weezer - blue album

I wish there was a "every song except for 'Buddy Holly'" option.

my name is jonas, duhhhhhh

when i saw them live in 9th grade they did a SMOKIN version of only in dreams at the end

"The World Has Turned And Left Me Here"

"Only In Dreams", already said my bit about it on some other thread today.

say it ain't soooooooooooo.

Surf Wax or Shoeless Joe.

holiday

oh my god don't make me choose

8 - "In the Garage" – 3:55

i got acre freely i got peter criss

ace

every song is a winner

pinkerton poll i might be able to narrow it down better but god damn. so many memories of this album.

every song is a winner

-- chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 20:56 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"Buddy Holly" cause it's the shortest one

flip on the telly
wrestle with Jimmy

every song is a winner

-- chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 20:56 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, October 1, 2007 11:06 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

every song is a winner

-- chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 20:56 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, October 1, 2007 5:06 PM

Seriously, went with "Only In Dreams" because it's like two Weezer songs in one.

the solo at the end is awesome

their best solo

the say it ain't so solo is up there

rivers is such a fucking tasty player

he's ok. Better songwriter than musician.

The best player in that band was always Matt Sharp, which is why Weezer sucks when he leaves.

the only song that remotely deserves getting no votes is "Holiday."

what? that song has one of the most brilliant vocal breakdown/ buildups of all time.

on a weezer album, maybe

and I said "remotely" because I thought there might be an alternarock doo-wop enthusiast here

matt sharp was overrated

da croupier NOTM

I don't skip it or anything, but it's definitely my least favorite track, vocal breakdown or no.

'sweater song' is the one i might skip. just heard it a bit too much

i love this so much more than pinkerton.

matt sharp was overrated

-- chaki, Monday, October 1, 2007 6:27 PM

If this is true, then why does Weezer suck after he leaves (and for those who don't think they're all that bad post-Pinkerton, why do they sound like a completely different band)? The answer is that his rusty bass and penchant for thin, buzzing keyboards gave Weezer razors with blunted edges.

it was mostly rivers playing the vintage moogs on blue and pinkerton. they sucked after the first two albums because they broke up for many years and rivers completely lost his mind. there are some great songs scattered throughout. the best musicians in the band are rivers and pat. brian is pretty awesome too. even matt says he was kind of a douche back then.

also they are still a really powerful and life affirming live act to witness.

I still enjoy the Green album and Maladroit as mindless rock bubblegum. Make Believe is mostly just mindless.

i dont mind those albums, but i kind of wish they re-formed under a different name so that weezer could have been a band that quit ater two perfect albums.

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)

I can't believe they didn't cover "All Star."

its hard to believe this shitty band put out an album that was as good as white was only three years ago and then dived right back into being completely worthless

A+ takedown Alfred, feel like I’ve been waiting to read something like this for 20 years.

I was not a happy teenager but this band always struck me as minor and lolworthy. The Blue Album came and went in sixth grade, so when people started freaking out about their comeback in my senior year of high school I was utterly mystified, and have remained so ever since.

They hung in there and somehow got even more irritating over the years. But congrats I guess to Rivers and co. for carving out a space no one else knew existed - the Place Where Memes Go to Die - and a vast internet public to match. That Harvard degree had to be good for something.

If you read Josh’s interview above — he didn’t actually graduate!

He went back to Harvard years later and did

just looked and yeah, seems like he graduated in 2006.

He lied to you about his intentions :(

You should have asked him if he ever saw himself releasing a pointless covers album via digital formats only... really put him on the spot.

"Hi Rivers. So tell me - why do you do bad things"

I still like the first two albums, even if I think a fair amount of the lyrics on Pinkerton are indefensible. After that, I really like Everything Will Be Alright in the End, which I thought was surprisingly good, and I'm sure I could make a decent compilation of highlights from the rest ('Slob' from Maladroit would be an easy inclusion) ...

Ultimately though, the albums after Pinkerton have been mostly patchy and the songwriting at times had been so impersonal that it's hard not to agree with folks that say they've been crap since the second self-titled album.

Everything Will Be Alright In The End is great ... i think it's just a notch below the first two

and it is a mystifying aberration in the past, oh, 17 years of terrible Weezer music

(i didn't like the White album. seems like people either like that one or EWBAITE, but not often both)

Everything... and especially White are fantastic albums

It gets derided but there was some brilliance on Pacific Daydream - Weekend Woman, QB Blitz, Sweet Mary especially

Please make it stop

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/02/calpurnia-weezer-a-ha-take-on-me-watch/

without watching it I assume it is *exactly* the same as the a-ha vid just with Weezer dudes

without thinking about it for a single second it's In the Garage. best tone. but most days it's No One Else.

haven't even really listened to Alone III much in a while, that's my favorite Weezer related release by far

I wish all of their songs were as good as 'The World Has Turned and Left Me Here' ... how they went from that to crap like 'Beverly Hills' and 'Pork and Beans' ...

that song has great chords. he's obv an underrated guitarist

Ric Ocasek's work is such a huge part of this record. for better or worse, he brought Weezer into the world and brought their best work out of them. RIP

for better. still love this album so much

yes

today's listen confirms yet again this is a perfect album

My 13 year old daughter just got into Weezer big time. I've come close to going to her bedroom and asking her to turn it down, but... nah. Rock on, little girl.

She plays Pinkerton a lot more though. "Across the Sea" is the song I hear the most.

Today she initiated a big discussion about Weezer vs. Fountains of Wayne. I felt so proud!

We both agreed that Fountains of Wayne has more good songs but Weezer has more great songs.

"Across the Sea" has been my favorite song from Pinkerton for however many years the album has been out.

My 13 year old daughter ... did *not* talk to me about Weezer and FoW today. :\

but did you ever wonder what happened beyond the frame

https://i.imgur.com/cd2jMGF.jpg

So I had this album shortly after it came out and I was like 13 and my best friend was over, and "Surf Wax America" was on.

After the chorus, my friend asked "how can you surf to work?", thinking the guy had a regular 9 to 5 or something...not getting that like surfing was like his job.

I was giggling, picturing the dude just like surfing in the ocean horizontally, taking a few shortcuts and then docking and walking to work, but my friend kept on, saying "Your surf board would be like an inch tall by the time you got there" and I realized he actually thought the main character was surfing in the street, completely whittling the board down to the size of a shiv.

God what a fucking idiot. Wonder if he's still this dumb.

lol

Also people for years on ILX kept talking about the creepiness of the lyrics of "No One Else" but it and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" are a pair, with the misogynist controlling asshole in NOE getting rightfully dumped in the next somg and moaning about how sad he is that he got dumped and still being too dumb to realize it was his own toxicity that was responsible

The Pat Finnerty Weezer video is a masterpiece.

Hearing No One Else for the first time in the 90s, never thought for a second he was doing anything other than obviously ramping up the unpleasantness to the the extent it could never be taken entirely seriously

After the chorus, my friend asked "how can you surf to work?

Literally what I thought the song was saying too until twenty seconds ago

Rivers said something along the lines of "No One Else" is about his own feelings, just ramped up a bit

@neanderthal

lol i'm probably as dumb as your friend because i also thought they were talking about surfing to work at first.

In fairness to me, I thought the "surfing to work" thing was another silly joke by the guys who made "The Sweater Song" and the Happy Days video. I didn't think it was something where I had to argue about its logic, I thought it was a gag.

I don't think anybody is dumb itt, I just like ripping on David cos he was an asshole lol

I actually love the idea of surfing in the street. Like how would the average person react if they were stuck behind Rivers

I didn't think it was something where I had to argue about its logic, I thought it was a gag.

So you're saying she doesn't have eyeballs in the back of her head

How could his name be Jonas, it says Rivers Cuomo in the jacket

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.