Weezer (The Bracket Album) Bracket • Page 16

I remember being confused as a kid when I realized that the chorus of Perfect Situation is slightly different on the radio version

 

It’s because the crowd couldn’t sing it right haha

 

For real? That's hilarious

 

Whoa oh oh is tough to nail

 

From Wikipedia:

When touring in summer 2005, when the band prompted the crowd to sing along, they oddly enough sung it in the other way Cuomo had written it (different from the record version). Cuomo stated in an interview during the band's 2005 performance at the AOL Sessions as saying "Well, if these ten thousand people think it should go this way, maybe we should go back and re-record it."

 

Make Believe, Round Two

Beverly Hills vs. Hold Me
Perfect Situation vs. My Best Friend
This is Such a Pity vs. We Are All on Drugs
The Damage in Your Heart (by coin toss) vs. Haunt You Every Day

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day (extremely underrated)

 

Hold Me (!!!)
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
This isSuch a Pity
Haunt You EveryDay

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
The Damage in Your Heart

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
We Are All On Drugs
Haunt You Every Day

 

Hold Me
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day (ugh, these are probably my two favorite songs on the album)

 

Hold Me
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
The Damage in Your Heart

 

Hold Me
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day (tough one)

 

Hold Me
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day

 

Hold Me
Perfect Situation
We Are All on Drugs
Haunt You Every Day

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
We Are All on Drugs
The Damage in Your Heart

 

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day

 

Luckily, this thread is pushing me to listen to new (to me) Weezer albums. Basically only listened up to the Green Album and the singles from every following record. Maladroit is criminally underrated.

 

I love Make Believe, most people hate it.
The Red Album has its moments, especially if you listen to the Deluxe version (King is one of my favorite Weezer songs).
Raditude is god awful (Put me back together is great).
Hurley is mostly forgettable
Everything Will be Alright in the End is really good and a nice callback to their earlier days
White Album is really great - closest they've sounded to their earlier days
Pacific Daydream is also really good.

 

@Aaron Mook are we going to include deluxe songs for red?

 

Beverly Hills is the first true nadir of this band. Really and truly shocked at the support for it.

Hold Me
My Best Friend
This is Such a Pity
Haunt You Every Day

 

We are not

 

Yeah, taking "Beverly Hills" over "Hold Me" (one of the album's best and a truly great Weezer song imo) is so crazy to me

I'm a longtime defender of this record. It was the first Weezer album I heard (and honestly, probably my first indtroduction to popular rock as a whole), so I'm biased. In 2005 or 2006, my brother burnt an entire case-worth of CDs for me for Christmas, and it was one of the greatest gifts he ever gave me. Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World...the bands that led me to AP.net and the site, essentially. So I have a lot of sense memories attached to listening to this album in the winter.

I can understand some of the complaints directed at it, especially during the run of "Pardon Me" through "The Other Way," but the amount of hate it gets as a whole seems ridicuslously disproportionate to me - especially now having the context that it was followed by two albums that were even worse. I can only seem to trace it back to the Pitchfork review. Even if you hate the singles for whatever reason, there are four all-time great Weezer tracks here ("Perfect Situation" through "Hold Me," "Haunt You Every Day") and, I'd argue, five more that are very good ("Peace," "The Damage in Your Heart," Freak Me Out," the singles). I get not liking the album, but to call it soulless (which is a specific word I've heard directed at it before) just seems absurd and patently untrue to me.