VizeGuy

4y

It's such a raw track, the ending always gets me

ithaka

4y

mmm i think there’s something far more similar to be found just havnt got around to dig into it, it may be why he scrapped it in hindsight he found it before us lol

Womanpuncher69

4y

https://www.ktt2.com/the-strokes-thread-24459
last posted yesterday so its still kinda active

also I listened to their debut and I thought it was alright what u recommend from them?

Fella

4y

Debut is my favorite by I love all their albums. Their newest record is fantastic and I think First Impressions is underrated. I’d go in chronological order tho, they don’t have that many albums.

ithaka

4y

haha you’re good choky goat, wlr comparison is good, it was intentional i think that’s why he went with those two colors where lot of ppl expecting yellow album or what not, with the white and black there was a mission set - the white would be throwback weezer where the producer (huge weezer stan who had his own weezer tribute band growing up) had more to say on it and wanted to make it retro and black would be the counter balanced to it, rivers free of anything to give back to stans and just do it as he wanted it

when he first brought up the black album there was talks of mumble rap, lil uzi vert influence, post malone featuring and rivers covering lot of rap songs - so when california snow came out and then was confirmed to be on the album and we got a glimpse of cant knock the hustle i was so hyped bc this is what i wanted !!!!

but the teal took them by surprise, the africa cover meme they dropped for that one fan who made that twitter account to make a campaign for it and we’ll rest is historic it really took off so they dropped a whole album which went big and i think that, the whole thing happened while finishing the black album, kinda compromised the black album in too bringing some more rock songs in it - i did an alt tracklist of black that ditches some of the more rock songs and adds some more of the pop stuff from around that time if you’re ever curious to hear it out, its so f***ing good and fun 😫😫😫 goes more in the mood of zombie and less of prince who wanted (song was written with brian bell btw, like they did with la girlz for white)

but yeah f*** all that community fantano fans, reddit 4chan RYM all of it are soo fullll of shiiiit and take themselves so seriously they use weezer to present themselves and never actually appreciate just music for what it is, such poseur loser bs

u need me to link u to the cali post?

Fella

4y

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I sort of fundamentally disagree with this attitude here. Pacific Daydream has grown on me but I still think it’s just an alright pop album and Black only had a couple tracks that really worked for me. Byzantine is an interesting experiment in a new sound they could have gone with and High as A Kite is classic Weezer but the rest of the record never feels like either and it just comes off messy. Rivers has a problem where he either perfectly nails making an effective ear wormy pop song that makes you feel warm and good or he indulges in some of the worst excesses of the genre and dips into obnoxious territory. I think Fantano is full of s*** often but he’s a die hard Weezer fan who makes album ranking videos for them and constantly praises Rivers as a songwriter. He just doesn’t like the direction they went in after White, I don’t think that necessarily makes him an old head. He likes Hurley and Red. His reaction to it seems pretty justified from a certain POV. It’s not simply not taking something for what it is or being unfair. I went in trying to do that and still didn’t connect with it much.

ithaka

4y

tbh my comment is more about the community more than himself altho i think his constant hate of pd as if it’s raditude level is absolute ridiculous

Fella

4y

Yeah it’s certainly not Ratitude level. And even tho I like some stuff off Make Believe, you could easily make the argument Pacific Daydream is more focused and interesting.

Fella

4y

Yeah it’s certainly not Ratitude level. And even tho I like some stuff off Make Believe, you could easily make the argument Pacific Daydream is more focused and interesting.

ithaka

4y

plus also the rezwee guy utterly destroying pd too

like it’s just this whole gate keeping thing energy i get from it

ithaka

4y

@HeyFella what would your ranking look like?

Fella

4y

Yeah but he also loved the experimenting on Red and stuff like Hurley and some of the pop songs on Black and Make Believe. I think some things just don’t connect for some people. I love me some Weekend Women and Sweet Mary but other people might think they’re too sugary sweet or something.

Fella

4y

I’ve ranked before but I imagine mine has changed. I’ll have to re-do it sometime soon, but I need to think about it. Green and Pacific Daydream probably came up for me.

G Roy

4y

😎

ithaka

4y

TURN IT UP

ITS THE BEACH BOYS 🏄‍♂️

SINGING OUT IN A SWEET VOICE

ON A ROLL LIKE A TWIST TOY 🧸

KEEP CRANKING THEM BEACH BOYS 🔊

TURN IT IP

ITS THE BEACH BOYS 🐐 💚

MAKING MY EYES GET MOIST

HOLD EM UP AT GUNPOINT 🔫

KEEPING CRANKING THEM BEACH BOYS 🎼

wish black album went more into this kind of production

ithaka

4y

TURN IT UP

ITS THE BEACH BOYS 🏄‍♂️

SINGING OUT IN A SWEET VOICE

ON A ROLL LIKE A TWIST TOY 🧸

KEEP CRANKING THEM BEACH BOYS 🔊

TURN IT IP

ITS THE BEACH BOYS 🐐 💚

MAKING MY EYES GET MOIST

HOLD EM UP AT GUNPOINT 🔫

KEEPING CRANKING THEM BEACH BOYS 🎼

wish black album went more into this kind of production

G Roy

4y

literally the best hook ever
genius song tbh, need to relisten to Pacific Daydream

G Roy

4y

need to listen to black album and pacific daydream in full before i do my ranking

Fella

4y

Yeah I’m still not quite sold on that song. Maybe it’ll grow on me.