Weezer -- Classic or Dud?

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?

heard the whole thing, full of surprises

Didn't love Cleopatra, HATED Back to the Shack, so there's a really bar on this one.

really *low bar

"back to the shack" is very much a nadir, rest of the record towers around it. i know "best since pinkerton" is kind of... meaningless with this band, but it's a very good record

I'm going to give this one a shot. I considered Hurley worthy of a purchase so maybe my personal bar isn't set that high. I still don't understand why that album isn't at least as well liked (by Weezer fans) as Maladroit or Make Believe.

Make Believe was the last one I listened to the whole way through. The red one and Hurley and Raditude (and whatever else may have come in the interim) I just kind of picked up on peripherally. Far be it from me to read into Rivers' motivation and the dynamic of the band at this stage, but I think we went down different paths.

"futurescope trilogy" is so prog

Absolutely brilliant album, undeniably the best since Green. Time will tell if it's best since Pinkerton or Scary Monsters.

How are the lyrics? Gotta admit my estimation of the Green/Maladroit period has dropped as the novelty of New Weezer has diminished

Compared to recent fare, they're pretty great. I read some for the song 'Da Vinci' which looked awful on paper ("I looked you up on ancestry.com".. "Stephen Hawking can't explain you"), but they're actually very endearing as part of the song. Back To The Shack is the only real clunker on the album. I truly hope they've not burned too many bridges with fans over the last 10 years, I think many turned off by the last few could be won over.

yeah some of the lyrics are pretty endearingly goofy instead of embarrassing this time around

hell i love "pork and beans" so with ric behind the deck i'll definitely give it a shot

that song reminded me it was guitars not rivers' neurotic journeys that got me into weezer in the first place

oh well then this record is for you

lot of shredding plus the guitar tones are gorgeous

Da Vinci is kind of Pork & Beans II, but muuuch better

and I liked Pork & Beans

lot of shredding plus the guitar tones are gorgeous

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, September 26, 2014 6:33 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ why I fell in love with the blue album, getting a little excited

oh yeah that's exactly right

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I heard the clip for 'Go Away' with Bethany from Best Coast - out of context it sounded like standard recent naff Weezer fare, but turns out it's amazing in full. Just about cried when the bridge kicked in

don't mean to get your hopes up, it's not all rainbows of guitar, it's still a little calcified-sounding (which imo is essentially the problem they've had since the green album, maladroit sort of excepted)

but idk it's also great

well okay the other problem they've had since the green album is the amount of garbage they've put out

I have a friend he is an earthworm

Plenty of Blue Album style guitar that I'm enjoying. Tracks three through eight really have the magic and the rest of the tunes are okay. They were really close to a third classic record.

on first listen i am underwhelmed