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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.

 

Perfect Situation is one of their best

 

Easily!

 

I love both of those songs though!

 

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.

 

wtf, green rules

 

Yeah Green is definitely great also

 

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

 

there are still a few solid songs on it though. perfect situation and peace namely

 

Hold Me is also p good imo if not a bit simplistic/repetitive

 

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.

 

Can imagine how stoked people would be on Green if it came out today

 

all of their albums are fantastic as heck, yes even Raditude

 

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)

 

In the Mall is one of my favourites on there, especially that rad guitar solo at the end

 

Maladroit
Pinkerton
Blue
Make Believe
Green
Red
Everything else/stopped listening to them

 

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

 

what's wrong with Maladroit :O that's easily my favourite Weezer album

 

:( 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

 

I've never really been into them lyrically, I just liked/loved some of their music.