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Weezer was one of the first bands I got into. My entry point was Green, because when you're 10 you're in your dad's car a lot and your dad really likes Island In The Sun. Even when I was 13 I could tell there wasn't magic on Make Believe. I went back to Blue and Pink just as Red came out. Teenage me hated it. I kinda got it what they were going for, but it was way too obviously about cash. If you watch the video these days, Pork and Beans is THE icon of 2008. It was kinda dated nine years ago, now it's a graveyard. And it's the simplest song ever written. I liked Everything and White about as much as I liked Green, but there's no way I'm giving this thing any more than a cursory listen after checking out the previews. The new songs just make no sense as anything but another cash grab. They're 50 year old dudes trying to party at college. It's weird. And I'd love to see them someday, somehow I missed them up to this point, but now that their ticket prices are legacy act level, their setlists rely on covers of Hey Ya, I Took A Pill In Ibiza and Seven Nation Army, and the only Pink and Maladroit songs on the setlist are part of the same medley, I can't see myself going out of the way to do it.
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I see Weezer as a band of phases. Phase 1 (Blue-Pink) is great, phase 2 (Green-Mal) is good, phase 3 is transparently terrible (Make Believe-Hurley), phase 4 (Everything-White) is shockingly decent, and we've just hit phase 5 with PD, an album that alternatively bored and offended me. So, not the best start to this one.
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