The New Weezer Red Album...

[The Law-Talkin' Guy]

Thoughts?

It's got some moments of pure Weezer bliss (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6) along with perhaps some of the worst music I've heard in awhile (track 8).

It's got the other guys singing some songs, which frankly I don't care for.

Overall, it's awesome moments triumph over the low points, and I'm just glad to finally have some new Weezer to listen to.

[I am Lugash]

Never been a big Weezer fan, I've heard their music throughout my life and its been good with moments of wishing I was in Beverly Hills(bad). I downloaded the new album since it was a free leech week on libble.com, listened to it twice and wrote it off as awful. Doubt I'll ever listen to it under my own will again.

[Drew]

Pork and Beans is a pretty great song.

Actually downloading the album as I type.

[nathaniel]

http://stereogum.com/img/weezer-red_album-cover.jpg

[The Southern Zombie]

I don't like much after the first two albums. I think the last album sucked, and the one before it had maybe 3 decent songs on it. I think this is the best album since the 2001 album, because it's the first one since then that actually has some songs I would actually call "good" and can listen to and enjoy many times. Only three, though: "Pork and Beans", "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" (both silly, but cute) and the last one which is probably the best serious song they've done since the last track of their 2001 album. Pity it runs out of gas, though. The last two minutes are basically nothing.

[America: Fuck Yea!]

didn't realize they had a new album coming out. this is the first I have heard of this.

[gheorghe]

heard it for the first and only time yesterday

can someone edit out all the vocals, maybe keep the oohs in? cause that would make for an infinitely better listen

[nathaniel]

can we just have a thread about the album cover

incredibly confused and depressing

[Rest your giant head]

http://stereogum.com/img/weezer-red_album-cover.jpg
I can't believe those are the very same guys from Buddy Holly video! :LOL:

[nathaniel]

hey look, we're the creepy hipster village people

[pocketfox]

I bought it Tuesday, not all bad, but certainly not a return to form. possibly on par with the green album, though, which I was thought was a little underrated. Basically, the highs are really high, but the lows are pretty pathetic. "Thought I Knew" and "Cold dark world" are sorta catchy, but way too bland for them. I liked "pork and Breans" "Dreamin'" and "Troublemaker". I planning on a writing a full review of his labum for the Buffalo News (I'm a correspondent for the youth section), and if the thread is still going on at that point, I'll give my full thoughts.

[America: Fuck Yea!]

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[Clark Westfall]

It's pretty good if your standards for them have been lowered; "pork and beans", "Dreamin", "heart songs", "cold dark world", and "the angel and the one" are the only tracks I would recommend listening to.

As for the album cover, I'm still in delusion about it. I keep telling myself "that can't be the cover, it just can't."

[Milhouse Van Houten]

did you guys hear bout the tour? its going to be a "hootinany"...weezer encourages people to bring instruments and they will bring dozens on stage to play various instruments on certain songs.

no joke.

[:bang:]

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[Clark Westfall]

did you guys hear bout the tour? its going to be a "hootinany"...weezer encourages people to bring instruments and they will bring dozens on stage to play various instruments on certain songs.

no joke.

First the album cover now this, I think its safe to say that they just don't care anymore.

[sacrelicious]

I got this album and I'm still in the process of reviewing all the songs on it.
At first I didn't like the pork and beans song, but it's growing on me a lot, especially since seeing the music video.
muP9eH2p2PI

[SilverEagle]

http://stereogum.com/img/weezer-red_album-cover.jpg

I'm just waiting for someone to use Scott as an avatar. That's awkwardly hilarious.


DEATH DEFYIN'''''

[raheem]

this album is half unlistenable and half hilariously bad

[gheorghe]

that's an excellent summation

[America: Fuck Yea!]

I got this album and I'm still in the process of reviewing all the songs on it.
At first I didn't like the pork and beans song, but it's growing on me a lot, especially since seeing the music video.
muP9eH2p2PI

While I get that the message of the song is that they don't care about what I think, I still think it is fucking terrible.

I personally also feel they are laughing at all of you and make fun of their fans behind their backs.

[Jakebert]

I don't understand why people are calling this album good at all. It's worse than the last 3 combined. "Everybody Get Dangerous" and "Heart Songs" are unspeakably bad.

The funniest thing about the album is that almost every song contains some line referencing that Rivers doesn't care what people think of him.

[D DEBBS]

Here's another NHC member who also likes 'Pork and Beans.'

[Clark Westfall]

I don't understand why people are calling this album good at all. It's worse than the last 3 combined. "Everybody Get Dangerous" and "Heart Songs" are unspeakably bad.

The funniest thing about the album is that almost every song contains some line referencing that Rivers doesn't care what people think of him.

Rivers has never cared about his fans or what they think of him, case in point:
he's referred to his fans as "little bitches" and he's shown hatred for most of the songs on Pinkerton, as well as a few from the blue album.
As far as I am concerned Rivers is a whiny little bitch, who just happened to have been part of two fantastic albums.

[The Law-Talkin' Guy]

After some more thought, I've settled at this: tracks 1, 6 and 10 are fantastic. The rest of the album... wow, pretty lame. How can the same guy who wrote "No One Else" and "Buddy Holly" have helped to write "Cold Dark World?"

The mind reels.

[Milhouse Van Houten]

I don't understand why people are calling this album good at all. It's worse than the last 3 combined. "Everybody Get Dangerous" and "Heart Songs" are unspeakably bad.

The funniest thing about the album is that almost every song contains some line referencing that Rivers doesn't care what people think of him.
heart songs is fantastic. i'm not defending the album, which is god awful, but heart songs is a really, really good tune.

[box elder]

when i tried to listen to this in my car one day, i remember feeling embarassed listening to heart songs at a stop light and hoping no one could make out the lyrics. it's bad

[jase]

I think we can agree the red album is better than Make Believe though, at the very least

[Clark Westfall]

^well at first I thought that too, but after listening to it again I might have to change my opinion. Also, I'd like to remove "cold dark world" from the list of songs that I said were good.

[Jakebert]

Heartsongs reminds me of the kind of cheesy pop song they play during the "tender" scene in softcore pornos.

[Clark Westfall]

^ yeah it's a great grey's anatomy background song

[SilverEagle]

I actually think Rivers is getting worse and worse as a lyricist with each passing album.

I'm a troublemaker
Never been a faker
Doin' things my own way
And never givin' up

One look in the mirror and i'm tickled pink
I don't give a hoot about what you think

When I was younger
I used to go and tip cows for fun, yeah
Actually I didn't do that
'Cos I didn't want the cow to be sad

Regardless, this album still slays Make Believe. Not that it's truly great or anything, but at least this album isn't the same damn song 12 times (all of which had average/embarrassing/horrid lyrics, I might add).

[The Law-Talkin' Guy]

Best song on the album, for those of you without the bonus tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVII3tQqVzk

The acoustic version is INCREDIBLE, currently available on the AOL Sessions.

[nathaniel]

INCREDIBLE

[Snack Related Mishap]

Don't have time to listen to it.

Is this the one that's like, "IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY MY SWEATERRRRRRRRR...."

[Clark Westfall]

That's the blue album

edit: the song in the video is miss sweeney, you're thinking of Undone-the sweater song.

[Snack Related Mishap]

Sorry. The guy said it was incredible so I assumed it was the only good song they've ever made.

[Clark Westfall]

:mad: blasphemy!!

[billi vanilli]

the sweater song is far from the only good thing weezer has released

i don't hate this album as much as i don't care about it.

[Jakebert]

I'm not as mad at Weezer as I am at myself for still following Weezer's career, despite knowing better.

[Clark Westfall]

you and me both bro

[Milhouse Van Houten]

i still like weezer a lot with no shame or remorse. i will be seeing them for a second time this summer.

[Snack Related Mishap]

the sweater song is far from the only good thing weezer has released

Okay, I'll give them 3 or 4 other tolerable songs, but that's it.

I guess I just think Weezer is horribly overrated. :-X

[Clark Westfall]

I used to want to see Weezer live, now I just don't care.