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Pinkerton Allmusic record review

AMG Album Pick
From the pounding, primal assault of the opening track, "Tired of Sex," it's clear from the outset that Pinkerton is a different record than the sunny, heavy guitar pop of Weezer's eponymous debut. The first noticeable difference is the darker, messier sound -- the guitars rage and squeal, the beats are brutal and visceral, the vocals are mixed to the front, filled with overlapping, off-the-cuff backing vocals. In short, it sounds like the work of a live band, which makes it all the more ironic that Pinkerton, at its core, is a singer/songwriter record, representing Rivers Cuomo's bid for respectability. Since he hasn't changed Weezer's blend of power pop and heavy metal (only the closing song, "Butterfly," is performed acoustically), many critics and much of the band's casual fans didn't notice Cuomo's significant growth as a songwriter. Loosely structured as a concept album based on Madame Butterfly, each song works as an individual entity, driven by powerful, melodic hooks, a self-deprecating sense of humor ("Pink Triangle" is about a crush on a lesbian), and a touching vulnerability ("Across the Sea," "Why Bother?"). Weezer can still turn out catchy, offbeat singles -- "The Good Life" has a chorus that is more memorable than "Buddy Holly," "El Scorcho" twists Pavement's junk-culture references in on itself, "Falling for You" is the most propulsive thing they've yet recorded -- but the band's endearing geekiness isn't as cutesy as before, which means the album wasn't as successful on the charts. But it's the better album, full of crunching power pop with a surprisingly strong emotional undercurrent that becomes all the more resonant with each play. 
====Allmusic track picks for "Pinkerton"====
*"Tired of Sex"
*"The Good Life"
*"El Scorcho"
— Stephen Thomas Erlewine
==See also==
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Pinkerton Amazon record review

A hit single can be a bit of a mixed blessing for new bands, especially if said song gets you firmly lumped into the "novelty band" category. Such was the case with Weezer, whose runaway hit "Buddy Holly" touched a global nerve upon its release, then got on everyone's nerves after months of radio saturation. However, it did ensure that they sold millions of copies of their self-titled debut. Which is why it's so strange that their second album, Pinkerton, was ignored. Perhaps the cold shoulder was due to the willfully noncommercial first single, "El Scorcho," which crashed and burned. Whatever the reason, Pinkerton soon disappeared, which is a shame because it's a great album. Whereas Weezer reveled in the band's geek-rock image, Pinkerton saw Rivers Cuomo maturing as a lyricist. From the opening, "Tired of Sex," which rants about the frustrating easiness of groupies, to the new wave pop of "Getchoo" to the epic genius of "The Good Life," there's much more diversity here than the Pixies-influenced bouncy grunge of their debut. With the closing solo, the acoustic lament "Butterfly," Cuomo demonstrates a pop mastery that promises great things from this reformed geek.
— Robert Burrow
==See also==
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review (Scroll down to "Editorial Reviews")
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Pinkerton CDUniverse record review

After wooing teenage girls across America with its infectious debut record, Weezer appears to be getting more serious with this follow-up. PINKERTON still features immensely catchy tunes and the band's trademark crunchy guitars, but Weezer is now exuding more mature emotions within its songs. The lads have eschewed their preppy bowl cuts for a more lanky style, and they've written songs about being jaded and depressed ("Tired Of Sex" and "Why Bother"). Their full guitar sound is no longer an innocent roar; there is a new, burning quality to it. But Weezer hasn't completely deserted its sugary tendencies--"Falling For You" and "Across The Sea" (about a teenage fan in Japan) are songs to melt hearts with.
— Unsigned
==See also==
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Pinkerton IGN record review

Pinkerton is a mess. It's a relentless, obstreperous deluge of distorted guitars and high-hat cymbals. Compared to the crisp, clean-cut pop of Weezer's eponymous debut, Pinkerton is a madman's demo tape. The band most certainly had not delivered more of the same -- when "the same" was precisely what everybody wanted. So it's easy to see why music-criticism-circa-1996 regarded it with derision and a parade of inimical condemnations. But now we know better.
A cold, malnourished bastard son, wanted by neither the world nor its own father, Pinkerton struck out on its own, relying on the departures that ostensibly doomed it (cacophony, rawness, emotion) to save itself. Fans old and new latched onto its shameless honesty, driving frontman and creator Rivers Cuomo to unadulterated regret (he once equated the album to a cathartic tirade the drunk regrets the following morning). So few mad scientists can kill their monsters.
Pinkerton is Weezer's best album, and, sad to say, it probably always will be. Somewhere between the beautiful noise of "Tired of Sex" and the delicate acoustics of "Butterfly" lay the underpinnings of the magnum opus of a band sent from the heavens to help quell the pain of Kurt's exit. Buoyed by singles "el Scorcho," "The Good Life," and thirsty-Thursday anthem "Pink Triangle," Pinkerton excels at everything, yet does it in a shy, insecure, practically self-hating way. Its fanbase relates.
Sometimes it's an obligation to sit down and take inventory of all the mistakes you've made in life. At least, with Pinkerton, you can do it with a sympathetic, if a little neurotic, friend.
==="Download Worthy"===
* "Across the Sea"
* "Getchoo"
* "Butterfly"
==="Kickin' B-Sides"===
* "You Won't Get With Me Tonight"
* "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams"
* "Waiting On You"
— "JR," December 21, 2007
IGN Rating Description (9.0 - 9.9): - A must-have album. An album in this range stands as a great example of what the artist is capable of. 
==See also==
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review
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Pinkerton Pitchfork Media record review

When you throw the new Weezer disc into the player expecting the cute 60s-style geekpop that made their debut a worldwide success, you're going to be surprised. Shocked, maybe. The feeling still edges toward geeky pop, but Rivers Cuomo's apparently not feeling like himself these days. Not only is this record not a joyous blast of uplifting rock magic, it's a fuckin' downer at times! Cuomo needs to see a doctor about this depression thing.
On their self-titled debut, Cuomo sang about the Kiss posters hanging in his garage, and here they take the Gene Simmons approach, except without the great light and makeup show. The album is way harder than the last one, and I miss the instant impact 'cause Pinkerton takes a few listens to get into. Which is not to say that it won't rock your world. In fact, by listen number three, you're on the ground with pop spasms. With that in mind, Pinkerton might actually be a bit much for fans who were wooed with the clean production and immediately accessible sound of these guys' debut, but if given a chance, it might surprise even some anti-Weezer folk.
— Ryan Schreiber, September 1996
==See also==
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review (archived webpage)
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Pinkerton Rolling Stone record review - 1996

Although no one in the band originally hails from Southern California, Weezer have got the sound and attitude of early-'60s Los Angeles down. Melodies bounce with vigor; in the lyrics, help is just a sunshiny day away. There is still plenty of Weezer's signature dorkiness on Pinkerton, the follow-up to their successful 1994 debut, Weezer. Guitars veer off key; tempos speed up for no apparent reason. But what you get is true to the sun-'n'-fun aesthetic of great jangly pop.
As a songwriter, the band's singer and guitarist, Rivers Cuomo, takes a juvenile tack on personal relationships. Throughout Pinkerton, he pines for all the girls he can't have, the girls he can have but shouldn't, the girls who are no good for him and the girls about whom he just isn't sure. "Across the Sea," which begins with a deliberately corny piano intro, is the tale of an 18-year-old girl from Japan who has captured Cuomo's heart by letter. "They don't make stationery like this where I'm from," sings Cuomo wistfully. In "Pink Triangle," Cuomo humorously describes desperately trying to wed a young woman who is a lesbian: "If everyone's a little queer/Why can't she be a little straight?"
Weezer over-rely on catchy tunes to heal all of Cuomo's wounds. In "El Scorcho," the song's infectious chorus proves to be slim reward. "Tired of Sex," a look at a brooding stud's empty sex life, is as aimless as the subject's nightly routine. But "Butterfly" is a real treat, a gentle acoustic number that recalls the vintage, heartbreaking beauty of Big Star. Cuomo's voice cracks as he unintentionally bludgeons the fragile creature in the lyric, suggesting that underneath the geeky teenager pose is an artist well on his way to maturity.
— Rob O'Connor, 1996
==See also==
*Rolling Stone's updated 2004 Pinkerton review
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
*Original review.
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Pinkerton Rolling Stone record review - 2004

A good young rock band often ends up writing its bad second album in the back of a tour bus. Rivers Cuomo went to unusual lengths to avoid that cliche: Before recording Weezer's second album, in 1996, he enrolled at Harvard, had surgery to lengthen his right leg by two inches and then walked around the campus feeling utterly isolated and wishing that some of the students wearing Weezer T-shirts would recognize him.
Cuomo poured all his self-loathing and loneliness into ten autobiographical songs on Pinkerton, detailing his awkward love life with agonizing specificity, beginning with "Tired of Sex," where the groupie grind has never sounded less appealing. Some real-life girls mentioned on Pinkerton are ones Cuomo had crushes on but didn't date: a lesbian, a girl in one of his classes who rebuffed his invitation to a Green Day concert and an eighteen-year-old in Japan who wrote him a fan letter and with whom he became obsessed, wondering if she thought about him when she masturbated. With all those true confessions, it's no wonder that Cuomo is somewhat embarrassed by Pinkerton now -- and that the record became a cornerstone of the late-Nineties emo movement.
The self-produced album sounds as raw as Cuomo's lyrics, without any of the sheen that Ric Ocasek provided on the band's debut. But what makes Pinkerton more than a blog entry is Cuomo's unfailing gift for power pop. "Across the Sea" -- which quoted so much of that Japanese fan's letter that Cuomo gave her a slice of the songwriting money -- is the masterpiece, building to ever-greater intensity as Cuomo wails about the most distant of all his unattainable girls. At the end, the chorus swells: "I've got your letter/You've got my song." Unrealized fantasy is enough happiness for anyone, Cuomo is saying -- and he sings it with enough passion to make you believe it too.
— Gavin Edwards, December 9, 2004
==See also==
*RS' initial 1996 Pinkerton review
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
*Rolling Stone
==External links==
*Original article (archived webpage)
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Pinkerton Stereogum record review

==Gallery==
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==See also==
*More reviews of Pinkerton
*All Weezer album reviews
==External links==
* Original online release, archived from the original.
*Re-release of the review on Stereogum
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Pissing in the Wind

"Pissing in the Wind" is a demo by Rivers Cuomo. The demo was added to the digital compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years on December 1, 2020. 
===Appearances===
*Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years (2020)
==Overview==
==Lyrics==
Think I saw you in Godfather XVII
You were scared you’d be caught so you left the scene, woah
Was that a boy in the bag that you left behind
Immature magic tricks never blew my mind
Oh, you’re pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
It’s not your fault you’re a dummkopf just like me, woah
You got a "D" in meteorology (to tell you the stars, baby)
You’re just a victim of blood, yellow bile, and phlegm (thought I’d taste some)
You need about twenty years of strict zazen 
Oh, you’re pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Take your fatty acids, yeah
Grow up big and tall, yeah
I could star in a sitcom about a dad
Blow my whistle and write on my legal pad, ohh
Watch you jump like a frog in a video game
Play again and again ‘til you’re out of change
Oh, you’re pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
Pissing in the wind
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
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Category:Songs on Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Pisspot

"Pisspot" is a demo by Rivers Cuomo.
===Appearances===
*Alone VI: The Black Room (2020)
==Overview==
"Pisspot" was recorded sometime between the spring and winter of 1999.Weezer Recording History - Page 11 The song was among hundreds of Cuomo's demos leaked online in November of 2020, and was later released as part of the digital compilation Alone VI: The Black Room in 2020.
==Lyrics==
You say that you know the answer
Then they have to bunker down
You seem up to monkey business
Jet stream, jumping all around
Just talk, don't bother to listen
Who cares, as long as you believe
Tell mom, sooner now or later
Young pricks are sucking on her sleeve
Could I have silence?
Could I have silence?
Could I have silence?
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
*Alone VI: The Black Room
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Catalog o' RiffsCategory:Songs on Alone VI: The Black Room
PitchforkMedia.com article - November 11, 2008

New Music: Rivers Cuomo: "My Brain Is Working Overtime"[Stream]
Without the liner notes in front of me, I can't be exactly sure when Rivers Cuomo recorded this buzzy ode to "mental slippin'," but that insistent one-note riff recalls the Blue Album period, and his aerobic self-deprecation suggests the Paleo-Pinkerton age. So I'm guessing mid- to late-1990s. Of course that's just a rough estimate. The grandstanding guitar solo and his repeated exhortations to "pick it up, y'all, pick it up" have been found in the same geological strata as Maladroit and Make Believe. Same with the line, "If I was run over by a brand-new Range Rover, I'd actually be glad." But that's all academic: Whenever it was committed to tape, "My Brain Is Working Overtime" is less an artifact of Cuomo's career than a testament to his one-man-band capacity for generating incisive hooks and grinding pop riffs.
Stream:> Rivers Cuomo: "My Brain Is Working Overtime"
[from Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo; out 11/25/08 on DGC]
Posted by Stephen M. Deusner on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:30pm
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PitchforkMedia.com article - October 15, 2007

Weezer's Cuomo Compiles Demos for Release
Only one man dare venture into the vaults of Rivers Cuomo, and that man is, naturally, the Weezer frontman himself. Indeed, as Cuomo announced via what is apparently his ("The Real Slim Cuomo"?!) today, he reached deep and has compiled a collection of demos spanning 1992-2007 for CD release. Geffen Records has confirmed that it will release the compilation, titled Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, on December 11.
According to the MySpace post, Cuomo originally intended to release said collection in conjunction with a book-- which he insists, contrary to a Rolling Stone report, is not his "memoirs." That book, wrote Cuomo, will now be released separately "at a much later date-- a year? Two years? Three years? I don't know."
"It's going to be very cool, though," added Cuomo, whose tome-in-progress already clocks in at nearly 400 pages.
Thanks to reader Cameron Murray for the tip!
Cuomo also alludes to some "Weezer developments" (they're still together, don't you know), which he describes as "extremely great." Wait, this guy went to Harvard?
A post on the Weezer website drops a few more hints, declaring that the quartet has been recording a new album set for release next year "in a large room that normally doesn't serve as a place where bands record their albums." We hope it's the World's Largest Pineapple.
Posted by Matthew Solarski in compilation, album, solo, book on Mon: 10-15-07: 05:12 PM CDT
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Pitchfork Media article - July 21, 2006

The Rentals Hit the Road
Quanah Humphreys
July 21, 2006
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Are you now or have you ever been a friend of P? If so, not only does that mean you're automatically friends with me, it also reasons to figure that you might be interested that the newly reformed Rentals are headed out on a North American tour, starting tomorrow night in San Francisco.
As previously reported, former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp is taking his synth pop project out of the mothballs, on to the road, and into the studio for an upcoming third album. While the band's website muses that the album is "likely to be completed and ready for release in 2007," the tour dates are ready for the here and now.
Don't let the website's awkward HTML-for-beginners appearance scare you off, either; besides hosting the official video clip-heavy archive of a band that released only two albums, the website also offers a Rentals remix of Tegan and Sara's "Walking with a Ghost." First the White Stripes cover the song and now the Rentals remix it, proving that ghosts have officially replaced zombies as this season's official "it" ghoul.
Dates:
07-22 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
07-24 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
07-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards *$
07-26 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater *
07-28 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound *
07-29 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater *
07-31 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
08-01 Chicago, IL - Double Door *
08-02 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater *
08-04 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
08-05 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
08-06 Norfolk, VA - The Norva *
08-07 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
08-09 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom *
08-10 Austin, TX - Emo's
08-13 Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater
08-15 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
* with Ozma
$ with the Salteens
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Pitchfork Media article - September 16, 2003

Weezer's Fifth Album Finally Getting a Move-On
Possible cover colors narrowed to red, orange, and burnt cyan
[Posted Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]
John L. Ferrer reports:
For a while there, it looked like Weezer was going to push it into Zappa gear and start cranking their discs out like they eat breakfast. Maladroit, the band's quickie sequel to their 2001 comeback album, opened to so-so sales and reviews, and was surely their weakest effort yet. But one has to kinda admire the pure speed of its arrival, especially since it contained at least two instant classics ("Dope Nose" and "Keep Fishin'"). The whole scenario looked even more impressive when the group started the rumor mill churning on album five, which was originally slated for earlier this year. But then the band, or possibly just Rivers Cuomo, simply... gave up? So it's a little difficult to report on their next album, now that the wheels are in motion again, simply because no one has any idea what to expect. Will it contain throwaway Maladroit tracks like "Private Message" and "Sandwiches Time?" Is it the same album they started working on last year, or did they start everything all over from scratch? Will all the guitar solos still mimic the vocals?
Only Cuomo knows for sure, but the we can tell ya that Rick Rubin has been signed on as producer for some time now. He told Billboard that Cuomo's latest outpourings are deeply personal, in fact, "deeper than he's ever gone." So, Pinkerton part two it is. The band has been practicing and recording demos with Rubin (a process you can investigate via photos of roundtable singalongs available at the official site) and the final recording will go down some time next summer or fall, for release on Geffen. No tentative release date yet, just some time next year. Unless they scrap it again (which they might).
Meanwhile, an unused 1995 demo track, "You Won't Get With Me Tonight," will be released on Gimme Skelter, a Buddyhead compilation of exclusive rare tracks from popular bands such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Le Tigre. That comes out October 21st on Nettwerk Records, wrapping up several odds-and-end releases for Weezer-- including a live version of "Why Bother" (from a Vegas Records seven-inch benefiting ex-That Dog violinstress Petra Haden) and a cover of "Worry Rock" on the recent Green Day tribute album, A Different Shade of Green.
And finally, bringing to a close to this near-novel of somewhat boring Weezer information, there's a DVD in the works, and an upcoming "special edition" of the band's groundbreaking self-titled "Blue Album" debut. The former is almost finished, according to the official site, and waiting for band commentaries to be affixed to the somewhat secret contents. The latter will be a two-disc set collecting all the Blue Album B-sides, along with some other rare and unreleased songs and heavy duty liners, no doubt explaining everything about Weezer that I haven't just told you. So watch out for all that. Maybe one day, if they keep working hard, they'll be your favorite band again and you can fly the winged "W" with pride.
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Pixies

The Pixies are one of the original alternative rock groups of the 80's.
==Overview==
Despite a short initial life span, and modest, if respectable, record sales, The Pixies have proven to be one of the most influential outfits on rock bands over the last twenty years. This is attributable to their unique style of music, a mix of punk and acoustic pop melodies, and often profound lyrics. Even if the Pixies were never a high successful band, their albums like Surfer Rosa or Doolittle are still some of the stylistic albums of indie music. Artists ranging from Nirvana to Weezer have cited the band as a primary influence.
After splitting up in 1993, the Pixies reunited in the mid-2000s, and have toured sporadically since.
==Connections to Weezer==
*In 1998, Weezer covered the song "Velouria" for the 1999 compilation Where Is My Mind? A Tribute To The Pixies.
*Weezer has played occasional shows with The Pixies since the band's reunion.
*Guitarist Joey Santiago made a guest appearance on The Rentals' 2009 release, Songs About Time.
*On the Weezer Cruise in 2012, Weezer covered the song Los Angeles by Pixies frontman Black Francis.
*Co-headlined North American tours in the summers of 2018 and 2019.
*In 2022, Brian Bell starred in the music video for the single "Human Crime".trelationship. (2022, March 3). Instagram. Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/CaqXmmMJflg/?utm_medium=copy_link.
==See also==
*Where Is My Mind? A Tribute To The Pixies
*Weezer/Pixies Tour
*Nirvana
==References==
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Plasma Rag interview with Karl Koch - April 27, 2004

Say it aint so: Karl Koch on Weezer's Blue Deluxe Edition
By Stephanie Kitts
EXCITEMENT, KIDS. I recently had the opportunity to conduct an e-interview with Karl Koch - webmaster, archivist, and close friend of the band Weezer - about the newly-released Weezer Deluxe Edition. The Deluxe Edition includes both the rock masterwork of the album known as "Blue" and a rad selection of previously unofficially-released excellent Weezer songs. But I'm not biased on behalf of the band or anything. Yeah, so I went out and bought my copy the day it was released. You can stop laughing now. No, really. 
 
 
 
Hmm, Weezer: Pinkerton Deluxe Edition. . . hear, hear!!
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