OK, doing my best to not overstate the obvious, we all know how disappointing Weezer's last album, Make Believe, was. It was disgusting. Three of the songs were jams, maybe four, but the rest were mindless. To be fair, you guys may have actually fallen off the Weezer wagon long ago, which is sad, but understandable.
Now, I don't know if you've heard their new single, "Pork and Beans," or seen the video for it, but let me say something that surprises even me: I'm impressed.
It's simple, catchy, and cheesy, but not overdone so it's lame, which is where they've failed before. It's a classic middle finger to the powers that be song, baring in mind it's Weezer's nerdy middle finger. Plus, Rivers uses "hoot" instead of a variety of other four-letter gems.
And while the song stands solidly on its own, the video makes it even more enjoyable. I've seen some of the YouTube videos they garnish for their own, and they're funny. But those all pale in droning glow of Patrick's light saber drum sticks, which make this video a work of genius. Yes, genius.
My only question: is the guy singing the "I don't care" part at the end, with the shoes on the pedestal, a Tim & Eric reference?
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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I have no shame in saying that the funniest part of this video is K-Fed. He's so classic!
Also, when Rivers hugs Chris Crocker, that's pretty great.
I've not yet heard anything else off the album. I'm sad to hear it's garbage, but not surprised in the least. Can you box it for me?
And yes, K-Fed is funny, namely the face he makes when he's groovin'. And Crocker did need a Rivers hug. Weezer loves people; they just need to write better music.
my brother showed me this video last weekend. it's such a great track, maybe my favorite single of the year thus far? anyway, like you all say, it's a shame the rest of the album is bad. we do have "pork and beans," however, and i never expected to like another shred of Weezer's output.
I guess I'll have to be the unabashedly negative one here.
This song and video is a whole load of second rate Weezer riffs. Like taking the Sweater Song and In The Garage, marrying them, and then sanding off any of the edge, flair, and riffitude that could have been. I've gave up on new Weezer long ago (Blue album and Pinkerton still receive regular play time and I will defend those albums for as long as I can create sentence), and I've come to expect being underwhelmed by them. You're dead to me Weezer, you hear that?!
And the video... I'm not going to say that timelessness should be at the forefront of consideration when making art, but this video is going to be irrelevant in t-minus 15 minutes. Maybe, just maybe, this is some sort of stab at the flash in the pan youtube "celebrities" that are all too frequent nowadays. But it seems this is just a blatant attempt to capitalize on the momentary popularity of these internet phenoms made popular by Weezer's never changing 13-16 year old target market. We all saw the potential of how the interwebs can build community just the other week when we got the Event Promoters Ordinance taken off the shelf through blog action, messageboard petitions, and direct alderman contact. This youtube compilation, on the other hand, just underlines how the availability and openness we've been provided can be used by our general population to increasingly waste our collective fucking time.
I was supposed to be talking about the music though, huh?
So long boys, it's been nice knowing ya.
RIP Weezer 1991-1997
sorry, i'm gonna have to agree with chad. imagine this shitbucket of a song was stuck between surf wax america and say it ain't so on the blue album ... it would be the one you left off when you burned the album for a friend (i mean taped it for your friend ... this is 1994). sure it's better than most of what they've put out since the green album (and it would still be the worst song on that one), in that it's just mediocre and boring rather than actively offensive, but that's just the product of plummeting expectations.
however, the video, while already dated, it pretty funny.
all music guide gave it 4.5 stars, which is the highest rating i think they will give a new release. i think an album has to have been around several years and its critical reputation carved in granite before they will bump it up to a full 5 stars. i swear i remember when "the blueprint" was a 4.5 star album.
but they also gave 4 stars to the new el perro del mar, which made me make myself allergic to cats, then made me buy a cat so that i would have a reaction and my eardrums would explode and there would never be a chance i'd have to hear it again. okay, it wasn't as bad as all that, but it basically magnified all my misgivings about her first album, and then tried to make them happy.
but i digress.
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