
Better days are here again as one of America's favorite rock bands, The Goo Goo Dolls, returns with its first studio album since 2002. Opening the doors for Let Love In-with the renowned Glen Ballad producing the band for the first time. Let Love In welcomes The Goo Goo Dolls back to the top of rock.
Description of Let Love In:
The Goo Goo Dolls have long since traded the bracing, Replacements-lite abandon of their early days for an ethos of heart-on-their-sleeve emotionality wed to a solid heartland pop craftsmanship that's too easily been casually mislabeled. Superstar producer Glen Ballard (who shares many a writing credit here as well) pushes that latter sensibility to its logical extremes, ensuring a slick sonic experience that won't disappoint those who hitched themselves to the Dolls' wagon circa their mid '90s commercial breakthrough. But there remains a nagging sense that this is a band that isn't pushing itself very hard: even the hook-solid opening single "Stay With You" seems downright cautious. Coupled with Ballard's penchant for polish, Johnny Rzeznik's introspection on "Without You Here" hews close to the center line before Robbie Takac's "Listen" gives the album a much-needed jolt of energy. The album's featured cover, a faithful, contemporary AOR-friendly take on Supertramp's "Give a Little Bit," is emblematic of the Goo Goo Dolls fortunes here: They often seemed boxed in by a past that's not necessarily their own. --Jerry McCulley
Let Love In Reviews:
Great CD 
2008-04-10 - Lots of great songs on this CD. A MUST for any Goo Goo Dolls fan.
"The moment you decided to let love in..." 
2008-02-29 - Let Love In by The Goo Goo Dolls is an so-so album. Not as good as Dizzy Up the Girl or Gutterflower, but still beautiful and the lyrics are heartfelt. The problem I have with this cd is I wish John Rzeznick sang all the songs, his voice is so much better than Robbie's, oh well. Songs I like on this album include: Stay With You, Better Days, Let Love In, and Give a Litte Bit. The rest is mostly filler but hey this album has a lot of heart so that's a plus.
The Goos have proved their talent once again!
2007-12-03 - This is another amazing album from an extremely talented band! The lyrics and melodies are full of honesty, richness, and emotion. I love this album and I'll continue to admire and respect the Goos for many years to come. They are my number one favorite band of all time, and they have always amazed me with their talent and effort. They have definitely proved that they can always make fantastic music and never let their fans down. The Goo Goo Dolls are the best!
A little more popular....radio ready 
2007-09-04 - Let Love In, is not my favorite GGD CD. I think it's because not many of the song's stand out as originals or unique for me. This CD seems a bit more, radio play ready, if you will. A little softer, for sure. And sadly, there is no acoustic song on this album like the last few (acoustic #3, Sympathy)- which is what I always look forward to and undoubtedly listen to on repeat.
However, this is still a great CD, with great songs. Just a slightly different more "pop" sound, in my opinion. I do like the majority of the songs on this album, Beautiful is a favorite, as well as Better Days and Stay With You.
Still a huge GGD fan, enjoyed them in concert last month and am looking forward to more treasures from them in the future, but maybe getting a bit back to their more rockin' roots though.
After a long absence they are back with their most distinct ablum ever.
2007-08-16 - I've always been a big fan of the Goo Goo Dolls, they have a unique sound and a melancholia about them that makes me love them. After a long time without new work they are back now with an album that reflects the Dolls that I've come to know but this album certainly has a sound of it's own.
Listen to any of the tracks and you won't mistake it for anything that you've heard before but it is still the Dolls; a bit of love, disappointment, and the ever present and prevalent hopeful vibe. They are a little older and a little wiser and I can't help but feel like the events that have unfolded in our society in the past few years have a lot to do with how this album has came out, but maybe that's just me >.<
