Topic: Weezer - Pork and Beans (new self titled album June 3rd)

[BranDonk Kong]

It's great. I need to get this album now...it's not out yet...but I need it. If you don't like Weezer, well, you're just wrong. There is no like/don't like, there's like/worship. It's kind of funny that this will be their 3rd self-titled album, it's red this time.

[NWR_insanolord]

I had never heard anything by them until I played Guitar Hero III which had My Name is Jonas and I absolutely loved that song. I've been meaning to check out more of their stuff.

[BranDonk Kong]

Well hop to it, my good man. My Name is Jonas is from their 1st album...1st song on the album actually. Probably (absolutely honest) one of the best debut albums of all time. Go to weezer.com and you can hear the new song, it's pretty great, it's closer to their 1st album than anything they're put out in a while.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

SAYY IT AIN'T SOOOO OH WHOOAAAA OHHHHHHHHHHH

[EasyCure]

Well hop to it, my good man. My Name is Jonas is from their 1st album...1st song on the album actually. Probably (absolutely honest) one of the best debut albums of all time. Go to weezer.com and you can hear the new song, it's pretty great, it's closer to their 1st album than anything they're put out in a while.

you just sold me on it since you seem like a genuine Weezer fan.
I loved their 1st album (agree with you on best debut album ever, every track is a hit in my book).

skipped pinkerton (until a few years ago cuz i decided to give it a shot after not liking some of the songs i did hear)

got the green album and thought it was.......... yeah my opinion on this is odd. i'll like it one day and hate it the next.

skipped their 4th album even though i liked some of the songs on it (havent bought or downloaded it yet, am meaning too though)

got really into Make Believe, again loving the majority of the songs

now if you're saying the newest self titled album (RED! AWESOME!) sounds like their 1st, thats a insta-buy on the first day.

go =w=! (nerdcore ftw)

[Nick DiMola]

Meh, I can't get into them. I've tried a few times and it just isn't for me.

[vudu]

Pinkerton is their best album.  Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

Make Believe was horrible.

I'll check out the new one because I always give bands a second chance to redeem themselves after a bad album.  Unfortunately, they rarely seem to come back.  Green Day is a good example of having a great album (American Idiot) after a lousy one (Warning).  While I'm on the subject, I really hope the new Deftones album isn't as shitty as Saturday Night Wrist.

[Dasmos]

Weezer haven't been relevant since the late 90's, they've been on a downward spiral since their debut. I don't have high hopes for this.

[Maverick]

McFuckNuts tried to get me into them in high school.  He of course pointed me to their first album, I listened to it for a few minutes and couldn't stand it, so I bought U2's "War" instead.

[BranDonk Kong]

Well I've only heard the one song, but it's pretty damn good.

[EasyCure]

McFuckNuts tried to get me into them in high school.  He of course pointed me to their first album, I listened to it for a few minutes and couldn't stand it, so I bought U2's "War" instead.

ugh i can't stand U2. I know weezer isn't the GREATEST band in the world but i enjoy their work. Someone else above me (too lazy to check) said it best, its either you LOVE them or you just don't get it. there is no middle ground. Part of that crazy weezer love fest comes from how awesome their first album is, so if you don't find a spark of magic from that, chances are you won't like them ever. As for them being relevant... were they ever? They were just a indie band that got huge and for most people were a one hit wonder with Buddy Holly, they were never touted as changing the face of music forever or anything.

[Maverick]

I'm not really a huge U2 fan either.  I like the hits, and bought their Greatest Hits 1980-1990 album, but to me they're definitely a "Greatest Hits Band".  I bought War 'cause I like the song "Two Hearts Beat As One", though.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

IN. THE. GARAGE.  WHERE I FEEL SAAAAAFE

LET'S GO AWAY FOR A WHILE, YOU AND I

THE WORLD HAS TURNED, AND LEFT MEEEEE HEEEERE

ONNLYYYYY IN DREAAAAAAMS

LYIN' ON THE FLOOOOR, LYIN' ON THE FLOOOOOR

MY GIRL'S GOT EYE BAAAALLLS, IIIN THE BACK OF HER HEAD

[animecyberrat]

I really like U2, they have a lot of good songs. Weezer on the other hand, my sister was into them and I made it a point to avoid bands she liked cuz her favorties were System of a Down, Green Day and something chemical romance or something. They only bands we agreed on were Oingo Boingo and Garbage. Everything else we were opposites.


But if I ever recover from that horrible System of a down crap, maybe I will give Weezer a chance.

[Nick DiMola]

But if I ever recover from that horrible System of a down crap, maybe I will give Weezer a chance.

I hate you so hard right now...

[vudu]

Well in all fairness, Steal This Album was pretty weak.  Mezmerize and Hypnotize were better, but the lyrics were laughably bad on most of the tracks (mainly the ones written by Daron).

However, Toxicity remains the second best metal album of the 90s.

[DAaaMan64]

SOAD is like Drop-D easy 1 finger half-power chorded bullshit for two to three minutes and no effort to the point of several music theory mistakes. They are prime example of making tons of money for no effort. The original money scam. But it worked great for them! I like Toxicity.

[NWR_insanolord]

Well I downloaded Weezer's first album, and I must say I'm not a fan. A couple of the songs were decent, but nothing I'd probably listen to much more, if at all. Oh well, there's 7 bucks I'm never going to get back.

[vudu]

I TOLD YOU TO GET PINKERTON.

[DAaaMan64]

Honestly if you don't know whether you like a kind of music either get Rhapsody(legal renting of music for $10 bucks a month, $15 for use with MP3 player) or get it by other methods.  Paying for cd is stupid.

[NWR_insanolord]

There's no all-you-can-eat music service that works with a Mac, and I don't like the concept anyway. I probably should have gotten it via torrents and then paid for it if I liked it, but I didn't feeling like going through the trouble of that so I just went on iTunes and grabbed it quick. 7 bucks isn't that much, so I don't care that much, this is just something to remember for the future.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I spent $7 on FFCC addons.

[animecyberrat]

I hate you so hard right now...

Nothing new then. Honestly I have odd tastes in music, but a lot of it is my recovering from the gangsta rap of the 90's. I was so heavily steeped in that garbage that it took a lot to get me out of it, and now it is like I am discovering what I like for the first time. It also goes back to my views addressed in the bad news for the funhouse thread. But I will leave that there.

To put it simply, I am more into light hearted and electronic sounding music, I don't really care too much for the serious stuff and some of the more heavy music just doesn't do it for me. As far as "metal" or "hard rock" goes, I am old school all the way, it's all Alice Cooper, KISS, and Def Leppard for me. everything else is so-so.

[BranDonk Kong]

System of a Down is pure crap. I used to like them, but then I actually listened to them, and threw away all their CDs and deleted all their music from my computer and iPod. Also, insanolord, you should get Pinkerton too, even though it's nothing like any of their other albums (they're actually ashamed of that album, from what I've read in interviews). Make Believe isn't all that great, but they're are a couple fantastic songs on that album (Perfect Situation and Such a Pity come to mind), Maladroit was better if you ask me.

[DAaaMan64]

Why do the suck?