Weezer - Pinkerton

You know, I actually felt you cringe as you read the title of this post and to some extent, I can completely understand why. Weezer, that shitty band that gets plastered all over MTV and released that god awful "Beverly Hills" song earlier this year. Yeah, I couldn't stand it either. After I heard that song I was scared to listen to this record incase they did actually suck all along. But back in the day, Rivers Cuomo was the prince of insanely bleak, woman fearing pop-rock songs. This record was the result of his fame scaring the shit out of him and the fact that despite being presented as some kind of pop god, he was still just a disturbed little geek under it all. The product of his misery was one of the finest commercial records of the last ten years.

This point of view has become the biggest clique imaginable, but every Weezer release after this one was just audio cancer. Rivers would go back to his life of groupie shagging and cocaine rodeos. Good for him. Problem was, he only had any point as a song writer when he was writing about how much everything sucked. I figured he was either going to cheer up or top himself and the more music the guy makes nowadays, the more I wish he'd gone with the latter.

Anyhow, before you laugh at me for posting this, I've given you three tracks from the album to prove my point and because, well, this blog's all about music I dig anyway. If you can't get in to these immensely bleak little pop gems then you're either a complete prick or you're too happy to let some twat in a sweater-vest depress the hell out of you.

Getchoo
No Other One
El Scorcho

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