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Category Archives: The Blue Album

Buddy Holly

Sunday, October 25, 2009

“Undone — The Sweater Song” was the first Weezer song to capture the imagination of the alt-rock nation (and in 1994, it really did have enough of a set perimeter and population to be called a “nation”), but “Buddy Holly” was the first to make the band pop superstars. And though the infallible melody and [...]

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Undone — The Sweater Song

Monday, April 6, 2009

Writing about “Undone” is no mean task: not only is it the song that first broke Weezer into the mainstream, it’s also the most performed song in their entire career. I have doubts that Weezer has ever played a full setlist without playing this song — even in the doldrums of Rivers Cuomo’s audience-hating, early [...]

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Only In Dreams

Monday, December 1, 2008

Where to begin? “Only In Dreams” isn’t one of the best Weezer songs so much as it is one of the best songs. It contains what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest passages of guitar work in the history of music. It is, in many ways, the perfect synthesis of the young Rivers [...]

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In The Garage

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I can still remember the day in 2002 — when I was a young whippersnapper aged just 13 — sitting in the backseat of my friend’s car while we shared a CD player with a split headphone jack. Inside was The Blue Album. My friend had been trying to convert me to Weezer for a [...]

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The World Has Turned And Left Me Here

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Pinkerton always gets lauded as the closest Weezer has ever come to a bona fide concept album (something which it both is and isn’t, as we shall later explore), but I still think Blue has something of a unifying intent to it. Between songs like “In The Garage” and “Only In Dreams,” there’s definitely a [...]

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No One Else

Monday, July 14, 2008

With a sudden onslaught of poppy, distorted guitars, a rush of lyrics about love and loneliness, and some truly fantastic falsetto harmonies provided by bassist Matt Sharp, this track embodies all that is great about Blue Album era Weez. Rivers Cuomo’s lyric is one of the most cleverly understated of his career, as he pines, [...]

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