Weezer thread - "If everyone's a little queer, can't she be a little straight?"

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Weezer and the Foo Fighters are two great examples of the fact that if you have a hit album in the 90s you can ride that wave forever. Even if you just copy paste album after album afterwards.
 
ManiacalChrisBenoit said:
Weezer and the Foo Fighters are two great examples of the fact that if you have a hit album in the 90s you can ride that wave forever. Even if you just copy paste album after album afterwards.
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I dunno, both bands have some incredible hits in the 2000s as well. I'd say the latter band has a better album track record than Weezer during the 2000s. Weezer had potential in the early 2000s, but fell through by the time Make Believe happened.
 
TVBForever said:
I dunno, both bands have some incredible hits in the 2000s as well. I'd say the latter band has a better album track record than Weezer during the 2000s. Weezer had potential in the early 2000s, but fell through by the time Make Believe happened.
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Having hits and having good albums are two different things though. Nickelback has huge hits but no one celebrates their albums as these important works of art. No Weezer or Foo album after 2000 has been looked at the same as their 90s hit albums.
 
ManiacalChrisBenoit said:
Having hits and having good albums are two different things though. Nickelback has huge hits but no one celebrates their albums as these important works of art. No Weezer or Foo album after 2000 has been looked at the same as their 90s hit albums.
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I literally just said that Foo's albums were getting better in the 2000s while Weezer had potential early in the early decade but failed. Please reread my post before you even post.
 
Blue Album and Pinkerton are still all time great albums so I can give Rivers a pass for going off the deep end.
 
Still to this day... people are still arguing over the lyrics "Eyes Wide/Ass Wide" and "Big G's/Big Cheese" in the song Hash Pipe.
 
I can't help but feel, "the 90's were Weezer's best and everything else after sucks" crowd have overshadowed any discussion about Weezer. They aren't completely wrong but it feels like such a cold take now. I love Blue and Pinkerton but I don't think people should sleep on White and OK Human. Hell, I even think some of Weezer's best work is in the Alone demos, but for whatever reason those songs don't make it to the album or get relagated to being bonus tracks when they should have been on the album (looking at you, Across the Meadow and I've Thrown it All Away). Rivers CAN write good music, he just chooses not to release it officially.
 
when I was a teen listening to the then-new Blue Album my mom commented that it was some nice enough bubblegum pop
she wasn't wrong

I still like the blue album
 
Weezer are one of those slightly unlucky bands whose first album is just so good and ages so well that people are always a little disappointed by everything that comes after.

I still like them a lot but ngl if I'm putting them on, I'm putting on the Blue Album.
 
Imagine being stuck working in a place that played the same local alternative station over the loudspeakers, and every other hour it's "Beverly Hills" or "Buddy Holly" and sometimes "Hash Pipe" on that concurrent Thursday or Friday.

I grew up listening to Weezer, but my god is their shit overplayed.
 
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Mark Knopfler said:
I can't help but feel, "the 90's were Weezer's best and everything else after sucks" crowd have overshadowed any discussion about Weezer. They aren't completely wrong but it feels like such a cold take now. I love Blue and Pinkerton but I don't think people should sleep on White and OK Human. Hell, I even think some of Weezer's best work is in the Alone demos, but for whatever reason those songs don't make it to the album or get relagated to being bonus tracks when they should have been on the album (looking at you, Across the Meadow and I've Thrown it All Away). Rivers CAN write good music, he just chooses not to release it officially.
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Not that he chooses not to release it officially… In some cases he goes back to the EWBAITE demos to often either improve them or ruin them to be honest. “Ballad of the Briny/Blue Dream” was better being its own song that sounded better on demo than the garbage heavy metal adaptation of it that was on Van Weezer. He has thousands of good unreleased songs that he could just release tomorrow as official albums but just doesn’t.
 
After the Indie Rock tour. I hope they announce Yellow Album or something along the lines of that... (and I hope it's not another synthetic/shitty cover album).
 
TVBForever said:
Will there be a Purple Album as well?
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A double-color album... it'll be 2019 all over again.

misterhimmmm said:
A double-color album... it'll be 2019 all over again.
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And there is an "unofficial" purple album... It's "Songs From the Black Hole" xd funny joke... fr That fanmade album cover, Rivers "considers" it much like the entirety of that scrapped rock opera album to be the supposed album cover.
 
These two nerds in my AP classes would always wear Weezer and They Might Be Giants shirts. I stopped buying their albums after the green album and DVD came out, but they'd pop up on the Jackass movie soundtrack or I'd see them going on tour with The Pixies. I wish Cuomo would make good songs or b-sides again.
Their live shows get ridiculously serious, yet goofy whenever they perform Island in the Sun. Rivers really makes that his rock star ballad moment.
 
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