Weezer -- Classic or Dud?

And don't be so harsh on the Rentals- Matt's not Rivers, but, nobody but Rivers is Rivers. ;Þ (Say that 5 times fast!!)

Maybe one day Rivers will become happy. That would be wonderful for him, but, then who would the rest of us sad geeks have to identify with?

This thread had the potential to be the original DMB thread, but it (luckily?) didn't pan out. to be dormant for 3 1/2 years is impressive.

I bet they're gonna name the next album "Bigger Than Jesus" then!

i though the early demos on that second disc (kitchen tapes???) were really great. they actually kinda sounded lo-fi like the drag city pavement, while also making me wonder if they really did like the feelies (my favorite was 'paperface' or 'somethingface' which has screeeming - see they ARE emo)

reminds me i need to check out his myspace page again.

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

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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