I just realized that Reunion Weezer has now been an active force for longer than Actual Weezer was, indeed, longer than the gap in between the two. This is like the Stones breaking up in 1967, then reuniting in 1978 to record Bridges to Babylon and continuing on 'til today as their current touring performance thing.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 January 2009 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
This is weird. Also, what happened to Rivers' hair? :-(
Anyway, they'll always be classic. I saw them in 2001 and it was one of the best live shows I've ever seen.
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Saturday, 16 May 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That's one of the most depressing YouTube videos I have ever seen.
― litcofsky, Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
that shot of the crowd ug, all those girls just texting and shit.
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
GETCHOO AH HA
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 17 May 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
New single "(If You Are Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is being hailed as a return to form, and it is better than their last couple of singles. It reminds me of "A Town Called Malice" tbh.
― Cunga, Monday, 17 August 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
being hailed as a return to form
Not by me. It sucks out loud.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 August 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Any weezer fans know more about this supposed math hit-formula notebook Rivers has been carrying around? This sounds pretty amazing very David Foster Wallace thing to do.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't believe that the same guy who wrote "Beverly Hills" also claims to have songwriting down to a mathematical science. Songwriting: the real dismal science.
― Cunga, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
has anyone made a mashup of El Scorcho and Beverly HIlls (seems like generated from the same hit-song template?)
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
GETCHOO AHA
― De Mysteriis Dom Passantino (jim), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Every album they've released since Maladroit was initially heralded as "return to form."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
More like a return to the bathroom.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://kiwirock.net/05.mp3
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Rad.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― Cunga, Monday, August 17, 2009 8:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol...Super Masonic Da Vinci Code Math Science of Songwriting: recycle the chord change to "The Joke" by Steve Miller Band
― zero money down on new and pwned vehicles (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like "Troublemaker" has belatedly become Weezer's biggest latter day radio staple, I hear it EVERY SINGLE DAY even though it's a year old now
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i never thought i'd long for a return to the glory days of "dope nose"
― zero money down on new and pwned vehicles (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
ehh -- i have no particular reverence for early Weezer and like "Troublemaker" and "Perfect Situation" and "Keep Fishin'" as much as anything else they've done
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
don't get me wrong, if you forced me to sit through a whole album i'd pick one of the 90s one, but as a singles band i think their batting average has been pretty steady
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S-lhxaecpw
The first album does seem more "organic" in the sense that any pop-formula expression seems unconscious rather than drawn from a notebook, dungeon-master die-rolling scheme. Is pinkerton when the notebook idea started?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Its cos Matt Sharp left.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Some internet wise guy should write some of the "missing pages" from this notebook and put them online ala The Michael Bay screenplay for the Dark Knight. Would read!
― Cunga, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay so....a bunch of thoughts I'm having while watching some Weezer AOL Sessions youtube clips (old & new):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95sTh4mxAys
Okay, why is the drummer playing bass now and who is this new drummer guy? Also those quirky handclaps WTF. Biggest WTF in the world for the Kenny G guest solo which is my favorite part of an otherwise pretty dull song. I like how Rivers is jumping and hyping it up like it was a guitar solo. I think after the "Pork and Beans" (which I actually liked), this new direction is to throw a million 'viral' ideas against the wall and see what sticks. I mean, you have Kenny G, that horrible "Raditude" title and album artwork, the Lil Jon collab, etc. Can't say it's a bad strategy though because every review I've read of the album has been dismal, and all the ridiculousness is the only reason I've just listened to "I'm Your Daddy" by Weezer in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Av1kuh8EBY
Rivers's costume here makes me crack up; he looks like a little kid that found his dad's suit. Sounds to me like at least some of these vocals are auto-tuned. WOW GUYS THE 80S ARE BACK! Look at these Moogs. Kind of makes me think of the Rentals or something. What would they think of this? The rapping is....well whatever. With "We Are All On Drugs" you may have thought the lyrical content had bottomed out but a chorus of "I can't stop partying partying"....I don't know, I think Rivers Cuomo really is on a mission to just crank out stupid simple pop songs like a scientist or a factory worker. Soft verse/loud chorus. Spacey 'retro' part. Guest star rapper. All the elements are there. If he was a little more shy he would be a producer for Universal Music Group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv5Tnp5KzD8
Okay, this is weird but the guitarist is singing "Why Bother" and not doing too bad a job but not too good a job either. It took me a minute to realize that Rivers Cuomo was playing drums wearing a beret and a silly mustache. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvJdAIGk54
"Butterfly" sung by Rivers solo with a harp, really beautifully done too. Think about those lyrics "I told you I would return by I ain't never coming back". Is he singing to all the 1st gen Weezer fans? Someone print a list of best tracks from the post-Pinkerton years I need a compilation...
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
lol wonder if brian bell (who has some serious douche vibes) changed "i better keep whackin" to "you better start packin" out of embarrassment or cuz krusty the klown told him to
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Was the riff from "Hash Pipe" taken from Hall and Oates' "Family Man" (towards the end of the song)? I always thought it sounded like the Munsters theme but Hall and Oates seem to be the more obvious theft victims for Rivers.
― Cunga, Sunday, 15 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hash pipe riff is a note for note rip off of the song "he shot himself up" by The Shods.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 15 November 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening now - you seem to be right.
― Cunga, Sunday, 15 November 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, according to wiki a member of The Shods played in a side-project band with Rivers, so maybe this is intentional?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 15 November 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone print a list of best tracks from the post-Pinkerton years I need a compilation...
Do you mean when they were working on the unreleased Pinkerton follow-up, leading up to the release of Green Album? Or do you mean everything from 1997 to present?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.weezersnuggie.com/
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
are there bootlegs of the unreleased Pinkerton follow-up?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
They're cute, though.
― kudos, i'm yours! (u s steel), Friday, 12 February 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
man does the first record kick ass
somebody should have murdered Rivers after the first two
― lukevalentine, Friday, 12 February 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
What dude I know you did not just diss the Green Album.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 12 February 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I only really dig about 5 Weezer songs: Buddy Holly, Jamie, Suzanne, Say it Ain't So, and The Sweater Song.I just noticed those are all 94-95 (wiki). (maybe I should listen to their first album for once)I own the Green Album but I never got into it. I don't think it sucks though
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 13 February 2010 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
oops typo. I own Pinkerton
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 13 February 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
@GavinRossdale hey homie! 11:42 PM Sep 12th via web Retweeted by 1 person
RiversCuomoRivers Cuomo
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
@SaraBareilles Congrats! 1:05 AM Sep 15th via web in reply to SaraBareilles Retweeted by 1 person
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
someone asked me to d/l "say it ain't so" for them. i never liked weezer, was indifferent to buddy holly, thought sweater song was lazy, etc.
but this song is weirdly compelling. now i sort of hate myself for maybe liking it. am i living out the whole weezer vibe? were they built upon confused self-loathing?
― dude (del), Sunday, 19 September 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
the subconscious power of the p4k list right there
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 September 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
hah!
― dude (del), Sunday, 19 September 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
somebody should have murdered Rivers after the first two birth
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Sunday, 19 September 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Mind over mind. about 18 hours ago via web Retweeted by 72 people
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Sunday, 19 September 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
These guys are the "Windows 95 bonus file" guys in my mind.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Sunday, 19 September 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i also d/l'ed a 311 song for weezer person that i'm ashamed to talk about here. who said guilty pleasures no longer exist? i've done some bad things.
― dude (del), Sunday, 19 September 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Youdaman! RT@freddurst love Hurley!! Timeless and timely!! about 11 hours ago via web Retweeted by 14 people
― markers, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnELkrxsXiw
― markers, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
that is pretty fuckin special
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha no idea if yr kiddin or not but Rivers is the man
― markers, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link