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Weezer (The Blue Album) Amazon record review

There's a classic episode of The Little Rascals where one of the gang can't join everybody else on the ballfield because he has to stay home with his younger brother, who has the croup. "I can't come out and play," he whines. "I've got to stay home and grease Wheezer!" Nobody at Geffen Records knows whether this was the inspiration in naming Weezer, but it makes sense. Like many of their peers, the members of the Los Angeles quartet seem to have spent their formative years in front of the TV; when they were a little older, they were just as entranced by college rock. Finally, ala the Rascals, one of the gang said, "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!," and the result is Weezer's uplifting, unpretentious, and extremely endearing debut.
The self-titled Weezer is lean and mean at 10 short, punchy tunes, but nearly every one is powered by a larger-than-life chorus or a simple but effective lyric. "Undone-The Sweater Song" uses an unraveling sweater as a metaphor for a relationship on the rocks; "Buddy Holly" pays heartfelt tribute to the '50s rocker, and "In the Garage" paints a scene of suburban teens jamming while surrounded by posters of Kiss. Producer Ric Ocasek of Cars fame pushes the vocals and rhythm guitars, and this bare-bones approach may earn comparisons to fellow garage-pop band Green Day. But Weezer has more in common with the late, lamented Big Dipper, another group of slacker wiseguys that you just had to love.
— Jim DeRogatis
==See also==
*More reviews of the Blue Album
*Reviews of individual Blue Album tracks
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review (Scroll down to "Editorial Reviews")'''
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Weezer (The Blue Album) Deluxe Edition liner notes

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==See also==
*List of transcripts
*The Story of Making the Blue Album
*Weezer (The Blue Album)
*Todd Sullivan
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Category:Geffen Records
*Karl Koch
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Weezer (The Blue Album) Rolling Stone record review

Wafting out of countless college dorms, "Undone — the Sweater Song" seemed only the latest in slacker sloth: Above an ambience of beer-bash chitchat, a sad sack wails forlornly (the title "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" just about sums the album up).
But these four young survivors of the Los Angeles club wars can no doubt handle the mixed blessing of a novelty hit. Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is great at sketching vignettes (the Dungeons and Dragons games and Kiss posters that inspire the hapless daydreamer of "In the Garage"), and with sweet inspiration like the waltz tempo of "My Name Is Jonas" and the self-deprecating humor of lines like "I look like Buddy Holly/You're Mary Tyler Moore," his songs easily ingratiate. 
— Paul Evans
==See also==
*More reviews of the Blue Album
*Reviews of individual Blue Album tracks
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Blue Album) press kit

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==See also==
*The Story of Making the Blue Album, a brief history written by Koch
==Footnotes==
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Weezer (The Green Album) Amazon record review

Weezer, those geek rockers who topped mid-'90s charts with those oh-so-precious pop fables "Undone (The Sweater Song)" and "Buddy Holly," were almost undone by 1997's bombastic Pinkerton. Their sophomore release turned its back on the band's clean-cut debut, with a thrash approach more influenced by Sabbath and Kiss than the Beach Boys. On their third album (self-titled, like their first, but referred to as the "Green Album"), the band makes a concentrated effort to return to anthemic '60s punky pop, demonstrating that, for Weezer at least, it's rather easy being green. In fact, one could say they're almost as green as Green Day, especially on "Knockdown Dragout." At their best, Weezer show such boundless energy and gleeful aplomb that you'd swear you were listening to a lost Badfinger album. Conversely, Rivers Cuomo's twisted genius makes its way onto the anxious and paranoid "Hash Pipe" and the jittery "Glorious Days," making the "Green Album" the most absorbing and rounded vision from these pop masters yet.
— Jaan Uhelszki
==See also==
*More reviews of "The Green Album"
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review (Scroll down to "Editorial Reviews")'''
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Weezer (The Green Album) Drowned in Sound record review

The fact that Weezer are back is a reason to celebrate in itself. After creating the two greatest pop-rock records in existance it's time to add a third. One listen to The Green Album has you eating out of Rivers Cuomo's hand just like in the past. For the un-educated amongst our readers it's a case of this, if you like Green Day, Ash or any other band that attmept to create feel good music for us all it's time to purchase not only this album, but both of Weezer's previous records. Rivers Cuomo is one of the greatest song-writers that has picked up a guitar. Anyone who can with hold the charms of the Geek-rock quartet are obviously made of stone and complete assholes. Sorry to be blunt but it's the way it is. God I think the sun's finally taking it's toll.
From the second The Green Album kicks off with 'Don't Let Go' it's blatant that Weezer are in the sort of form you expect. All soaring bouncy guitars, sunshine drum beats and the sort of vocal melody that has already taken permanant residence in your memory base. It just doesn't even begin to slow down throughout the course. My god I could go on and on about how great this record is and i still couldn't get close to how amazing this is. In fact I think I will go on about how great this is. 'Photograph' is all 1950's happiness and brings back shades of 94's outstanding 'Buddy Holly' and as Cuomo describes his 'Island in the Sun' who wouldn't want to join him there. I bet that song could create Jamaica in a cold wet Bogna Regis. Cuomo also has the knack of being able to relate to everyone on a personal level with his youth-driven lyrics. Whether nodding back to your past or currently living it up, Cuomo can tell you how it is. You don't know whether to worship the guy or wish him a Mediterranean Curse with being able to effortlessly churn out hit after hit with such obvious ease. Any song writers out there will sit there and think 'Why didn't I write that?' after every single song that The Green Album has to offer. It's hard to believe this band formed during the depressing era of Cobain and his depressant army. It would be easy to bitch about this album being short at just over 30 minutes but when the record is of this quality you don't want to complain, simply sit back and listen to the catchiest collection of songs you will hear all year round.
This really should have been a two word review of 'Enough Said' cause once a record has the Weezer title on it we all know that it's going to take over our stereos throughout the summer....and winter and any other time you need to have a smile whacked on your face with maximum force. Weezer write superb songs with natural ease. Get an Ice cold drink, Chill out and play this album until your neighbours are deaf. That and hope the weather holds up. Welcome back and don't leave it so long next time. 
— Terry Bezer, May 14, 2001
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Green Album) Fazed record review

Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo is the Brian Wilson of postmodern rock. Well, maybe not. If not, he’s at least the resident pop music genius-in-training. Like the famously reclusive Beach Boys songwriter, though, he’s also a little out there. Cuomo, too, is an obsessive, idiosyncratic recluse and control freak.
As the Romantics have taught us (the 18th century poets, not the ‘80s rock band), art is the expression of an artist’s personality, so a Weezer album should be an expression of Cuomo’s eccentric personality.
After the (unfairly) chilly critical reception the band’s last record received, it should not come as a shock to anyone that Weezer (informally known as the Green Album) is a conscious effort to repeat the commercial success of Weezer’s first album, Weezer (informally known as the Blue Album).
From song style to cover art to producer (former Cars vocalist/guitarist Ric Ocasek), the similarities are striking. It’s not just a rehash of the previous disc, however. Though the Green Album lacks songs destined to be monster radio and MTV hits like the Blue Album’s “Undone—The Sweater Song” and “Buddy Holly,” it’s a solid, smart-sounding collection that features short, simple, and focused songs (“O Girlfriend” is the only track that runs longer than 3:30) that preserve Cuomo’s trademark quirky, self-conscious irony, supporting them with more conventional pop vocal and instrumental arrangements than previous Weezer recordings.
Cuomo has said that this album is purely a musical exercise, without feeling or emotion. Given the failure of Weezer’s emotional 2nd album, I’m not sure whether he intends this as a positive or negative comment, but a careful listen to the disc bears this assessment out.
The songs sound effortless, though often in both the positive and negative sense of the word. Not all of the songs are totally successful. Cuomo’s infatuation with a fuzzed-out guitar sound gets a little tedious at times (for this reason, having listened to the disk a few times, I find myself skipping over “Crab”). A number of the songs suffer from a pronounced sameness to other songs on the album. “Island in the Sun,” one of the Green Album’s most distinct songs and its second single, is the purest pop song Weezer has recorded, and it ranks with the best songs of their previous two records.
Yes, the Green Album is a good record. Sure, it’s not Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper’s (or even the White Album, for that matter), but who knows, maybe the Red Album or the Yellow Album will be. 
— Matt Parks
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Green Album) IGN record review

James Bond and Batman made "reboots" glamorous, but there was nothing epic about Weezer's 2001 comeback (christened The Green Album in light of its cover art). At a lean 28 minutes and with nary a guitar solo in sight, Green is as spartan as power-pop gets. It followed a hiatus of tremendous length and was the lynchpin in whether old Weezer followers would take the band back while newcoming interlopers assessed Rivers Cuomo's undeniable gift for pop melody. Of course, it was a smashing success, but we as Weezer fans are perpetually malcontent and many of us resent this candy-coated nugget.
The band was wise enough to acknowledge that they couldn't cobble together a Pinkerton II, nor would Rivers have wanted to. It follows necessarily that old-school fans would take umbrage with Green's sonic and lyrical simplicity. It was like being handed a glass of Franzia during an expensive French wine tasting. But even Franzia has its place, and Green's place is inside your car deck, when the windows are down and it's the first day of spring.
"Don't Let Go" kicks off a decalogy of songs, any one of which could have been a successful single. Generic lyrics about love supplement golden melodies; Green pleases the ear more than the brain. If you can divorce yourself from pretension and accept cotton candy for what it is, you'll get a hell of a lot of mileage out of Green. It's a pile of above-average songs by a great band. That's either agreeable to you or it isn't.
==="Download Worthy"===
* "Photograph"
* "Don't Let Go"
* "Smile"
==="Kickin' B-Sides"===
* "Teenage Victory Song"
* "O Lisa"
* "Always"
— "JR," December 21, 2007
IGN's Rating Description (7.0 - 7.9): - A mostly good album, but one with some obvious problems. Albums scoring in the upper end of the range are likely to be solid, but not crucial.
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Green Album) NME record review

Reasons to be cheerful, part 384: 'The Green Album' - Weezer's first long-player since '96 doofus opus 'Pinkerton' - is just 28 minutes long. Which makes 'TGA' approximately 45 minutes shorter than Limp Bizkit's latest travesty, and two minutes shorter than either Last Of The Summer Wine or your average game of bowls.
All of which are reasons for, if not exactly celebration, then at least some sort of relief - for there is only so much Weezer one can bear. After all, these are the grown men who, via such light-hearted hits as 'Buddy Holly' and 'The Sweater Song', bravely brought idiocy and sexual inadequacy into the pop-place while sounding like The Beach Boys with Y-fronts on their heads.
The most irritating aspect of 'The Green Album' is, however, the maddening itch of wasted opportunity. If it was as sonically, lyrically and conceptually as annoying as, say, 'Pinkerton', at least there would be something to rail against. Instead, the 11 tracks trundle along in a generally inoffensive slipstream of occasionally admirable but mainly dull AOR silliness. Some of it even sounds like Crowded House. Thus, 'Simple Pages' is a breezy rock-around-the-campus chug with a sun-protection-factor of minus 15, and cutesy stompalong 'Crab' contains the sort of ambiguity that'll have closet frat boys snickering behind the pages of Viz ("Crab if you need it/She put her knickers on").
Yet for all their tiresome doofus act, Rivers Cuomo and co clearly know their bliss-pop onions. There's a solid-gold pop heart beating deep within 'TGAs braying grooves. 'I Do' in particular, is a piano-enhanced breath of FM loveliness. Why, then, they insist on smothering such charm in swathes of tedious, plaid-coloured guitar is a mystery.
They coulda been contenders. Instead, Weezer blew their last chance of salvation on the roulette table of mediocrity. Laugh? This one will have you in tears.
— Sarah Dempster, May 24, 2001
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Green Album) Rolling Stone record review

Over the past few months, the most burning question in rock & roll has been: What the hell is up with Weezer? After their 1996 album, Pinkerton, a nifty little grunge-pop song cycle that nonetheless fizzled on the radio, it looked like Rivers Cuomo and his "Buddy Holly" boys had gotten their asses abandoned to the Buzz Bin of history. Except that unbeknownst to anyone over the age of twenty-five, Weezer not only kept hanging in there, they continued to hold a Rasputin-like grip on their fanatical, ever-increasing cult of emo kids and suburban punks, until their triumphant comeback tour last year shocked the music biz by selling out the big rooms from coast to coast. As the die-hard Weezer kids rose out of the woodwork to pump their fists and sing along with "Undone (The Sweater Song)," the only other sound you could hear was multiple jaw-floor collisions — and maybe also the sound of Sponge, Nada Surf and Better Than Ezra frantically paging their agents.
Weezer — a. k. a. the Green Album — proves that the band was smart to wait out the lean years. They actually took the time to make a totally crunk geek-punk record, buzzing through ten excellent tunes in less than half an hour with zero filler and enough psychosexual contortions to buy Cuomo's shrink another hot tub. Original bassist Matt Sharp has long since departed to make his own techno records with the Rentals, which certainly seemed like a good career move at the time; otherwise, Cuomo assembles the old lineup to bash out 1994-style crunch-guitar nuggets like "Don't Let Go," "Hashpipe" and "Simple Pages." In the five years since Pinkerton, Cuomo has gotten more oblique about his girl troubles — there's no "El Scorcho" or "Pink Triangle" here, which is a shame. But with the surging final ballad, "O Girlfriend," taking that crucial millimeter of a step toward maturity, Weezer deserve a huge hand for making the world safe again for frayed cardigans and nerd glasses, not to mention paving the way for the now-inevitable Gin Blossoms reunion tour. 
— Rob Sheffield, May 15, 2001
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
*Rolling Stone
==External links==
*Original review.'''
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Weezer (The Green Album) The Onion A.V. Club record review

After a multimillion-selling debut, Weezer fell hard with 1996's Pinkerton, an underrated album that roughed up the group's glistening pop-rock sound while unexpectedly delving into singer Rivers Cuomo's troubled psyche. Years of turmoil, hiatus, and frustration followed, but then came the surprise: Through sheer force of good will, Weezer accidentally began to develop the grassroots following it had never built as one of 1994's overnight sensations. Maybe it's the dire, dour state of contemporary commercial radio, but fans suddenly began to clamor for the band they'd long ago abandoned, heightening anticipation for Weezer's self-titled comeback (a.k.a. The Green Album). Modest in both lyrical ambition and length—it doesn't even breach the 29-minute mark—the Ric Ocasek-produced disc is stripped down to the barest essence of big-boned rock riffs, with no unnecessary extra choruses and none of Pinkerton's odd, soul-baring odes to Asian women and lesbians. The result feels a bit repetitive and perfunctory the first time through, but it's resolutely unpretentious and airtight throughout, without a wasted moment or false move. The immensely ingratiating "Photograph," with its hand-claps and "ooh-ooh-ooh-oohs," is likely The Green Album's finest moment, getting in and out in a near-perfect 2:19, but it's hard to find fault with any of its counterparts. Pinkerton was unfairly maligned, and continues to be unfairly maligned by Cuomo himself, but The Green Album nonetheless finds Weezer sounding revitalized in every way. Just in time for summer.
— Stephen Thompson, May 15, 2001
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Green Album) Yahoo! record review

Possibly best remembered for their 1995 hit 'Buddy Holly' due to its Spike Jones directed Happy Days-spoofer vid and the utterly ace best-tune-about-knitwear-ever 'Undone' ('if you want to destroy my sweatuuuurrrrr! Hold this thread as I walk away…etc') Weezer went on to tour the Earth, release a largely unnoticed second album (1996's 'Pinkerton') - and in foxin'-geek-chic frontman Rivers Cuomo's case- have a serious leg operation and return to college for a few years.
Now, a few years and a shift in personnel later (original bassist Matt Sharp left a few years ago to concentrate on his synth-based outfit The Rentals), Weezer are back! Back! Back! to have words with the likes of Blink 182, Wheatus and other nerd-punkers that trailed in their wake.
Having come up with about 90 minutes of music in seven years, 'The Green Album' will probably irk the size queens at lasting only 30 minutes, but as the adage goes, it's what you do with it that counts, and happily not a moment is wasted. This album also reunites the band with ex-Cars type Ric Ocasek, who did the knobs on the first album, adding a sheen of new wave power nous to the proceedings.
Being so tune-ridden, 'The Green Album' is hard to dislike especially as after a couple of plays tracks like 'Photograph', and the super-catchy 'Island In The Sun' sound like you've known them for years. 'Smile', and 'O Girlfriend' even have the melodic ring of a grungier Travis (no, really) about them, whilst [non-us] album closer 'I Do' is just utterly lovely, chiming hymnally over electric piano in total lighters aloft mode.
An album of two halves, 'Green' has its pop, counterbalanced with its noise-outs but above all, it's a very traditional, straightforward tunesome half hour which slots in effortlessly with its predecessors. A welcome return? Oh yes.
— Ian Wade, May 15, 2001
==See also==
*More reviews of The Green Album
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Weezer (The Green Album) order sheet

==Gallery==
Image:Green promo sheet-1.jpg|Front, featuring an alternate take of the Green album cover photo
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==See also==
*Thoughts from a Green Mind (or, It’s Not Easy Being Green), a brief history of Weezer post-1997 and the making of The Green Album written by Karl Koch
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Weezer (The Red Album) Allmusic record review

An old critical cliché is that eponymous albums are statements of purpose, so what to make of Weezer and their third color-coded self-titled album? Well, the band proves that axiom true, as every one of these eponymous efforts functions as an act of introduction, from their 1994 Blue debut to their 2001 Green comeback to 2008's Red Album, where Rivers Cuomo turns many of the group's long-standing rules upside down. This isn't a radical sonic makeover -- ever a pop formalist, Rivers has Weezer stick to their signatures of big guitars and bigger hooks -- but rather a question of attitude, as Cuomo loosens up as he stares down his impending middle age, choosing to get silly rather than serious. He tears down his self-imposed three-minute barriers, writing two long-form suites (and another track that clocks in over five minutes), he sneers at Timbaland's hitmaking prowess in "Pork and Beans," he never avoids his age, whether he's making asides to Rogaine or indulging in warm nostalgia in the pseudo-"In the Garage" sequel "Heart Songs" and, most importantly, he steals a page from the Noel Gallagher playbook and deliberately shares the spotlight with his bandmates. Not for nothing does Weezer cover "The Weight" as a bonus track on one of the international editions of the Red Album -- nowadays, everybody in Weezer gets a chance to sing lead, just like the Band did way back when. Bassist Scott Shriner is given Cuomo's mildly creepy original "Cold Dark World" to sing, but longtime fellow travelers, guitarist Brian Bell and drummer Pat Wilson, write and sing their own tunes ("Thought I Knew" and "Automatic," respectively), turning in sweet pop tunes that complement Cuomo's style even if they help give the Red Album a bit of a ragged edge, especially when compared to the brutal efficiency of Maladroit and the oversized, highly buffed Make Believe. Of course, the very point of the Red Album is for Weezer to not take things so seriously, to reconnect to their beginnings while taking the advantage of their rock star status to act seriously goofy. This freedom is entirely within the mind -- musically, this is all easily identifiable as Weezer -- but it invigorates such seemingly by the books rockers as Troublemaker," where the loopy lyrics are as prominent and irresistible as the hooks. As the album opener, it sets the stage for a cheerfully restless record, one where all the parts don't fit and it's better because of it, as it has a wild, willing personality, suggesting that Weezer is comfortable as a band in a way they never quite have been before. Given that feeling, it makes perfect sense that the Red Album is another self-titled record, as it plays like an opening to a new chapter instead of merely more of the same. 
====Allmusic track picks for The Red Album====
*"Troublemaker"
*"The Greatest Man that Ever Lived (Variations on the Shaker Hymn)"
*"Pork and Beans"
— Stephen Thomas Erlewine
==See also==
*More reviews of the Red Album
*Reviews of individual Red Album tracks
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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