Wednesday, August 18, 2004
August 16: Weezer - Pinkerton
The album where Rivers Cuomo shows you his dark side: he finds himself attracted to lesbians and Asians, he's horribly neurotic, and he occasionally touches himself to pictures fans sent him ("Across the Sea"). The album is introverted, muddled, and light years away from the blue album, and in the process, Rivers accidentally invented emo.
I can testify that the period around Pinkerton was not a happy one for Weezer; when they played New Orleans in the spring of '97, my friend Kat and I were the only two out of our group who could be bothered to go, and there were only 200 or so people there, including a group of guys at the front who kept demanding to hear "Friends of P" (from the bass player's side project, the Rentals). No wonder the bass player quit and the rest of the band took four years off, and when they came back, they were playing hollowed-out, soul-less songs that sounded like outtakes from the blue album.
I can testify that the period around Pinkerton was not a happy one for Weezer; when they played New Orleans in the spring of '97, my friend Kat and I were the only two out of our group who could be bothered to go, and there were only 200 or so people there, including a group of guys at the front who kept demanding to hear "Friends of P" (from the bass player's side project, the Rentals). No wonder the bass player quit and the rest of the band took four years off, and when they came back, they were playing hollowed-out, soul-less songs that sounded like outtakes from the blue album.
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