weezer - blue album

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.

I could totally imagine Weezer covering "Hungry Eyes."

creepy song though.

― peace, man, Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

P sure that's the point. He's playing the character of a possessive lover

Yeah, I guess. But I think it's too easy to empathize with it for the wrong reasons. I did when I was younger, I know that. Partly because I was a dumbass kid who didn't know how to have relationships with girls. Partly because musically it is so catchy. Really a perfect slice of power pop. Later I really grew to hate the lyrics, even though you could probably say it's a character. I certainly don't hate every song where the singer expresses misogynist views, character or not, but this one really sticks in my craw for some reason. It's complicated, at least.

I didn't even realize they released an album yesterday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer_(January_2019_album)

They should have titled the album "On the Nose."

I didn't even realize they released an album yesterday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer_(January_2019_album)

― peace, man, Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:01 AM (five minutes ago)

sorry, guys, I didn't mean for this to happen!

https://i.imgur.com/FepHKAT.gif

As if cover albums weren't already a strange idea to begin with, the sheer audacity of doing a whole album of faithful-to-the-original covers in the streaming era when all of these songs are so very easily available and so incredibly famous, and then self-titling the album...I mean, it's kind of brilliant and stupid and hilarious all at the same time.

yeah I figured I'd give it a listen because what the hell, and its baffling, the songs pretty much sound just like the originals (even "No Scrubs"!) and all the originals are so well known, it's like they wanted to make the least essential album of all time

maybe weezer are big fans of Weird Al’s band and decided to try to replicate their replications but not the funny part

It appears we won’t be free of Weezer until they run out of colors.

that campaign that got them to cover africa has a lot to answer for

What's gonna be on The Brown album

bunch of Ween covers hopefully

A greatest-hits comp, obv

surprised bohemian rhapsody missed the cut

My friend in high school used to scream about how stupid "Surf Wax America" was because he for some reason thought it was about a guy trying to ride a surfboard on the sidewalk to like...a corporate job.

But he also told me Billy Corgan was Chinese so

forget Bohemian Rhapsody, I'm surprised they haven't done Baby Shark

Neanderthal please invite him to ILM

xp to frogbs I made that joke in the other thread, but I realize that if enough of us make it, it will surely happen, so let's stop here

move thread to 77 so Rivers can't see it

I think I'd still go with Holiday, but Surf Wax America is an easy runner up for me. And they both got last in 2007 along with No One Else, lol.

Checking out "The Teal Album" now (bored at work)... holy shit, these takes are INDISTINGUISHABLE from the originals.

except, like, worse drumming

except, like, no soul

except bland white boy singing

Cuomo should've worn blackface so we can hate him with the abandon that he coursts.

*courts

my thought was 'except worse synths' when i skimmed a few tracks

It’s hard to imagine even the biggest Weezer fan listening it for pleasure.

It's the Weezer album for people who hate Weezer but love Classic Albums Live

man, this teal album thing is just so *pathetic*

There's a subset of Weezer fans who came on board around 2005 with Beverly Hills and then like, the Pork and Beans video who this kind of thing appeals to greatly. These people also really like the show Scrubs and saw Bohemian Rhapsody five times in cinemas.

No doubt that subset is sizable enough that in a few years Weezer will play half-time at the Super Bowl and close their set with "Africa".

I don't dislike covers albums -- they can be great! -- but this one is so joyless and uninteresting.

Listen we can joke about Weezer covers but nothing will ever be as funny as when Rivers Cuomo went on MySpace and cataloged each of his songs by race of woman... pic.twitter.com/GmIGaZnUo0

— Tommy McNamara (@TommyMcNam) January 24, 2019

If he's counting half-caucasian half-asian as asians, that's 38%. But if he's only counting each half-asian girl as half an asian, he ends up with 26%. Neither of these are exactly "small minorities."

Hm, if the covers are actually as painstakingly close to the originals are the covers on Todd Rundgren's Faithful, this might actually be... impressive and interesting, albeit not something I'd want to listen to a lot. The Toto covers don't lead me to expect this, though.

xp Tbf, it might be a small minority if you consider the total number of songs he has written, as opposed to songs about women. Either way, total wtf @ that list.

The tweet also crops off the post, so we miss out on the racial breakdown for Tired of Sex:

http://gloriousnoise.com/2007/weezer_riviers_cuomo_on_asian

xp Tbf, it might be a small minority if you consider the total number of songs he has written, as opposed to songs about women. Either way, total wtf @ that list.

― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Friday, January 25, 2019 11:43 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still ends up being almost 10%!

Honestly the fact that people are still paying attention to Weezer, a band whose natural lifespan should have been about six glorious months in 1995, is entirely unedifying for everyone concerned, including the band themselves.

these covers are certainly not painstakingly close, just close enough to make them entirely pointless

weezer put more energy and passion into their cover of the state farm jingle than every cover on the new album and some of their actual songs

— D🌑CFUTURE (@topherflorence) January 24, 2019

Still ends up being almost 10%!

Haha

a band whose natural lifespan should have been about six glorious months in 1995

'glorious' is v much pushing it imo but otherwise otm

Weezer was slipping out of the public consciousness by '97 or early '98. Then, as I understand (and experienced) it, there was a huge resurgence in their popularity among a new, younger emo crowd, almost a cult thing, but it grew into a full on movement

Hm, if the covers are actually as painstakingly close to the originals are the covers on Todd Rundgren's Faithful, this might actually be... impressive and interesting, albeit not something I'd want to listen to a lot. The Toto covers don't lead me to expect this, though.

I thought of Faithful too but it's not quite like that - they're more like karaoke versions, you can practically see the [Intro - 8 bars] on the screen. They're note-for-note covers but there are a lot of moments where they just go, "eh, close enough". Granted I've only listened to about 30 seconds of every song