Re: Weezer
Posted: Thu October 09, 2014 5:01 pm
Wow, that feels like a 2009 question lol.Alex wrote:how is your foray into libertarianism going?4/5 wrote:My Name is Jonas is one of the most fun songs ever for me.
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Re: Weezer
Posted: Thu October 09, 2014 7:47 pm
i associate you with the miami heat and wide-eyed wonderment at the joys of the absence of personal and institutional accountability4/5 wrote:Wow, that feels like a 2009 question lol.Alex wrote:how is your foray into libertarianism going?4/5 wrote:My Name is Jonas is one of the most fun songs ever for me.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Fri October 10, 2014 2:15 pm
Da Vinci is the only song on the new album that I'd ever listen to again. 
I know in the past Rivers was always a prolific writer. He'd write hundreds and hundreds of songs a year. I suppose after all these years he's just tapped out creatively, which explains the outside songwriters and how after Maladroit, Weezer albums kind of fell off a cliff for me.
I know in the past Rivers was always a prolific writer. He'd write hundreds and hundreds of songs a year. I suppose after all these years he's just tapped out creatively, which explains the outside songwriters and how after Maladroit, Weezer albums kind of fell off a cliff for me.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Fri October 10, 2014 2:18 pm
I kind of liked "The English Are Coming". Overall I thought the album was a big improvement on the last few. I just wish their songs felt visceral again, like Pinkerton was. But they're just not that band anymore.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Fri October 10, 2014 2:36 pm
The constant declarations about prolificity in the 1990's were so excrutiating. Like that reputation was something you had to have, in order to establish yourself as a "real artist." I think "we wrote 50 songs" was as frequent a boast as "it's our best record yet." Shit, Pearl Jam still does this horseshit.Will wrote:I know in the past Rivers was always a prolific writer. He'd write hundreds and hundreds of songs a year.
Here's how you know that someone is actually writing hundreds of songs: some variation of either A or B.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Fri October 10, 2014 10:19 pm
I think if you're an artist, a musician, a photographer, and you're constantly at work on your craft, you know that in order to hone in on your best work, you have to constantly create and woodshed. In order to find that one amazing piece, its like you have to create a thousand and sift through the debris, and yes, you hear that from bands all the time. With Rivers, you always heard that he wrote hundreds and hundreds of songs a year. I wonder if that wears on a person's creativity? To be so prolific that the well runs dry, and you suddenly find yourself 20 years into a career cranking out the tried and true, with little imagination or spark. Sadly, that's the way I see everything since Green with these guys.McParadigm wrote:The constant declarations about prolificity in the 1990's were so excrutiating. Like that reputation was something you had to have, in order to establish yourself as a "real artist." I think "we wrote 50 songs" was as frequent a boast as "it's our best record yet." Shit, Pearl Jam still does this horseshit.Will wrote:I know in the past Rivers was always a prolific writer. He'd write hundreds and hundreds of songs a year.
Here's how you know that someone is actually writing hundreds of songs: some variation of either A or B.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Fri October 10, 2014 10:24 pm
Will wrote:I think if you're an artist, a musician, a photographer, and you're constantly at work on your craft, you know that in order toMcParadigm wrote:The constant declarations about prolificity in the 1990's were so excrutiating. Like that reputation was something you had to have, in order to establish yourself as a "real artist." I think "we wrote 50 songs" was as frequent a boast as "it's our best record yet." Shit, Pearl Jam still does this horseshit.Will wrote:I know in the past Rivers was always a prolific writer. He'd write hundreds and hundreds of songs a year.
Here's how you know that someone is actually writing hundreds of songs: some variation of either A or B.honehome in on your best work, you have to constantly create and woodshed. In order to find that one amazing piece, its like you have to create a thousand and sift through the debris, and yes, you hear that from bands all the time. With Rivers, you always heard that he wrote hundreds and hundreds of songs a year. I wonder if that wears on a person's creativity? To be so prolific that the well runs dry, and you suddenly find yourself 20 years into a career cranking out the tried and true, with little imagination or spark. Sadly, that's the way I see everything since Green with these guys.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:23 am
PinkertonBurtReynolds wrote:I like Blue, Pinkerton and most of Green. The rest is pretty dire.
Blue
Most of Green
The Rest of Green
Everything else
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:27 am
Like Kevin Davis, Blue and Pinkerton are really the only ones I'll ever desire to listen to at this point. But Pinkerton is almost always the one I'd go to over Blue.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:29 am
Give Maladroit another chance. It's a really fun, raucous album, with some really good songs.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:30 am
meh
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:31 am
Do as I say.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:31 am
The more you push the less likely I am to do it.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:36 am
I love this song.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:44 am
That wasn't bad.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:46 am
Blue, Pinkerton, goddamn you half Japanese girls.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:47 am
After that, I'm lost.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:47 am
I think I just might. It's about time.theplatypus wrote:Give Maladroit another chance. It's a really fun, raucous album, with some really good songs.
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:48 am
Wait...Hash Pipe!
Re: Weezer
Posted: Sat October 11, 2014 12:48 am
I'm not saying Maladroit is up there with Blue or Pinkerton, but I really like it. It's loud, messy, very melodic and takes more chances than Green. You can tell they had fun writing and recording it.