Man, these guys are easily one of the most under-rated bands of the last 10 years IMHO. I just got the new one, maladroit, and it is awsome. Every disc they have put out has been very enjoyable. Even the short ass, poppy green one. I cant believe these guys are not huge.
Dont get me wrong, I know they are not a small time band. But they consistently put out quality material that goes virutally unoticed by popular radio.
What is your favorite Weezer album? Mine is Pinkerton. That thing rules from intro to outro. Although all of them are very good. This is one of the few bands I have heard that have 4 solid albums. The other is Clutch. If you havent heard them, check’em out. 2nd most under-rated band of the last 10 years.
Underrated in a way…yes. They were in a hiatus for about 5 years after the failure of Pinkerton in sales (great trevesty!!). They did get good airtime with the Green Album (like Hashpipe and especially Island in the Sun). I do feel that they are underrated due to the fact that they deserve more coverage by the media for their solid work. I mean, they’re working on Album 5 already!!!
In my opinion, this new album (what number did you get?) sounds like Pinkerton, has more…crunch to it My fav would have to be…the Blue Album, then Pinkerton/Maladroit (Tie) then the Green Album. I just love the song “only in dreams”…I’m glad that wasn’t released as a single…I feel like that song is like a present to all the true weezer fans But they’re my favorite band and I starved myself for 3 days to buy maladroit (hey, I’m a college student dammit) but it was suuuuuuure worth it.
Weezer does it again, coming out with a solid album any weezer fan would appreciate
I don’t think Weezer are terribly underated. The critics love them and they are steadily growing a bigger and bigger fan base. Even Pinkerton which was their poorest selling album got great reviews.
I was EXTREMELY dissapointed with the green album to the point where I listened to it 2 or 3 times and have not listened to it since. I decided to download a bunch (read all) of the songs off the new album because I didn’t want to shell out the $ for another piece of crap cd. I cannot believe how good Maladroit is!! I am actually heading to the store today to pick up a real copy. It is a must have for any music fans collection.
My favs in order.
1.Pinkerton/Maladroit
2.Blue Album
Hmmm…maybe I should go pick this album up. I bought the Blue Album and Pinkerton, and loved both…liked some of the songs on the green album, but ended up just DLing the ones I liked. Maybe I’ll make Maladroit my first CD purchase in a year.
I’ll join up for some Pinkerton love. I don’t understand why it didn’t do so well–it had great songs on it. And I hear Rivers turned into a bit of a bastard because of the poor reception it got.
My take: darn good first album. Crapola big time second. Merely “not so good” third. Wow!!! fourth album.
The only interesting song on Pinkerton was “Pink Triangles” and it was more of a novelty song at that. I assumed at the time they were doing the old “Let’s finish off a record contract we hate by putting out garbage.” thing that some bands do.
I’m wondering if they’ll ever fully recover from two disappointing albums, despite the new one being terrif. A lot of people I know stopped buying their CDs after the 2nd one.
Sure, the CD is short, but they pack some hard rockin’ into those 33 minutes. One of the things that blows me away about Weezer is that the songwriting is incredibly tight. Say what you will about the green album, Weezer isn’t lazy.
I’ve been rocking out to “Keep Fishin’” for about a week now.
I love the blue album. I really really do. It was the first album of theirs I bought and still… my favorite. I want to buy the new one, but think i’ll wail untill my SO gets it and then’ll burn it off him. But I’m actually lad their not so big… they make enough money to keep themslves sustained and I don’t have too many preteens butchering their songs.
Rivers has stated time and again that he hates Pinkerton and is sad that so many people are obsessed with it. He’s said that he doesn’t like the place he was in when he made it. Personally I think it’s certainly his most insightful songwriting and my favorite album of theirs. I haven’t even listened to Maladroit yet because the Green Album was such a POS. At least they gave this one a name. They sure were grand on tour last summer though.
But calling Weezer underrated is pretty silly. Not every band gets spins every hour on Top 40 radio like Nickelback, but Weezer’s been getting a lot of popular coverage lately. They’ve also been widely recognized by critics as influential and talented for years.
I read in an interview about a year ago that he felt Pinkerton was like getting really drunk and spilling your guts- and then the next morning realizing how horrible the night before had been.
I don’t know WHAT he could have been thinking. What made Pinkerton so amazing was how raw it was. Even though I think Maladroit is lyrically weak, it’s still way ahead of green and blue (except Only in Dreams- the best Weezer song ever) overall.
I thought the video for “Drug Nose” was great. I haven’t watched MTV in years, becaue I have the absolute basic cable, but I was staying at a hotel and amazingly 1. saw a video 2. it was the weezer video. I bought the album soon after. Though I still like Pavement better, Guided By Voices even more so, Weezer does rock. On the shortness of albums topic, I couldn’t agree more. The new The Strokes and Weezer albums are annoyingly frigging short.
Pinkerton, for other casual weezer fan, didn’t have a catchy tune to want to make them buy the CD. Blue had Buddy Holly, as well the funny video, and Green had Hashpipe or Island in the Sun. I feel that Pinkerton has sort of a cult following and only true fans that know weezer can appreciate how damn good that album is!
Any yes, I gotta agree “Only in Dreams” is THE best Weezer song…love that song!!!
I picked up Maladroit last week after my boy insisted on it, and I was pleasantly surprised. I was pretty disappointed in the Green album, after waiting for it for so long, but the newie is incredibly kick-ass. Plus all the extra videos almost make up for how short it is.
Pinkerton is still my fave, though. That’s what mainly got me into Weezer - I loved the Blue album, Only In Dreams especially, but Pinkerton was so fucking honest that I fell in love with it. I do wish they’d go back to that kind of songwriting, but I can see why Rivers wouldn’t want to expose himself like that again… it’s a tough thing to do.
I first heard of Weezer when I got the Windows 95 installation disk. As I was looking around through it, playing Hover, I found a video clip called “Weezer” about 10 minutes long.
It featured the Happy Days crew from TV in a Happy Days episode set in the diner. Weezer played a song in it. Wait a second… Happy Days was from the 1970s (and acted the 1950s). But this band is playing 90s music. There had to have been a 20-year interval between the show and the band.
What’s with the anachronism? Did they reassemble all the Happy Days actors just to make a Weezer video? (And if so, how come the actors didn’t all look 20 years too old?) Or was there some tricknology by which an old Happy Days episode had Weezer digitally inserted into it? Either way, it was astonishing.
Oh-way-oh, I look just like Buddy Holly,
Oh-oh, and you’re Mary Tyler Moore…
I think they just used the same technology like they did in Forrest Gump to insert Gump into all of the historical footage. Basically use computers to erase and add the bits you want.
My fav would have to be…the Blue Album, then Pinkerton/Maladroit (Tie) then the Green Album. I just love the song “only in dreams”…I’m glad that wasn’t released as a single…I feel like that song is like a present to all the true weezer fans 
But they’re my favorite band and I starved myself for 3 days to buy maladroit (hey, I’m a college student dammit) but it was suuuuuuure worth it.