A Tale of Two Weezers

mark and I agree, and he put it best, “weezer are strange, they would make a lot more sense if Pinkerton was their first album. As it is it's as if Rivers fell down a rabbit hole and wrote his best album by accident.”

On the CD there is an interview with the band, and in it the drummer says “It seems like to be a true weezer fan you have to always be unhappy with what the band is doing.” They tried to write uplifting, happy songs, which is all well and good, but if they don't come from some sort of personal experience they will be trite and hollow. And they are.

What made Pinkerton so great was the personal and intimate subject matter. Now, perhaps Rivers isn't ready to write about going completely nuts and becoming a recluse, for which I don't blame him, but that could mean that he just doesn't have a lot of material left to draw from, if the most compelling thing to happen to him was to fall for a lesbian.

On the other hand, if I just consider weezer to be a good-sounding pop band, and Pinkerton to be Rivers' Rocky I, then things can be easily put to rest, and I can stop hoping for more before each new release.
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