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[jough]

I got to hear the new Weezer album tonight, and it is good.

Although once again they released the album's worst song as the first single.

[robot_roll_call]

Kind of like NIN did. It must be a new trend. I guess making people think your album will be bad sells more?

[jough]

Oh, I don't even know what the NIN single is.  The album is starting to grow on me, though.

[miles]

I guess my friends are seeing them up in Seattle soon, and they're excited.  I loved the blue album, but I haven't heard more than a handful of songs since that one.

[jough]

Yeah, I was never a fan until recently.  I knew of the singles from the blue album (heck, the video for "Buddy Holly" was even included as a multimedia demo on the original Windows 95 installation disc) but never owned the album until last fall.  I picked up the other three since I liked it so much.

I really like Pinkerton, but the last two albums didn't do much for me.  The new one is a lot like Pinkerton musically, actually.

I mean, you just GOT TO love a band who follows up a smash success with a rock reimagining of Madame Butterfly.  Could anything have less commercial potential? (other than the Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink *****").

[miles]

Pinkerton is probably the album I've heard the least amount of, even though it's probably the one most often recommended.  I wasn't listening to the radio a lot when it was released, and I don't think it got much play anyways.

It's going on the list.

[antioch]

I always saw Weezer albums as,

Blue : Pinkerton

Green : Maladroit

hooky and clean-cut : noodley and bearded

I'm going to have to rethink this after I hear the new one.


I thought Weezer 95 was actually from Happy Days for years after I saw that video. I also thought there were multiple Weezers because of the "Our very own...Weezer!" line. Windows again, huh?

[starlight]

I'm rather torn on Weezer.
There was a time I obsessed and I have a whole burned copy of bsides I made of their stuff, but honestly in the past few years, I've listened to them very little.

Pinkerton did have some staying power among them all though.

[CortJstr]

People always say that Pinkerton is the best album but dammit I relate to Blue much more. I had a 12-sided die, and Kittie Pryde! And Nightcrawler too, waiting there for me. Although a friend had to tell me who Ace Freely was.

[jough]

Yeah, I like the songs on the blue album better too.  Pinkerton is just such a bold and odd albums that you have to respect it.  You just have to.

And I think it's a more musically "mature" work than the blue or green albums.  The new one is actually more frat-boy-rock-ish.  Seriously, some of this stuff sounds like Smash Mouth or one of those "Kid Kid Yellin'" bands.

[antioch]

I noticed the Smash South similarity in the new single. I liked that stuff better when it was the theme song for Arthur on PBS.

edit: I meant PBS and not TBS.

[robot_roll_call]

I think I am the only person in my age range who is totally indifferent to Weezer. I don't not like them, but I'm not a fan either.

[miles]

Wow.  So I was at my grandparents today, watching TV because they have satellite and I don't even have cable, while skipping class, and I saw the video for Beverly Hills (or whatever it's called) twice.  I really didn't like it.  Usually I am OK with videos that feature attractive people dancing, but it really bothered me.

But you say that the rest of the album is better?

[CortJstr]

Wow.  So I was at my grandparents today, watching TV because they have satellite and I don't even have cable, while skipping class, and I saw the video for Beverly Hills (or whatever it's called) twice.

Vi-de-o?

[jough]

Yes, but in a Weezer video those beautiful people are viewed with a great deal of scorn.  

Oh, and that stupid section in the middle of the video where he talks for a bit (always annoying in songs after the first listen) is not on the album.