The Secret Weezer Album

Posted in: mp3 by MTTMCGRGR on April 18th, 2008

Are you kidding me with this “Pork and Beans” single? When I first heard the title of the new Weezer single I thought the worst. Then I heard the new album was going to be called “the red album” and I had hope. Hope that this album would truly be a return to form for Weezer after the terrible Make Believe. Unfortunately, “Pork and Beans” sounds more in line with the bullshit they threw on Make Believe and I’m disappointed.

What makes this even more frustrating is the fact that we know Weezer can do better. The evidence lies in the large collection of Weezer B-sides compiled as a fan album, originally titled, “Unreleased 5th Album.” The songs included are almost all gems in the spirit of The Blue Album and Pinkerton. It is rumored that Rivers Cuomo writes one song per day, and has been doing so for several years now. If this is true, this collection should only be the tip of the ice berg of great unreleased Weezer material. For some reason though, Weezer continue to release this sub-par, mainstream pop rock that no one really cares about. Do you know anyone who loved Make Believe? I don’t. Someone should remind Weezer what Weezer is supposed to sound like. It’s not that they aren’t capable of making the kind of music we love them for, as evidenced by this collection, it just seems like they’ve forgotten what fans love about them. It isn’t songs like “Beverly Hills” and “Pork and Beans,” it’s the nerdy, introspective charm they had on their first two albums.