Thoughts On Where Weezer Is Going?
Now that Hurley is out, what do you guys think of how the band has changed and is changing?
Do you think they're doing better or worse?
What do you think is going to happen to them within the next for years or in other words what do you see happening to their music in the next 1, 2, or 3 albums?
Do you think they're doing better or worse?
What do you think is going to happen to them within the next for years or in other words what do you see happening to their music in the next 1, 2, or 3 albums?
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Permalink Reply by Brittish Rotting on -
THANK YOU. Finally someone that doesn't completely bash the changes they've made. You've made my day :)
Neema [jawkneebgood] said:Personally, I think that they're changing for the better. I feel like things are only going to get better from here on out. To me this change in sound is what I would have expected after Pinkerton. It's their good old sound that we love, only it's been improved. It's like they went back in time to their old selves with the knowledge that they have now.
I love it and I'm on the edge of my chair waiting to hear what comes out of the genius that is Rivers Cuomo next.
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Permalink Reply by Dopplegager on -
I keep hoping for them to release something good and I keep getting let down. Why do I keep buying this crap just to get it smeared on my face? Because when they do something good its amazing. The thing is it doesnt happen anymore.
There is no ambition in the band anymore. They are not what made people fall in love with them. I understand bands change. When the Beatles changed their sounds they got better because they weren't just cashing in. They were making are. Weezer doesn't make art anymore.
As far as Im concerned the band known as Weezer today is not Weezer at all. Just a band called Weezer that makes crappy original songs but also do cover songs of an old band called Weezer and for some reason that is the only time they sound good.
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Permalink Reply by Henri Armanda on -
Everyone wants them to be like during the old times. I mean the blue and pinkerton era. But hey, everyone's changing and you can't expect them to stay the same the way they are back then.
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Permalink Reply by Henri Armanda on
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like this
to be honest i don't really like matt.
i prefer either mikey or scott in the position
placemats said:Forget about Matt. Scott kicks ass.
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Permalink Reply by Sovereign Andy on -
Brittish Rotting said:THANK YOU. Finally someone that doesn't completely bash the changes they've made. You've made my day :)
There are a bunch of us that feel this way.
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Permalink Reply by Marc on -
But a growing number who don't.
Sovereign Andy said:
Brittish Rotting said:THANK YOU. Finally someone that doesn't completely bash the changes they've made. You've made my day :)
There are a bunch of us that feel this way.
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Permalink Reply by Cienna Wills on -
I disagree, Make Believe is an amazing album. In fact that has to be one of my favorite tours.
BackToSchool said:They're doing worse, far worse. Basically, I've said this a million times, but I honestly cannot fathom what there is to really get excited about with their new material. It says nothing and it mostly goes nowhere. Most of the songs are as formulaic as can be, and the few that aren't still really aren't good. The lyrical sentiments are cliched, the guitar solos are mostly thoughtless when they appear, the progressions are tired...it's just a lot of dumb music. The only reason Weezer is so bad now is because Rivers can churn out melodies, fit some paint-by-numbers lyrics to them, add distortion and voila: the next Weezer album. And it will sell and there will be tons of nostalgic people here calling it a "Return to form" if Rivers emotes a little. With such an uncritical new fanbase, why should he bother to try doing anything really challenging?
But this is not at all the conditions the first two records were written under and it was not at all Rivers' songwriting approach then. In his obsessive detailing of pop structures after the Pinkerton flop, the guy seems to have forgotten that the whole point of learning those rules is to be able to break them for artistic reasons. But Rivers is not interested in producing art, he's interested in producing ear candy. It's so strange to me that this guy is so obsessed with Nirvana...Kurt Cobain did not give two s**** about being famous and he was not the least bit afraid to express/expose himself and fail at it. Rivers in the 90's was the successor to Cobain in that respect, but he was a better songwriter. Now he's not even close and ironically it's because he figured out all the superficial trappings of Kurt's aesthetic while shedding all the heart and meaning.
This band is barely a shadow of itself. I can't see their music getting any better unless Rivers changes his mindset- and if crap like Make Believe can go platinum, then why should he, really?
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Permalink Reply by Cienna Wills on
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You make Pinkerton sound like perfection when in fact it's raw sloppiness is what makes that album. I see where you are coming from as a musician, but any weezer fan will tell you that it is pop music that Rivers has always wanted to write, and thankfully he us now writing the music he wants to write for a change. People that keep reminding him of that album is exactly why it took him so long to perform those songs live again. It would be terrible if every album sounded like that. That's what makes it one of those great albums you will always remember, it's one of a kind...
BackToSchool said:I don't think you have any idea where I'm coming from. I'm a professional musician who gets hired to play on projects from funk, to jazz, to latin, to country, to rock, to basically whatever. I am theory-trained. I was raised and trained by a professional musician and I could record Pinkerton myself solo playing everyone's parts to perfection. As a matter of fact I am currently working on a solo album where I am writing, performing, recording, singing and engineering every single note. This is not to say how great I think I am- it's been nothing but hard work. I am no prodigy. But the point of all that is this: I'm not coming at this from a fan perspective and that's where you seem to be confused. I could easily give you a detailed explanation of why Pinkerton absolutely destroys Hurley and everything else Weezer has done this decade, but I'm not going to waste my breath on it. It's been done 1000 times and it speaks for itself.
Besides, it's pretty simple, actually. Name me a single key change within a song on Hurley. Pinkerton is full of them. There are multiple modulations in Across The Sea and Falling For You. That's just two songs with far more complex chordal structures than ANYTHING on Hurley.
This idea that I'll never be content with anything because I recognize, rightly, that Rivers has lost the plot as a songwriter is sheer nonsense.
Here's my advice to you- buy the guitar book for Pinkerton and do a chordal analysis. Compare it to ANYTHING from this decade and get back to me. I won't presume to judge that your life will somehow be incomplete if you can't recognize what is glaringly apparent from the study, though.
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Permalink Reply by Cienna Wills on
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So what your saying is that Weezer should write music for 40 year olds? Somehow that doesn't sound like a good idea.
BackToSchool said:It's not the amount of time that elapses, it's your age. You don't "get" the album because it's not for people your age. When you get older and have some real life experience, you will appreciate that album far more than you do now.
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Permalink Reply by Cienna Wills on
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I dunno if he was drunk, but he was on a ton of painkillers due to surgery.
BackToSchool said:It doesn't do anything to my argument. You probably liked the things that Dorian doesn't: specifically the messy and raw production style. Still, it was likely just as over your head at 13 as it is over Dorian's head at 14-15. I'm not sure how old you are now, but I'd wager that the older you get, to a certain extent, the more true and immediate that album actually becomes.
And yes, I've heard that statement a million times and I've always felt it was nothing but an excuse. Rivers would never have said that if the album had been as successful as Blue. He was not drunk when he wrote the songs and he was not drunk when he recorded the album. He thought it was going to be huge.
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Permalink Reply by Cienna Wills on
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Just curious, all rudeness aside, but if you are such an anti weezer non-fan what are you doing on this forum???
BackToSchool said:It was never really about expectations for me. They'll never go back. But I'm not going to pretend that's not majorly disappointing. I don't mind them going different directions, I just want good results. And I am 100% convinced that the last 6 albums are crap.
Marc said:Anyone screaming for this band to go back to their original sound only needs to read those comments. My expectations have changed significantly. It is what it is..
elscorcho said:Part me wants to say this guy isn't really Rivers. But I know it is.
Marc said:Opened my eyes to a few things...
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