Rediscovering Weezer Pre-Maladroit

[TylerDurden]

LOL, will do buddy! Found this earlier and thought it was pretty awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7KG0CkDNA&sns=em

[TheRumGone]

i've never really given Weezer a shot but always thought i should.

[Panthro]

Ah Weezer my favorite band from HS.

 

The Blue Album is the best cd I ever owned.

 

Pinkerton was a phenomenal cd as well.

 

This is my favorite song of any of the new ones.

[pstall]

Weezer has a lot of Steely Dan influence with the clever, ironic, inside joke lyrics. So smart they are bored with everyday reality so they weave a tapestry of social commentary while walking a tightrope of large acceptance vs trying to avoid being commercial.

[PanthaSan]

I've always liked Weezer.  Very melodic and a bit aggressive on the guitars.

 

I really enjoy Cuomo's acoustic version of Holiday on what I think was an unplugged performance.

 

But,

 

One of my all time favorite songs (by anybody) has to be "Photograph." 

[Chimera]

Nickelback?

[pstall]

I've always liked Weezer.  Very melodic and a bit aggressive on the guitars.

 

I really enjoy Cuomo's acoustic version of Holiday on what I think was an unplugged performance.

 

But,

 

One of my all time favorite songs (by anybody) has to be "Photograph." 

 

Do I know you?

[PhillyB]

Nickelback?

 

your worst post

[Chimera]

your worst post

probably

photograph was the song that made me finally realize how bad nb is.

I forgot about the Weezer song

[TheRumGone]

probably

photograph was the song that made me finally realize how bad nb is.

I forgot about the Weezer song

 

finally realize?

[Chimera]

finally realize?

I lived in Germany then, music was old by the time it was new to me

[TylerDurden]

Man, it just keeps getting better the more I delve deeper into this stuff. So, one night when I had too much time on my hands, I looked into the album that Rivers had started developing and ends up scrapping in favor of Pinkerton - Songs From The Black Hole. First off, I'm convinced he's a genius. Ultimately, I think he made the right decision in going with Pinkerton, but the concept of SFTBH is amazing.

It was based on the metaphor of a guy and his friends getting selected as part of a program to go into space and save a planet from getting destroyed as a parallel to becoming rock stars (as they just had with their debut Blue Album). The guy ends up running into a girl he smashed in space academy, but he falls in love with a good girl instead, while they are in space. This dilemma led to the songs "Tired of Sex," and "No Other One," that made it onto Pinkerton.

Anyway, if you listen to the lyrics, it is an amazing concept in which he equates the experience of being a rock star to being an astronaut "rock star," but still feeling so lonely and empty.

What was to be the opening song explains it pretty well:

[KendrickPanther]

Yeah I wore out my Blue album CD. How can you not chill to only in dreams while belting it out like a day 1 American Idol contestant. Pinkerton to me is highly underrated. The content was a little depressing but honest. The songs were interesting and memorable. As a guy that chased 1/2 Japanese tail in high school only to get burned over and over again, I can relate to El Scorcho.

 

Green Album was pretty good but you started to see a change, a concentration on making their music for mainstream radio friendly.  After that it got very predictable and boring. Nothing really had the "it" factor. But I will always hold a place in my heart for the Blue Album and Pinkerton.

[TylerDurden]

Agreed for the most part.

 

i'm not exaggerating when I say the Pinkerton album has changed my life since I discovered it when I made this thread.  It's just so honest and anyone can find someone or something in there they can relate to.  I even got the Rivers' Alone albums to check out the demo versions of some of the songs and it's so raw.  Just awesome stuff.  Pinkerton is possibly in my top 3 albums of all-time from all genres.