Make Believe

...one of my favorite pop rock bands because of the Blue album and Pinkerton. I have like about half the songs on Maladroit, Green album, and Make Believe. I did however like the Red Album. I thought the Red Album was a great new direction for...

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...here first-but that's hardly all he can do. The wiry Brit worked his royal ass off as MC of the 10th anniversary celebration of Only Make Believe-which entertains sick children; yes, real children-at the Shubert last week. The man recited...

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...for a return to the more introspective lyrics of Pinkerton or the modesties of the Blue Album, keep hoping. While better than Make Believe by a wide margin, Raditude by Weezer ($14) is more of the same from Cuomo and company: power pop...

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It's reasonable to have low hopes for the alt-rock quartet's seventh (and contractually final, pending renegotiation) LP. Make Believe drowned in a one-note ocean of its own treacle and The Red Album was more or less a failed experiment...

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...the Weezer. Rivers Cuomo is brilliant and the first several Weezer records are essential. I don't know if it's me or Rivers, but Make Believe and "The Red Album" just haven't delivered the goods for me. I like "Red" better than MB but...

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...of fandom. Which doesn't change how, instead of blinking Morse code messages of terror into the audience (exhibited as recently as 2005's Make Believe tour), Cuomo flirts and preens at Hammerstein. Like stevedores, the band solidly churns...

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...synth-tinged "I'm Your Daddy" aren't even it, but he'll get it right sooner or later. I'm still on your side, Rivers, even after that Make Believe record. So, since it's clear that ordering you around won't change anything, what follows is a...

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...shouldn't surprise me. Since 1999's Pinkerton, Weezer's downward career trajectory spiraled through miserable recent efforts, like Make Believe and The Red Album, seems to find its perfect crash landing with Jermaine Dupris and Polow Da Don.

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...me a hater or tell me I'm stuck in the Blue/Pinkerton era but those were the last CD's where Weezer took some serious risks. I didn't hate Make Believe, or Red, or even Maladroit, but their music has been on a downtrend and every album has...

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...band's newest release isn't quite on par with the musical level of past endeavors like "The Blue Album," but it's a whole lot better than the flop album "Make Believe." smorgens@syr.edu Weezer's "Raditude" will be released Tuesday, Nov. 3.

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