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
― gr8080, Monday, 1 October 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) 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
-- Dom Passantino, Monday, October 1, 2007 5:06 PM
Seriously, went with "Only In Dreams" because it's like two Weezer songs in one.
― talrose, Monday, 1 October 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
the solo at the end is awesome
― gman, Monday, 1 October 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
their best solo
― talrose, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
the say it ain't so solo is up there
― gman, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
rivers is such a fucking tasty player
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
he's ok. Better songwriter than musician.
― talrose, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― da croupier, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
what? that song has one of the most brilliant vocal breakdown/ buildups of all time.
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
on a weezer album, maybe
― da croupier, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
and I said "remotely" because I thought there might be an alternarock doo-wop enthusiast here
matt sharp was overrated
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
da croupier NOTM
― 6335, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't skip it or anything, but it's definitely my least favorite track, vocal breakdown or no.
― da croupier, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
'sweater song' is the one i might skip. just heard it a bit too much
― 6335, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i love this so much more than pinkerton.
― latebloomer, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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.
― talrose, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
also they are still a really powerful and life affirming live act to witness.
― chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I still enjoy the Green album and Maladroit as mindless rock bubblegum. Make Believe is mostly just mindless.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
btw heres a cool vid of matt and rivers doin a reunion of sorts
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FnIpAPz1obA
― chaki, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i like matt sharp i guess but i sort of hate the rentals
― max, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i really like the first rentals album:-(
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Say It Ain't So is SOOOOO good.
― Mister Craig, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I pick Only In Dreams. Holiday is brilliant though.
looking back maybe i should have went with undone. fuck.
― gman, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
This album is such an anomaly.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
(jonas ftw)
hey steve im guna come se you in sf. take a picture with me for the ilx massive.
― chaki, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/976/50346196.JPG
i cant vote in either of these polls.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
good job.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"In the garage".
― John Justen, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
so great but ^^^
― strgn, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i got an A.
:D
i just thought it was pretty.
http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/5/5a/Ballerina.jpg
― strgn, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
sounds like a plan, chaki.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Never been into them much, but "Buddy Holly" was great, so I voted for that one.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Undone - The Sweater Song was the greatest. Or was it in In The Garage? But anyway, it's too late now.
― zeus, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 8 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
WAU
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
homina-wha?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
wow
― gman, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
im not very surprised
― chaki, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:09 (five years ago) link
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' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
that song has great chords. he's obv an underrated guitarist
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 February 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 September 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
for better. still love this album so much
― gman59, Monday, 16 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
yes
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 September 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
today's listen confirms yet again this is a perfect album
― alpine static, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 22:33 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 02:34 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 02:36 (eleven months ago) link
"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. :\
― alpine static, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 06:33 (eleven months ago) link
but did you ever wonder what happened beyond the frame
https://i.imgur.com/cd2jMGF.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 06:46 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 13:56 (three months ago) link
lol
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:05 (three months ago) link
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
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:38 (three months ago) link
The Pat Finnerty Weezer video is a masterpiece.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:51 (three months ago) link
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
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:59 (three months ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:25 (three months ago) link
Rivers said something along the lines of "No One Else" is about his own feelings, just ramped up a bit
― Vinnie, Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:30 (three months ago) link
@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.
― intheblanks, Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:06 (three months ago) link
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
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:10 (three months ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Sunday, 28 January 2024 13:23 (three months ago) link
How could his name be Jonas, it says Rivers Cuomo in the jacket
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2024 15:20 (three months ago) link
I was giggling, picturing the dude just like surfing in the ocean horizontally, taking a few shortcuts and then docking and walking to work
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:17 (three months ago) link
I mean honestly it beats highways!
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:20 (three months ago) link
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.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:06 (one month ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:58 (one month ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 March 2024 01:05 (one month ago) link
Honestly just want a Green album gig. Wouldn't even take that long
― PaulTMA, Friday, 15 March 2024 11:01 (one month ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Friday, 15 March 2024 11:17 (one month ago) link
Have fun Indexed!
― Bee OK, Saturday, 16 March 2024 02:54 (one month ago) link
XP If somebody is shelling out to see Weezer in 2024, they probably care at least a little about those later hits.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 March 2024 03:17 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 March 2024 03:20 (one month ago) link
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.
― BringTheAuBonPain, Sunday, 17 March 2024 03:29 (one month ago) link