Weezer -- Classic or Dud?

also Malkmus is FAR and away the better, more inventive guitarist. really knows his weirdo english folk records, bizarre tunings, phrasing, etc.

I never got that impression from a Pavement album.

b-b-but Rivers Cuomo is so into getting laid (specifically by little Japanese girls) its fucking creepy! seriously.

yeah thats pent up frustration from years of NOT BEING FAMOUS

also Malkmus is FAR and away the better, more inventive guitarist. really knows his weirdo english folk records, bizarre tunings, phrasing, etc

WEEZER ALSO USE WEIRD TUNING AND RIVERS IS BETTER AT METAL AND 70S ROCK SOLOS THAN MALK.

Dude I just bought the CR reissue and am listening to it - "Range Life" now playing - and loving it but CAUCASIAN PLEASE.

makes me want to wear my old weezer t-shirts and make that "W" sign with my hands that everybody makes at their shows.

i really like a lot of the kind of hard to find pinkerton demos and stuff between pinkerton and the green album. 'Keep Your Distance', 'Longtime Sunshine', 'Walt Disney' in particular.

I was a couple of years' too late for the Blue Album to have any fascination for me; "Pinkerton" has its moments; I really dug "Hash Pipe."

I remember reading an interview where Cuomo said that Dylan has had (overall) a rather negative influence on popular music. This from the man who made Pinkerton! (Not a horrible album, but the music and lyrics it's influenced...yuck.)

Ok, maybe he's smarter than Mickey Mars,

I fucking doubt that.

i love weezer

http://dsf.pacounties.org/training/lib/training/muppets_and_weezer.jpg

Weird to me is how they went from being just another jokey-alt band to suddenly being a revered and 'influential' group with 'Pinkerton' hailed as an antecedent to Emo...(most of my research is just mostly general conversation with kids in bands, but still...) I nearly fell over when I saw a bio on the group: River's Edge: The Weezer Story (I couldn't make this shit up.) I opened to the intro just to see what the fuck and sure enough the author is unhinged. He recounts how he discovers the group by getting a free cassette and listening to it in his car on the ride home and how he's completely blown away because here was a band who were combining the aggression of punk with the pleasing harmonies and hooks of pop -- and this had never been done before!

Like the Ramones never happened. Never mind the other three hundred bands we could list. If I ever end up in jail I might read this book.

I remember back in the '90s they were pegged as "MTV's Pavement" and that was good enough for me. Trash.

i see all those muppets but where's the band amirite

weezer is so awesome

chaki otm

hating weezer is easy but loving them is SO MUCH EASIER

i don't hate em

creep

I love the Blue Album, not much beyond that but a few singles. But the Blue Album is high on the list of my favorite albums from the 90s, just for the first two songs and "Only In Dreams" alone, not to mention the singles.

only in dreams is fucking epic

i like that buddy holly tune

Driving back late to my hotel after a really important night for my work, I put on the University of Pittsburgh college radio station and "Only In Dreams" came on. At that moment it became the Greatest Song Ever, the Platonic Idea of Epic. The final build-up and climax is pretty autosexual, but that's part of its greatness: I mean it is only in dreams.

weezer were an amazing band who tragically died ten years ago.

I like the quiet moments on Only In Dreams. The loud dynamic stumbles.

'death and destruction' is an underrated tune. it's as close as they came to the greatness of the blue/pinkerton era imo

Honestly, aren't C/D threads like this skewed towards people who cared enough to actually listen to a bands albums and therefore liked them in the first place? I only heard the radio singles and concluded 'Dud' long, long ago but that probably doesn't make it a fair judgment. Nevertheless, I won't lose any sleep over it.

'death and destruction' is an underrated tune.

I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U?

Isn't the new single a pretty great Weezer song?

chorus sounds great. hate the verse and the lyrics :(

Argh, I've been listening to / reading about Weezer after the weekend, and then this gets revived. Odd.

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.spinner.com/media/2008/04/weezer-300.jpg
Produced by Rick Rubin.

The record is being described as "experimental", and according to Cuomo, includes longer and non-traditional songs, TR-808 drum machines, synthesizers, Southern rap, baroque counterpoint, and band members other than Cuomo writing, singing, and switching instruments.

out june 17th btw

longer and non-traditional songs, TR-808 drum machines, synthesizers, Southern rap, baroque counterpoint, and band members other than Cuomo writing, singing, and switching instruments

They have a fever.

cover so funny

brian looks like federline

The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

8-(_____________)

(that's a dropped jaw)