Oh gosh, Agreed! Agreeeeeeeeed!

"Whaah! Weezer didn't do Pinkerton over and over again! Whahh It's not the mid 90s! Whaah!!"

Fuck off.

I don't think a band should stop recording and touring just because some indie music snobs only like their first two albums. Evidently plenty of people still appreciate their music even if you don't.

I was introduced to Weezer by Windows 95.

I saw them a couple years ago at WAMU and they played the Blue album and Pinkerton back to back.
It was awesome and a perfect way to end my relationship with weezer forever. I just pretend they don't exist anymore.

Conversely, @ 2, there is "wahhhh! Waaaahhh! Some mean critic isn't fluffing my favorite band and pretending they're just as good and relevant today as they were two decades ago! Waahh!!"

Couldn't even make it a minute in. Why do people still pay attention to this band?

I will never understand the love for Pinkerton and the crushed fans thereafter that continue to expect depth from what ultimately is just a fun band. Maybe it's time to accept the fact that Pinkerton was--thank god--the outlier in this scenario and the rest of the world has moved on.

Agree with @5. Good memories, but Beverly Hills was it for me. I did plan to listen once, but now that's taken care of. I agree this isn't too interesting. Rivers said there is a musical piece on the album that he is more excited about than any other Weezer song yet. I'll have to at least listen to that once for old time's sake.

I read that the shack was what they called their first recording studio so not the garage. Calling it 'Back to the Garage' would have been seemed so desperate for attention.

It's very weird to tell an artist to stop making art because you don't like what they make, anymore. Just stop listening.

Also, what @10 said.

@8
>expect depth from what ultimately is just a fun band

Exactly... not everyone is trying hard as hard as everyone likes them. They aren't another version of Harvey Danger.

I think I get them mixed up with The Flaming Lips.

Weezer made an album of hits that gave them a ton of freedom. So Rivers Cuomo decided to bare his heart and soul on their follow up - and the world told him it was awful and nerdy and didn't make him as popular with girls as being a football hero. So he took his ball and went home. And thus began the great trolling. Weezer has been giving their listeners trumped up arena style rock (essentially remaking the Blue Album over and over and over again) ever since, which made many people forget that Rivers used to be in Math Club and liked to smell girls' hair as they walked past him. All his old friends saw him sitting at the "popular" table and begged him to come back and sing more songs about longing for Japanese schoolgirls and how being popular and having groupies isn't really as cool as it seems, but he shrugged them off and said, "sorry losers. Here's a song about being rich and awesome instead."

And thus Weezer's success continued to this very day. But every now and then, Rivers Cuomo looks back at the stage, at their ridiculous "van halen" styled "W" logo, and feels just a tiny bit of shame and regret; barely noticeable, from the single tear shed near the corner of his horn rimmed glasses.

Pretty lazy choice for cover art. Find Internet meme, slap it right on there.

The thing that makes me the most sad about Weezer is no longer being able to tell if the Blue/Pinkerton phase was even good or if it just seemed that way at the time. I saw their tour where they played those albums back to back and it was maybe the most depressing show I've ever watched.

@16, agree it's hard to tell if Pinkerton was good at this point. Maybe that is when artists stop making new music.