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1.
My Name Is Jonas
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2.
No One Else
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3.
World Has Turned and Left Me Here
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4.
Buddy Holly
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5.
Undone [The Sweater Song]
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6.
Surf Wax America
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7.
Say It Ain't So
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8.
In the Garage
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9.
Holiday
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10.
Only in Dreams
There's a demented pop
fanaticism to Weezer you gotta love. Weezer's debut, produced by former
Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, combines Pixies roller-coaster guitar rides
with a helping of Beatle-esque moptop harmonies. Ocasek's production and
Weezer's strong material will bring a glimmer of recognition to the
eyes of anyone who remembers the Cars' melodic pop hooks.
Weezer's
songs are groovy garage sales you wish happened every weekend. Songs
like "The World Turned And Left Me Here" and "Surf Wax America" betray
the heart of a kid who would rather skateboard to work every day than
face up to the responsibility of buying a car.
Rivers
Cuomo's wit and songwriting chops are evident in "In The Garage," where
he sums up his generation's fascination with kitsch pop culture. Cuomo
readily makes fun of Kiss posters and his own "stupid words" and "stupid
songs," but later, in "Say It Ain't So," his self-mocking seems more
like self-protection. After a decade of divorced parents, Cuomo comes to
terms with a childhood he didn't want to give up. "Dear Daddy I write
you in spite of years of silence," he admits, begging him to "Say It
Ain't So."
WEEZER
breathes life into the bloated corpse of guitar rock. If they'd only
stay little till their pop records wore out, maybe more bands would be
as enjoyable as Weezer.
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Even if you lived through it, it's hard to fathom exactly why Weezer
were disliked, even loathed, when they released their debut album in the
spring of 1994. If you grew up in the years after the heyday of grunge,
it may even seem absurd that the band were considered poseurs, hair
metal refugees passing themselves off as alt-rock by adapting a few
tricks from the Pixies and Nirvana songbooks and sold to MTV with
stylish videos. Nevertheless, during alt-rock's heyday of 1994, Weezer
was second only to Stone Temple Pilots as an object of scorn, bashed by
the rock critics and hipsters alike. Time has a way of healing, even
erasing, all wounds, and time has been nothing but kind to Weezer's
eponymous debut album (which would later be dubbed The Blue Album, due
to the blue background of the cover art). At the time of its release,
the group's influences were discussed endlessly -- the dynamics of the
Pixies, the polished production reminiscent of Nevermind, the willful
outsider vibe borrowed from indie rock -- but few noted how the group,
under the direction of singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo, synthesized
alt-rock with a strong '70s trash-rock predilection and an unwitting
gift for power pop, resulting in something quite distinctive. Although
the group wears its influences on its sleeve, Weezer pulls it together
in a strikingly original fashion, thanks to Cuomo's urgent melodicism, a
fondness for heavy, heavy guitars, a sly sense of humor, and damaged
vulnerability, all driven home at a maximum volume. While contemporaries
like Pavement were willfully, even gleefully obscure, and skewed toward
a more selective audience, Weezer's insecurities were laid bare, and
the band's pop culture obsessions tended to be universal, not exclusive.
Plus, Cuomo wrote killer hooks and had a band that rocked hard --
albeit in an uptight, nerdy fashion -- winding up with direct, immediate
music that connects on more than one level. It's both clever and
vulnerable, but those sensibilities are hidden beneath the loud guitars
and catchy hooks. That's why the band had hits with this album -- and
not just hits, but era-defining singles like the deliberate dissonant
crawl of "Undone - The Sweater Song," the postironic love song of "Buddy
Holly," the surging "Say It Ain't So" -- but could still seem like a
cult band to the dedicated fans; it sounded like the group was speaking
to an in-crowd, not the mass audience it wound up with. If, as Howard
Hawks said, a good movie consists of three great scenes and no bad ones,
it could be extrapolated that a good record contains three great songs
and no bad ones -- in that case, Weezer is a record with at least six or
seven great songs and no bad ones. That makes for a great record, but
more than that, it's a great record emblematic of its time, standing as
one of the defining albums of the '90s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic
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