hooklahoma
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I know there are more than a couple of big Weezer fans on this board so I'd like to get everyones take on the new release. If you read the user reviews on amazon/itunes you would think the freaking white album had just been released. The professional critics, however, have been less than kind.
I fall in the middle, I guess. I purchased the deluxe version which gave me 4 extra songs. Since I pre-ordered it from I tunes I got a fifth extra song.
This album is different from 05's Make Believe in the sense that MB was a fairly cohesive record with all tracks being solid but nothing that would knock your socks off. Red is a compilation. "Greatest man that ever lived" and "Dreamin'" would have stood with the best on blue and Pinkerton. On the flipside are the songs spawned from the ill advised notion that it was time to get the rest of the band involved in the singing/songwriting. I know the rest of the members of the band have respectably succesful side projects but give me a break, the last guy with above average singing/songwriting skills left the band in 97. Needless to say the formetioned songs are a complete disaster and are no-doubt the worst to ever grace a Weezer album. The river's songs , however, are great with the notable exception that most lack his trademark guitar solos that have been for all these years the signature of a great weezer song. No biggie, however, because the songs are that good.
One song that goes against the trend of the non-rivers songs sucking is the Itunes pre-order freebie, "Its easy". I have no Idea who is singing it but its not Rivers. Strangely, the style of the song is what most people call "americana " , the polar opposite of the style Weezer had traded on all these years. The song is great. The Jayhawks,Steve Earl, Son Volt or wilco couldnt have written a better tune. I'll be scouring the internet tonight to learn more about this track.
I fall in the middle, I guess. I purchased the deluxe version which gave me 4 extra songs. Since I pre-ordered it from I tunes I got a fifth extra song.
This album is different from 05's Make Believe in the sense that MB was a fairly cohesive record with all tracks being solid but nothing that would knock your socks off. Red is a compilation. "Greatest man that ever lived" and "Dreamin'" would have stood with the best on blue and Pinkerton. On the flipside are the songs spawned from the ill advised notion that it was time to get the rest of the band involved in the singing/songwriting. I know the rest of the members of the band have respectably succesful side projects but give me a break, the last guy with above average singing/songwriting skills left the band in 97. Needless to say the formetioned songs are a complete disaster and are no-doubt the worst to ever grace a Weezer album. The river's songs , however, are great with the notable exception that most lack his trademark guitar solos that have been for all these years the signature of a great weezer song. No biggie, however, because the songs are that good.
One song that goes against the trend of the non-rivers songs sucking is the Itunes pre-order freebie, "Its easy". I have no Idea who is singing it but its not Rivers. Strangely, the style of the song is what most people call "americana " , the polar opposite of the style Weezer had traded on all these years. The song is great. The Jayhawks,Steve Earl, Son Volt or wilco couldnt have written a better tune. I'll be scouring the internet tonight to learn more about this track.
