Weezer -- Classic or Dud?

Packers super bowl champs = we're all green bay now

ugh this guy should be shot

is it me or is this the best song he's written in like 10 years?

@Kari_Mil I believe the number one source of the spiritual power on Pinkerton was my leg procedure.
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Rivers Cuomo

Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
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My wife rules for wearing leg warmers to bed.
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well, ahoy: http://www.theweezercruise.com/

There's actually a decent lineup joining them:

Coming along with us are special guests Dinosaur Jr, as well as Sebadoh, Gene Ween and Dave Dreiwitz, Wavves, The Antlers, Yuck, Free Energy, Boom Bip, J Mascis (solo acoustic), Lou Barlow, Keepaway, Ozma, The Nervous Wreckords, The Knocks, Sleeper Agent and Yacht Rock Revue.

Why can't they just throw together a festival like a normal band?

aw, I remember how excited me and my pals were when we spotted Barlow's name on the map in the Pinkerton art.

Why can't they just throw together a festival like a normal band?

Because thats so 2008. Cruise tours are all the rage right now.

i like rivers's twitter feed

@RiversCuomo
Rivers Cuomo
Everyone's just trying to be happy.
15 hours ago via Twitter for Android

^^ IMO this tweet pretty much sums up last decade-or-so for RC

(and that's what amuses me to no end about him)

Counting down the days until Weezer's inevitable "Friday" cover

http://riverscuomo.com/2011/07/27/entertaining-my-daughter-from-the-road-via-skype/

it disturbs me that he has a child

http://i.imgur.com/hy16P.jpg

Apparently Mikey Welsh has died: http://www.facebook.com/MikeyWelshArt

I just heard that from a cop friend. Seems that he took his own life in his hotel room here in Chicago. I assume this means their appearance at Congress tomorrow is canceled.

http://www.wbez.org/story/weezer-bassist-found-dead-chicago-hotel-92992

More info, but not much more.

http://twitter.com/#!/MikeyWelsh71/status/118305899923259392

26 Sep via web

Why would the show be cancelled? He's their ex-bassist, not their current bassist. In fact, I could have sworn the reason he was fired was substance abuse problems.

xp WTF THAT'S FREAKY

(either that, or he knew he was going to kill himself)

Ever since that Twitter thing broke, I've been tempted to believe the latter.

on the FB page he does to promote his paintings or whatever he was going on abt seeing Weezer in Chicago and being pumped about meeting up w/ them - this was on Thursday or something - I don't really know anything about the dude other than he played on an album I quite like but it's pretty ~woah~

I probably could have written 'did' instead of 'does' there

on friday a woman jumped to her death inside a building (the thompson center) and then on saturday this...it's just so grim to have two public suicides in two days in the news here.

ALONE III: THE PINKERTON YEARS might be the best Weezer related release

I'm hoping Alone IV will cover both the green album and maladroit. That's the one I'm holding out for.

Strange that despite all the rarities that have been officially released in the past 10 years, they still haven't put "Thief You've Taken All That Was Me" or "Let's Sew Our Pants Together" on anything... even though "Paperface" and a few other Kitchen Tape demos were on Deluxe blue album. Perhaps the band wants these saved exclusively for the diehards.

Also "Death To False Metal" totally sucked, but I still thought the two Mikey Welsh-era tracks "Trampoline" and "Everyone" were decent. I'd be interested in any other demos from the scrapped late-90's Pinkerton follow-up.

There is also the case of the Homie album supposedly made in 1998, though I've heard conflicting reports about whether the songs even got recorded or not.

assuming you are familiar with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRkYzvwU_14

I don't think I've heard Alone III! I need to check it out. There was a time when i obsessively collected all the Black Hole sessions and had these really short mp3s and read all the fan sites. Now I'm all old and jaded about Weezer but if this is a good listen i may have to get it.

the guitar tone on Negativland is the thickest, smoothest, most wonderful thing i've ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WKOw19vvA

lol @ rivers dining companions revealed at 2:02

Man, that was uncomfortable!

I'm hoping Alone IV will cover both the green album and maladroit. That's the one I'm holding out for.

toulows-lautrec (how's life) wrote this at 2013-03-13 16:46:20.000

There may be less solo demos from those in the same style, though I think he was churning them out to dictaphone during Maladroit

They posted all that stuff to weezer.com for a while after they came back from Pinkerton. Pretty sure you could find it all on internet archive.

now EVERYBODY will get to laugh about anecdotes of Rivers Cuomo at Harvard

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/psych-creator-steve-franks-teaming-728679

I was trying to figure out why I never heard nor bought Alone III, but it seems like it was only ever availble with some big dumb memorabilia box version.

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I was enjoying the new song "Cleopatra" much more than "Back to the Shack" until they got to the counting section. Yuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHFzH06HqU

i like "cleopatra" a lot!

new album rules ._.

You've heard the whole thing or just based on the songs they've released thus far?