weezer - blue album

btw heres a cool vid of matt and rivers doin a reunion of sorts

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FnIpAPz1obA

Holiday like a motherfucker. I love this song because I've always felt that - much like Ringo and his Octopus' Garden* - they never get to go away to that "strange and distant land". It's all the speaker and his naivity settin' himself up to get shot down and it's awesome. He's sayin' "Hey, baby, we can live our relationship like this totally spontaneous carefree beatnik lifestyle." And you just know she's going leave him after graduation for some guy with a change of clothes and job prospects. Schadenfreude, bitches.

I also particularly love the harmonies on "Heart-beat!" and the yodeling at the end.

*although I feel sorry for poor Ringo; poor guy all feeling like a broken drumstick

i like matt sharp i guess but i sort of hate the rentals

i really like the first rentals album:-(

rivers is such a smug fuckin asshole i can't even bear to listen to his music anymore.

but the blue album is pretty decent. it's surprisingly hard to pick something on here. it's definitely the only weezer album worth anything. i used to think pinkerton was this great underappreciated genius album, but i was 17 when i thought that and my friends and i were into saves the day and other rubbish. pinkerton's really not that good. the rest of weezer is pretty much garbage.

Say It Ain't So is SOOOOO good.

If this is true, then why does Weezer suck after he leaves

Correlation, not causation.

i used to think pinkerton was this great underappreciated genius album, but i was 17 when i thought that and my friends and i were into saves the day and other rubbish. pinkerton's really not that good.

I used to think Pinkerton was great, and then I used to think that it isn't that great and I only thought it was great because I was 17, and then I realized it really is great. Better than blue.

Also, I pick Only In Dreams. Holiday is brilliant though.

looking back maybe i should have went with undone. fuck.

This album is such an anomaly.

(jonas ftw)

hey steve im guna come se you in sf. take a picture with me for the ilx massive.

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/976/50346196.JPG

i cant vote in either of these polls.

good job.

"In the garage".

so great but ^^^

i once took up an entire page using "surf wax america" as an illustration for a paper i had to write on this book for my freshman sociology class:

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/media_pix/0761986286_01_LZZZZZZZ.jpg

i got an A.

:D

i just thought it was pretty.

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/5/5a/Ballerina.jpg

sounds like a plan, chaki.

Never been into them much, but "Buddy Holly" was great, so I voted for that one.

Undone - The Sweater Song was the greatest. Or was it in In The Garage? But anyway, it's too late now.

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WAU

homina-wha?

wow

im not very surprised

That's cool, awesome song, though not what I voted for.

any song on this album could have been #1 and i wouldnt have really argued it.

i voted for that one because i thought no one else would

and because it's the one that stuck in my head most from back when i was 13 rather than from when i pulled the album out again a few years ago

#1 SONG IS PRETTY VIRAL....MENTALLY

Wow, that's weird. I think The World Has Turned is a good song, but that and Surf Wax would be easy picks for me as the weakest on the album.

I saw them open for Lush once.

http://i.imgur.com/jc7ZWeE.jpg

LOL

can someone do this with Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

One of the ghastliest songs to sustain an act's career.

Excellent entry, Alfred!

(I kinda don’t mind the song, tho...)

that was a good read but come on "Beverly Hills" is so much worse than this

on alfred's tombstone: 'he went to see weezer in 2001'

“The Sweater Song” conveyed the (soon to be proven very false) impression that Weezer was sort of a deadpan indie-rock parody band with a sense of humor about themselves; which was a somewhat appealing notion in that early moment.

^^^

that was a good read but come on "Beverly Hills" is so much worse than this

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 23, 2019

"Beverly Hills" was a New Jersey: a hit that no one remembers, whereas "Undone" augured horrors like "Beverly Hills."

weezer have made a lot of truly reprehensible music but "undone" is not among that

that's....a lot of spilt ink for a song that didn't do anything to portend the rest of their career and has always been hard to take as much more than a goof.

well, their career's a goof, so there's that

true but there are different kinds of goofs

"Pork and Beans," "We Are All On Drugs," and "Beverly Hills" songs are worse singles, but not as integral to the band's career, which is why "Undone" qualifies as the worthiest target.

wasn't buddy holly the song that actually put them on the map tho?

I was giggling, picturing the dude just like surfing in the ocean horizontally, taking a few shortcuts and then docking and walking to work

I mean honestly it beats highways!

Bought two tix to the Weezer Blue album tour with Dinosaur Jr and Flaming Lips. Never seen them live and figured this may be my last best chance to optimize the setlist.

The last time I ever saw TV on the Radio was on a tour like this back in 2019 - again at MSG, TV on the Radio opened, followed by the Pixies, then Weezer. They didn't sell out though so it was easy to pick off cheap tickets later. Fun show, I don't think TV on the Radio had really toured in a while (or since) but they were great, I was very glad Weezer got them to open.

Weezer did a two night stand here some years back. The first night was the Blue Album plus hits, the second was Pinkerton plus hits. They did all of their hits in reverse chronological order, then ended with the Blue Album (the night I saw them), but I was bit irked, since I bet they could have done both Blue Album and Pinkerton with plenty of time for hits and not made people choose a night, the albums/songs really aren't that long.

Honestly just want a Green album gig. Wouldn't even take that long

The albums are so short they could do a Blue/Pinkerton/Green tour and still fit a couple of those later hits no one cares about

Have fun Indexed!

XP If somebody is shelling out to see Weezer in 2024, they probably care at least a little about those later hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM

hey, I'm also going to one of these shows. mostly because my kid wants to go, and I get to see Dino jr.
saw Weezer back in... I wanna say 2002, and they were not great. ozma and saves the day opened, and totally killed it.
either way, it gave me an excuse to listen to blue/pinkerton again. both still 10/10 albums.