Genuinely not sure. I know we joke about it (and how!) but it’s very hard to rate a band that released two albums that I really fucking love, and then have made, at most, 5 songs I’ve enjoyed in the 20+ years since. Part of me wants to ignore the dross and give a 4, but some of it is just so bad that I think a point has to come off. 3 but I’m going to probably listen to Blue or Pinkerton on the way to work and go up to 4. I don’t fucking know.
Anyone band who releases two perfect albums should be a 5 without question.
Of course, dozens of good Weezer songs have come out since 1996, but they tend to be on albums with horrible songs or they are demos. I could make about 5 excellent albums out of everything we have I reckon.
It’s one of those records where you get to the end and question every decision you’ve ever made because you clearly can’t be trusted to do the right thing because otherwise you’d have turned it off ages ago.
Was incredibly into the first two albums when I was a teenager. Listened to Pinkerton a few years back and the lyrics are not good. Stunningly enough The Blue Album lyrics are questionable too.
Cracking guitar sounds on both albums and The Green Album is much maligned. Absolutely fell apart then and haven’t really existed since 2001 as an aural entity. Had to listen to Pacific Daydream when it came out and it was akin to someone gently pouring cold sick into my ear.
3/5 if they quit after three albums. 1/5 now after a string of misbegotten shite.
They passed me by as a teenager - not heavy enough for my burgeoning (and now largely un-burgeoned) metalhead tendancies. Going back and listening to the big two now, I still don’t really get it.
I begin to suspect that Weezer being good is just something Pitchfork made up in the 90s and that everyone here except me fell for it. Why they would do this is beyond me.
