Thursday, February 4, 2010
Although The Green Album is almost universally considered Weezer’s strongest offering of the past decade — some fans even ascribe it the “classic” status usually reserved for the band’s first two albums — there remains a consensus that the record is a bit of a missed opportunity. In 2002, not even a year removed from [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
Although “Simple Pages” is far from the ranks of Weezer’s universally detested, I have never understood the hatred some have for this particular little ditty from the second side of The Green Album. Admittedly, it’s placement towards the latter end of a numbingly formulaic song set might mark the exact moment that people begin to [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
“I went through a massive Oasis phase in 97-99. I bet Liam [Gallagher] rubbed off on me. He’s a very non-dynamic singer. Perhaps his influence wasn’t a good thing.” —Rivers, ‘asschun correspondence,’ 2002 (http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/correspondence/asschun.html) Perhaps the best example of Oasis’ detrimental effect on our dear Rivers Cuomo is the original demo of “Island In The [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, “Crab” is not one of the worst songs Weezer’s ever done. What “Crab” is, however, is the worst song on The Green Album, which remains a (very) distant third in the great canon of Weezer albums. What that record lacks in dynamics, it makes up for in total, persistent, pointed lack [...]
…And in the opposite corner, we have The Green Album. Whereas a gloriously on-edge, unhinged performance like “Getchoo” highlights exactly why Pinkerton is so goddamn satisfying even a dozen years on, by 2001 Rivers Cuomo had changed directions completely. In his mind, that approach now represented the sophomore slump, his biggest commercial failure; while many [...]
“(Live).” Some of you reading may not understand why that’s a joke, but the fact is, “Island in the Sun” is the most released song of Weezer’s career. Too released. Released more than any one song should ever be, regardless of which band did it. To wit: THE COMPLETE “ISLAND IN THE SUN” DISCOGRAPHY The [...]
Even to the most fervent Weezer diehards, “Hash Pipe” must have come as a huge surprise. Hitting airwaves in April of 2001 as the first single from The Green Album, which dropped the following month, it was the first officially released Weezer song in five years — and man, was it ever a departure. To [...]