smirkrevenge
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well, it's out.
1st listen right now.
not sure...but still \m/
RAWK.
1st listen right now.
not sure...but still \m/
RAWK.
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Weezer - Beverly Hills
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Foreign Jackass
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Green was way worse than Maladroit. I actually like Maladroit. Green is like, bad, all the way to the end.Dead said:
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
Foreign Jackass said:
green is a bland album with some good songs. for example, imagine if "smile" had been a piano song, as was originally intended. amazing. maladroit is just a bunch of shit mixed real nice. i have no idea what happened there. too much fan involvement.
beverly hills, while nothing mind blowing, is not only a single self-labeled by the band as "written for the record company," but also far better than anything off maladroit. have you even listened to that album lately? i did last week and couldn't stand it. american gigolo? possibilities? holy crap. and i mean crap.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
here's the thing about the new album. there's so much we don't know about it, it will be an interesting listen, and i don't think an interesting in the how-much-worse-can-the-next-song-get kind of way with maladroit. i mean legitimately interesting. make believe may not end up being a blue or pinkerton, but i'm willing to bet good money beverly hills is a stand-out oddity on the final release, and the album will be surprisingly quality.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
Diablos said:
do you have a soul?
Error Macro
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eXxy said:
Obviously you don't, as that song is great.
Foreign Jackass
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Exactly.Diablos said:
Error Macro
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Wow, I like just about every Weezer song ever. Seriously.
But Beverly Hills is pretty bad. Maybe it will grow on me. I doubt it.
But Beverly Hills is pretty bad. Maybe it will grow on me. I doubt it.
smirkrevenge
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i got your back, exxy.
maladroit is the red-headed stepchild that i will never accept as part of the weezer album collective.
maladroit is the red-headed stepchild that i will never accept as part of the weezer album collective.
Ford Prefect
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I love this new single. Good poppy, silly rock tune.
And I really enjoy Maladroit. I like it for completely different reasons that I like Blue and Pink, but I still like it nonetheless. Maladroit is just more of a shallower, edgier album. That's all.
And I really enjoy Maladroit. I like it for completely different reasons that I like Blue and Pink, but I still like it nonetheless. Maladroit is just more of a shallower, edgier album. That's all.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
Ford Prefect said:
edgy? i'm not sure that word is reserved for anything but an album with titles like "tired of sex"
i'm serious. you guys listen to "my name is jonas" and then "american gigolo" and don't feel like something's off?
Foreign Jackass
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Both's lyrics are completely random to me, but maybe that's cause I'm french, I dunno.eXxy said:
Teknopathetic
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Maladroit was pretty painful.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
maladroit is an album i helped release, to the point where i was mentioned in a weezer autobiography, and i can't even make myself enjoy it. something's amiss!
a) Not everyone lowers their standards for the summer season. I'm not quite sure why a song that fits a warm climate has to be uninspired trash either.bridegur said:
b) It'll still be on the album. Being used as a radio single doesn't magically excuse it from sucking. It sucks on the radio, it'll suck on the album too.
c) It's catchy in the way that it gets stuck in your head and you hate it for being there. It's boring tripe.
Mike Works
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I can see liking the song while watching the music video, but as a piece of music, it's pretty bad.
Pedigree Chum
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I don't mind the remix version, the regular one isn't so hot IMO. Still not up to Weezer's best, but far from terrible.
Oh and I'm making a Wezzer playlist for the PSP, so far I've chosen then following tracks:
Buddy Holly
Suzanne
Island in the Sun
Beverly Hills (remix)
No one else
Say it ain't so
Keep fishing
The Sweater Song
The world has turned...
Dope Nose
El Scorcho
Jaime (Acoutsic)
Any choice tracks I missed?
Oh and I'm making a Wezzer playlist for the PSP, so far I've chosen then following tracks:
Buddy Holly
Suzanne
Island in the Sun
Beverly Hills (remix)
No one else
Say it ain't so
Keep fishing
The Sweater Song
The world has turned...
Dope Nose
El Scorcho
Jaime (Acoutsic)
Any choice tracks I missed?
After I leaked the Green Album Masters to the internet via a Message Board exXy may or may not have been modding ne'no one could believe that this was what Weezer had become. Maladroit was a further letdown in every sense of the word.
LIke I've said before, we'll (weezer fans) always have the caveat that the only weezer we like is the original line-up.
LIke I've said before, we'll (weezer fans) always have the caveat that the only weezer we like is the original line-up.
Pedigree Chum
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Guzim said:
Cause I haven't listened to Weezer in a long time and my memory of the songs I liked from them is fuzzy.
enjoy bell woods
Banned
Sounds like a Good Charlotte b-side with Rivers taking over vocal duties. I really don't see how anyone who says they like Weezer can say this song is even mediocre. It's trash.
100Bullets
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Diablos said:
Yeah I agree but Green wasn't so bad.
Ford Prefect
GAAAAAAAAY
I've been listening to this song more and more, and my attitude toward it has changed a bit. I still enjoy it, but I do in fact believe it to be one of the worse songs on any of their post-Pinkerton albums. It's very simple, the vocals aren't too great, and I can see the comparison to Good Charlotte. This is not a step up from Green and Maladroit. I believe that the rest of the album will be better, though, seeing all that Rivers has been going through since Maladroit, and what Karl's been saying.
Concerning the past two albums, I personally enjoy Green and Maladroit very much. True, listening to Green in its entirety can sometimes give me a headache, but that's more due to the production than the actual music. I think the songs are perfect for what they were meant to be: catchy, shallow pop tunes. Some songs are just plain terrible; these songs are the slow love songs, like Slave and December, but most of the other stuff is great. Maladroit is fairly rocking. It's just a different style of music then what we got with Blue and Pink. I can see how some fans of Blue and Pink won't appreciate Green and Maladroit, but I do.
Concerning the past two albums, I personally enjoy Green and Maladroit very much. True, listening to Green in its entirety can sometimes give me a headache, but that's more due to the production than the actual music. I think the songs are perfect for what they were meant to be: catchy, shallow pop tunes. Some songs are just plain terrible; these songs are the slow love songs, like Slave and December, but most of the other stuff is great. Maladroit is fairly rocking. It's just a different style of music then what we got with Blue and Pink. I can see how some fans of Blue and Pink won't appreciate Green and Maladroit, but I do.
So you're implying that Beverly Hills is as good as even one song on Blue? Just... no. There's something to be said for people that polarize 1994-1996/modern Weezer so much ("this is shit, they used to be amazing",etc), but if you don't think that there's been a drop in quality (and Beverly Hills is part and parcel to this) then I don't know what to say.Matlock said:
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
Matlock said:
lies. i didn't even like weezer till green era. i dare you to put beverly hills on a blue album mixtape for someone and not have them go "huh?"
as i listen to bevery hills more, i still like it. then again, i liked maladroit when it came out, too, so it's all about time. if beverly hills as much of an oddity from the rest of "make believe" as the band and weezer.com is making it out to be, then i'll be extremely happy. based on the band's previous track record, i'm not counting on it, but given that rivers can be extremely talented when he puts his mind to it...i'm still hoping.
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