Weezer - Van Weezer (May 7, 2021) Album • Page 36

"O Girlfriend" is a great closer, y'all are freaks

 

that's one of my favourites on Green

the rest of the album sounds more like it was written by a Rivers algorithm than the new albums he literally used an algorithm to write lmao

 

I honestly feel like I am listening to a different song than everyone when they praise Miss Sweeny... Rivers' talk-singing is SO BAD. The chorus is cool, of course.... but the whole song isn't the chorus.

 

Raditude > black

 

Never been into Sweeney. King is perfect.

 

Yeah, just put on "Miss Sweeny" to see which one it was and the chorus is fine but nothing special compared to what's on EWBAITE and White imo...plus the talk singing is not great

 

Miss Sweeney is a cool moody simmer. Not ga ga for it but I dig

Red is a weird album, feels very transitional to me.

Green is probably my fave, the melodies are so good and some of the chord changes are so cool- Don’t Let Go B section w the F#maj, Bm E A7, or the sick Knock Down Drag-Out turnaround.

I love O Girlfriend and I love O Girl even more

 

Red definitely feels like they don't know what to do after the success of Beverly Hills haha

 

"Pork and Beans" still fucks

 

I love that song, I really like Greatest Man and Dreaming. Automatic and Thought I Knew aren't that bad tbh

 

nah man

 

I love the first four tracks and "Dreamin'". Hate "Everybody Get Dangerous," could take or leave the rest. I don't think the non-Rivers songs are THAT bad but also the record just never comes together for me.

 

My hottest =w= take in 2020, and it's barely above room temp: EWBAITE is mostly really bad imo

 

I LOVED it when it came out but then White topped it for me and return to it less than I expected to

 

White is legitimately really good

 

Some days I like it more than Pinkerton. It's certainly an easier listen

 

Green is, IMO, the world’s most perfect pop-with-guitars album. It’s a functionally perfect almost 30 minutes of shiny, shimmery music that’s a beautiful counter to the harshness of Pinkerton. On its own, I love it so much, and in context with where they were in their career, it’s a flawless move. To me, when people talk about the ‘classic’ Weezer albums of Blue and Pinkerton, Green is right there with them - it’s the third part of a classic trilogy.

 

EWBAITE is underappreciated.

 

And while we’re here:

I think that Weezer’s career, through Make Believe, makes sense. Blue, Pinkerton, Green, Maladroit, MB - every record has its own feel, but is a cohesively written angle on what Rivers was trying to do musically and lyrically. Through five albums, Weezer isn’t really bizarre (the way they are now).

But then, it seems like they just have no idea what should be next. Red is so all over the place it sounds like several different bands; Raditude has crazy co-writers and songs that you couldn’t convince a Weezer fan from 1998 weren’t joke outtakes; Hurley is a record that is the definition of rudderless. There are good tracks on each album, but things really start going off the rails.

I think since then they’ve at least had a direction and stuck to it. Whether you’re a fan of that direction or not (and I am), they definitely seem to have one in a way they didn’t in the late 2000s.

 

It's arguably better than the White Album

 

I will say that I've shit on Make Believe a bunch earlier in this thread and I revisited it and it's not too bad at all! Still probably my least-played Weezer album outside of the singles

 

I just want to say Perfect Situation rules.

 

white is quite good but nowhere near the first four

 

I still love Make Believe. It was my first Weezer record but even beyond the nostalgia, I think it's misunderstood. And there's a bunch of non-singles that rule ("This is Such a Pity," "Hold Me," "Haunt You Every Day" to name a few)

 

White is my second favourite Weezer after Blue

but I mean part of that is because Pinkerton has a few lyrics I would be totally fine never hearing again lmao