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CAGiversary!
[quote name='Duke Vandal']Weezer is still a great band. Rivers is still an incredible songwriter.
However.
What I fell in love with about the early Weezer stuff (Blue/Pink) was the honesty of it all. The desperate screams scattered throughout Pinkerton, the fact that Rivers was brutally honest with himself lyrically, the delightful imperfectness of the harmonization- listen to The Good Life, that essentially optimizes why I fell in love with Weezer. Nowadays, the songs they put out are pleasant enough, but lack the emotional punch that their first two records provided. Example: listen to Don't Let Go and No Other One, back to back. It's like listening to someone read a song off of a sheet of paper, and then listening to someone pour their heart out into what they sing.
That all being said, I think their post-Pinkerton albums were rather good, just not by early Weezer standards.[/QUOTE]
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However.
What I fell in love with about the early Weezer stuff (Blue/Pink) was the honesty of it all. The desperate screams scattered throughout Pinkerton, the fact that Rivers was brutally honest with himself lyrically, the delightful imperfectness of the harmonization- listen to The Good Life, that essentially optimizes why I fell in love with Weezer. Nowadays, the songs they put out are pleasant enough, but lack the emotional punch that their first two records provided. Example: listen to Don't Let Go and No Other One, back to back. It's like listening to someone read a song off of a sheet of paper, and then listening to someone pour their heart out into what they sing.
That all being said, I think their post-Pinkerton albums were rather good, just not by early Weezer standards.[/QUOTE]
Quoted for mutha en truth!