DEL634

6y

I liked it. Pretty monotone as you say but short enough for it not to bother me that much. Put it somewhere in the middle of their discog

deepsleep

6y

like the song u posted as well

gonna peep red next, no carti

ithaka

6y

fun fact about the green album 💚✅🟢🟩📗🔋🧩🍏:

rivers wanted to make sure to pick the color that would catch the most the customers eye attention on a shelf at a store so he printed bunch of copies for every color to test, white, red, prolly yellow or even pink or brown for all we know!

once printed out he laid copies of one selected color down on a cd shelf and judge which color opposed out the most, obviously the winner is history and prolly worked out for the best

pink could have been radical no that i think about it, very power pop themed come to think of it that goes with the album as much green does

deepsleep

6y

need that purple album one of those days

ithaka

6y

would be hard asl would fit for a shoegaze influenced album

(this photo used on this fan edit some jpeg low resolution lol but it’s the best one of all the purple ones fan edits imo)

deepsleep

6y

damn thats hard
and yea shoegaze would fit

ithaka

6y

like still weezer power pop bite to it not full on mysterious shoegaze but some lil mix of that thrown in there - i know rivers would be into it, they have some history and shoegaze connection, allegedly one of the lush song references matt sharp? (weezers original bassist from blue to pinkerton) she later collaborated on one of his albums (his band the rentals he did after leaving weezer)

i can see that working smoothly

deepsleep

6y

get rivers on the phone

ithaka

6y

used to be big oasis fan haha

as much as rivers himself, he’s crazy for them still to this day

ithaka

6y

going from green to red is funny, s*** is gonna surprise you i think - all the band members has each a song they wrote and sing lead vocals on

Fella

6y

I still love their first record a hell of a lot, really enjoy their second, and I’ll defend their coked up third one. They also have some fantastic b-sides. Don’t Go Away feels like a track Rivers would enjoy covering.

ithaka

6y

why does this melody sounds so familiar

red era left out song longtime rumored and reported as a lost gem

ithaka

6y

(2015) AllMusic: When you were on WTF with Marc Maron you talked about hearing Metallica's "Battery" for the first time and how important that was. What are some other "a-ha!" musical moments that you've had?

Cuomo: I remember the first time I overheard Slayer’s Reign in Blood album, I was really, really scared of it, it was just frightening and felt super evil, I was scared of it, and it took a long time of accidentally overhearing it before something in me started connecting to it and saying, “Heck yeah, I want to hear this and I want to rock out to this.” So something in me had been expressed through that music.

I also remember seeing a kid at summer camp who had a boombox, and he was playing one of Run-D.M.C.’s early tapes, and that was the first time I heard music like that, and I was terrified of that, it took me a while to get into it. N.W.A., the same thing, probably 1990, I had just moved to L.A. and at my apartment they were playing “Fuck tha Police,” and I was so scared. Of course, I ended up loving it.

AllMusic: Once the heavy metal seeds were planted in my mind from that podcast, I couldn't help but draw parallels between some of your more complex material on the new album and something like Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, adding in piano and multi-part songs.

Cuomo: We were all into that, I think it was probably 1983 or ’84 that we started listening to Judas Priest, so it was a bit after that album came out, but we definitely listened to it all through high school. I remember Unleashed in the East, probably being a junior, and it was the springtime, so it was starting to get nice in Connecticut again, and I'd be there in the early morning, blasting Unleashed in the East in my room and doing my hair.

AllMusic: Priest also would dig out a few left-field covers, like "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" and "Diamonds and Rust." Did their variety of choices help motivate you to take on unlikely songs like "Unbreak My Heart" down the line?

Cuomo: I just went back recently and listened to the Joan Baez version of “Diamonds and Rust.” But no, I don’t know if I really understood how it all worked or what a cover was or whose song it was. I heard the Judas Priest version first, and for a long time that’s all I knew, and then at some point I became aware that there was a Joan Baez version, also. But to me, it was just a Judas Priest song.

AllMusic: Part of early Weezer lore includes secret shows under the name Goat Punishment, where you'd play mostly covers. There's one where you did Nirvana's Bleach that's fairly well-documented, and there was supposedly another one where you played Oasis' Definitely Maybe. Do you remember that?

Cuomo: Yeah, I forgot that we only did the first album, but I think it was just the first album. We also did an all-Nirvana set, we did two of those, which also leaned heavily on their first album. That was a real learning moment for me, because the original intention was just to do an all-Oasis show or all-Nirvana show, not focusing on their early albums, but when we got into rehearsal and started playing through all their songs, we really gravitated towards the first albums, and even though they weren’t necessarily our favorite albums to listen to, they were definitely the most fun to play as a band. Much riff-ier and fun to play as a musician.

AllMusic: Could you pick up a guitar right now and remember how to play "Married With Children"?

Cuomo: I’d have to listen again, but I think it would come back to me pretty quickly.

AllMusic: Did you keep up with Oasis through their career or did you lose track?

Cuomo: The last album I bought and loved was Be Here Now, which for a lot of people, that was where they went wrong, and I actually love it, I have no problem with that album at all. I don’t know what people are talking about. I’m happy to hear that younger people can still appreciate Oasis. Even for my generation, when they came out, there was something very retro about them. Of course, they were huge and everybody loved them, but there was a feeling that there was nothing cutting edge about this, so it’s kind of cool to see that younger people now can still appreciate it and it doesn’t sound dated.

@Jerry_Seinfeld @RVI

ithaka

6y

think it’s a classic tbh, straight forward power pop, sure the sound and performance is summum monotone, boy did rivers did a 180 from pinkerton! but it’s just bangers, blasting all the way through with hooks for days, altho i could alter it with like switching crab with this song and maybe other b sides in to make it even better, but ive come to accept it as such

shout out robb banks for the green album love

n u?

deepsleep

6y

green or red what do u prefer?

G Roy

6y

i remember when this video dropped it was my peak of stanning robb (still do love him) and i was so hyped about him wearing that lmaooo

ithaka

6y

i won with my bet but there’s even more thats a lot of faves photograph instant classic

like glorious day but if i would have to make the album differently that’s where it can get a bit redondant so id prolly put this b side to add varietybut it maybe cuts the flow of the album tho

id prolly put starlight instead to keep the same energy but have even more melodies that goes with the concept of early beatles but with loud guitars, check for yourself above i posted that song in the post danny replied to, it’s really good

ithaka

6y

would be hard asl would fit for a shoegaze influenced album

(this photo used on this fan edit some jpeg low resolution lol but it’s the best one of all the purple ones fan edits imo)

Fella

6y

Wow I love this one and Starlight. Yeah I really think Green and Red would benefit from different track lists slightly.

Fella

6y

Shoegaze/Dreampop Weezer

ithaka

6y

that’s too hard of a pick they both succeeds in polar opposites

green is power pop all the way with solos on every song and songs about break ups with just rivers songs

red has the highest production ever on any weezer albums and 4 songs that aren’t by rivers or sung by him - also no guitar solos and no songs about break ups or girls

green lows are less lowers but red highest are far highers

literally impossible...

Fella

6y

It sounds like it’s from some early 60’s pop girl band or something.