We all know Blue Album and Pinkerton are great. Maladroit is pretty god damn good too, even though the consensus is that they declined after Pinkerton. What are your favorite albums post Pinkerton?
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Analysing Weezer's discography
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Everything Will Be Alright in the End has great moments hindered by some lifeless production. I think White has a lot of really good tunes on it (LA Girlz is damn near 90s tier), but it was also Weezer consciously doing Weezer with all its highs and lows. Rivers can still put together good to great songs when he gives a shit.
I really like the Maladroit era as a whole. It was a lot of fun to be a fan in those days where the band were constantly sharing demos of new songs all the time.
I really like the Maladroit era as a whole. It was a lot of fun to be a fan in those days where the band were constantly sharing demos of new songs all the time.
Long held Maladroit as my favorite along side Blue. Really like most Weezer albums, just not really into Hurley or anything since Pacific Daydream. Even like Make Believe more than most Weezer fans seem to.
Nothing will top the blue album or Pinkerton, but the only entire albums I enjoy are Maladroit and Make Believe, despite the hate it gets. Outside of that, there are songs that I like here and there, and I think EWBAITE and white album are overrated
There are two bands: Bad Weezer and Good Weezer. My favorite Good Weezer album is Pinkerton, obviously. My favorite Bad Weezer album is Red. (My favorite Weezer album is Red. It is just so, so weird.)
Good Weezer: Pinkerton > Blue > White > Maladroit > Everything Will Be Alright > Green > Pacific Daydream
Bad Weezer: Red >>>>>> Raditude > Make Believe > Hurley
I considered bumping EWBA above Maladroit because of that ending suite, though.
Good Weezer: Pinkerton > Blue > White > Maladroit > Everything Will Be Alright > Green > Pacific Daydream
Bad Weezer: Red >>>>>> Raditude > Make Believe > Hurley
I considered bumping EWBA above Maladroit because of that ending suite, though.
Blue and Pinkerton are God Tier albums, but I feel like EWBA/White Album/Maladroit have come the closet to that level of quality for me personally and I often listen to them in their entirety as well. Raditude as an album I can forgive because "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is such a good song it makes up for others on the album, Hurley I even find myself enjoying honestly because of "Unspoken"/"Ruling Me"/"Run Away"/"Time Flies". But the worst of the worst personally is Pacific Daydream or The Green Album, the latter is so mind numbingly boring outside of "Island In The Sun", its just an album of low energy songs that get worse the more you listen to them.
People say "everything but The Blue Album and Pinkerton sucks"
but they're wrong, b/c Pinkerton also sucks
but they're wrong, b/c Pinkerton also sucks
I gave up trying to still enjoy them when I listened to the Red Album release and loved the final track only to go online and release it was was reworking of an old demo from the 90's.
I realized that what I got from Weezer, lyrics about awkward lonely early 20's life, can't be done by current successful and old Rivers.
I keep hearing about Everything Will be All Right in the End and the White Album but when I heard the song Back to the Shack it just sounded like that cutesy/meta stuff of Weezer, the Beverley Hills and Pork and Beans videos, that just made me roll my eyes.
Still satisfied with the deluxe editions of the first two albums.
I realized that what I got from Weezer, lyrics about awkward lonely early 20's life, can't be done by current successful and old Rivers.
I keep hearing about Everything Will be All Right in the End and the White Album but when I heard the song Back to the Shack it just sounded like that cutesy/meta stuff of Weezer, the Beverley Hills and Pork and Beans videos, that just made me roll my eyes.
Still satisfied with the deluxe editions of the first two albums.
White album and EWBAITE are two of the best things Weezer ever put out
Red is alright too
Dont tell lies
Red is alright too
Dont tell lies
I'll take Pacific daydream over the phone in that is Hurley. That album almost made me finally give up on weezer. Thank God I stuck around for ewbaite and white.
Red Album was a return to form in a lot of ways. The b-sides need to be part of the album, take that into consideration!
I'm pretty much with you, OP. Green album was super disappointing even though it had a couple of OK tracks. Maladroit was way better - I'd say Death & Destruction is the best song they have, post Pinkerton.
I got the Red album for Christmas and absolutely hated it. I've not bought any of their later albums as all the singles I've heard I thought were shit.
Pinkerton is their best album, but Only in Dreams has one of the best build-ups in any piece of music I've ever heard.
I like Pinkerton, Blue, and Maladroit. That's about it.
Absolutely hate their recent cover of Africa.
Absolutely hate their recent cover of Africa.
Are you really going to defend Back To The Shack and Thank God For Girls?
The White Album is a late-era classic and should be recognized beside Blue and Pinkerton. Insert change my mind meme here.
Really I've grown to like at least some songs off every one of their albums and you can @ me about any of it (okay maybe not Hurley), but I am admittedly way too far down the Weezer hole. Hell I'd probably be posting on a Weezer forum right now if it wasn't completely collapsing under some weird mod drama
Really I've grown to like at least some songs off every one of their albums and you can @ me about any of it (okay maybe not Hurley), but I am admittedly way too far down the Weezer hole. Hell I'd probably be posting on a Weezer forum right now if it wasn't completely collapsing under some weird mod drama
Weezer, Pinkerton and Maladroit are the goodies. All the other records have songs here and there, but for me there's not a lot of consistency or cohesion. Stuff like 'Heart Songs' makes me feel embarrassed by proxy basically anything where Rivers is a) acting tough b) acting lonely. There's not much emotion to their music anymore, but I know that's by design.
Return of the Rentals is a good album. Ozma also put out some good Weezery records.
Return of the Rentals is a good album. Ozma also put out some good Weezery records.
I tend to put White on a lot. California Kids is so catchy.
I forget what album Heart Songs is on. All I know is I never listened to it again because of that song. It really is embarrassing.
OP
OP
Could you drop knowledge about their best demos they released on the internet in the 2000's?
That the dull as shite Pinkerton - an album nobody cared about or bought at the time - is regarded as a classic now is as much evidence I need that at some point since 1996 I fell through the Berenstain rift.
Yeah they're both fine. "Back to the Shack" is a cutesy response to the reception to Red, etc. (even though I love Red).
1. Blue
2. Pinkerton
3. EWBAITE
4. White
5. Green
6. Maladroit
7. Red (w/o bonus tracks)
8. Make Believe
9. Hurley
10. Pacific Daydream
11. Raditude
Red with the first three bonus tracks added in and a couple songs taken out would have been a pretty good album.
Part of loving a Weezer is hating nearly half of their studio output while still knowing and singing along to every word.
2. Pinkerton
3. EWBAITE
4. White
5. Green
6. Maladroit
7. Red (w/o bonus tracks)
8. Make Believe
9. Hurley
10. Pacific Daydream
11. Raditude
Red with the first three bonus tracks added in and a couple songs taken out would have been a pretty good album.
Part of loving a Weezer is hating nearly half of their studio output while still knowing and singing along to every word.
Day one
Day one purchaser here and I've loved it since then, even though the lyrics in a few songs are way problematic.
White album is a great album. All bangers.
EWBAITE is remarkably solid.
Pacific Daydream is forgettable fluff but there's a few good tracks on there.
Red/Make Believe/Raditude/Hurley are all varying degrees of bad
EWBAITE is remarkably solid.
Pacific Daydream is forgettable fluff but there's a few good tracks on there.
Red/Make Believe/Raditude/Hurley are all varying degrees of bad
I'm not the person you asked but here's my list of best post-'90s Weezer demos (not counting anything on the Alone albums):
O Girl
Private Message
The Organ Player
Everybody Wants A Chance To Feel All Alone
I Can Love
The Story Of My Life
East Coast vs. West Coast
I agree, for me there are two versions of Weezer... the good one (with Matt Sharp) and the bad one (Matt Sharpless). I can tolerate Green and Maladroit but they're not even close to the first two. The Rentals has more great albums than Weezer, even though Weezer's are more iconic.
I'll let you off for being named after a great Joy Division song ;-)
It's a crime that there was never a proper studio recording of O Girl. I love that song.
Absolutely. Both are great songs. Though it seems the tongue in cheek nature of TGFG gets lost on a lot of people.