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The Good Life

Monday, October 6, 2008

Pinkerton is, for the most part, an album composed of bitter, incendiary rockers (“Tired Of Sex,” “Getchoo,” “Why Bother“) and sad, contemplative slowburns (near everything else, extending as far as perennial b-side cuts like “Waiting On You” and “Devotion”). To that general rule, I would say that 2 of the album’s 10 tracks represent (seperate, [...]

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Falling For You

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Imagine my surprise when, in researching the previous post, I found out that Rivers Cuomo called “Beverly Hills” and “Falling For You” his two proudest musical achievements (quite a juxtaposition, to say the least). Then imagine my surprise when, after “Beverly Hills,” the very next song to come up in my randomizer was… “Falling For [...]

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Why Bother?

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Much like Hamlet is a young man’s play, I feel that Pinkerton is something of a young man’s album. Surely, like the only Shakespeare that ever really resonated with me, members of both sexes can appreciate the album (and at any age), but there’s a very hormonal, teenage, testosterone-driven facet to it (at its very [...]

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Getchoo

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Pinkerton is not just the greatest record Weezer will ever make. It is, in my opinion, one of the greatest records anyone could ever make — and while I’m not crass enough to call it the best record of all time, it might very well be my favorite (if it’s not The One, it’s very [...]

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Across the Sea

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

In very brief summary, Pinkerton was an album of unmitigated genius that the world simply didn’t want to hear in 1996. It was all at once too personal, too complex, too nuanced and brilliant for a market that then wanted little more than simple melodies and big arena refrains from their rock songs (all thanks [...]

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