good, not food

Weezer is pretty good.

All their songs are from the hood.

Hash Pipe is a really good song.

Comeing up bigger than King Kong.

The CD is great.

Time to get irate.

Good, not great

This album is good, not great. It has its songs, and some sjust fall flat on their face. The best songs are:

Don't Let Go, Photograph, Hash Pipe and Crab. While this may not be the strongest Weezer album of all time, its still pretty good.

The Beginning of The End

I loathe this CD. It is my absolute, hands-down most hated CD.



Let me first say that I absolutely LOVE Pinkerton and the Blue Album. Have listened to them probably a thousand times each across the last decade; they seldom get old. But this CD just baffles me. Weezer takes 5 years to put this out and its total fluff. Its half-an-hour of repetitive, formulaic, shallow pop. Where are the quircky, complex lyrics, the wrenching guitar solos, the "I'll bring home the turkey if you'll bring home the bacon"s?



Saddly, this album isn't even fun.



Its not that its that bad, but its just not that good. Its nothing, as though they never released the album at all. From what Ive heard of them, "Maladroit" and "Make Believe" aren't any better. Only, unlike all the other banal pop alternative that plagues the radio, I can't just ignore Weezer - I know that they could be great. To add insult to injury, Weezer left this album untitled - as though to force comparison with the infinitely more touching, artistic and interesting Blue Album.



Ive heard that Matt Sharp was the heart of the band, and after his departure this was all that remained. I have also heard it rumored that this CD was Rivers Cuomo's revenge for the commercial and critical failure of Pinkerton. That he made the conscious decision to make commercial, fluff pop since no one appreciated his work of art. Thats probably BS, but either way its just an excuse for an inexcusable album.



The only way for me to cope with this album is to pretend that it never existed. For me, Weezer was a brilliant, fleeting moment between 1994 and 1996; they're like high school: fun, a litte awkward and embarassing, but you can never go back.