Some SERIOUS clunkers (Beverly Hills, We Are All on Drugs) but a bunch of great tracks. For my money, Haunt You Every Day is one of the best Pinkerton tracks.
it's fine. it was just, up til that point, easily their worst record. i'll still take it these days over red album and raditude
I'm probably the only person that thinks Raditude has more highlights than Green. They both suck, but I still genuinely like 4 songs on Raditude.
I'm one of the few probably on earth that doesn't think they have an outright terrible album. Worst are easily Red and Raditude though
Both Green and Maladroit are good albums. Green is a great pop rock album, Maladroit is just a good album. Make Believe begins their downfall, making super boring music
I've always been partial to this acoustic demo of the track they recorded a while before the album dropped. It feels so warm and detached of the overcompression and unneeded maximalism that MB reeks of. Also: Rivers' croaky voice.
Raditude isn't fantastic but it has a few highlight songs so it's not completely as 100% bad as people say. (If You're Wondering, Put Me Back Together, I Don't Want To Let You Go)
Pink/Blue White Alone/2/3 Red/Green/EWBAITE Fuck the rest. Make Believe, Raditude, Hurley, and I don't want to get into Maladroit again. And this is from someone who considers Weezer their favorite band. The period between Red and EWBAITE is one of the darkest periods of music. The rollercoaster of all the amazing content that the band did and put out for Red was amazing. We got the acoustic Pig leak, Red itself, AOL sessions, MTV sessions, tons of extra bonus material, Alone 2, the Hootenannys, Not Alone, peak Karl Koch communication, Pat leaking the "crushing" demos of I Swear It's True and You Won't Get With Me Tonight. Then they previewed three Raditude songs in Japan and everything was down hill from there. Rad, Hurley, The "YouTube Invasion", all the weird as fuck collabs with, but not limited too: B.o.B., Miranda Cosgrove, Tyson Ritter, Chamillionaire, Kenny G, Sarah Barielles, Steve Aoki, Simple Plan, All Time Low, Sugar Ray, Kevin Rudolf, Panic!, Adam Lambert, Michael Cera, the Scott & Rivers japanese album, and the fucking Jackass Crew. All the covers they insisted on inserting into their sets (Kids/Pokerface is forever burned into my brain). The band is doing so much better since EWBAITE era. The Memories Tour was fucking amazing. I went to the Pinkerton night show in NYC and it was probably the most magical concert experience of my life. And all the goodies from Pinkerton Deluxe/Alone 3 gave us the last few morsels of material from Songs From the Black Hole, and the buried and unknown to absolutely anyone song that got cut from Pinkerton "Tragic Girl", which is easily a Top 5 Weezer song of all time. EDIT: Jesus I keep remembering more. Lil Wayne, Hayley Williams on "Rainbow Connection", "I'm A Believer" for Shrek 5 or 6 or something, "Represent", the song for the US Soccer team. During the Red era we did get the "Let's Write A Song" project, although the finished product left alot to be desired, it was still a fun thing to follow.
That list two posts above is wild, nice I hadn't listened to the two most recent bc I'd basically given up on them but I enjoyed the singles more than a lot of their post Green stuff and Blue has been in my car CD player for months so definitely revisiting the post Green stuff on my way to listening to EWBAITE and White
:( That album is their most substanceless. Just guitar riff wankery. Not a single song has any meaning. It was when Rivers was at his most Pinkerton-hating days, not wanting to write anything remotely personal and deep. He specifically called Pinkerton during this time "disneygay".
:( damn i had no idea he hated Pinkerton at that time, considering Weezer is one of my favourite bands as well. Pinkerton is my third favourite record behind Blue. I'd say it would be their heaviest and grittiest album, probably because i love heavy music too lol
Maladroit rules. They picked the wrong songs but it's good. If only they hadn't cut How Long, Big Chip, Acapulco, Porcupine, We Go Together and had mixed it a bit different it could've been excellent. Officially released songs worth a damn after that album: The Other Way Haunt You Every Day Pork and Beans The Angel and the One Miss Sweeney If You're Wondering The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World (doesn't really count since it's from 1997 but fuuuuck so good) Memories Ain't Got Nobody Da Vinci pretty much all of s/t white