Shortly after midnight on March 6, 2003, Rivers Cuomo logged onto a Weezer fan forum to speak directly with his most dedicated acolytes. It might sound like a shocking move for a rock star and celebrity of his stature, but it was far from the first time he had done such a thing. Indeed, Cuomo [...]
During the mid-90s, Robert Pollard — frontman of the then-infallible Guided By Voices — was making fascinating songs at an unprecedented rate. He was working as an elementary schoolteacher when considerable indie rock fame came to him on the brink of his 40s, and, as he released scores and scores of songs per year, he [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
It had been three years since anyone heard something from Weezer. There was 2001′s The Green Album — which most die-hards had initially despised, but some had taken to reevaluating in the interim as something of an appreciable “simple pop album,” or “the perfect summer record” — quickly followed by 2002′s Maladroit — which most [...]
When I first listened to Make Believe, I was pretty stoked. I skipped “Beverly Hills” to get straight into “Perfect Situation,” a song that, on my first listen, blew me away. “This Is Such A Pity” managed to maintain the excitement, and “Hold Me” struck me as a very beautiful (if extremely simple) song. “Peace,” [...]
This one is a song of great controversy among Weezer fans. Ask a regular at any one of Weezer’s more die-hard fan forums about it, and you can expect in good faith a very disdainful criticism of the song; but a survey of the comments on its SongMeanings entry conversely reveals no shortage of love [...]
Whereas Cuomo boasted on the Rivers Correspondence Board of “world domination” and the “millions of new fans” that would be replacing his current ones after 2001′s triumphant return, Maladroit‘s immediate failure quickly cut at the heels of Cuomo’s engorged ego and the band’s new sense of confidence. While sessions for Weezer’s fifth outing had begun [...]