I’m often accused of hyperbole on this here songblog, and I will concede that these claims aren’t always inaccurate. But this is one grand statement I can truly stand by: “The Spider” is the most misunderstood song Weezer has ever released. As the third of four “Deluxe version” bonus tracks for 2008′s Red Album, “The [...]
Back in July of 2006, fans were preparing for yet another Weezer hiatus. In the second week of that month an article broke on MTV.com titled Rivers Cuomo Says Weezer Are ‘Done’ For Now — Again. Despite the frontman’s expressed reluctance to create another Weezer album, he admitted that he was still finding excitement in [...]
When I wrote about Red Album deluxe track/outtake “Miss Sweeney” I spoke of the euphoria of hearing a classic Weezer track so deep into the new millennium, and the band’s new arena rock/radio pop M.O. But “Sweeney” is far from the first post-Y2K sign of life. Perhaps the brightest beacon in memory came April 9, [...]
In more ways than one, “Everybody Get Dangerous” was the first song from The Red Album that Weezer fans heard. Enterprising fans managed to snag a glimpse of the song from a scene in the flop comedy flick 21, where a brief clip of the song is buried on a distant radio in a poker [...]
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In order to understand what it was like for me to first listen to this song, you’ll first have to get to know me as a Weezer fan a little bit. Thankfully, the opinionated narcissist in me has made this pretty easy, as in addition to the traditional “album tags” for the blog, I’ve also [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
“Thought I Knew” is one of three songs off 2008′s Red Album on which Rivers Cuomo is not the lead singer. Those unfamiliar with the annals of the band’s history may not realize just how surprising it was to hear that news break in the months before the album’s release, as it hadn’t been since [...]
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As it would turn out, the song Cuomo referred to as “Daydreamer” in his notes on “This Is The Way” wound up being called “Dreamin.” That’s not all that had changed: instead of being 6 minutes long, it clocks in at relatively trim 5.12. And “Dreamin’” is perhaps the finest example of Cuomo’s tendency to [...]