weezer - blue album

I wish there was a "every song except for 'Buddy Holly'" option.

my name is jonas, duhhhhhh

when i saw them live in 9th grade they did a SMOKIN version of only in dreams at the end

"The World Has Turned And Left Me Here"

"Only In Dreams", already said my bit about it on some other thread today.

say it ain't soooooooooooo.

Surf Wax or Shoeless Joe.

holiday

oh my god don't make me choose

8 - "In the Garage" – 3:55

i got acre freely i got peter criss

ace

every song is a winner

pinkerton poll i might be able to narrow it down better but god damn. so many memories of this album.

every song is a winner

-- chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 20:56 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"Buddy Holly" cause it's the shortest one

flip on the telly
wrestle with Jimmy

every song is a winner

-- chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 20:56 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, October 1, 2007 11:06 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

every song is a winner

-- chaki, Monday, 1 October 2007 20:56 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, October 1, 2007 5:06 PM

Seriously, went with "Only In Dreams" because it's like two Weezer songs in one.

the solo at the end is awesome

their best solo

the say it ain't so solo is up there

rivers is such a fucking tasty player

he's ok. Better songwriter than musician.

The best player in that band was always Matt Sharp, which is why Weezer sucks when he leaves.

the only song that remotely deserves getting no votes is "Holiday."

what? that song has one of the most brilliant vocal breakdown/ buildups of all time.

on a weezer album, maybe

and I said "remotely" because I thought there might be an alternarock doo-wop enthusiast here

matt sharp was overrated

da croupier NOTM

I don't skip it or anything, but it's definitely my least favorite track, vocal breakdown or no.

'sweater song' is the one i might skip. just heard it a bit too much

i love this so much more than pinkerton.

matt sharp was overrated

-- chaki, Monday, October 1, 2007 6:27 PM

If this is true, then why does Weezer suck after he leaves (and for those who don't think they're all that bad post-Pinkerton, why do they sound like a completely different band)? The answer is that his rusty bass and penchant for thin, buzzing keyboards gave Weezer razors with blunted edges.

it was mostly rivers playing the vintage moogs on blue and pinkerton. they sucked after the first two albums because they broke up for many years and rivers completely lost his mind. there are some great songs scattered throughout. the best musicians in the band are rivers and pat. brian is pretty awesome too. even matt says he was kind of a douche back then.

also they are still a really powerful and life affirming live act to witness.

I still enjoy the Green album and Maladroit as mindless rock bubblegum. Make Believe is mostly just mindless.

i dont mind those albums, but i kind of wish they re-formed under a different name so that weezer could have been a band that quit ater two perfect albums.

btw heres a cool vid of matt and rivers doin a reunion of sorts

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FnIpAPz1obA

Holiday like a motherfucker. I love this song because I've always felt that - much like Ringo and his Octopus' Garden* - they never get to go away to that "strange and distant land". It's all the speaker and his naivity settin' himself up to get shot down and it's awesome. He's sayin' "Hey, baby, we can live our relationship like this totally spontaneous carefree beatnik lifestyle." And you just know she's going leave him after graduation for some guy with a change of clothes and job prospects. Schadenfreude, bitches.

I also particularly love the harmonies on "Heart-beat!" and the yodeling at the end.

*although I feel sorry for poor Ringo; poor guy all feeling like a broken drumstick

i like matt sharp i guess but i sort of hate the rentals

i really like the first rentals album:-(

rivers is such a smug fuckin asshole i can't even bear to listen to his music anymore.

but the blue album is pretty decent. it's surprisingly hard to pick something on here. it's definitely the only weezer album worth anything. i used to think pinkerton was this great underappreciated genius album, but i was 17 when i thought that and my friends and i were into saves the day and other rubbish. pinkerton's really not that good. the rest of weezer is pretty much garbage.

Say It Ain't So is SOOOOO good.

If this is true, then why does Weezer suck after he leaves

Correlation, not causation.

i used to think pinkerton was this great underappreciated genius album, but i was 17 when i thought that and my friends and i were into saves the day and other rubbish. pinkerton's really not that good.

I used to think Pinkerton was great, and then I used to think that it isn't that great and I only thought it was great because I was 17, and then I realized it really is great. Better than blue.

Also, I pick Only In Dreams. Holiday is brilliant though.

looking back maybe i should have went with undone. fuck.

This album is such an anomaly.

(jonas ftw)

hey steve im guna come se you in sf. take a picture with me for the ilx massive.

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/976/50346196.JPG

i cant vote in either of these polls.

good job.

"In the garage".

so great but ^^^

i once took up an entire page using "surf wax america" as an illustration for a paper i had to write on this book for my freshman sociology class:

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/media_pix/0761986286_01_LZZZZZZZ.jpg

i got an A.

:D

i just thought it was pretty.

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/5/5a/Ballerina.jpg

sounds like a plan, chaki.

Never been into them much, but "Buddy Holly" was great, so I voted for that one.

Undone - The Sweater Song was the greatest. Or was it in In The Garage? But anyway, it's too late now.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

WAU

homina-wha?

wow

im not very surprised

That's cool, awesome song, though not what I voted for.

any song on this album could have been #1 and i wouldnt have really argued it.

i voted for that one because i thought no one else would

and because it's the one that stuck in my head most from back when i was 13 rather than from when i pulled the album out again a few years ago

#1 SONG IS PRETTY VIRAL....MENTALLY

Wow, that's weird. I think The World Has Turned is a good song, but that and Surf Wax would be easy picks for me as the weakest on the album.

I saw them open for Lush once.

http://i.imgur.com/jc7ZWeE.jpg

LOL

can someone do this with Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

One of the ghastliest songs to sustain an act's career.

Excellent entry, Alfred!

(I kinda don’t mind the song, tho...)

that was a good read but come on "Beverly Hills" is so much worse than this

on alfred's tombstone: 'he went to see weezer in 2001'

“The Sweater Song” conveyed the (soon to be proven very false) impression that Weezer was sort of a deadpan indie-rock parody band with a sense of humor about themselves; which was a somewhat appealing notion in that early moment.

^^^

that was a good read but come on "Beverly Hills" is so much worse than this

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 23, 2019

"Beverly Hills" was a New Jersey: a hit that no one remembers, whereas "Undone" augured horrors like "Beverly Hills."

weezer have made a lot of truly reprehensible music but "undone" is not among that

that's....a lot of spilt ink for a song that didn't do anything to portend the rest of their career and has always been hard to take as much more than a goof.

well, their career's a goof, so there's that

true but there are different kinds of goofs

"Pork and Beans," "We Are All On Drugs," and "Beverly Hills" songs are worse singles, but not as integral to the band's career, which is why "Undone" qualifies as the worthiest target.

wasn't buddy holly the song that actually put them on the map tho?

I think you're underestimating how many people remember Beverly Hills.

one of my exes, it was bizarre, like she was a huge Weezer fan, but she never talked about Blue or Pinkerton. it wasn't that she didn't know those albums existed, but all of her Weezer fandom was based 2001 and ongoing, whereas I was the opposite.

I checked out when they had Lil Wayne on a track

the sweater song is perfect, brah

I was about 13 when I heard "Sweater", didn't like it, felt like it was a quirky nerd anthem. "Buddy Holly" came out and I got a boner

plus it was that music video that really put it over the top, the Happy Days shit

I cannot really separate the song from the (immaculate) video! It was thrilling. At an age, and in time, when indie schmindy ruled, these guys were so NOT that. And they were not grunge, or post-punk, or punk, or hardcore, or emo, or "outsider". Whatver it was that they were, they totally owned it, and it was perfect (for one whole album...)

it was the first time I ever liked anything that was 'cool', tbh

(oh I was referencing the Sweater Song vid btw)

one of my exes, it was bizarre, like she was a huge Weezer fan, but she never talked about Blue or Pinkerton. it wasn't that she didn't know those albums existed, but all of her Weezer fandom was based 2001 and ongoing, whereas I was the opposite.

SNL basically just did a sketch with this premise!

lol really?

"No One Else" might be musically my favorite.

that's a great song

creepy song though.

They suck because they for a pair of records they were good, damn good, at what they did.

The Green album and Maladroit are total classics, I agree.

“The Sweater Song” conveyed the (soon to be proven very false) impression that Weezer was sort of a deadpan indie-rock parody band with a sense of humor about themselves; which was a somewhat appealing notion in that early moment.

I would agree that there is nothing wrong with Undone or really the first album at all (as far as it goes). The band quickly became an embarrassment that recorded several of the most annoying songs of all time (as much as I sort of respect the shamelessness of Rivers), but this first album was harmless fun, with good songs and good videos.

it's an adolescent album, like all power pop aspires to be. The novelties were what sold, and what they continued to pursue later, but the non hits still warrant a listen now and then. I'm only talking about the first record of course; Pinkerton was disappointing / horrifying and that was enough: no new musical or lyrical tricks. Besides, the band had a quick influence on alt radio and there were blue album novelties everywhere for a while. If that was to be the formula then it was easy enough for others to follow it well too. That the band are careerists: well, the Raspberries would have been too if styles stagnated then as much as they do today.

I could totally imagine Weezer covering "Hungry Eyes."

creepy song though.

― peace, man, Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

P sure that's the point. He's playing the character of a possessive lover

Yeah, I guess. But I think it's too easy to empathize with it for the wrong reasons. I did when I was younger, I know that. Partly because I was a dumbass kid who didn't know how to have relationships with girls. Partly because musically it is so catchy. Really a perfect slice of power pop. Later I really grew to hate the lyrics, even though you could probably say it's a character. I certainly don't hate every song where the singer expresses misogynist views, character or not, but this one really sticks in my craw for some reason. It's complicated, at least.

I didn't even realize they released an album yesterday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer_(January_2019_album)

They should have titled the album "On the Nose."

I didn't even realize they released an album yesterday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer_(January_2019_album)

― peace, man, Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:01 AM (five minutes ago)

sorry, guys, I didn't mean for this to happen!

https://i.imgur.com/FepHKAT.gif

As if cover albums weren't already a strange idea to begin with, the sheer audacity of doing a whole album of faithful-to-the-original covers in the streaming era when all of these songs are so very easily available and so incredibly famous, and then self-titling the album...I mean, it's kind of brilliant and stupid and hilarious all at the same time.

yeah I figured I'd give it a listen because what the hell, and its baffling, the songs pretty much sound just like the originals (even "No Scrubs"!) and all the originals are so well known, it's like they wanted to make the least essential album of all time

maybe weezer are big fans of Weird Al’s band and decided to try to replicate their replications but not the funny part

It appears we won’t be free of Weezer until they run out of colors.

that campaign that got them to cover africa has a lot to answer for

What's gonna be on The Brown album

bunch of Ween covers hopefully

A greatest-hits comp, obv

surprised bohemian rhapsody missed the cut

My friend in high school used to scream about how stupid "Surf Wax America" was because he for some reason thought it was about a guy trying to ride a surfboard on the sidewalk to like...a corporate job.

But he also told me Billy Corgan was Chinese so

forget Bohemian Rhapsody, I'm surprised they haven't done Baby Shark

Neanderthal please invite him to ILM

xp to frogbs I made that joke in the other thread, but I realize that if enough of us make it, it will surely happen, so let's stop here

move thread to 77 so Rivers can't see it

I think I'd still go with Holiday, but Surf Wax America is an easy runner up for me. And they both got last in 2007 along with No One Else, lol.

Checking out "The Teal Album" now (bored at work)... holy shit, these takes are INDISTINGUISHABLE from the originals.

except, like, worse drumming

except, like, no soul

except bland white boy singing

Cuomo should've worn blackface so we can hate him with the abandon that he coursts.

*courts

my thought was 'except worse synths' when i skimmed a few tracks

It’s hard to imagine even the biggest Weezer fan listening it for pleasure.

It's the Weezer album for people who hate Weezer but love Classic Albums Live

man, this teal album thing is just so *pathetic*

There's a subset of Weezer fans who came on board around 2005 with Beverly Hills and then like, the Pork and Beans video who this kind of thing appeals to greatly. These people also really like the show Scrubs and saw Bohemian Rhapsody five times in cinemas.

No doubt that subset is sizable enough that in a few years Weezer will play half-time at the Super Bowl and close their set with "Africa".

I don't dislike covers albums -- they can be great! -- but this one is so joyless and uninteresting.

Listen we can joke about Weezer covers but nothing will ever be as funny as when Rivers Cuomo went on MySpace and cataloged each of his songs by race of woman... pic.twitter.com/GmIGaZnUo0

— Tommy McNamara (@TommyMcNam) January 24, 2019

If he's counting half-caucasian half-asian as asians, that's 38%. But if he's only counting each half-asian girl as half an asian, he ends up with 26%. Neither of these are exactly "small minorities."

Hm, if the covers are actually as painstakingly close to the originals are the covers on Todd Rundgren's Faithful, this might actually be... impressive and interesting, albeit not something I'd want to listen to a lot. The Toto covers don't lead me to expect this, though.

xp Tbf, it might be a small minority if you consider the total number of songs he has written, as opposed to songs about women. Either way, total wtf @ that list.

The tweet also crops off the post, so we miss out on the racial breakdown for Tired of Sex:

http://gloriousnoise.com/2007/weezer_riviers_cuomo_on_asian

xp Tbf, it might be a small minority if you consider the total number of songs he has written, as opposed to songs about women. Either way, total wtf @ that list.

― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Friday, January 25, 2019 11:43 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still ends up being almost 10%!

Honestly the fact that people are still paying attention to Weezer, a band whose natural lifespan should have been about six glorious months in 1995, is entirely unedifying for everyone concerned, including the band themselves.

these covers are certainly not painstakingly close, just close enough to make them entirely pointless

weezer put more energy and passion into their cover of the state farm jingle than every cover on the new album and some of their actual songs

— D🌑CFUTURE (@topherflorence) January 24, 2019

Still ends up being almost 10%!

Haha

a band whose natural lifespan should have been about six glorious months in 1995

'glorious' is v much pushing it imo but otherwise otm

Weezer was slipping out of the public consciousness by '97 or early '98. Then, as I understand (and experienced) it, there was a huge resurgence in their popularity among a new, younger emo crowd, almost a cult thing, but it grew into a full on movement

Hm, if the covers are actually as painstakingly close to the originals are the covers on Todd Rundgren's Faithful, this might actually be... impressive and interesting, albeit not something I'd want to listen to a lot. The Toto covers don't lead me to expect this, though.

I thought of Faithful too but it's not quite like that - they're more like karaoke versions, you can practically see the [Intro - 8 bars] on the screen. They're note-for-note covers but there are a lot of moments where they just go, "eh, close enough". Granted I've only listened to about 30 seconds of every song

Todd at least bothered to make half of his record (really good) originals too

"Love of the Common Man" is one of my favourites.

idk if it was intentional but a lot of the songs on Side B there sound like they could be covers - behind the times for '76 and outside his usual style. but that whole side is excellent

Weezer was slipping out of the public consciousness by '97 or early '98. Then, as I understand (and experienced) it, there was a huge resurgence in their popularity among a new, younger emo crowd, almost a cult thing, but it grew into a full on movement

― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, January 25, 2019 2:35 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was not just emos. All I remember was that I completely missed Say It Ain't So the first time it hit the airwaves, but in 1999 or 2000, it became the biggest song on my college campus and people knew it and sang along with it at every occasion and there were dudes with acoustic guitars...

There was that period when Rivers went to Harvard and got his leg lengthened.

, as the actress said to the bishop

I actually interviewed him back when the Green Album came out. iirc he hadn't done many interviews, but for complicated reasons my interview never ran. This was my favorite exchange (ilx exclusive!!!):

O: You also had leg extension surgery. Now that your legs are the same length, does the world seem more crooked?

RC: (laughs) No, everything is much straighter now.

O: How long does the whole, painful process take?

RC: It took 13 months. It’s like this cage that’s all around your leg, screwed in to your bone. It’s basically like having ten arrows shot through your meat, into your bone, and then they stay there for 13 months.

O: But you were all doped up on painkillers.

RC: For the first couple of months I was. But then they try to get you off of them, which is a very sad experience.

O: Supposedly little people consider leg extension surgery tantamount to treason.

RC: Really? Well, actually I would recommend it to anyone whose leg or legs were too short. It’s not easy, but who wants to have a bum leg?

O: Did you ever consider making your legs significantly longer?

RC: You mean one longer than the other one?

O: No, making both of them a lot longer, so that you’d be better at basketball.

RC: No, that wouldn’t be worth it.

O: And this is when you were studying?

RC: It was actually … I think I started the procedure in May, and then started school in September.

O: Did people know who you were at Harvard?

RC: I don’t think so. At least, nobody said anything, not to my face. I had long hair and a beard.

O: So you had long hair, glasses, a beard, and a pinned-up leg, and you just appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared again?

RC: I was definitely the campus freak.

O: For all you know there are people at Harvard treating your absence from academia the same way people treated your absence from music. You know, “whatever happened to that guy?”

RC: (laughs) That’s funny!

O: What did you put on your application? Did you have to write an essay?

RC: Yeah, I wrote an essay, a very negative, depressing essay about how I didn’t like touring, and how I wanted to go back to school. I’m not proud of that essay at all. But they thought it was interesting. There’s a section where you have to list the awards you’ve gotten, right? I got to put, like, MTV’s Alternative Video of the Year, stuff like that. (laughs) Triple platinum award.

O: This must happen all the time.

RC: With another rock star?

O: I read an interview with Duff from Guns ‘N’ Roses, and he said that when it all winded down that he would go to Harvard Law School, because “they love people like me.”

RC: (laughs) Well the thing is, I didn’t go when it was all winding down. I went right at our peak, which was kind of stupid (laughs)

O: It all worked out in the end, but you left just a couple of months shy of graduation.

RC: Yeah.

O: Would you ever go back?

RC: No.

Island in the Sun had a lot to do with Weezer crossing over into being this band that, I guess, non-music nerds paid attention to. It didn't set the charts on fire, but I feel like it just stayed in the collective consciousness of music for a long time via radio and that cute Spike Jonze video.

O: Did you ever consider making your legs significantly longer?

RC: You mean one longer than the other one?

lmao

Great interview, Josh!

https://i.imgur.com/FVHW3bw.jpg
never forget

Thanks, there's a lot more! That was just a funny exchange.

This is the third Weezer album. Each album is also shorter than the album before it by six minutes. Do the math and you end up with a whole bunch of sixes and other numbers divisible by three, which can be fiddled with until you get the telltale 666. Did you make a deal with the Devil?

RC: (Laughs) A lot of people suggested that, because for several years I produced nothing and accomplished nothing, and then suddenly things just took off. So everyone’s wondering how I did it. And that’s one of the suggestions.

O: So that’s not a denial?

RC: (pauses) I didn’t consciously make a deal with the Devil. But I can’t offer any explanation as to why I did nothing for so long and then suddenly I’m doing a lot.

We all make our choices:

This #NoScrubs cover by @Weezer is AWESOME!!! but it would be even better if we sang it with ya'll!!! I see a TLC Weezer concert coming up..lol 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #tlc #weezer pic.twitter.com/9rzHNC58HD

— Chilli (@officialchilli) January 24, 2019

tbh would attend a tlc weezer concert

no one is exactly wrong about the total worthlessness of this band after the first (two) record(s) BUT

the white album was good, thanks

if 14 year old january 1999 me knew that in 20 years weezer would have a crappy cover of toto's africa on top 40 radio he would have been very confused (not least about his clairvoyance)

I can't believe they didn't cover "All Star."

its hard to believe this shitty band put out an album that was as good as white was only three years ago and then dived right back into being completely worthless

A+ takedown Alfred, feel like I’ve been waiting to read something like this for 20 years.

I was not a happy teenager but this band always struck me as minor and lolworthy. The Blue Album came and went in sixth grade, so when people started freaking out about their comeback in my senior year of high school I was utterly mystified, and have remained so ever since.

They hung in there and somehow got even more irritating over the years. But congrats I guess to Rivers and co. for carving out a space no one else knew existed - the Place Where Memes Go to Die - and a vast internet public to match. That Harvard degree had to be good for something.

If you read Josh’s interview above — he didn’t actually graduate!

He went back to Harvard years later and did

just looked and yeah, seems like he graduated in 2006.

He lied to you about his intentions :(

You should have asked him if he ever saw himself releasing a pointless covers album via digital formats only... really put him on the spot.

"Hi Rivers. So tell me - why do you do bad things"

I still like the first two albums, even if I think a fair amount of the lyrics on Pinkerton are indefensible. After that, I really like Everything Will Be Alright in the End, which I thought was surprisingly good, and I'm sure I could make a decent compilation of highlights from the rest ('Slob' from Maladroit would be an easy inclusion) ...

Ultimately though, the albums after Pinkerton have been mostly patchy and the songwriting at times had been so impersonal that it's hard not to agree with folks that say they've been crap since the second self-titled album.

Everything Will Be Alright In The End is great ... i think it's just a notch below the first two

and it is a mystifying aberration in the past, oh, 17 years of terrible Weezer music

(i didn't like the White album. seems like people either like that one or EWBAITE, but not often both)

Everything... and especially White are fantastic albums

It gets derided but there was some brilliance on Pacific Daydream - Weekend Woman, QB Blitz, Sweet Mary especially

Please make it stop

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/02/calpurnia-weezer-a-ha-take-on-me-watch/

without watching it I assume it is *exactly* the same as the a-ha vid just with Weezer dudes

without thinking about it for a single second it's In the Garage. best tone. but most days it's No One Else.

haven't even really listened to Alone III much in a while, that's my favorite Weezer related release by far

I wish all of their songs were as good as 'The World Has Turned and Left Me Here' ... how they went from that to crap like 'Beverly Hills' and 'Pork and Beans' ...

that song has great chords. he's obv an underrated guitarist

Ric Ocasek's work is such a huge part of this record. for better or worse, he brought Weezer into the world and brought their best work out of them. RIP

for better. still love this album so much

yes

today's listen confirms yet again this is a perfect album

My 13 year old daughter just got into Weezer big time. I've come close to going to her bedroom and asking her to turn it down, but... nah. Rock on, little girl.

She plays Pinkerton a lot more though. "Across the Sea" is the song I hear the most.

Today she initiated a big discussion about Weezer vs. Fountains of Wayne. I felt so proud!

We both agreed that Fountains of Wayne has more good songs but Weezer has more great songs.

"Across the Sea" has been my favorite song from Pinkerton for however many years the album has been out.

My 13 year old daughter ... did *not* talk to me about Weezer and FoW today. :\

but did you ever wonder what happened beyond the frame

https://i.imgur.com/cd2jMGF.jpg

So I had this album shortly after it came out and I was like 13 and my best friend was over, and "Surf Wax America" was on.

After the chorus, my friend asked "how can you surf to work?", thinking the guy had a regular 9 to 5 or something...not getting that like surfing was like his job.

I was giggling, picturing the dude just like surfing in the ocean horizontally, taking a few shortcuts and then docking and walking to work, but my friend kept on, saying "Your surf board would be like an inch tall by the time you got there" and I realized he actually thought the main character was surfing in the street, completely whittling the board down to the size of a shiv.

God what a fucking idiot. Wonder if he's still this dumb.

lol

Also people for years on ILX kept talking about the creepiness of the lyrics of "No One Else" but it and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" are a pair, with the misogynist controlling asshole in NOE getting rightfully dumped in the next somg and moaning about how sad he is that he got dumped and still being too dumb to realize it was his own toxicity that was responsible

The Pat Finnerty Weezer video is a masterpiece.

Hearing No One Else for the first time in the 90s, never thought for a second he was doing anything other than obviously ramping up the unpleasantness to the the extent it could never be taken entirely seriously

After the chorus, my friend asked "how can you surf to work?

Literally what I thought the song was saying too until twenty seconds ago

Rivers said something along the lines of "No One Else" is about his own feelings, just ramped up a bit

@neanderthal

lol i'm probably as dumb as your friend because i also thought they were talking about surfing to work at first.

In fairness to me, I thought the "surfing to work" thing was another silly joke by the guys who made "The Sweater Song" and the Happy Days video. I didn't think it was something where I had to argue about its logic, I thought it was a gag.

I don't think anybody is dumb itt, I just like ripping on David cos he was an asshole lol

I actually love the idea of surfing in the street. Like how would the average person react if they were stuck behind Rivers

I didn't think it was something where I had to argue about its logic, I thought it was a gag.

So you're saying she doesn't have eyeballs in the back of her head

How could his name be Jonas, it says Rivers Cuomo in the jacket

I was giggling, picturing the dude just like surfing in the ocean horizontally, taking a few shortcuts and then docking and walking to work

I mean honestly it beats highways!

Bought two tix to the Weezer Blue album tour with Dinosaur Jr and Flaming Lips. Never seen them live and figured this may be my last best chance to optimize the setlist.

The last time I ever saw TV on the Radio was on a tour like this back in 2019 - again at MSG, TV on the Radio opened, followed by the Pixies, then Weezer. They didn't sell out though so it was easy to pick off cheap tickets later. Fun show, I don't think TV on the Radio had really toured in a while (or since) but they were great, I was very glad Weezer got them to open.

Weezer did a two night stand here some years back. The first night was the Blue Album plus hits, the second was Pinkerton plus hits. They did all of their hits in reverse chronological order, then ended with the Blue Album (the night I saw them), but I was bit irked, since I bet they could have done both Blue Album and Pinkerton with plenty of time for hits and not made people choose a night, the albums/songs really aren't that long.

Honestly just want a Green album gig. Wouldn't even take that long

The albums are so short they could do a Blue/Pinkerton/Green tour and still fit a couple of those later hits no one cares about

Have fun Indexed!

XP If somebody is shelling out to see Weezer in 2024, they probably care at least a little about those later hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM

hey, I'm also going to one of these shows. mostly because my kid wants to go, and I get to see Dino jr.
saw Weezer back in... I wanna say 2002, and they were not great. ozma and saves the day opened, and totally killed it.
either way, it gave me an excuse to listen to blue/pinkerton again. both still 10/10 albums.