weezer - blue album

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 think you're underestimating how many people remember Beverly Hills.

one of my exes, it was bizarre, like she was a huge Weezer fan, but she never talked about Blue or Pinkerton. it wasn't that she didn't know those albums existed, but all of her Weezer fandom was based 2001 and ongoing, whereas I was the opposite.

I checked out when they had Lil Wayne on a track

the sweater song is perfect, brah

I was about 13 when I heard "Sweater", didn't like it, felt like it was a quirky nerd anthem. "Buddy Holly" came out and I got a boner

plus it was that music video that really put it over the top, the Happy Days shit

I cannot really separate the song from the (immaculate) video! It was thrilling. At an age, and in time, when indie schmindy ruled, these guys were so NOT that. And they were not grunge, or post-punk, or punk, or hardcore, or emo, or "outsider". Whatver it was that they were, they totally owned it, and it was perfect (for one whole album...)

it was the first time I ever liked anything that was 'cool', tbh

(oh I was referencing the Sweater Song vid btw)

one of my exes, it was bizarre, like she was a huge Weezer fan, but she never talked about Blue or Pinkerton. it wasn't that she didn't know those albums existed, but all of her Weezer fandom was based 2001 and ongoing, whereas I was the opposite.

SNL basically just did a sketch with this premise!

lol really?

"No One Else" might be musically my favorite.

that's a great song

creepy song though.

They suck because they for a pair of records they were good, damn good, at what they did.

The Green album and Maladroit are total classics, I agree.

“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.

I would agree that there is nothing wrong with Undone or really the first album at all (as far as it goes). The band quickly became an embarrassment that recorded several of the most annoying songs of all time (as much as I sort of respect the shamelessness of Rivers), but this first album was harmless fun, with good songs and good videos.

it's an adolescent album, like all power pop aspires to be. The novelties were what sold, and what they continued to pursue later, but the non hits still warrant a listen now and then. I'm only talking about the first record of course; Pinkerton was disappointing / horrifying and that was enough: no new musical or lyrical tricks. Besides, the band had a quick influence on alt radio and there were blue album novelties everywhere for a while. If that was to be the formula then it was easy enough for others to follow it well too. That the band are careerists: well, the Raspberries would have been too if styles stagnated then as much as they do today.