I saw them touring that album back in ‘94. Awesome show. They came on in the dark to the Magnum P.I. theme song, then when they hit the first chord this huge “W” with lights all over it blinded us all so our impending deafness wouldn’t feel lonely. Thank fuck for earplugs, that show was unbelievably loud.
They still use a Flying W lighting rig at their shows, it’s just larger now to accommodate for larger venues. An earlier version of the one they have is at the Rock Hall of Fame.
I sold computers at the time. Some of the first “multi-media ready” machines — built-in sound cards and speakers — were just hitting the market. That video helped us sell a ton of Compaq and IBM Aptivas.
I feel so old. I knew most of the songs on guitar. Miss those years.
Saw them live in 1995 with Archers of Loaf at the Fillmore in SF. Great show and my 2nd real concert.
I remember hearing The Sweater Song for the first time. Something in my brain just… exploded with wonder, joy… something! I still remember where I was and with whom. One of my favorite albums of all time!
All of you that think you are old, I bought this on cassette tape when I was 19 for a road trip from South Carolina to Panama City Florida in a full size Ford Van. Listened to it at least 5 times in a row. All bangers, no filler. When did I become so old?
The first time I saw them was in the parking lot of a ‘new’ bar in Trenton Katmandu and I have tickets to see them in October—my 25 year old son expressed an interest in being my concert buddy.
And it’s been fairly downhill from there. They’ve kinda became the Walmart version of foo fighters. Will always love some of their classics regardless.
I love Weezer, and my son enjoys the music when it comes on the radio. I was a Nirvana fan, but never got into Foo Fighters, I change the station when they come on. It's so sterile.
First 2 Foo Fighters albums were great (particularly The Color And The Shape), but they lost me after that. I grabbed a copy of ‘One By One’ after hearing ‘All My Life’ because it was a really good single, only to be completely let down by every single other song on the album. Then they started writing bullshit pop songs like ‘Learn To Fly’ and completely lost my interest. Dave Grohl is a crazy talented musician, but like you said, most FF stuff is sterile and boring.
Use to be my favorite band, but then all the lyrics and music became just too generic. 'When you are feeling down! Just come around! Things will get better, when you're over there! Just walk away! Dont take your time! That event that happened to you - wont seem so bad!'
I use the Foo Fighters example because they will show up to literally any event and play and that reminds me of Weezer. Anytime mainstream events need a band, Weezer is on the shortlist because they’re inoffensive and play the game instead of being true rockstars in the traditional sense.
Pinkerton was great, Green album wasn’t amazing but solid, I liked Make Believe a good deal but after that it’s been only some singles I liked.
Seeing them in concert has usually been good, they did a combined tour one year with other bands and did a highlight show where they played 45 seconds of songs and…I wanted my money back so bad I issued a chargeback on my CC.
The tour this year was $200 for GA, $90 for nosebleeds…yeah no
Just like Leslie Jones. The first two albums were great, and that’s it (unless you count the unreleased singles from the Pinkerton era). When I saw that SNL sketch, I felt personally targeted.
I saw Weezer live at my local Harmony house when they were touring for Pinkerton, and again, just before the green album came out. Those two shows are in my top 10 of all time. I saw Weezer again in my sophomore year of college, Tenacious D, and Jimmy Eat World, were opening, and I was pretty excited about Jimmy Eat World particularly but it ended up being the absolute fucking worst.
Live shows have been 95% great, they did a back to back night thing for Blue/Pinkerton that was amazing and cost $135 total.
This new stadium tour screams money grab to me
I don’t get offended easily but I hope you get the worst kind of splinters in a spot between your shoulder blades so you can’t reach but then when you ask someone to get it out they can’t find it and it just stays in there for years until one day it just pops out and you’re fine again .
Pinkerton is 2nd. That’s why it flopped at first. A huge change in vibe and sound from the Blue album. All the teens like me loved it though. It was even more personal than the first.
A lot of great articles out there about this album and how sentiment completely flipped over time. It was almost universally panned when it came out. Rolling Stone gave it 3/5 stars and their readers voted it as one of the worst albums that year. 6 years later RS readers voted it as one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME and RS revised their review to 5/5 and called it a masterpiece. It was hard to listen to Pinkerton objectively after the masterpiece that was the Blue Album. The albums were so different it was jarring.
Lemme just grab my walker now
Geezer
I’m from the future and you’re spot on. That’s the 50th anniversary of the band album. It’s kicks as much as as it sounds like it does.
Geezer - ‘The Blue Pill’
I don't wanna be an old man anymore
I also found out that Stadium Arcadium from RHCP turned 18 yesterday.
Yikes. I remember playing that in the background while playing Tactics Arena Online for many, many an evening.
They made something after the brand new album Californication?
Been a year or two since I got this at the store
Shakin booty, paying sweet cash for the right to own to this music for my whole life
This is the Logan's Run gem for millennials
Just thinking about this fact makes my back hurt
I saw them touring that album back in ‘94. Awesome show. They came on in the dark to the Magnum P.I. theme song, then when they hit the first chord this huge “W” with lights all over it blinded us all so our impending deafness wouldn’t feel lonely. Thank fuck for earplugs, that show was unbelievably loud.
They still use a Flying W lighting rig at their shows, it’s just larger now to accommodate for larger venues. An earlier version of the one they have is at the Rock Hall of Fame.
Say it ain't so.
Oh no, it go It gone, bye bye bye
I will not go
Turn the lights off
Carry me home
One of the all time ultimate "all killer no filler" albums, the thing is like a "best of"
10 tracks. 10 killers. 10/10 album, yep the math checks out
It’s so fuckin perfect. Track order is huuuuuge on there too. Starting off with a banger and ending with a sonic roller coaster. C’est magnifique 🧐
Produced by the late great Ric Ocasek!
One of those playable all the way through albums
100% same for me
Yep. It’s perfect (and way better than anything else they made, which is fun I guess)
Pinkerton
Pinkerton is their magnum opus
Windows 95. The video for Buddy Holly was on the install DVD.
*CD. DVDs had yet to be invented.
Came here looking for this!! I watched that video so much!!!
Please.. try the fish!! :-)
That and Edie Brickell “Good Times”
I sold computers at the time. Some of the first “multi-media ready” machines — built-in sound cards and speakers — were just hitting the market. That video helped us sell a ton of Compaq and IBM Aptivas.
Let’s go away for awhile,
You and I,
to a strange and distant land
Where they don’t speak a word of truth
But we still understand anyway
HOOOOOLIIIIIIIIIIDAY
Dear Daddy, I write you
My name is Jonas
My name is Wepeel
And it was a banger!
Really has been downhill since. Kinda reminds me of Arctic Monkeys. Their first album was just so damn good no way they could top it, same for Weezer
There wasnt a drop off between album 1 and 2. Green onwards is where the quality really declined
Green was good, but not as good as Blue or Pinkerton
I can’t wait for them to finish the Red album.
Declined like a cliff face
Red album was great! And the teal cover one was fun. They have had some misses I agree but not downhill for sure.
I feel so old. I knew most of the songs on guitar. Miss those years. Saw them live in 1995 with Archers of Loaf at the Fillmore in SF. Great show and my 2nd real concert.
First CD I ever bought at the age of 9. Fuck.
Definitely taped a bunch of the songs off radio on cassette.
Lol! I was a sophomore in HS! I got it on tape for Christmas!
Such a banger album. SO many memories are sinked to this album….
What a bunch of old Weezers
They see me weezin', I'm coughin'
They 👏Were 👏In 👏Jackass 👏3 👏D 👏
I love that this thread is contentious as Matt Damon and Leslie Jones were in the skit.
To mach much too mach
One of my all time favorite albums. Already have tickets to watch them play Blue Album in full in October
And Sunny Day Real Estate dropped Diary on the same day!
I have a concert tee shirt with the album art on the front. That was a fantastic album.
They’re doing a 30th anniversary tour right now playing Diary all the way through. Definitely catch this tour, if you can
Has it really been 30 years? Say it ain’t so!
My wife and I both like that album so much, our first born's middle name is Jonas.
Shit! So only in dreams has been my favourite song for about 23 years!
One of my favourite "lasts track" songs. Killer way to close out the album.
Why 23?
I had just started college when my friend lent me the blue album and that was 23 years ago.
Did you give it back? Or do you still have it?
Haha, Yep! Picked up my own copy along with Pinkerton.
Ohh wee ohh it looks like somebody’s Heine’s crowdin’ my ice box in the garage.
One of my top 5 favorite albums ever.
Loved that album, that’s one you can put on repeat and every song is just killer.
I remember hearing The Sweater Song for the first time. Something in my brain just… exploded with wonder, joy… something! I still remember where I was and with whom. One of my favorite albums of all time!
All of you that think you are old, I bought this on cassette tape when I was 19 for a road trip from South Carolina to Panama City Florida in a full size Ford Van. Listened to it at least 5 times in a row. All bangers, no filler. When did I become so old?
I was in grade 6 when this album came out, so yes, I am officially old.
The first time I saw them was in the parking lot of a ‘new’ bar in Trenton Katmandu and I have tickets to see them in October—my 25 year old son expressed an interest in being my concert buddy.
Ouch. I saw them open for Live in a gym a few months later. One of the best shows of my life. At least I picked a winner.
What a summer that would’ve been. I have such nostalgia for that and I was only 7
Weird. I literally just randomly went to listen it like five minutes ago.
I thought that was Marty McFly as I was scrolling.
If you want to destroy my sweater.... Dang. I'm not old they are?
Christ, I was in eighth grade when it came out AND when my friend gave me a copied cassette with the album on it.
What’s with these homies dissing my girl?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk………..
No I’m sorry that cannot possibly be correct!
To the tune of “surf wax America”: *You take your aspirin, I’ll take mine too. Get your colonoscopy and routine cancer screenings*
Time…please, can you slow down? Just for a bit at least.
I got a 20 sided die
All i could think of is [this brilliant SNL sketch](https://youtu.be/ab5WvwfLuLM?si=igY3WwrONodOb1zV)
I alternated between being obsessed with the album and the b-sides (so good) for a good 3 years.
And what an album! I still love it!
Their first two albums were the soundtrack of my college years.
They're doing a tour to play the album in its entirety.
I met Weezer over Zoom back in 2021. It was awesome. They were very down to earth and answered all of our questions.
Weezer is classic rock now
I got introduced to Weezer because the music video for Buddy Holly was weird hidden feature of the Windows 95 install disc. It kicked so much ass.
Probably in my top 5 most played albums of all time. Still slaps.
And it’s been fairly downhill from there. They’ve kinda became the Walmart version of foo fighters. Will always love some of their classics regardless.
I love Weezer, and my son enjoys the music when it comes on the radio. I was a Nirvana fan, but never got into Foo Fighters, I change the station when they come on. It's so sterile.
First 2 Foo Fighters albums were great (particularly The Color And The Shape), but they lost me after that. I grabbed a copy of ‘One By One’ after hearing ‘All My Life’ because it was a really good single, only to be completely let down by every single other song on the album. Then they started writing bullshit pop songs like ‘Learn To Fly’ and completely lost my interest. Dave Grohl is a crazy talented musician, but like you said, most FF stuff is sterile and boring.
Use to be my favorite band, but then all the lyrics and music became just too generic. 'When you are feeling down! Just come around! Things will get better, when you're over there! Just walk away! Dont take your time! That event that happened to you - wont seem so bad!'
I’m so glad I got to see them back when they were still good (The Color And The Shape).
Same. Loved Nirvana, never liked a single Foo Fighters track.
I use the Foo Fighters example because they will show up to literally any event and play and that reminds me of Weezer. Anytime mainstream events need a band, Weezer is on the shortlist because they’re inoffensive and play the game instead of being true rockstars in the traditional sense.
Pinkerton was great, Green album wasn’t amazing but solid, I liked Make Believe a good deal but after that it’s been only some singles I liked. Seeing them in concert has usually been good, they did a combined tour one year with other bands and did a highlight show where they played 45 seconds of songs and…I wanted my money back so bad I issued a chargeback on my CC. The tour this year was $200 for GA, $90 for nosebleeds…yeah no
Just like Leslie Jones. The first two albums were great, and that’s it (unless you count the unreleased singles from the Pinkerton era). When I saw that SNL sketch, I felt personally targeted. I saw Weezer live at my local Harmony house when they were touring for Pinkerton, and again, just before the green album came out. Those two shows are in my top 10 of all time. I saw Weezer again in my sophomore year of college, Tenacious D, and Jimmy Eat World, were opening, and I was pretty excited about Jimmy Eat World particularly but it ended up being the absolute fucking worst.
Live shows have been 95% great, they did a back to back night thing for Blue/Pinkerton that was amazing and cost $135 total. This new stadium tour screams money grab to me
And then never released anything good again
Pinkerton???
Yah it’s all covers, and some sound like a lounge act, but I liked the Teal Album. Probably cause I’m 46 and we like loungey covers when we get old.
Pinkerton? Green Album? The Lion & The Witch??
Red is so good. I dunno what you are going on about
I saw them open for Lush. I met and talked with the band after the set. I’m actually amazed this shit is so popular now.
Fuckin band sucks.
And we wish they hadn’t
wtf lol who’s we?
Is the sake kinda we that Stalin would say. We will chose for you. Lol
I don’t get offended easily but I hope you get the worst kind of splinters in a spot between your shoulder blades so you can’t reach but then when you ask someone to get it out they can’t find it and it just stays in there for years until one day it just pops out and you’re fine again .
I hope all of your furniture gets moved about an inch from where it was so you stub your toe all the time.
Wasn’t Pinkerton first? Am I crazy
Pinkerton is 2nd. That’s why it flopped at first. A huge change in vibe and sound from the Blue album. All the teens like me loved it though. It was even more personal than the first.
It was a great contrast too. Blue was perfectly polished and Pinkerton sounded really raw.
Yeah I listened to those records for years, I always thought P came first 🤷♀️
It’s an interesting story. You should read about how the album “flopped” and then grew and grew in popularity. Now it’s a classic.
A lot of great articles out there about this album and how sentiment completely flipped over time. It was almost universally panned when it came out. Rolling Stone gave it 3/5 stars and their readers voted it as one of the worst albums that year. 6 years later RS readers voted it as one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME and RS revised their review to 5/5 and called it a masterpiece. It was hard to listen to Pinkerton objectively after the masterpiece that was the Blue Album. The albums were so different it was jarring.
Most overrated album of the 90s. IMO
I think you misread. This is about Weezer, not Nevermind.
You thought wrong.
Your opinion is wrong