When I got the promo for this, I gave a dull shudder when I saw
\nWeezer’s new album,
\nPinkerton<\/i>, was self produced. The band’s debut album was
\ngeek rock at its finest. Funny, self depreciating lyrics about
\nrejection and air guitaring to old Kiss albums along with some damn
\nnice hooks made
\nWeezer<\/i> a way better than average release in the middle of
\nthe Alternative boom – see also Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra and
\nStone Temple Pilots.<\/p>\n
The biggest thing going for the band was the producer, ex-Cars
\nmaestro, Ric Ocasek. He gave the songs on the first album the
\nhead-bobbing punch that made it such a blast. Unfortunately with
\nPinkerton<\/i>, that punch is now a forgettable brush of the
\nshoulder.<\/p>\n
It had promise. The funky, boppy bass line intro of “Tired Of
\nSex” immediately stuck in my head. Unfortunately, the noisy,
\nsurprisingly weak guitar duo of Brian Bell and Rivers Cuomo didn’t
\nback up the simple beat.<\/p>\n
It goes down from there. I opened my eyes in amazement when I
\ndiscovered three tracks had vanished from the opening song.
\n“Getchoo,” “No Other Name” and “Why Bother.” Why bother indeed; the
\nguitars and the almost annoyingly whiney voice of Cuomo seemed to
\njust sort of ooze into a three-song soup full of weak guitar riffs
\nand droning vocals.<\/p>\n
Weezer still can surprise you. Just when I was about to hit
\nstop, “The Good Life” comes on. It has probably the only real great
\nguitar riff on the album. The “da na na na na” riff is reminiscent
\nto Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire.” It truely rocks.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there. “Pink Triangle” is a
\nfunny little ditty. They even were innovative enough to use a
\ntriangle in the song. The lyrics are the usually self-depreciating
\nlot: “We were good as married in my mind, but married in my mind’s
\nno good.” But it doesn’t live up to what the song should sound
\nlike. Sorry, a song about rejection by a lesbian shouldn’t sound so
\nlimp.<\/p>\n
Ah, guys, I’m sorry. I just hope for the next album you can get
\na decent producer. There’s definitely potential for the band. Their
\nfirst album had that great “Friday’s payday, lets get a couple of
\nsixers and a pizza” sort of feel. The first time I listened to it,
\nmy roommates and I made a beer fort outside of our rental house
\nwhen it snowed 12 inches. Though I’m more refined in my taste, it
\nwas bliss listenin’ to Weezer, pulling out cold bottles of
\nBudweiser every 20 minutes from outside and making a killer shrimp
\ndip. Unfortuately,
\nPinkerton<\/i> hasn’t the same appeal. Its appeal is about as
\npleasing as a flat bottle of Bud Ice and cold Domino’s pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5738],"rating":[11205],"class_list":["post-35617","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-weezer","rating-rating-d-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35617"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35617"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}