Maladroit

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Here’s your standard music critic view of Weezer: Pinkerton is their best album. There’s nothing contrarian, revolutionary, or even very interesting about saying that. But you know what: it’s true. Pinkerton is the best album that Weezer ever wrote, and it’s probably the best piece of work that Rivers Cuomo will ever attach his name to. There’s very little doubt that the latter accusation was not meant as a compliment, but perhaps its reflective of how enigmatic Rivers was at this point that it never crossed the writer’s mind that he might take it as one. Spin Magazine Staff. "Best Albums of 2002". Spin. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12 . Retrieved 2007-10-02. Rolling Stone Readers' Top Ten of 2002". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28 . Retrieved 2007-10-02.

Eliscu, Jenny. "Rivers Cuomo's Encyclopedia of Pop". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2009-10-21 . Retrieved 2015-07-09. I dont like this song nearly as much as the first two. very very generic. lyrics weak again, chorus is not very good. I dont really enjoy this song but the title has fish in it so I like that. last minute of the song also has a change that I like a lot more then the rest so that is strange, strange weezer, like a ghost, strange. Due to the head start that "Dope Nose" was given, it proved to be yet another successful single for the band. An additional single, "Keep Fishin'", was released in September of 2002 with a music video featuring The Muppets (yes, THE Muppets). Cuomo describes “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here,” and the song that immediately precedes it, “No One Else,” thusly: ““No One Else” is about the jealous obsessive a__hole in me freaking out on my girlfriend …“The World Has Turned and Left Me Here” is the same a__ole wondering why she’s gone.” While Cuomo’s lyrics on Pinkerton can sound problematic by today’s standards, this song is a reminder that he’s not promoting misogyny so much as thoughtfully probing it. 15: LA Girlz Listening to every Weezer album from worst rated to best nondescript guitars play over boring lyrics. but I like this type of music so I dont mind; melodies are fun and catchy occasionally; songs are fun. yay yay. I like this more than green, more exciting. (too many guitar solos)

Darker and Edgier: Music-wise, it's much heavier and aggressive than The Green Album. It's also more complex and ambitious. Lyrics-wise, it stayed the same. song is quite boring, topic is boring, sounds boring. I dont really have anything to say besides this is exactly how I thought every weezer song would sound like before I listened to them RIVERS CUOMO, an individual; PAT WILSON, an individual; BRIAN BELL, an individual; and MIKEY WELSH, an individual; collectively and professionally known as “WEEZER” vs. ATLAS/THIRD RAIL MANAGEMENT, INC., a California corporation; and PAT MAGNARELLA, an individual, https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TAC/2001-21%20Rivers%20Cuomo%20et%20al%20v%20Atlas%20Third%20Rail%20mgmt%20inc.pdf There’s no downplaying what this song is about, so here it goes: “Across the Sea” is Cuomo’s fantasy about a Japanese girl who sent him a letter. “I wonder how you touch yourself / And curse myself for being across the sea,” Cuomo sings. It’s easily the most unsettling song on Pinkerton, but as a portrait of obsession and isolation, it’s a masterpiece. Though the details in “Across the Sea” are specific to Cuomo, many of his listeners could relate to his feelings of loneliness and shame. 3: Say It Ain’t So GW: Sometimes when you meet the fans, do you feel that they’re disappointed because you’re even-keeled?

Ratliff, Ben (June–July 2002). "Weezer: Maladroit". Blender (7): 100. Archived from the original on August 8, 2004 . Retrieved July 6, 2016.

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Top 200 Albums of 2002 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on September 6, 2004 . Retrieved March 23, 2022. Does it fail at being Weezer [Blue Album]? Yep. Is it close, quality-wise, to Weezer [Blue Album]? Nope. Is Weezer [Blue Album] a MUCH better version of Maladroit? Yep. Does that make Maladroit bad? Nope. this song starts off bad and annoying to me but after about a minute it switches and sounds much better, not annoying, catchy, fun. Lyrics are not very good but instruments sound nice and song is really fun I said fun again yay yay yay fun Christgau, Robert (April 22, 2003). "Not Hop, Stomp". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013 . Retrieved February 9, 2013. Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on December 4, 2003 . Retrieved March 26, 2022.

There’s a good chance that in the audience at any given Weezer show, there’s a guy named Jonas who goes nuts as soon as that acoustic jingle at the start of “My Name Is Jonas” rings out. The opening song on Weezer’s first album is a goofy, absurdist yarn about Cuomo’s brother getting stiffed by his car insurance provider. The lyrics don’t make a lot of sense if you try to parse them – what kind of a name is Wepeel? Why are the workers going home? – but the song is an absolute joy among Weezer songs, right down to its climactic harmonica solo. 4: Across the Sea song is pretty fun too, I just do not like it as much due to annoying chorus. I find rivers saying "Oh" a bunch to be a really unexciting chorus. Everything else about this song is fine though. I hope rivers beats up my man. Despite the strong sales of its two singles and its #3 spot on the Billboard 200, the album underperformed, going gold, but selling a paltry 605,000 units note as of December 2007; not as terribly as Pinkerton when it first came out, but a far cry from the much more successful Green Album. Cuomo, Rivers. "The Catalog O' Riffs" 2002. Archived by Weezerpedia: http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html

filler song, I didnt remember it after listening three times. song is fairly pointless. do not care for it at all, glad it is short though ya yay I like short things s I love short things The MFLT is appropriate because, yeah, Maladroit is definitely not a return to the sound of the band's mid-90s artistic peak. But to give them the benefit of the doubt, it's pretty apparent what the Weez are shooting for with the new record-- a further distillation of their power-pop specialties into short, catchy, big-riff-centered nuggets. Many writers will probably try to lump this incarnation of the band in with Andrew W.K. and the White Stripes for a 'Return of the Rawk!' style feature, but what's truly apparent is Weezer's now-complete focus upon the concert experience rather than studio twiddling. The flying-V guitars and large light-up =W= of their stage act no longer carry the wink that they used to, and these songs are tailored specifically to provoke mosh pits and elicit rampant flashing of devil-horns.