Weezer are like salt and vinegar crisps. If you hate them, then frankly you're weird.
Who doesn't like Weezer? No, come on, show yourselves.
I don't mean fanatics... nobody is fanatical about Weezer anymore. That ship sailed the day the (underrated but still very MOR) Green Album came out. But you like them, don't you? If you don't like them, that's probably because you've never really listened to them. And maybe you should.
I'm convinced that everybody of my generation who gives a monkey's about guitar music will own a copy of either the Blue Album or Pinkerton. Far more likely that than an Oasis album, or a Beatles album, or a Captain Beefheart album. Go on, name me an album more likely to appear in a CD rack when you go round to somebody's house and sneakily look at their music collection. First you see their dubious CDs. "Toploader!" you cry, "can I get on with somebody who owns a Toploader album?". But then you see the familiar spine of a Weezer album peeking out at you, and magically you forgive this person all their musical sins. They are redeemed.
When reading my daily 29304 wedding blogs pre our wedding last year, I noticed there was a whole lot of Weezer at hipster weddings, which is weird because I'm not entirely sure they're that much of a cool band. I think it boils down to the fact that they're classic. Everybody likes them. They're accesible and a little bit fun. They have silly songs about surfing and D&D, yet Rivers Cuomo is still viewed as a VERY serious musician (although this is possibly because he takes himself so seriously). They are an introverted band that plays extroverted music.
They are salt & vinegar crisps.
What's your favourite Weezer album?
Ah, Weezer! They hold a very special place in my heart :) When I first met my husband, aged 18, he introduced me to the Blue album and then Pinkerton. Suzanne and My Name is Jonas remind me of that that heady time! If a DJ plays Buddy Holly on a night out I feel compelled to dance/act the whole thing out, usually with my sister at my side. A fab memory from my wedding was thrashing around to it with my younger cousins. If you don't like Weezer, you simply haven't heard enough songs by them!
ReplyDeleteSo true! I have so many happy memories of dancing on a packed dancefloor at our local punk rock night to My Name Is Jonas, and absolutely everybody punching the air to the "DRIVER SWEARS HE LEARNED HIS MATH!" bit. Buddy Holly is so enormously overplayed, and yet it still sounds brilliant too. Ah, just thinking about Weezer makes me smile.
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DeleteI only ever owned the green album as I always lived with at least one person with Pinkerton or the Blue Album.
ReplyDeleteAnd I really like the Green Album. It is underrated.
Similarly I do not own Pinkerton but I know it inside out as so many friends have had it. The Green album is still a 8/10, but the first two are 10/10 so it always suffers by comparison. Islands In The Sun! Tune!
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I just got to go see Weeeeeeezer (Something Chino from the Deftones says on a recording of something!)I've loved Weezer since Encarta 95 had the Buddy Holly video clip (It was that or a freeze of David Bowie as 'Changes' was played - ah technology!) Helen my sister (above post) got me into them by sending me snippets from her first year of uni after meeting her now-husband who had excellent taste! Helen gave me the albums Green and Blue for a Christmas and received Pinkerton the following birthday. Even their newer stuff we like - Pork and Beans is an absolute tune, as is 'greatest man who ever lived' and 'dope nose'. Jamie and Suzanne, although not on albums are must-hears! Buddy Holly at Helen's wedding went brilliantly and was a definite crowd pleaser! Rose Xxxx
ReplyDeleteArgh, I LOVE Jamie! I was so excited when Sam and i first started going out and one day he started playing it and we discovered we both know all the words (and the harmonies!) It was a proper moment- we thought about playing it at our wedding!
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I mean on the guitar obv, not just on a CD!
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