Signal Void/DEADLIFE - "Turncoat"
I love how randomly you find music from the past year that'd you'd wish you'd discovered earlier to have on your lists for the year. Such is the case here. I even had DEADLIFE's album on my lists, but didn't realize they'd collaborated on this track, which is the standout from an album of other excellent tunes.
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Used to really like these guys back in the day, and this song was always a favorite. Popped into my head the other day and have been listening to it a bunch since. I always wondered how many guitars were playing on the track, but watching some live videos and tutorials it looks like just one (even during the solo), made possible by Rzeznik's weird alternate tuning on the song. It's actually a pretty creative acoustic guitar part, and I've always loved how it sounds.
There are actually at least two different studio recordings of that song, one on
A Boy Named Goo, and another on a hits compilation. The one I'm guessing you're referring to is primarily one guitar for the main part, but it does have some other guitar layers that come in at various points to fill it out. The other version has more obvious double-tracking going on. I love how they go back and forth between double-time and cut time, it's a really unique song, almost surely my favorite of theirs. It's one of the centerpieces of a compilation I'm always trying to expand with acoustic-driven 90s alt rock songs.