Weezer

I was reading that post by redgull44 and it got me thinking.

So...
What’s the consensus on this band—do they actually lift your mood, or what? Also, has anyone here actually sat through some Maladroit? I'm curious if they're even worth the runtime. Let's hear it... NOW!

😎 🙂

yesssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!no doubt
Weezer is easily one of my favorite bands because they always manage to either lift my mood or just make me incredibly pissed off, 😁 which honestly isn't a bad way to spend time, 😉
I just put the Green/Blue album on—I actually have both on a single CD, you punks 😁
np my name is jonas

They’re absolute legends! Sadly, I haven't checked out Maladroit yet. Whenever some hardcore band or a typical punk rock outfit starts cranking it up, I immediately find myself putting on Weezer... it’s honestly wild... sometimes it puts me in a great mood, but other times it just leaves me feeling a bit blue. To be fair, Pinkerton was total garbage to me at first until I actually sat down and gave it a few proper listens. I just love nerd rock 👍

Weezer?🙂
Posies🙂

shadowgardener12 said:weezer?🙂
Posies🙂

Alright. Useful info, I guess, but we're moving on regardless. 😁

you notice how the Green Day threads always blow up more...
I bet if I claimed Weezer was breaking up or that the kid from the Island in The Sun da video had some major accident, people would just flock to the comments to call it "fake news" or "trash" or some other garbage
Honestly, I think bands mostly fake a breakup just to spike their sales; Green Day hasn't really done anything particularly brilliant since Dookie, so they'll pretend to split, then two months later—surprise!—they aren't actually splitting, they're just dropping a new album or starting a side project
yeah 🤔
it doesn't really matter anyway
😉

Hold up a second...
Wait, wasn't that idiot from the music video actually run over by a car while they were hauling him back to the San Diego Zoo, and then the news cycle just completely moved on because everyone was too busy freaking out about those toxic little fish? 😢

Yeah, I heard about that too... pretty pathetic, honestly 😢
but I actually really liked them

e, you guys hear about how Rivers smashed his glasses in a microwave door
😢
and apparently he’s already turning it into a track for the new album, Broken Glass😁

Well, it’s been nearly two years since their fifth unmixed album started floating around the web... and honestly, after those last two disappointments, I haven't even felt like downloading it.

...but those first two 🙂

...shadowgardener12, thanks for reminding me about Posies Frosting on The Beater no

like Durutti Column - Sketch for Winter

Daniel Bailey7 said:...but those first two 🙂

I honestly think the third one, The Green Album, is absolute garbage.
How is it that people have been circling back to the fifth record for two years now, especially since Maladroit came out way back in 2002? 😕

shadowgardener12 said:Weezer?🙂
Posies🙂

Frosting on the Beater👍

Nah, if we're going by that logic, we might as well suggest Big Star too, since they were doing that way back when...😉

redgull44 said:Green Day didn't exactly make smart moves after Dookie, so now they're basically falling apart—except they aren't actually breaking up, they're just dropping a new album or starting some side project two months later.

The rumors about them splitting up didn't even come from the band itself, and the whole thing was debunked just a single day after it started circulating.

Everything Green Day has put out since Dookie has been solid...

As someone once said,
talk to the hand...
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Kevin Chavez3 :
Everything Green Day has put out since Dookie has been pretty smart

but they definitely aren't smarter than Weezer... those guys are actual nerds playing college rock, which basically means at least some of them probably spent time in a university library, plus there are more of them, they're vegetarians who love animals, they get along with Spike Jonze, and they probably know a few sumo wrestlers, so they could easily take down anyone in Green Day
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redgull44 said:how can the 5th album have been out for nearly 2 years when Maladroit came out back in 2002? 😕

Both Green Day and Maladroit were recorded during the same era—it’s entirely plausible the fifth record was tracked at the same time too (I mean, after a 5 or 6-year hiatus, Rivers had plenty of time to churn out a massive pile of songs). Unfortunately, a high volume of tracks doesn't guarantee quality... if they'd just exercised a bit more restraint, we might have ended up with one stellar album instead of two mediocre ones—though even "mediocre" is generous, given their legacy.

Take "goat punishment" for instance—it totally blew. 🙂

redgull44 said:But they definitely aren't any smarter than Weezer... they’re just nerds playing college rock, which basically means at least some of them were probably in university at one point. There's more of them, too. They're vegetarians, animal lovers, they get along with Spike Jonze, and they know some sumo wrestlers, so they could probably take down those guys from Green Day any day.
👋

I see you went with "Pixies vs. Iron Maiden." That's the way to do it. 😁

Checking in from Motel 6 for the very first time,
this was the first thing that caught my eye and made me click.
Undone-the sweater song👍 🙂
Island in the Sun da🙂 🙂
I won't even bother listing the rest—these are just my absolute favorites to kick off the morning!

Pixies vs👍
Killer selection. If I can actually find some free time, I'll definitely be joining in.

Apparently, one of those tracks from 2002 isn't making the cut for the new album. I read somewhere that they moved away from that sound entirely, especially since they're working with Rick Rubin on this new project!!! I'm genuinely curious to hear how that shift is going to sound.

np Weezer - Burndt jamb

With Rick Rubin? It’s like someone mashed up the Beastie Boys, Slayer, and Johnny Cash... 😁

but Beastie Boys - Girls

Mr. Wrong said:With Rick Rubin? It’s basically like a mix of Beastie Boys, Slayer, and Johnny Cash. 😁

like Beastie Boys meets Girls

mmm...yea...

It's just great how not a single music thread actually discusses what's written in the title....😁