Weezer -- Classic or Dud?

so omfg the next album is the white album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGyBIQjU2Lk

hot take: all of the new songs are good

bretty gud

that fucking blows and sucks

what the hell, weezer?

that Weezer continues to be a viable enterprise in the music industry is sad and gross

yeah I'm amazing that the "holy shit the new Weezer album is horrible" cycle that comes around every two years hasn't dinged their commercial appeal at all, I can't think of another band quite like 'em

their xmas album was so lazy it was almost genius

lol guys that song is like one itty bitty notch below Pinkerton level. if u think Pinkerton sucks, that's fine, but still

it sounds like Green Day

i have no idea what song y'all are hearing

the shitty one

yeah I'm amazing that the "holy shit the new Weezer album is horrible" cycle that comes around every two years hasn't dinged their commercial appeal at all, I can't think of another band quite like 'em

― frogbs, Friday, 15 January 2016 18:20 (58 minutes ago) Permalink

idk, their commercial appeal looks pretty dinged to me, even with consistent top 5 debuts. Every album for the past decade has sold worse than the one before it, beyond what you'd expect even if you take into account the impact of unauthorized downloads and streaming.

I do agree that it's surprising that the outraged backlash hype cycle was able to last a full decade (or more)

that's what they get for making sub-Good Charlotte crap

yeah, they totally deserve it, no argument there!

why are they doing a white album? will it include their revolution 9?

Brilliant band. Each record post-Make Believe has had at least a couple great songs on it. i.e. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" from Raditude. Red Album was remarkably consistent.

I disagree, but I thought their last one had 2 or 3 that were a lot less embarrassing than usual.

i feel like sliting their throats.

idk, their commercial appeal looks pretty dinged to me, even with consistent top 5 debuts. Every album for the past decade has sold worse than the one before it, beyond what you'd expect even if you take into account the impact of unauthorized downloads and streaming.

― intheblanks, Friday, January 15, 2016 2:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also "Thank God For Girls" (which i thought was one of their better recent singles!) didn't even make the top 10 of the Alternative chart, which is usually incredibly easy for a lead single from a big '90s band.

Shakey OTM ITT.

I'm usually fine with dismissing artists' personal failings if the work is good enough, but a) Weezer's work isn't good enough and b) Rivers is totally loathsome

http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_between_Rivers_Cuomo_and_Joe_Matt

"There was this one time in Japan that was really emotional for me because this is when I was first starting to figure all this stuff out about being really aggressive. I'd been in Japan for a week and every night there were ten or fifteen girls in my room and nothing happened because I wasn't confident enough to say "Let's have sex or get out of the room." So finally, at the end of my stay there I said, "Whoever wants to stay in the room has to take their clothes off and get on the bed."and most of them left but four of them stayed. It was a very difficult step for me to take but I hadto take it. It was the truth about what I wanted."

jfc

http://x3.cdn03.imgwykop.pl/c3201142/comment_D1LivSBBuOJQXH4RQHpo9HxhEAv8bLeP.gif

L.A. Girlz
https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.6c0f9054-d599-11e5-85c4-7ebee77c13cd

it's also good!

plus it references jabberwocky for some reason!

it's great

video perhaps not so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiPsG7Yjrvk

this song is not too bad

"California Kids" is pretty good!

New album is rather fantastic, bit like the previous one rly

great record

like such a solid power pop record, but also their first album in forever where all of the songs feel connected to each other?

"summer elaine and drunk dori" is like a major key "lithium" rip

^ damn totally otm

yeah this record rules

old weezer is so much better than middle period weezer

loving 'Jacked Up' atm

i like that they call it the white album. these guys still have a sense of humour. i have a question. did they ever get rich with their music? after the first album (so great) they did not release one album i ever wanted to listen to. but this one at least starts quite promisingly.

quick search turned up:

$30 Million
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer — Net worth: $30 Million.Oct 19, 2015

but i have no idea how accurate that is.

they've done well. their first record went triple platinum, pinkerton went platinum, green probably did too. seems like they're always on tour, and they frequently headline small/mid-size rock festivals in the U.S. and Europe. they're, uh, big in japan. i worked at the Baltimore Virgin Festival in 2009, co-headlined by blink-182 and Weezer. they were good. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is a great song. Love the title, too.

i don't like making new threads anymore but if anyone wants to post a "Weezer 2004-present POX" list, i'd be curious to see what kind of stuff gets chosen.

this is surprisingly good, definitely their third best. the last one was decent relative to the garbage they'd been making for ages but this is much tighter and more consistent, and with higher highs too. it's sort of a weird amalgamation of different styles they've done in the past but that works better than i'd have thought.

Wow, so strange to read so many consecutively positive posts on ILM, about new Weezer

Pitchfork naturally damned it with the faintest of praise, but their new music is never going to get a genuinely good review from them ever again

i will have to give this a shot. i heard the singles and was not too impressed, they sounded like same old crummy nu Weezer

the run from "summer elaine and drunk dori" to "jacked up" is my favorite set of weezer songs in forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GotFSkL2PXo

this song is just the best

jacked up's chorus is insanely good. it's the wildcard song a la 'Freak Me Out', except done properly