Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
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Artist: WeezerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-05-10
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
- My Name Is Jonas
- No One Else
- The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
- Buddy Holly
- Undone-The Sweater Song
- Surf Wax America
- Say It Ain't So
- In The Garage
- Holiday
- Only In Dreams
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Free Music Review: "What's with these homies dissin' my girl?"
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a hell of a record - clear, concise, crisp, catchy power-pop, it's a small wonder it caught on the way it did. The ubiquitous single "Buddy Holly" is here, and its charmingly gawky lyrics, vocal hooks most bands would die for, and brilliant Happy Days video make it one of the best songs of the '90s. But the other singles - the nervy Hollywood send-up "Undone (the Sweater Song)" and the personal, bitter grunge song "Say It Ain't So" (which, thanks to its inclusion in the apparently difficult singing tutorial in Rock Band, has led to an inside joke amongst my friends: "I hate `Say It Ain't So'!") - are just as good, and there are a bunch of other churning guitar-pop gems for your pleasure ("My Name is Jonas", "No One Else", "The World Has Turned and Left Me", "Surf Wax America", with a bizarre drop-off in volume; "Holiday"), and the mercurial Rivers Cuomo (at least as strange as his name, given the infamous Harvard story) paints himself as the quintessential dork on "In the Garage", which makes it easy for me, another dork, to identify with even if I don't like KISS. The lengthy "Only in Dreams" totally throws off the momentum, but it's only one song and it's the last one besides. You know, they're right when they call this one of the best of the '90s. It really, really was.
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There's a classic episode of The Little Rascals where one of the gang can't join everybody else on the ballfield because he has to stay home with his younger brother, who has the croup. "I can't come out and play," he whines. "I've got to stay home and grease Wheezer!" Nobody at Geffen Records knows whether this was the inspiration in naming Weezer, but it makes sense. Like many of their peers, the members of the Los Angeles quartet seem to have spent their formative years in front of the TV; when they were a little older, they were just as entranced by college rock. Finally, ala the Rascals, one of the gang said, "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!," and the result is Weezer's uplifting, unpretentious, and extremely endearing debut.The self-titled Weezer is lean and mean at 10 short, punchy tunes, but nearly every one is powered by a larger-than-life chorus or a simple but effective lyric. "Undone-The Sweater Song" uses an unraveling sweater as a metaphor for a relationship on the rocks; "Buddy Holly" pays heartfelt tribute to the '50s rocker, and "In the Garage" paints a scene of suburban teens jamming while surrounded by posters of Kiss. Producer Ric Ocasek of Cars fame pushes the vocals and rhythm guitars, and this bare-bones approach may earn comparisons to fellow garage-pop band Green Day. But Weezer has more in common with the late, lamented Big Dipper, another group of slacker wiseguys that you just had to love. --Jim DeRogatis
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