weezer - blue album

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

Todd at least bothered to make half of his record (really good) originals too

"Love of the Common Man" is one of my favourites.

idk if it was intentional but a lot of the songs on Side B there sound like they could be covers - behind the times for '76 and outside his usual style. but that whole side is excellent

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

― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, January 25, 2019 2:35 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was not just emos. All I remember was that I completely missed Say It Ain't So the first time it hit the airwaves, but in 1999 or 2000, it became the biggest song on my college campus and people knew it and sang along with it at every occasion and there were dudes with acoustic guitars...

There was that period when Rivers went to Harvard and got his leg lengthened.

, as the actress said to the bishop

I actually interviewed him back when the Green Album came out. iirc he hadn't done many interviews, but for complicated reasons my interview never ran. This was my favorite exchange (ilx exclusive!!!):

O: You also had leg extension surgery. Now that your legs are the same length, does the world seem more crooked?

RC: (laughs) No, everything is much straighter now.

O: How long does the whole, painful process take?

RC: It took 13 months. It’s like this cage that’s all around your leg, screwed in to your bone. It’s basically like having ten arrows shot through your meat, into your bone, and then they stay there for 13 months.

O: But you were all doped up on painkillers.

RC: For the first couple of months I was. But then they try to get you off of them, which is a very sad experience.

O: Supposedly little people consider leg extension surgery tantamount to treason.

RC: Really? Well, actually I would recommend it to anyone whose leg or legs were too short. It’s not easy, but who wants to have a bum leg?

O: Did you ever consider making your legs significantly longer?

RC: You mean one longer than the other one?

O: No, making both of them a lot longer, so that you’d be better at basketball.

RC: No, that wouldn’t be worth it.

O: And this is when you were studying?

RC: It was actually … I think I started the procedure in May, and then started school in September.

O: Did people know who you were at Harvard?

RC: I don’t think so. At least, nobody said anything, not to my face. I had long hair and a beard.

O: So you had long hair, glasses, a beard, and a pinned-up leg, and you just appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared again?

RC: I was definitely the campus freak.

O: For all you know there are people at Harvard treating your absence from academia the same way people treated your absence from music. You know, “whatever happened to that guy?”

RC: (laughs) That’s funny!

O: What did you put on your application? Did you have to write an essay?

RC: Yeah, I wrote an essay, a very negative, depressing essay about how I didn’t like touring, and how I wanted to go back to school. I’m not proud of that essay at all. But they thought it was interesting. There’s a section where you have to list the awards you’ve gotten, right? I got to put, like, MTV’s Alternative Video of the Year, stuff like that. (laughs) Triple platinum award.

O: This must happen all the time.

RC: With another rock star?

O: I read an interview with Duff from Guns ‘N’ Roses, and he said that when it all winded down that he would go to Harvard Law School, because “they love people like me.”

RC: (laughs) Well the thing is, I didn’t go when it was all winding down. I went right at our peak, which was kind of stupid (laughs)

O: It all worked out in the end, but you left just a couple of months shy of graduation.

RC: Yeah.

O: Would you ever go back?

RC: No.

Island in the Sun had a lot to do with Weezer crossing over into being this band that, I guess, non-music nerds paid attention to. It didn't set the charts on fire, but I feel like it just stayed in the collective consciousness of music for a long time via radio and that cute Spike Jonze video.

O: Did you ever consider making your legs significantly longer?

RC: You mean one longer than the other one?

lmao

Great interview, Josh!

https://i.imgur.com/FVHW3bw.jpg
never forget

Thanks, there's a lot more! That was just a funny exchange.

This is the third Weezer album. Each album is also shorter than the album before it by six minutes. Do the math and you end up with a whole bunch of sixes and other numbers divisible by three, which can be fiddled with until you get the telltale 666. Did you make a deal with the Devil?

RC: (Laughs) A lot of people suggested that, because for several years I produced nothing and accomplished nothing, and then suddenly things just took off. So everyone’s wondering how I did it. And that’s one of the suggestions.

O: So that’s not a denial?

RC: (pauses) I didn’t consciously make a deal with the Devil. But I can’t offer any explanation as to why I did nothing for so long and then suddenly I’m doing a lot.

We all make our choices:

This #NoScrubs cover by @Weezer is AWESOME!!! but it would be even better if we sang it with ya'll!!! I see a TLC Weezer concert coming up..lol 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #tlc #weezer pic.twitter.com/9rzHNC58HD

— Chilli (@officialchilli) January 24, 2019