http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/50995-weezer-the-red-album

pitchfork pwn... i was calling 5/10, so I wasn't far off (4.7)

6/3/2008 2:58:07 PM

The PF review was already posted. And I'm putting all you people who are enjoying this album on my list of retards.

6/3/2008 2:59:25 PM

Pitchfork's word = gold

6/3/2008 3:05:10 PM

I like Pork and Beans and The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

I really, REALLY wanted to like the other songs, but I just couldn't do it.

6/3/2008 3:06:59 PM

the AV club gave it a D

6/3/2008 3:07:15 PM

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1588489&vid=237705

6/3/2008 6:12:49 PM

I went ahead and bought the delux CD for like $15. At first I only liked 2 of the songs, but the others have grown on me. I still don't care too much for the bonus 4 tracks at the end though.

6/5/2008 3:59:01 PM

i have no idea why i was thinking about this last night, but who else on here bought the first pressing of the maladroit cd just so could have the special serial number on the back?

and who are the lame ones (myself included) who registered the number online?

6/6/2008 1:22:08 PM

^ ditto on both

*sigh*

6/6/2008 2:24:55 PM

haha, if i had the album my place (it wasnt good enough to take with me when i moved out 3 years ago) i'd share the #

6/6/2008 2:52:47 PM

i still have about 7 unopened copies of The Lion and The Witch EP from way back when if anyone is interested...

not for free of course

6/6/2008 3:19:09 PM

i have that as well

opened though

6/6/2008 3:26:26 PM

i never got one

PM'd

6/6/2008 3:33:05 PM

How much?

6/6/2008 3:38:20 PM

i think i bought mine at the schoolkids in cary

which is tough to admit

but i didnt have a license at the time

6/6/2008 3:54:08 PM

so far after 3 run throughs i am not impressed with this new album . . .

6/6/2008 11:28:21 PM

Quote :

"i still have about 7 unopened copies of The Lion and The Witch EP from way back when if anyone is interested..."

i think i got about 7 copies from schoolkids on hillsborough. i sold like 4 on ebay and kept 1 for myself. i think i have those last 2 unopened somewhere. this included getting the last 2 copies schoolkids had.

6/7/2008 3:12:13 AM

the only thing good about that Lion and Witch EP is the Japanese fan reviews in the liner notes

6/7/2008 11:22:23 AM

this album gets a big "meh" from me after a few listens. nothing special here, easily forgettable and probably wont get played again.

6/7/2008 7:56:46 PM

i have to second Vulcan91 - Miss Sweeney would definitely fall closer towards "guilty pleasure" than "good", but I enjoy it a lot. it's got that goofy, geeky epic-ness to it, and I really get into it. Pig will be interesting to hear live. i'm surprised both tracks aren't on the album. they are definitely better than songs like everybody get redhotchilipepperous and thought i knew (i like brian bell a lot, but i thought this was a deep blue something cover).

6/8/2008 3:00:44 AM

Quote :

"man, we did some stupid shit when we kids. I’m reminded of all of these things by listening to “Everybody Get Dangerous” off of the new Weezer record (Red) that is out today. Rivers had warned me that he was putting this song on the record, but I kind of forgot about it and it’s really bringing back some old, “painful” memories. Back in Connecticut in high school (and earlier) we used to call it “Getting Dangerous”. Basically that meant destroying everything and each other in the most dangerous way as quickly as possible. Usually it started by Rivers (Peter), Justin , Leaves (Jimmy), Eric or myself out of the blue, simply uttering the phrase and then it was literally like a Bugs Bunny cartoon where all you could see was a giant ball of dust and chaos with an occasional fist or head or whatever item was being used to hit each other popping out comedically then going back in for more. Then, instantly it would be over. The dust would settle and everyone would be out of breath, in pain, lying in wreckage and very often bleeding and ALWAYS laughing. As we grew older, Getting Dangerous got...well...more dangerous. We expanded to include fire, explosives, gasoline, knives, roadkill and automobiles. The stakes had to get bigger...and scarier. Rivers used to have this Toyota Tercel and he would drive me and Justin (and sometimes Matt Hayes) home after school. Since we lived in the country (as opposed to the city) there were all sorts of crazy winding roads and hills in our town. This one particularly steep hill on Gurleyville road that led down to Justin’s house was epic. Steep as hell with an unreal 90 degree dead man’s curve at the bottom. Growing up, I saw many cars wreck on that corner. People died there. Upping the stakes of getting dangerous resulted in a fun little game i used to call “HOLY SHIT WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”. This is how we played the game. Rivers would be driving and without warning (it was never guaranteed this game would commence at the top of the hill. Aways random.), Rivers would throw the car in neutral and rip the keys out of the ignition and toss them in the back seat as the steering wheel locked-up and the car careened down this deadliest of hills. The object of the game was for the screaming and terrified (and laughing) passengers to try and find the keys and get them back to Rivers in time so he could start the careening death trap up again and unlock the steering wheel to regain control of the car before we got to the bottom and died in a heap of twisted metal. How we never got as much as a scratch on us is just unbelievable. I often wonder what made us do those things...we all unquestionably had dreams and plans of getting out of that town and “makin’ it big”...I definitely remember feeling immortal back then. I’m sure this is standard operating procedure for most testoserone-fueled teenagers in small towns, but at that time it was ours and we tested the limits again and again and again. Man, I used to love those games...and as Rivers points out below, I wonder what we are going to do when our kids come to us with these dangerous games involving their spacecars and lightsabers..."

lol.

6/8/2008 12:07:33 PM

i'll go with the consensus that this cd is pretty awful.

6/8/2008 12:16:44 PM

they're reviewing this on sound opinions today

should make for some funny lines, but you never know, crazy ass derogatis might like it

6/14/2008 3:09:06 PM

ahahaha, called it

derogatis thinks "heartsongs" is better than "in the garage"

6/14/2008 4:53:10 PM

i think it's a pretty good album. absolutely no comparison to blue album/pinkerton or anything like that, but for what it is it's a pretty good album. way better than make believe, but that isnt saying much. it's stood up over several listens so far though. the greatest man that ever lived cracks me up every time at how many different musical styles he crammed into one song.

6/14/2008 7:00:35 PM

^ get some mike patton shit

6/14/2008 8:54:33 PM

Dillinger Escape Plan's album with mike patton was pretty sweet.

6/14/2008 9:30:14 PM

ill check that out

6/14/2008 9:42:45 PM

just got done listening to it...best album bar none...cant wait for their next album

6/14/2008 9:44:45 PM

lol at dnl trying to troll the weezer thread

6/15/2008 12:40:21 AM

thread has been dead for several pages.

oh crap, what did i do?

6/15/2008 4:17:20 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY2tC4W1LX8

6/17/2008 2:40:37 AM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hw94IdIxsyM

1st grade Rivers is excited to be wearing his Green Album t-shirt to school

6/18/2008 7:27:24 AM

best part of first video was when rivers goes over beverly hills and i realized that song had worked its way into my head's catalog despite my best efforts

2nd video was awesome. interesting that they are gonna do creep. too many people with acoustic guitars though, its feeling a bit too hippy, i think it needs more people beating on random makeshift percussion instruments and kazoos.

6/18/2008 2:27:22 PM

It's kind of dumb that they are doing it as a radio call-in contest. The die hard fans are missing out while random people who will probably be hearing El Scorcho for the first time at the Hootenanny are in.

6/18/2008 2:51:58 PM

LOL WTF http://www.spinner.com/2008/06/25/weezer-get-trapped-in-the-office/

6/25/2008 6:57:59 PM

that's one of th e weirdest hings i've seen

bizarrely, it makes me like the red albumnmore

6/26/2008 4:09:35 AM

that was awesome

cuomo really does have an amazing voice

6/26/2008 10:38:54 AM

This may be the greatest review ever http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/3621/weezer-redalbum-2008

Quote :

"The Red Album is not Blue, or Green or Black, even. It is, like that cover jimmies, one hundred and ten percent Red. This is the real raw meat of Cuomo’s craft; it is the soft wet fleshy core of this artistic entity. The Red Album is to the Blue one as Milton’s Lucifer said to God: “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” This is Rivers growing a dick. This is that dick growing a dick. This is that dick growing a Rivers."

Quote :

"We have wasted our time, we have wasted yours, because Cuomo has wasted his. Nihilism is the new I-forget-what and liking Weezer is the new hating Weezer. Most art is only a joke without the courage to have a punchline, but here, finally, is the decadent orgasmic fountain of gags Cuomo has been pumping toward for fifteen years. It is ostensibly self-critique, but too trenchant not to implicate us all, too generous in its hate-filled cumspray not to hit even those who never liked the band in the first place, and (though its reach is magnanimous) it inseminates no thing and no one. This is an inverse bukkake, where the ratio of semen wasted to personal shame remains exorbitantly one-sided but where Cuomo is the sole ejaculant and we are the quivering transcendent victims, all transformed through the damning ritual into a slick, febrile mass where everything is the same and yearns to never have been."

7/6/2008 12:38:28 AM

ttt

7/20/2009 11:01:59 PM

lol who requested this be bumped? I swear to god it wasn't me.

Whoever it is, I hope it was for the news of Pinkerton Deluxe and not the news of Album 7 (both of which are happening)

7/20/2009 11:33:09 PM

well here's weezer covering some shit to not waste the bump (it wasnt me either)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_8GNaEVCPU&fmt=22

it's nice to hear a voice not autotuned anyway

7/20/2009 11:38:09 PM

^^ i am super stoked for the deluxe edition of Pinkerton

now if only they would release a new DVD like they did with the release of the deluxe edition of the blue album......

7/21/2009 1:08:41 AM

A DVD of outtakes and music videos from Make Believe and The Red Album?

7/21/2009 1:16:49 AM

you gotta think that Karl has some super sweet shit left in the vault....

7/21/2009 1:39:24 AM

Quote :

"lol who requested this be bumped? I swear to god it wasn't me. Whoever it is, I hope it was for the news of Pinkerton Deluxe and not the news of Album 7 (both of which are happening)"

I did

And, yeah, it was for the Pinkerton Deluxe

I was also gonna make some joke about how horrible the new album would be or something

Just pretend I did

7/21/2009 12:51:43 PM

^^ it struck me a few years ago how pathetic Karl Koch's life is

he sits around in his apartment all day waiting for Weezer to do anything interesting and then updates their website

that's it

7/21/2009 12:58:31 PM

seems like a pretty easy job to me

get to be almost part of the band and just go along for the ride all the time

7/21/2009 1:00:46 PM

I bet it was awesome during the RWA years

Nowadays, not so much

Plus, I think Karl had a band or a label or something a few years back. I don't think his life 100% Weezer-centric.

[Edited on July 21, 2009 at 1:03 PM. Reason : ]

7/21/2009 1:03:03 PM

weezer.com used to be my homepage many moons ago

i would love to slip Karl some truth serum to see how he really feels about the band now, seeing as how he's been with them since the beginning

7/21/2009 1:04:43 PM