A good new Weezer song?

[Mik]

No way!

(if you are wondering if I want you to) I want you to new weezer song/demo 2009

 

[samoarowe]

"Pork and Beans" was a good song too. Just the rest of that album wasn't.

 

[Skywarp!]

So was "Miss Sweeney," but it inexplicably missed the standard version of the Red album and landed on the Deluxe Edition.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Pork and Beans along with Beverly Hills were a pair of suck.

 

[samoarowe]

Not a big fan of "Beverly Hills" but I liked that album aside from a couple of true clunkers ("We Are all on Drugs" and "Hold Me" were brutal).

 

[Red Baron]

Weezer hasn't had a good song since Hashpipe.

 

[griffinmills]

I found the whole Red album to be listen-to-able to say the very least and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" to be awesome, IMO.

 

[Czech]

Sounds like main menu music from an EA Sports game, probably NHL '10.

 

[samoarowe]

I found the whole Red album to be listen-to-able to say the very least and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" to be awesome, IMO.

I enjoyed "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" when I saw them live last fall, and it made me ease up on the recorded version, which I initially hated. The problem I have with the red album is that a lot of it just isn't distinctly Weezer, I understand they were experimenting and trying to branch out a bit, but the results just sounded really fucking generic.

 

[DMann1979]

The greatest thing about "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" is some Weezer tribute band doing a cover of it at some in store performance like 2 days after the Red Album came out. At time its both brutal and quite good.

 

[Mik]

 

[Czech]

Well, there's our worst cover of the year. Ho-lee shit. Weezer really went for the grand slam of self-parody on this one.

All songs written by Rivers Cuomo unless otherwise noted.

"(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" (Co-written with Butch Walker)
"The Girl Got Hot" (Co-written with Butch Walker)
"I'm Your Daddy" (Co-written with Dr Luke)
"Can't Stop Partying" (Co-written with Jermaine Dupri)
"Let It All Hang Out" (Co-written with Jermaine Dupri)
"Put Me Back Together" (Co-written with Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler)
"Trippin' Down the Freeway"
"Run Over by a Truck"
"The Prettiest Girl" (re-recording of "The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World" adapted from Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo)
"In the Mall" (Written by Patrick Wilson)

Sweet Jesus, this could be the worst thing ever made. I can't wait.

 

[KOAB]

there's an old Weezer song that's good?

 

[Mik]

The hiding cat makes that album cover amazing.

And KOAB there are a bunch of awesome Weezer songs.

 

[Czech]

There are like three or four. I don't think another band has parlayed less into more among so-called "music fans" than these guys. Rivers Cuomo is a first-order charlatan.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Did anyone else thing that Rivers Cuomo's "home recordings" would be a cool little collection of pre-Weezer demos recorded in an attic on a four track? These are just fucking Weezer songs! Why the hell do you need to re-record "the prettiest girl". IT'S ALREADY A WEEZER SONG. Maybe it's cause I love shit like All Hail West Texas (sorry Czech but that's the best MG album), but you can't really call something a "Home Recording" if you have a recording studio in your home.

 

[Czech]

AHWT? Balls to that. Everybody knows The Sunset Tree tells the best story from beginning to end; and the music, arrangements, and production are about a hundred times more accomplished. Call me crazy, and I know the lo-fi stuff has its merits, but "not sounding like total fucking shit" is a prerequisite for superlatives.

I hope we can further discuss John Darnielle ITT, rather than our generation's preeminent June/Spoon/Moon powerchord-jockey.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

The fact that it sounds like total fucking shit is so, idunno, maybe charming? When the themes of your music are basically 'being a poor, alcoholic, fuckup' there's something inherently appropriate about shitty production.

 

[Czech]

It's not as if the Mountain Goats albums that employ ancillary musicians and functioning microphones are celebrations of wellness and prosperity. You can evoke destitute misery without a gimmick that impinges on the quality of the listening experience. He's done it several times, you know.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

I know he's done it several times! I like all those albums, too, but I definitely find myself going back to AHWT the most. I find it captivating.

 

[Skywarp!]

It's the Raditude cover photoshop contest. There are a few awesome ones here:

http://www.spinner.com/2009/09/11/weezers-raditude-cover-is-doggone-awesome/

 

[Czech]

Weezer's last music video was about internet memes. Their new album cover is now basically an internet meme. Weezer is an internet meme. An internet meme is Weezer.

 

[pbone]

Ha.

 

[Czech]

The cruder the photoshopping, the better. Play him off, Weezer dog, indeed!

 

[Mik]

This one's for Czech.

http://stereogum.com/archives/new_weezer_feat_lil_wayne__cant_stop_partying_097541.html

 

[Skywarp!]

Lil' Wayne with the first F-bomb on a Weezer record. Now that's Raditude!(tm)

 

[Skywarp!]

Things get weirder. Here's the report from a Weezer AOL Sessions performance...with special guests:

Weezer sure know how to throw a party, and on Thursday the guest list included rapper Chamillionaire, pop songstress Sara Bareilles and smooth-jazz king Kenny G.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The unlikely cast of characters assembled in Beverly Hills, Calif. -- the setting for both AOL's West Coast studio and one of the band's biggest hits -- to tape Weezer's five-song Sessions in support of their new album, 'Raditude.'

"I don't know anything about Weezer -- nothing," Kenny G, who's sold 75 millions albums worldwide, admitted to Spinner. "I've heard the name, but I never knew any of their songs [except] some song about a sweater ... with the wool coming apart?"

During sound check, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo -- who lives down the street from the superstar saxophonist in nearby Malibu but had never met him prior to the taping -- instructed Kenny G that he'd have a solo after the second chorus of the new Weezer track 'I'm Your Daddy.' "It's 100 percent winging it," Kenny G said, while warming up in the green room. "But that's OK. I'm a professional."

They nailed it in one take.

Longer article and a photo gallery here, just in case you had to see it to believe it:

http://www.spinner.com/2009/10/23/weezer-run-with-chamillionaire-sara-bareilles-and-kenny-g/

 

[Czech]

ugh

 

[Vitamin X]

During sound check, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo -- who lives down the street from the superstar saxophonist in nearby Malibu but had never met him prior to the taping -- instructed Kenny G that he'd have a solo after the second chorus of the new Weezer track 'I'm Your Daddy.' "It's 100 percent winging it," Kenny G said, while warming up in the green room. "But that's OK. I'm a professional."

They nailed it in one take.

Oh my god, that is so awesome.

 

[2GOLD]

Proof positive that as much as we all wish to deny it, Kenny G is a professional music god.