Comments | azureskies: Oh look, it’s that “New Weezer Record” time again.

azureskies

Oh look, it’s that “New Weezer Record” time again.

Aug 19, 2009 14:16

I think if my longstanding loyalty to Weezer were ever going to be truly challenged, it would have been by Make Believe's "We Are All On Drugs". Or, if not then, then The Red Album's "Everybody Get Dangerous". Sadly, I'm still interested in new output from them, even if the volume of quality material is decreasing by the album (I mean, Red still ( Read more... )

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stolenokisses August 19 2009, 13:28:17 UTC

I nearly weed myself laughing the first time I heard "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived".

azureskies August 19 2009, 13:30:02 UTC

So did I ;-)

But somehow, I genuinely think it's brilliant. It's a warped, demented kind of brilliant, but brilliant all the same.

not_jason August 19 2009, 16:05:37 UTC

It's the only kind of brilliant I think we can get out of Rivers at this point in his life. If Rivers sings about being a normal guy, somehow connected to the version of reality that we all know, it's going to be insincere. Why? Because Rivers doesn't understand reality. If he is going to make sincere music, relevant to where he's at today, it needs to be like "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived."