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Matthew Ramos
Just a guy from NYC who is super into Weezer, Beastie Boys, Beach Boys, Selena, Ozma, The Rentals, and Limp Bizkit. Also a huge fan of yakuza movies and the Yakuza video game series. Used to play guitar when I was in high school, but then stopped because I never got past the noob level lol. Twin Peaks, The Office (US), The Office (UK), and Arrested Development are my favorite shows ever. Mass Effect is the best sci-fi series ever. Also, Deadly Premonition on the Switch is odd yet hilarious.
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![Weezer [Green Album]](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0003693677/front/120/zY3IWqbx44khor2MdJJbxA4Q1ghY8VaPylnm7PwcKNY=.jpg)
This album seems like Weezer wanted to retcon Pinkerton. The album reuses the self-titled and color-coded scheme of their debut, yet the music is extremely simple and puts the pop in pop rock. In fact, Weezer (Green Album) is essentially an early 2000's pop album with guitars.
Now, Pinkerton and the Blue Album weren't ultra complex albums either, but Green completely does away with the emotional bloodletting of Pinkerton, and the adolescent yearnings of Blue. Green is super condensed and slick, to the point that most of the songs blend into each other, and make this album play out as if it was a single 28 and a 1/2 minute song.
The strangest thing about this album is that all of the guitar solos are just the guitar repeating the main vocal melody of its song. I guess Rivers wanted to consciously dumb down the music for the masses. Green wasn't made for the sexless geeks who listened to Pinkerton after jackin' off to that girl who never liked them back. Green was made for the radio. And, it worked for Weezer. To this day, "Hash Pipe" and "Island In The Sun" are some of their most popular songs.
This album has no equivalents to "Say It Ain't So", or "Undone", or "Across the Sea", or "El Scorcho". Though I do think "Hash Pipe" is essentially a sequel to "Buddy Holly".
The closer, "O, Girlfriend" and the first four songs on this album are some of my favorite Weezer songs ever! Tracks five to nine all just kinda blend into each other, but I still like them in a guilty pleasure kind of way. Green is an easy, breezy album to play in the background on a nice Spring or Summer day.
Now, Pinkerton and the Blue Album weren't ultra complex albums either, but Green completely does away with the emotional bloodletting of Pinkerton, and the adolescent yearnings of Blue. Green is super condensed and slick, to the point that most of the songs blend into each other, and make this album play out as if it was a single 28 and a 1/2 minute song.
The strangest thing about this album is that all of the guitar solos are just the guitar repeating the main vocal melody of its song. I guess Rivers wanted to consciously dumb down the music for the masses. Green wasn't made for the sexless geeks who listened to Pinkerton after jackin' off to that girl who never liked them back. Green was made for the radio. And, it worked for Weezer. To this day, "Hash Pipe" and "Island In The Sun" are some of their most popular songs.
This album has no equivalents to "Say It Ain't So", or "Undone", or "Across the Sea", or "El Scorcho". Though I do think "Hash Pipe" is essentially a sequel to "Buddy Holly".
The closer, "O, Girlfriend" and the first four songs on this album are some of my favorite Weezer songs ever! Tracks five to nine all just kinda blend into each other, but I still like them in a guilty pleasure kind of way. Green is an easy, breezy album to play in the background on a nice Spring or Summer day.
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