{{for|the song by Conrad Sewell|Hold Me Up (song)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Hold Me Up | type = studio | artist = Goo Goo Dolls | cover = ggdholdme.png | alt = | released = October 16, 1990 | recorded = May 1990 | studio = Trackmaster Audio, Buffalo, New York | genre = * Punk rock<ref>{{cite web |title=GOO GOO DOLLS: GUTTERFLOWER |url=https://www.popmatters.com/googoodolls-gutterflower-2495923769.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=January 22, 2022|quote=The fact of the matter is that John Rzeznik is as good a rock songwriter as they come. He seems to have gone from penning raucous, jaunty punk tunes on early albums such as Jed and Hold Me Up...}}</ref> * power pop<ref>{{cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Goo Goo Dolls {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/goo-goo-dolls-mn0000949630/biography|access-date=July 12, 2021|publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> * alternative rock | length = 39:32 | label = Metal Blade | producer = Armand John Petri | prev_title = Jed | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = Superstar Car Wash | next_year = 1993 | misc = {{Singles | name = Hold Me Up | type = studio | single1 = There You Are | single1date = 1990 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hold-me-up-mw0000310734 |title=Hold Me Up |last=Raggett |first=Ned |website=AllMusic}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Consumer Guide'' |rev2score = {{rating-Christgau|neither}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |chapter=The Goo Goo Dolls |chapter-url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=goo+goo+dolls |date=October 15, 2000 |publisher=Macmillan Publishing |isbn=9780312245603 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/christgausconsum00chri_0 }}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link1=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|date=2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC|page=1462}}</ref> |rev4 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' |rev4Score = A−<ref>{{cite web|last=Browne|first=David|author-link=David Browne (journalist)|date=October 19, 1990|title=Hold Me Up|url=https://ew.com/article/1990/10/19/hold-me/|website=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref> |rev5 = ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac |url-access=registration |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |last=Brackett |first=Nathan |last2=Hoard |first2=Christian David |date=2004 |publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA338 338] |isbn=9780743201698 |author-link=Nathan Brackett |author-link2=Christian Hoard}}</ref> }}
'''''Hold Me Up''''' is the third studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls, released on October 16, 1990, by Metal Blade Records. It marked the beginning of John Rzeznik's emergence as the band's principal lead vocalist. The album features the band's first single "There You Are," which became their first music video as well. In 2017, Loudwire listed the album as one of Metal Blade's best albums.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rivadavia|first=Eduardo|url=https://loudwire.com/35-best-metal-blade-records-albums/|title=35 Best Metal Records Albums|date=November 10, 2017|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = the Goo Goo Dolls, except when noted | title1 = Laughing | length1 = 3:41 | title2 = Just the Way You Are | length2 = 3:08 | title3 = So Outta Line | length3 = 2:22 | title4 = There You Are | length4 = 3:07 | title5 = You Know What I Mean | length5 = 3:24 | title6 = Out of the Red | length6 = 1:40 | title7 = Never Take the Place of Your Man | writer7 = Prince | length7 = 3:49 | title8 = Hey | length8 = 2:51 | title9 = On Your Side | length9 = 3:04 | title10 = 22 Seconds | length10 = 0:40 | title11 = Kevin's Song | length11 = 3:09 | title12 = Know My Name | length12 = 2:42 | title13 = A Million Miles Away | writer13 = {{hlist|Peter Case|Joey Alkes|Chris Fradkin}} | length13 = 2:44 | title14 = Two Days in February | length14 = 3:11 }}
== Personnel == '''Goo Goo Dolls''' * Johnny Rzeznik – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 2, 4, 5, 13, and 14, co-lead vocals on track 8 * Robby Takac – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12, co-lead vocals on track 8 * George Tutuska – drums, lead vocals on track 10
'''Additional musicians''' * Lance Diamond – lead vocals on track 7 * Joe Rozler – horn arrangements and keyboards on track 11
'''Technical personnel''' * Armand John Petri – production, engineering * Michael Sak – engineering * Joe Brescio – mastering
==''Just the Way You Are EP''== An EP featuring the studio version of the title song and three live tracks from "Hold Me Up" was released in 1991.<ref>[http://musicbrainz.org/release/b244a831-7e11-44ab-8bbb-e6b79c37221f.html" Show release at MusicBrainz - Just the Way You Are EP]</ref>
{{Track listing | title1 = Just the Way You Are | length1 = 3:08 | title2 = Just the Way You Are |note2=Live in Nashville | length2 = 3:13 | title3 = Hey |note3=Live in Nashville | length3 = 2:32 | title4 = You Know What I Mean |note4=Live in Nashville | length4 = 3:24 }}
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