1st song is good. Dont let that fool you
Raditude has really good songs and then also the two absolute worst Weezer songs:
Good Weezery songs:
If Youâre Wondering
Put Me Back Together
Tripping Down The Freeway
I Donât Want To Let You Go
Run Over By A Truck
Prettiest Girl
Really cringe but good melodies
Iâm Your Daddy
The Girl Got Hot
Let It All Hang Out
Completely forgettable
In The Mall
Get Me Some
The Underdogs
The absolute nadir
Canât Stop Partying
Love Is The Answer
12 years later and Iâm still defending Raditude, whatâs wrong with me
I quite like âIn The Mallâ. And agree that the lyrics rather than the melodies are the problem with a lot of the other songs.
Bottom of the pack a decade ago but positively mid- table now. Crazy.
Ok I listened to van weezer, I really liked some of it, some of it was plodding nothingness.
Think this is pretty standard for any album from a band 25 years+ into their career. (Feel the same about ok human).
Will listen again tonight
Donât know it anyone here got the vinyl, but there is a hidden track âThrown it all Awayâ which is great, there also a reprise verse of Need Some of That with Ric Ocasek singing which is a nice touch and he was such an important guy for the band.
Have to listen a bit more before doing an official rankings, but this is definitely better than I was expecting. Maybe hurt a little bit because OK Human was so good (IMO) but if this album came straight after PD / Black*, it would have felt a lot more like a return to good Weezer.
I actually liked the Black album but know Iâm an outlier there.
Read the Ric Ocasek verse was suppose to be in the actual song but they couldnât get clearence from his record company in time ,which is a shame that would have added a nice touch to that song , especially in light of his passing.
they also gave Ok Human 0.1 higher than Black.
So it goes 5.7, 5.8, 5.9⌠gotta be deliberate, surely.
Remains my favourite weezer album!
Actually enjoying van weezer much more than any other recent weezer release. Reminds me of green in some ways
Apart from the absolute clunkers, better than I remember.
Also mildly improved if you replace the biggest clunker with this slightly less clunky version of said clunker
Tunewise most of this album is fine, itâs just the horrendous lyricsâŚ
The Official Sheeldz List
- Pinkerton
- Blue Album
- Everything Will Be All Right in the End
- White Album
- Green Album
- OK Human
- Death to False Metal
Donât Exist
- Maladroit
- Red Album
- Black Album
- Make Believe
- Teal Album
- Pacific Daydream
- Hurley
- Raditude
As an aside, I was certain that Death to False Metal was considered a full album when it was released - when did it downgraded?
Always been considered an odds and sods collection rather than a studio album proper as far I can remember. I never include it ( or Teal) in my rankings - but each to their own.
River Cuomo called it their ninth album back when it came out. I guess they then downgraded it when EWBAITE came out. The Wikipedia archives backs this up, thereâs load of chat on their about whether it is or isnât.
Iâm sure Rivers does but this definitely wasnât the narrative around it at the time - It was marketed very much a a compilation. Itâs working title was literally Odds and Ends.