Weezer - SZNZ (March 20, June 21, September 22, December 21, 2022) Album • Page 37

I didn't say top ten, just my favourite on Red, lol.

 

just want to shout out “put me back together”

 

I'm just glad that we can ALL agree that 'Love Is The Answer' is the worst song in the history of music.

 

Yes, criminally underrated.

 

I like Pig! Honestly didn’t even remember that you specifically cited that song

 

what a coincidence!

idk how popular or unpopular that song is but I think it's great!

 

I like the Sugar Ray version more.

 

I don't hate it! lol

way better than Beverly Hills in my book.

 

Yep. Still baffling

 

Miss Sweeny is a bad bad bad song

Just want to continue the pot stirring

 

That's easily my least favourite from my Rivers only copy of Red.

 

One of their most frustrating song because the chorus is classic early Weezer and the rest of the song he's singing in a fucking pirate voice

 

Red is a bad record anyways, it's got like a 50% batting average even if the first few tracks are fun. Never really got the hype for "The Angel and the One" either. It's a good track on an otherwise pretty bad album

 

Pork and Beans, Greatest Man, Angel and the One and King are really all you need from Red

 

I mean, a whole bunch of people just explained why you guys are wrong. It's like you're not even listening.[/notserious]

 

But love IS the answer, makes no difference what you have heard…I like the groove, it makes me sway and fills me with happy feelings.

also, Pig and King would both make my (hypothetical) top ten Weezer tracks

 

I love Angel and the One but strongly dislike most of the rest of Red

 

Unironically I think troublemaker is pretty easily one of the least bad songs on red. Angel and the One & Pork and Beans are the only I would call great, but Troublemaker is a pretty inoffensive guitar pop song imo that I wonder if maybe is hated because it’s an immediate indication red isn’t gonna be a return to form.

My more unpopular Weezer take perhaps, and almost the exact inverse, is that both Greatest Man and Perfect Situation are pretty bad. They get a lot of credit for being bright spots on bad albums, but for me PS will always be the song that immediately confirmed I wasn’t wrong to be skeptical after hearing Beverly Hills. (And perhaps it’s a response to that disappointment, but 17 years on I honestly prefer BH of the two.)

 

Perfect Situation is like 100x better than Beverly Hills.

 

I see Pork and Beans hyped a lot but I think after Miss Sweeney it's my least favourite on my Rivers only Red. It's fine.

 

I keep reading Red as Taylor's version not Rivers' version and getting confused

 

I bought pork and beans with my aunt’s debit card on iTunes when I was 11 and it over-drafted her so it ended up being like $36. Worth it imo

 

I am certain most people who have heard both think that, but I dunno. I think one is a well executed dumb pop song and the other is a poorly executed rock song. Can’t exaggerate my degree of bias, though - after reading for weeks how good PS was and that it made BH look like an anomaly, my 16 yr old disappointment was immeasurable.

 

I was typing up a whole post about how I think people let childhood memories of the first two albums blind themselves to the fact that Weezer is no different now than they were then.

Then some posts got made that reminded me of how young some of you really are, and now I just feel like an old man yelling at clouds.

 

There was for sure a time when Beverly Hills was one of the most horrendous things Weezer had released. Their output since has retroactively made BvH a pretty OK song all things considered.