My Favorite Albums: Weezer

Everything Will Be Alright in the End- Weezer: The band returns to its roots with a wonderful album.

Pinkerton- Weezer: Completely misunderstood at the time.

Weezer-Weezer (Blue): This is a classic. Period.

Weezer: Pork and Beans (2008)

Weezer celebrates both uniqueness and Youtube stars. The song's genesis evolved out of a meeting Rivers Cuomo had with record execs. They wanted hits, so he wrote about it. Basically, he tells the execs and the world to piss off because he is his own person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHPYelqr0E

Weezer: Beverly Hills (2005)

Rivers thought it would be nice to live in Beverly Hills and wrote a song about it. However, when Weezer recorded it, "Beverly Hills" came off as a bit sarcastic or even nihilistic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL_WvOly7mY

Top 10 songs of the 2010s so far

My favorites...

1. Lonely Boy- The Black Keys (2011)
2. Mine Smell Like Honey- REM (2011)
3. Tighten Up- The Black Keys (2010)
4. These Days- The Foo Fighters (2011)
5. Walk- The Foo Fighters (2011)
6. Sirens- Pearl Jam (2013)
7. Louder Than Words- Pink Floyd (2014)
8. It Happened Today- REM (2011)
9. Go Away- Weezer (2014)
10. Charlie Brown- Coldplay (2011)

Top 35 songs of 1994 (#11-20)

11. Let Me In- REM
12. Star 69- REM
13. Animal- Pearl Jam
14. Supersonic- Oasis
15. Undone (The Sweater Song)- Weezer
16. Buddy Holly- Weezer
17. Nothingman- Pearl Jam
18. Kashmir- Page/Plant
19. Motherless Child- Eric Clapton
20. I Stay Away- Alice in Chains

Top 10 songs of 1995

My favorites anyway...

1. Murder Incorporated- Bruce Springsteen

2. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me- U2

3. Say It Ain't So- Weezer

4. Misery- Soul Asylum

5. Ghost of Tom Joad- Bruce Springsteen

6. Strange Currencies- REM

7. When I Come Around- Green Day

8. Lightning Crashes- Live

9. Til I Hear It From You- The Gin Blossoms

10. Seventh Seal- Van Halen

Top 12 songs of 2014

My favorites in no order.

Go Away- Weezer

The British Are Coming- Weezer

It Must Be Done- Pete Townshend

Fever- The Black Keys

Gotta Get Away- The Black Keys

Foil- Weird Al Yankovic

Word Crimes- Weird Al Yankovic

The Troubles- U2

California (There Is No End to Love)- U2

In the Clear- Foo Fighters

Louder Than Words- Pink Floyd

Back to the Shack- Weezer 

Go Away by Weezer (2014)

Weezer returned to its roots with Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The album is a straight on alt rocker. "Go Away" recounts a failed relationship and features Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast on vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVnjFVi4RNo

Top 10 songs of 2001

My favorites.

1. WALK ON- U2

2. IMITATION OF LIFE- REM

3. JADED- AEROSMITH

4. HASH PIPE- WEEZER

5. SCHISM- TOOL

6. HOLLYWOOD BITCH- STP

7. ISLAND IN THE SUN- WEEZER

8. SOMEDAY- THE STROKES

9. ELEVATION- U2

10. STUCK IN THE MOMENT- U2 

Top 10 songs of 2005

1. Holiday- Green Day

2. Talk- Coldplay

3. Beverly Hills- Weezer

4. Have a Nice Day- Bon Jovi

5. Speed of Sound- Coldplay

6. Best of You- The Foo Fighters

7. Why Do You Love Me?- Garbage

8. Jesus of Suburbia- Green Day

9. Mr. Brightside- The Killers

10. Be Yourself- Audioslave.

Top 10 songs of 2008

Just my favorites as usual. Most of today's music just sucks, but that is probably true of any era.

1. Pork and Beans- Weezer
2. Viva la Vida- Coldplay
3. Girls in Their Summer Clothes- Bruce Springsteen
4. Man Sized Wreath- R.E.M.
5. Use Somebody- Kings of Leon
6. Violet Hill- Coldplay
7. Nostradamus- Judas Priest
8. Supernatural Superserious- R.E.M.
9. Not My Time- 3 Doors Down
10. Saints of Los Angeles- Motley Crue
10. Nine Lives- Def Leppard

Top 10 songs of 2009

My favorites anyway...

1. Magnificent- U2
2. Uprising- Muse
3. Just Breathe- Pearl Jam
4. Breathe- U2
5. East Jesus Nowhere- Green Day
6. Oh Yeah- Chickenfoot
7. Can't Stop Partying- Weezer
8. Wheels- Foo Fighters
9. Check My Brain- Alice in Chains
10. The Static Age- Green Day

Top 10 Songs of 2010

My favorite songs from the year 2010.

1. Tighten Up- The Black Keys

2. Resistance- Muse

3. I Should Have Known It- Tom Petty

4. Amongst the Waves- Pearl Jam

5. Because the Night- Bruce Springsteen (Yes, a re-release; it would be higher if it had not originally come out in 1978).

6. Last of the American Girls- Green Day

7. Memories- Weezer

8. No Better Than This- John Mellencamp

9. Between the Lines- Stone Temple Pilots

10. I Gotta Feeling- The Black Eyed Peas

Weezer: Buddy Holly (1994)

Rivers Cuomo thought “Buddy Holly” was too cheesy to record, but was talked into it by Ric Ocasek. The video is an all-time classic. It puts the band in Arnold’s Drive-in from the 70s TV show Happy Days. They were superimposed into footage from the show to create a short episode where the band performs and Fonzie dances at the end.  There is an alternate version floating around where the band sings of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as opposed to Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

Weezer: Hash Pipe (2001)

Rivers Cuomo popped some ritalin, drank some tequila, and wrote "Hash Pipe." He lifted from Aldo Nova and Lita Ford for the melody. The video includes giant sumo wrestlers. Quite frankly, it is one of the more interesting songs in rock history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BGLtqqkVI

Weezer: Undone-The Sweater Song (1994)

Rivers Cuomo admits "Undone" is supposed to be a sad song, but everyone thinks it's funny. Originally, he wanted to write a song that sounds like the Velvet Underground, but instead inadvertently lifted from Metallica's "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQqqM5sr7g

Weezer ft. Lil Wayne: Can't Stop Partying (2009)

"Can't Stop Partying" was a demo in 2008 running 2:19. Rivers Cuomo and Lil Wayne reconstructed the song and Weezer released it on the Raditute album. The song is about partying! The band did not release a video for the song, but there is a fan made video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nKNhNifp6M

Behind the scenes of a billboard shoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_B5koFx5Y&ob=av3n

Weezer: El Scorcho (1996)

"El Scorcho" served as the lead single off Weezer's Pinkerton album. The song seemed to ramble and confused listeners leading to the album tanking commercially. Quite frankly, "El Scorcho" sounds like a bunch of drunks singing around a campfire. However, the song and album are more highly regarded today than in 1996.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g&ob=av3n

Buddy Holly: Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Class of 1986

Buddy Holly's career in links:

Rock Hall Bio: http://rockhall.com/inductees/buddy-holly/

Official Site: http://www.buddyholly.com/

Another Site: http://www.buddyhollyonline.com/main.html

Influenced by The Searchers staring John Wayne:
That’ll Be The Day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_wJEGmfQE

The skiffle sound was very influential.:

Peggy Sue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

Oh Boy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLq-vYjdQVs

Holly was not only a great songwriter and performer, but also a pioneer in the studio.


Maybe Baby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEHNFxXkILM

It’s So Easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2rU3W45wks

Radio News Flash: February 3, 1959: Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens die in a plane crash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWoDl0PBP8

Influence:

Buddy Holly's sound dramatically impacted the British Invasion especially the Liverpool acts.
Rolling Stones “Not Fade Away”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt_zum97kjE

The Beatles “Words of Love”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx9ExvtLZ7M

John Mellencamp: “Rave On”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYvoS7LNgaM

The Buddy Holly Story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBCTJPNC2kk

Weezer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

817. Say It Ain't So by Weezer (1995)

Rivers Cuomo wrote all the music, but only had the line "Say it ain't so." The rest came when he thought of a high school moment. He came home, opened the fridge, and saw a solitary bottle of beer. His parents divorced because of his father's alcoholism. He saw the beer and worried his mother and step-father would then get divorced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo