- Beck - Guero, March 29, 2005
- Weezer - Make Believe, May 10, 2005
- Foo Fighters - In Your Honor, June 6, 2005
Whatwhatwhaaaat? CDs I’d actually purchase? You heard me.
Dare I get my hopes up? I dare. Beck’s been solid, Sea Change was slow and a downer, but still great. A Foo double album will undoubtedly have more good than bad. Steroegum has a link to their new single (if it’s still up). It’s Weezer that’s worrying me.
Weezer is technically 50/50 with Blue Album and Pinkerton being two of the best albums ever, and Green Album and Maladroit being their Bizarro World doppelgangers. (“Commercial success” nothing, Pinkerton is great, Green Album is tripe.) There’s a great quote in the latest AP about how you have to hate them to be a true Weezer fan. It’s like any band that changes their sound from what made them great. But unlike U2 who managed the same feat, Weezer’s releases were too sporadic. They can’t write another Pinkerton because they’re getting close to 40 now. But that won’t stop me from hoping against hope that Weezer will redeem themselves.
i thought the green album was a insane exercise of condencing pop songs to times smaller than had been done before. i mean there isn’t one song on there that didnt say top 40 radio, but there was no depth. it was green alright, like a green lollipop you would get at the doctors, one of those shits wrapped in plastic at the head, full of artifical flavorings, but still you loved to suck on it. boo ya.
I have Guero,
it’s pretty good. it’s kind of like halfway between Mutations and Odelay. The lyrics aren’t terribly goofy, like his more downer stuff, but it’s musically pretty beat driven and hooky without being as stylistically specific as say midnight vultures.
sorry to go all nerd on you.
Haven’t heard the Weezer, but I already gave up hope, leave that for the kids who weren’t born yet when the blue album came out.
and for FooFighters, sorry, but I just never felt it for them.