― miccio (miccio), Monday, 3 January 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 January 2005 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 3 January 2005 08:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I bet they're gonna name the next album "Bigger Than Jesus" then!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
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)
― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
reminds me i need to check out his myspace page again.
― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 3 January 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 3 January 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ganbare Goemon (ex machina), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ganbare Goemon (ex machina), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
also Malkmus is FAR and away the better, more inventive guitarist. really knows his weirdo english folk records, bizarre tunings, phrasing, etc.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 3 January 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I never got that impression from a Pavement album.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ganbare Goemon (ex machina), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Dude I just bought the CR reissue and am listening to it - "Range Life" now playing - and loving it but CAUCASIAN PLEASE.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 3 January 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Grand Piano, Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― Cunga, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, maybe he's smarter than Mickey Mars,
I fucking doubt that.
― mulla atari, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i love weezer
http://dsf.pacounties.org/training/lib/training/muppets_and_weezer.jpg
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― smurfherder, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember back in the '90s they were pegged as "MTV's Pavement" and that was good enough for me. Trash.
― mulla atari, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i see all those muppets but where's the band amirite
― latebloomer, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link
weezer is so awesome
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
chaki otm
― max, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
hating weezer is easy but loving them is SO MUCH EASIER
― max, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't hate em
― latebloomer, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
creep
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
only in dreams is fucking epic
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i like that buddy holly tune
― max r, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Driving back late to my hotel after a really important night for my work, I put on the University of Pittsburgh college radio station and "Only In Dreams" came on. At that moment it became the Greatest Song Ever, the Platonic Idea of Epic. The final build-up and climax is pretty autosexual, but that's part of its greatness: I mean it is only in dreams.
― Euler, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
weezer were an amazing band who tragically died ten years ago.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 1 October 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the quiet moments on Only In Dreams. The loud dynamic stumbles.
― Cunga, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
'death and destruction' is an underrated tune. it's as close as they came to the greatness of the blue/pinkerton era imo
― 6335, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Honestly, aren't C/D threads like this skewed towards people who cared enough to actually listen to a bands albums and therefore liked them in the first place? I only heard the radio singles and concluded 'Dud' long, long ago but that probably doesn't make it a fair judgment. Nevertheless, I won't lose any sleep over it.
― Mr. Odd, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
'death and destruction' is an underrated tune.
I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U?
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't the new single a pretty great Weezer song?
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link