Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone (sometimes abbreviated RS) is a United States-based magazine founded in 1967. Though its popularity and relevance has ebbed and flowed over the decades, it is one of the best-known publications in the world for music criticism. Weezer has appeared on its cover numerous times.
==Rolling Stone and Weezer==
Taken as a whole, Rolling Stone's critical response to Weezer has been generally positive. Most of the magazine's peers in music criticism have disparaged Weezer's 21st century output, with Pinkerton generally seen as the chronological dividing line between the band's acclaimed first-era work and panned second-era output. Make Believe, an album with a metascore of awarded 2005's Make Believe 4 stars out of 5.
Conversely, Rolling Stone's initial 1996 review of Pinkerton has come to be seen as emblematic of the middling reviews that the record received upon its initial release. Written by Rob O'Connor, the review faults the album for being juvenile and, interestingly given the present-day acclaim that the record receives for it's authenticity, insincere. Pinkerton went on to be named the third worst album of 1996 in the magazine's critics poll.
The magazine would eventually issue a new review of the album, written by Gavin Edwards in 2004, awarding it five stars.
==Reviews==
===Albums===
Release 	Rating 	Review date 	Author 	Excerpt
Pinkerton (1996) 	(3/5) 	1996 	Rob O'Connor 	"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."Read full review
The Blue Album (1994) 	No rating given	February 2, 1998	Paul Evans 	"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."Read full review
The Green Album (2001) 	(4/5) 	May 15, 2001 	Rob Sheffield 	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."Read full review
Maladroit (2002) 	(4/5) 	May 9, 2002 	Ann Powers 	"Cuomo doesn’t want to wreck rock or even push too hard against its boundaries — the three-minute single is his favorite playground. Maladroit has a more disturbed edge than did the Green Album. Careening guitar solos stretch out the waistband on rockers such as “Fall Together,” while the teakettle harmonies on “Space Rock” recall Weezer’s forebears in hyperactivity, the Pixies."Read full review
The Blue Album Deluxe (2004)	(4/5) 	April 19, 2004 	Christian Hoard	"Ten years on, as this double-disc reissue attests, these four thrift-store-clad guitar boys seem almost like visionaries. Crunchy nuggets such as "In the Garage" and "My Name Is Jonas" were fuzzed-out enough to blend in with other radio rock of the time, but Rivers Cuomo eschewed rock-star posing and relied on harmonies, big-ass choruses and tunes that attacked your inner lullaby."Read full review
Pinkerton (1996) 	(5/5) 	December 9, 2004	Gavin Edwards 	"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."Read full review
Make Believe (2005) 	(4/5) 	May 19, 2005 	Rob Sheffield 	"Not since Brian Wilson has an L.A.-pop mastermind gotten such musical mileage out of wanting to be an ordinary guy, not realizing that his psychosexual freakitude is exactly what makes him one."Read full review
Raditude (2009) 	(3.5/5) 	November 2, 2009	Rob Sheffield 	"Raditude is full of gloriously cheesy Weezer tunes, led by the ridonk geek-love anthem “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To.”"Read full review
===Songs===
Release 	Rating	Review date 	Author 	Excerpt
"Memories" (2010)	(3/5) 	August 13, 2010	Rob Sheffield	"Now that Cuomo is a full-fledged adult charged with changing diapers and buying the family groceries, he's dreaming of the old days when people liked techno music, and he delivers the singalong chorus ("Memories make me want to go back there") with enough passion to make you think he's not entirely joking."Read full review
==Articles==
Date 	Title 	Author 	Archived link
November 3, 1994 	"New faces, Weezer" 	Kara Manning 	
March 23, 1995 	"Revenge of the Nerds" 	Mim Udovitch 	
August 23, 1997 	"Weezer, That Dog Pay Tribute To Fans" 	Ari Bendersky 	
February 4, 2000 	"Weezer Brace for Return" 	Jennifer Vineyard 	
May 30, 2001 	"Q&A: Not So Serious Rivers Cuomo" 	Harry Thomas 	
September 13, 2001	"Weezer's Cracked Genius" 	Chris Mundy 	
January 22, 2002 	"Weezer Ready "Maladroit"" 	Andrew Dansby and Jenny Eliscu	
July 22, 2003 	"Weezer, Rubin Get to Work" 	John D. Luerssen 	
September 26, 2014	"Matt Sharp on the Rentals’ 2014 Makeover, Hearing Weezer in Panera Bread"	Simon Vozick-Levinson 	
December 13, 2004 	"Weezer: Out of the Garage" 	John D. Luerssen 	
March 23, 2005 	"Weezer Plot Comeback" 	Brian Hiatt 	
May 5, 2005 	"Weezer's Invisible Man" 	Vanessa Grigoriadis 	
June 3, 2005 	"Weezer Make Nice on Tour" 	Austin Scaggs 	
March 19, 2007 	"When Rock Stars eBay!" 	Daniel Kreps 	
May 15, 2007 	"Weezer: Album Six In The Works?" 	Daniel Kreps 	
October 17, 2007 	"Rivers Cuomo Talks Solo Work, New Weezer Album, Ice Cube" 	Daniel Kreps 	
June 26, 2008 	"Rivers Cuomo" 	Austin Scaggs 	
November 11, 2008 	"Q&A: Rivers Cuomo" 	Kyle Anderson 	
==See also==
*Pitchfork
*Allmusic
==External Links==
*Official site
*RS Weezer artist page
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