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

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The Token Ethnic said:
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 whenever they perform Island in the Sun. Rivers really makes that his rock star ballad moment.
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The b-sides are more worth listening to than what became of those albums. Even bland albums like Green and Make Believe.

"Burning Sun" (the earliest version of Weekend Girl/Woman) for example felt like it was meant for the a-sides for green.

 
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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White is a great album. There are good singles every couple years, but more than anything I’m amazed at the incredible volume of music they’ve produced.
 
I un-ironically really like Weezer. When my mom and I moved from Dallas to Houston in the 1990s, "Buddy Holly" was really popular on the Alternative radio station. That song was one of a few of my introduction tracks to the new city, which I grew to love. Driving around that new town at dusk with that song playing amongst the other classics by Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots were some sincerely fond memories - going to daycare, meeting friends that turned out to be good buddies, playing POGs and Sega Genesis, those songs were the backing tracks to a well loved chapter of my childhood. Then "Say It Ain't So" came out, and I enjoyed that one even more than "Buddy Holly". I really really like those two tracks. They immediately initiate feelings of bitter sweet nostalgia to the point where I can almost feel the cool Halloween-time air on my face from those days. All this was long before I fell in love with bands like Pantera, Lamb of God and waaaay before I ever picked up a guitar and got into Shawn Lane, Steve Vai, John Petrucci and all the others.
 
“All My Favorite Songs” is the epitome of a hipster song, and like a lot of hipster songs, it received a lot of airplay. Still, you can’t deny their ability to still make songs that get so much attention.
 
that was weird when Buddy Holly became the dawn of "what if you, like, watched videos, on your _computer_ "
 
TVBForever said:
I forgot that Red Album had some great tracks. Not only this song, but also The Angel and the One and Pork & Beans were awesome tracks.
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I know that this album tried something different with having all of the guys sing a song, not really a fan of either of them. Shriner's voice on "King" is overlooked, though it doesn't sound like a weezer song to me.
 
misterhimmmm said:
I know that this album tried something different with having all of the guys sing a song, not really a fan of either of them. Shriner's voice on "King" is overlooked, though it doesn't sound like a weezer song to me.
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Shriner's voice in Cold Dark World is so mesmerizing. It never sounded like something from Weezer, yet it's another great track from the album.
 
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