The Green Album

Posted 47 minutes ago by Kyle Anderson in Behind The Scenes, Music I spent Monday afternoon in the presence of a guy who has informed not only my musical history but also my overall world view. I sat down with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo...

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...in bombast and giving Brian Bell his own song. Rest assured that Raditude is better than both of them and even manages to supersede The Green Album and Maladroit in variety and novelty. It's more than you'd hoped it would be. Weezer...

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Pianist Marian McPartland never assumed a hipster or cool mystique like many of her male jazz peers. Throughout her 70-year career, there was no brooding, no puzzling behavior, and no legendary binges or tantrums. Just a good-girl smile as...

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...bugger has led the Weezer frontman through a number of inexplicable stylistic swerves, from the power-pop reboot of the self-titled "green album" to the underrated guitar heroics of Maladroit to the faux-Who theatrics of the "The Greatest...

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...over the albums that followed Pinkerton. Their 2001 comeback was an anti-climax, but the squeaky clean pop-rock territory that The Green Album covered was different to that which they had covered before - and that, in its own way, was...

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...and preens at Hammerstein. Like stevedores, the band solidly churns out hits-"Buddy Holly" from the Blue Album, "Island in the Sun" from the Green Album, the brain-melting "Beverly Hills" from Make Believe-and adds a few unpredictables,...

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...for the rest of the decade, their audience grew and swelled. So when the band's second eponymous album emerged in 2001 (aka "the Green Album"), the group was greeted with open arms and several charting singles, something that was furthered...

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...Daddy," to make one hopeful that "Raditude" could be the group's best full-length offering since 2001's "Weezer" (known by fans as "The Green Album"). That's saying more than one might think. Sure, Weezer's previous three albums--2002's...

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"This album defies hip-hop's current atmosphere of youthful cockiness and aging complacency: instead, it's driven by the sometimes celebratory, sometimes traumatized sense of stubborn survival and perseverance, a veteran mindset that can no...

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The Green Album is the eleventh studio album by Kottonmouth Kings. Released in 2008, the album peaked at #5 on the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart , and #42 on the Billboard 200 . Allmusic reviewer David Jeffries wrote that "If you haven't...

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