Pinkerton

...motives. It's been a long time since Weezer have made a concise full-lengh album. For that you'd have to go back to 1996's Pinkerton, and that's where fans should head if they want to hear an album that's definitely radder than...

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...quite the different guy and this is far from the same band that released one of the most emotionally revealing albums of the '90s in "Pinkerton." Since the decade began, Cuomo has slowly shied away from the deeply confessional lyrics that...

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...song that changed everything was "Buddy Holly." As Weezer progressed, so did I. They put out their "difficult" second album (the moody Pinkerton) right around the time I was embracing the outer fringes of rock music. When the band went on...

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...which is absolutely awful. I still get hate mail for saying Make Believe was so bad that it retroactively ruined the Blue Album and Pinkerton, and I still believe it-- "Beverly Hills" was the sound of a band that had learned to do as...

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...pick up Raditude. It's light, fun, and not as deliberately ridiculous as its predecessor. If you're looking for a return to The Blue Album or Pinkerton, however -- let it go, man. Let it go. Band to get their own blanket with sleeves.

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...his late-career pursuit of mindless, opulent fun is so transparent that it almost taps a deeper vein of interior sadness than anything on "Pinkerton." Imagine a kind of "Sunset Blvd." set amid the stuccoed wreckage of post-'90s KROQ...

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There's still a segment of diehards wandering in the desert, waiting for the return of the band that created 1994's wounded masterpiece Pinkerton. Cuomo seems to hate these people, torturing them by marbling each of Weezer's 21st-century...

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...("Love In This Club") to produce it. Weezer has obviously journeyed a great distance from its great 1990s releases Weezer (The Blue Album) and Pinkerton. Their emotional angst blasted from every weird teenager's headphones, and their gigantic...

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...was dressed as a literal river). The most enjoyable aspect of the performance was that they didn't play any of Weezer's music after the "Pinkerton" album, which is considered Weezer's last moment of true greatness. In performing the older,...

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Right now it feels like an old guy trying to make stuff that the kids think is cool. Back during Blue and Pinkerton he defined what was cool, because he didn't [care] what you thought was cool. This album turned me from skeptical Weezer...

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