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[butter_stick]

I'd go:

1.) Blue Album
2.) Green Album
3.) Pinkerton
4.) Maladroit
5.) Make Believe

Why is Blue number one? Let's take a look at the tracks:

1. "My Name Is Jonas"
2. "No One Else"
3. "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
4. "Buddy Holly"
5. "Undone – The Sweater Song"
6. "Surf Wax America"
7. "Say It Ain't So"
8. "In the Garage"
9. "Holiday"
10. "Only in Dreams"

So fucking good.

Green above Pink.

Do you have any idea what you've done.

 

[MutFox]

They have enough songs I like that I'd go see them in concert.
Remember, music is subjective.

 

[Baggatoast]

Rush sucks.
They made Moving Picture and 2112.

 

[rCIZZLE]

Such a boring band.

 

[VertPin]

Next thread we will have is "System of a Down sucks". (

Spoiler

I don't like weezer either.

 

[Izick]

Green above Pink.

Do you have any idea what you've done.

I like Green more.

 

[Guzim]

Largely due to Patrick.

I saw Weezer just this year at The Roxy in LA and honestly, the entire show was incredible. One of the best live performances I've ever seen. The set list was:

Undone - The Sweater Song
Troublemaker
My Name Is Jonas
I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James & The Shondells cover)
Hash Pipe (with Brad Wilk) (sung as "Half Pint")
Perfect Situation
Buddy Holly
(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
Island in the Sun
Pork and Beans
Say It Ain't So
Talk Dirty To Me (Poison cover)
Beverly Hills

The Roxy show was a benefit show right?

 

[Max]

Every song on Pinkerton

 

[Cat Party]

I'm seething here reading this OP that just gives a casual nod to classic Weezer. I don't care which level of hell Rivers takes this band next. Nothing can undo the magic of the first two albums (and I like the next two as well).

 

[GDGF]

First two albums were awesome.

Anybody in this thread listen to The Rentals? Check them out if you haven't.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmwh_4G9lc

 

[Izick]

1. "Don't Let Go" 2:59
2. "Photograph" 2:19
3. "Hash Pipe" 3:06
4. "Island in the Sun" 3:20
5. "Crab" 2:34
6. "Knock-down Drag-out" 2:08
7. "Smile" 2:38
8. "Simple Pages" 2:56
9. "Glorious Day" 2:40
10. "O Girlfriend" 3:49

Love all these songs, but the bolded are some of my favorites. I just think the Green album doesn't get the respect it deserves. It has such a great, fun sound to it.

 

[Guzim]

First two albums were awesome.

Anybody in this thread listen to The Rentals? Check them out if you haven't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmwh_4G9lc

I like Seven More Minutes more than Return of The Rentals. I happen to be in the minority when it comes to that.

 

[butter_stick]

Return Of The Rentals is good. Songs From The Black Hole would have been better though

 

[olore]

Only In Dreams. My favorite song by them. Love it.

edit- here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4spkVX8z-vs

Yepp, came to post this, from their first album which is awesome like I needed to tell you that

 

[Kwixotik]

Does anyone know why Weezer suddenly started sucking so hard?

 

[butter_stick]

Does anyone know why Weezer suddenly started sucking so hard?

I don't think it was sudden at all. There was a gap between Pinkerton and Green. Green is a fine album. Maladroit is a good album. It's a gradual drop if anything.

 

[Steamlord]

Does anyone know why Weezer suddenly started sucking so hard?

Matt Sharp left.

 

[mattiewheels]

I'm the rare bird that really likes the green album, maybe that's because I listened to it so much that it's pure nostalgia talking. Stuff like 'photograph' is really well-done and more rote than Pinkerton, but hey, it gets me goin. Worst part about the green album was that all the guitar solos were just simple traces of the main melody, it was like a sick joke.

I actually read an interview with Rivers around that time that made it all clear what he was trying to do, it was creepy stuff: he was so cynical about the failure of Pinkerton that he was fashioning himself as a hit making robot of a musician, he had binders with spreadsheets and diagrams of hundreds of pop songs over the years and he was acting like he was using those to crack a code and write perfect pop songs. You can pretty much tell, since all his output after that feels a bit lobotomized and rote if not catchy as fuck.

 

[cr_blah_blah]

First two albums were awesome.

Anybody in this thread listen to The Rentals? Check them out if you haven't.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmwh_4G9lc

I came to post this. Weezer ended with Pinkerton for me and only every now and then I'll go back and listen to a few songs. The Rentals are something I'll still listen to to this day.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Before you get all "OMG WEEZER IS BEST BAND" on me, name 5 songs that aren't Hash pipe, Island in the Sun, Buddy Holly, Pork and Beans, or Beverly Hills.
.

I don't even think Weezer fans like those songs.

 

[Guzim]

Matt Sharp left.

How does that explain Matt Sharp's albums after Seven More Minutes sucking?

 

[Izick]

I don't even think Weezer fans like those songs.

I like them, but they're not really even "good" Weezer songs compared to their early stuff.

 

[Messofanego]

What's the point of this thread other than confirmation bias for OP?

Thanks for letting me reminiscence Sweater Song, though.

 

[Seth C]

The Roxy show was a benefit show right?

Yeah, for a pre-school in Santa Monica. That said, they opened some tickets to fans on their Facebook page and seeing them in a venue that small (1200 ish?) was amazing.

 

[butter_stick]

Matt Sharp left.

I still think this is kind of coincidental. Rivers was clearly the man behind the songs on Blue and Pink.

 

[scorcho]

Pinkerton and Blue will remain as two of the best albums of the 90s.

 

[CloudWolf]

I don't even think Weezer fans like those songs.

I've never heard anyone speak positively about Beverly Hills. Pork & Beans is not bad though, just overplayed as fuck. It was better than everything else on that album.

Anyway, IMO Pinkerton = Blue Album > Maladroit > Hurley > Green Album >>> Make Believe = Red Album >>>>>> Raditude (ugh...)

 

[NathanMcMahon]

First two albums were awesome.

Anybody in this thread listen to The Rentals? Check them out if you haven't.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmwh_4G9lc

You know it. Fucking stellar album and kind of carries the Weezer banner. Also Blue Album is God. One of the best albums from anybody ever. Done.

 

[Ænima]

Agreed 100% OP. They have always been horrible.

 

[JLG-]

The only album i care about:

 

[Burli]

Blue Album is perfect, Pinkerton great, down-hill from there all the way to tripe.

 

[mattiewheels]

The one thing you can say about them is that their catalog improves over time; the more albums they release, the more you realize that the previous album was much better in comparison.

 

[butter_stick]

Agreed 100% OP. They have always been horrible.

>Tool username

 

[Izick]

Eeeeeverybody Haaaates Chris Greeeeen



I seriously think it's still amazing. Look over its track-list again and give it another listen. It's close to Blue in quality for me, although Blue wins it.

 

[butter_stick]

Green is a great album. It's just not Pink or Blue great.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

How does that explain Matt Sharp's albums after Seven More Minutes sucking?

No more Weezer

 

[Ænima]

>Tool username

Not much of a comparison. Tool is an actual band while Weezer is pop trash. Not to shit on pop, but Weezer isn't even good pop.

 

[blame space]

are you kidding me

 

[Dishwalla]

Not much of a comparison. Tool is an actual band while Weezer is pop trash. Not to shit on pop, but Weezer isn't even good pop.

haha, wow.

 

[blixa]

yes, they suck.
so does radiohead, sigur ros, animal collective, arcade fire,
and every indie out there.

 

[blame space]

rivers cuomo - greatest man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4mX-rDPIQ

 

[elseanio]

Weezers blue and pink era with all he bsides, is my favourite band. Blast off, devotion, purification of water, Jamie, lullaby for Wayne... They're so good.

 

[berg ark]

uhh isnt music like... subjective.. so i guess i dunno but every1 likes different stuff?

 

[blame space]

 

[Dishwalla]

Somebody really likes Rivers Cuomo.

 

[Shredding.Bullets]

Pinkerton is among the greatest albums of all time, Blue is a masterpiece as well, and any B-sides and demos from the era are nearly equal in quality.

I can understand saying this if you associate Weezer with Beverly Hills and Pork and Beans, but those that think of Susanne and Longtime Sunshine know where the gold is. Rivers Cuomo is one of the greatest songwriters of the modern era, even if he's extremely inconsistent. Even the newer stuff has plenty of gems, like Pig or The Angel and the One.

 

[Archie]

Not much of a comparison. Tool is an actual band while Weezer is pop trash. Not to shit on pop, but Weezer isn't even good pop.

At least Weezer isn't 2deep4me.

 

[Dishwalla]

Why do people hate Pork and Beans anyway? I thought it was an alright song.

 

[butter_stick]

Not much of a comparison. Tool is an actual band while Weezer is pop trash. Not to shit on pop, but Weezer isn't even good pop.

Tool is music for loner 16 year olds who want to feel like their tastes are sophisticated and mature.

 

[Lotto]

This feels like a Vestibule thread.