Dec 13, 2020·1 reply
ithakawym
i don't remember the exact quote anymore but something along the lines of he doesn't understand his own process in making those 2 records looking back now
- OPDec 13, 2020·1 replydeepsleep
i don't remember the exact quote anymore but something along the lines of he doesn't understand his own process in making those 2 records looking back now
!https://youtu.be/K9USppH_8egrelatable
ill have to check that interview in full when am off only started some minutes in
- Dec 13, 2020·1 replyithaka
relatable
ill have to check that interview in full when am off only started some minutes in
i mean its typical seemingly bored and aloof julian but he still got some good answers out of him
- OPDec 13, 2020·1 replydeepsleep
i mean its typical seemingly bored and aloof julian but he still got some good answers out of him
mf really pulled out a webcam from 2004
- Dec 13, 2020·1 replyithaka
mf really pulled out a webcam from 2004
lmfao somebody said fantano took him hostage and this is him in fantanos basement
- OPDec 13, 2020deepsleep
lmfao somebody said fantano took him hostage and this is him in fantanos basement
Dec 13, 2020ithaka· editedOH MY GOD RIVERS JUST CONFIRMED THE COLLABORATION SONG WITH JULIAN CASABLANCAS IS PLANNED TO GO ON THE NEXT WEEZER ALBUM AFTER OK HUMAN !!!
@Teal_ @Goo @Kaiser @Cookies @VizeGuy @Vagabonds @cotton_dockers @Key1256 @deepsleep
HE APPARENTLY HAS 3 MORE WEEZER RECORDS AFTER OK HUMAN ALREADY HE IS WORKING ON RN
THE MAN SHALL NOT BE STOPPED Bro no freakin way! Rivers is a machine
- OPDec 15, 2020·3 replies
(2015) AllMusic: When you were on WTF with Marc Maron you talked about hearing Metallica's "Battery" for the first time and how important that was. What are some other "a-ha!" musical moments that you've had?
Cuomo: I remember the first time I overheard Slayer’s Reign in Blood album, I was really, really scared of it, it was just frightening and felt super evil, I was scared of it, and it took a long time of accidentally overhearing it before something in me started connecting to it and saying, “Heck yeah, I want to hear this and I want to rock out to this.” So something in me had been expressed through that music.
I also remember seeing a kid at summer camp who had a boombox, and he was playing one of Run-D.M.C.’s early tapes, and that was the first time I heard music like that, and I was terrified of that, it took me a while to get into it. N.W.A., the same thing, probably 1990, I had just moved to L.A. and at my apartment they were playing “Fuck tha Police,” and I was so scared. Of course, I ended up loving it.
AllMusic: Once the heavy metal seeds were planted in my mind from that podcast, I couldn't help but draw parallels between some of your more complex material on the new album and something like Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, adding in piano and multi-part songs.
Cuomo: We were all into that, I think it was probably 1983 or ’84 that we started listening to Judas Priest, so it was a bit after that album came out, but we definitely listened to it all through high school. I remember Unleashed in the East, probably being a junior, and it was the springtime, so it was starting to get nice in Connecticut again, and I'd be there in the early morning, blasting Unleashed in the East in my room and doing my hair.
AllMusic: Priest also would dig out a few left-field covers, like "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" and "Diamonds and Rust." Did their variety of choices help motivate you to take on unlikely songs like "Unbreak My Heart" down the line?
Cuomo: I just went back recently and listened to the Joan Baez version of “Diamonds and Rust.” But no, I don’t know if I really understood how it all worked or what a cover was or whose song it was. I heard the Judas Priest version first, and for a long time that’s all I knew, and then at some point I became aware that there was a Joan Baez version, also. But to me, it was just a Judas Priest song.
AllMusic: Part of early Weezer lore includes secret shows under the name Goat Punishment, where you'd play mostly covers. There's one where you did Nirvana's Bleach that's fairly well-documented, and there was supposedly another one where you played Oasis' Definitely Maybe. Do you remember that?
Cuomo: Yeah, I forgot that we only did the first album, but I think it was just the first album. We also did an all-Nirvana set, we did two of those, which also leaned heavily on their first album. That was a real learning moment for me, because the original intention was just to do an all-Oasis show or all-Nirvana show, not focusing on their early albums, but when we got into rehearsal and started playing through all their songs, we really gravitated towards the first albums, and even though they weren’t necessarily our favorite albums to listen to, they were definitely the most fun to play as a band. Much riff-ier and fun to play as a musician.
AllMusic: Could you pick up a guitar right now and remember how to play "Married With Children"?
Cuomo: I’d have to listen again, but I think it would come back to me pretty quickly.
AllMusic: Did you keep up with Oasis through their career or did you lose track?
Cuomo: The last album I bought and loved was Be Here Now, which for a lot of people, that was where they went wrong, and I actually love it, I have no problem with that album at all. I don’t know what people are talking about. I’m happy to hear that younger people can still appreciate Oasis. Even for my generation, when they came out, there was something very retro about them. Of course, they were huge and everybody loved them, but there was a feeling that there was nothing cutting edge about this, so it’s kind of cool to see that younger people now can still appreciate it and it doesn’t sound dated.
rvi 🦜Dec 15, 2020·1 replyithaka(2015) AllMusic: When you were on WTF with Marc Maron you talked about hearing Metallica's "Battery" for the first time and how important that was. What are some other "a-ha!" musical moments that you've had?
Cuomo: I remember the first time I overheard Slayer’s Reign in Blood album, I was really, really scared of it, it was just frightening and felt super evil, I was scared of it, and it took a long time of accidentally overhearing it before something in me started connecting to it and saying, “Heck yeah, I want to hear this and I want to rock out to this.” So something in me had been expressed through that music.
I also remember seeing a kid at summer camp who had a boombox, and he was playing one of Run-D.M.C.’s early tapes, and that was the first time I heard music like that, and I was terrified of that, it took me a while to get into it. N.W.A., the same thing, probably 1990, I had just moved to L.A. and at my apartment they were playing “Fuck tha Police,” and I was so scared. Of course, I ended up loving it.
AllMusic: Once the heavy metal seeds were planted in my mind from that podcast, I couldn't help but draw parallels between some of your more complex material on the new album and something like Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, adding in piano and multi-part songs.
Cuomo: We were all into that, I think it was probably 1983 or ’84 that we started listening to Judas Priest, so it was a bit after that album came out, but we definitely listened to it all through high school. I remember Unleashed in the East, probably being a junior, and it was the springtime, so it was starting to get nice in Connecticut again, and I'd be there in the early morning, blasting Unleashed in the East in my room and doing my hair.
AllMusic: Priest also would dig out a few left-field covers, like "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" and "Diamonds and Rust." Did their variety of choices help motivate you to take on unlikely songs like "Unbreak My Heart" down the line?
Cuomo: I just went back recently and listened to the Joan Baez version of “Diamonds and Rust.” But no, I don’t know if I really understood how it all worked or what a cover was or whose song it was. I heard the Judas Priest version first, and for a long time that’s all I knew, and then at some point I became aware that there was a Joan Baez version, also. But to me, it was just a Judas Priest song.
AllMusic: Part of early Weezer lore includes secret shows under the name Goat Punishment, where you'd play mostly covers. There's one where you did Nirvana's Bleach that's fairly well-documented, and there was supposedly another one where you played Oasis' Definitely Maybe. Do you remember that?
Cuomo: Yeah, I forgot that we only did the first album, but I think it was just the first album. We also did an all-Nirvana set, we did two of those, which also leaned heavily on their first album. That was a real learning moment for me, because the original intention was just to do an all-Oasis show or all-Nirvana show, not focusing on their early albums, but when we got into rehearsal and started playing through all their songs, we really gravitated towards the first albums, and even though they weren’t necessarily our favorite albums to listen to, they were definitely the most fun to play as a band. Much riff-ier and fun to play as a musician.
AllMusic: Could you pick up a guitar right now and remember how to play "Married With Children"?
Cuomo: I’d have to listen again, but I think it would come back to me pretty quickly.
AllMusic: Did you keep up with Oasis through their career or did you lose track?
Cuomo: The last album I bought and loved was Be Here Now, which for a lot of people, that was where they went wrong, and I actually love it, I have no problem with that album at all. I don’t know what people are talking about. I’m happy to hear that younger people can still appreciate Oasis. Even for my generation, when they came out, there was something very retro about them. Of course, they were huge and everybody loved them, but there was a feeling that there was nothing cutting edge about this, so it’s kind of cool to see that younger people now can still appreciate it and it doesn’t sound dated.
@Jerry_Seinfeld @RVI
be here now
- OPDec 15, 2020rvi
be here now
my goat never hates
Dec 15, 2020·1 replyithaka(2015) AllMusic: When you were on WTF with Marc Maron you talked about hearing Metallica's "Battery" for the first time and how important that was. What are some other "a-ha!" musical moments that you've had?
Cuomo: I remember the first time I overheard Slayer’s Reign in Blood album, I was really, really scared of it, it was just frightening and felt super evil, I was scared of it, and it took a long time of accidentally overhearing it before something in me started connecting to it and saying, “Heck yeah, I want to hear this and I want to rock out to this.” So something in me had been expressed through that music.
I also remember seeing a kid at summer camp who had a boombox, and he was playing one of Run-D.M.C.’s early tapes, and that was the first time I heard music like that, and I was terrified of that, it took me a while to get into it. N.W.A., the same thing, probably 1990, I had just moved to L.A. and at my apartment they were playing “Fuck tha Police,” and I was so scared. Of course, I ended up loving it.
AllMusic: Once the heavy metal seeds were planted in my mind from that podcast, I couldn't help but draw parallels between some of your more complex material on the new album and something like Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, adding in piano and multi-part songs.
Cuomo: We were all into that, I think it was probably 1983 or ’84 that we started listening to Judas Priest, so it was a bit after that album came out, but we definitely listened to it all through high school. I remember Unleashed in the East, probably being a junior, and it was the springtime, so it was starting to get nice in Connecticut again, and I'd be there in the early morning, blasting Unleashed in the East in my room and doing my hair.
AllMusic: Priest also would dig out a few left-field covers, like "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" and "Diamonds and Rust." Did their variety of choices help motivate you to take on unlikely songs like "Unbreak My Heart" down the line?
Cuomo: I just went back recently and listened to the Joan Baez version of “Diamonds and Rust.” But no, I don’t know if I really understood how it all worked or what a cover was or whose song it was. I heard the Judas Priest version first, and for a long time that’s all I knew, and then at some point I became aware that there was a Joan Baez version, also. But to me, it was just a Judas Priest song.
AllMusic: Part of early Weezer lore includes secret shows under the name Goat Punishment, where you'd play mostly covers. There's one where you did Nirvana's Bleach that's fairly well-documented, and there was supposedly another one where you played Oasis' Definitely Maybe. Do you remember that?
Cuomo: Yeah, I forgot that we only did the first album, but I think it was just the first album. We also did an all-Nirvana set, we did two of those, which also leaned heavily on their first album. That was a real learning moment for me, because the original intention was just to do an all-Oasis show or all-Nirvana show, not focusing on their early albums, but when we got into rehearsal and started playing through all their songs, we really gravitated towards the first albums, and even though they weren’t necessarily our favorite albums to listen to, they were definitely the most fun to play as a band. Much riff-ier and fun to play as a musician.
AllMusic: Could you pick up a guitar right now and remember how to play "Married With Children"?
Cuomo: I’d have to listen again, but I think it would come back to me pretty quickly.
AllMusic: Did you keep up with Oasis through their career or did you lose track?
Cuomo: The last album I bought and loved was Be Here Now, which for a lot of people, that was where they went wrong, and I actually love it, I have no problem with that album at all. I don’t know what people are talking about. I’m happy to hear that younger people can still appreciate Oasis. Even for my generation, when they came out, there was something very retro about them. Of course, they were huge and everybody loved them, but there was a feeling that there was nothing cutting edge about this, so it’s kind of cool to see that younger people now can still appreciate it and it doesn’t sound dated.
@Jerry_Seinfeld @RVI
He has such a wide variety of music taste but it overlaps so heavily with mine man, it’s really crazy. I mean, Metallica, Slayer, Nirvana, Priest, Run DMC.. Jesus man those are some heavy hitters fr. I think it would be hilarious to see them do Slayer covers but in their style.
- OPDec 15, 2020·edited·1 replyJerry Electricity
He has such a wide variety of music taste but it overlaps so heavily with mine man, it’s really crazy. I mean, Metallica, Slayer, Nirvana, Priest, Run DMC.. Jesus man those are some heavy hitters fr. I think it would be hilarious to see them do Slayer covers but in their style.
rest of the interview mentions pixies too, he’s huge on pixies
he goes deep in the lore, he loves sebadoh if you know them
he covers japenese songs lol listen to this:
who would’ve thought a big time nirvana era band would’ve cover this
he’s obsessed with kiss but somehow only covered them once
but above covers, i wanna see do a slayer heavily inspired album, maladroit is probably their heaviest but i want a full thrash inspired one where they put some double drum bass in it!
we know we got van weezer coming which is 80s shredding influenced then ok human (now planed to come out first, apparently big news in january coming?) which is fully orchestra symphonic done by rivers himself and he’s working on rn the next 3 weezer albums after this, he has mention an acoustic one several times so i think this will be up next, so if we get ok human - van weezer then the acoustic after that that’s a great rythm of dropping bangers then softers to balance it out, so after the acoustic theg def should do a thrash inspired one 🤟
here’s a banger you may not know?
also regarding nwa - he did cover ice cube and was originally before even the blue album was out gonna drop a rap album about being vegetarian
- OPDec 15, 2020
@cotton_dockers havnt listened to lullaby for wayne in TOO long, what a slapper ^
- Dec 15, 2020·1 replyithaka
rest of the interview mentions pixies too, he’s huge on pixies
he goes deep in the lore, he loves sebadoh if you know them
he covers japenese songs lol listen to this:
!https://youtu.be/FVktstB00Q4who would’ve thought a big time nirvana era band would’ve cover this
!https://youtu.be/IP-CjYFXDgg he’s obsessed with kiss but somehow only covered them once
but above covers, i wanna see do a slayer heavily inspired album, maladroit is probably their heaviest but i want a full thrash inspired one where they put some double drum bass in it!
we know we got van weezer coming which is 80s shredding influenced then ok human (now planed to come out first, apparently big news in january coming?) which is fully orchestra symphonic done by rivers himself and he’s working on rn the next 3 weezer albums after this, he has mention an acoustic one several times so i think this will be up next, so if we get ok human - van weezer then the acoustic after that that’s a great rythm of dropping bangers then softers to balance it out, so after the acoustic theg def should do a thrash inspired one 🤟
here’s a banger you may not know?
!https://youtu.be/42EydlSkTksalso regarding nwa - he did cover ice cube and was originally before even the blue album was out gonna drop a rap album about being vegetarian
Pixies
Wait, of course he knows the Nirvana songs and is a Pixies stan
I hadn’t heard about those albums coming up but Van Weezer and OK Human both sound very interesting.
Cool to see them playing with new concepts and mixing things up. - OPDec 15, 2020Jerry Electricity
Pixies
Wait, of course he knows the Nirvana songs and is a Pixies stan I hadn’t heard about those albums coming up but Van Weezer and OK Human both sound very interesting.
Cool to see them playing with new concepts and mixing things up.yeh i think rivers found a new kick with album focused on a concept, i dont think color albums are coming back
- OPDec 15, 2020
soon...
666 💢Dec 15, 2020·1 replysoon
- OPDec 15, 2020666
soon
whole lotta
- OPDec 17, 2020
@Terry rivers playing on piano some cut track from okh
- OPDec 18, 2020·5 repliesithaka
the demo for this isn’t uploaded on youtube but someone put up a cover for it and apparently it’s a song considered for ok human?
!https://youtu.be/Fm3XcjxfZZo@Terry
i didn’t realize this cover was done by the guy who did the zerwee eps! @Terry
im actually obsessed by this... rivers is a mad genuis but also a c*** for making this song and left it abandoned.. not even released as b side nothing just a simple clip homemade demo... the song is crazy, it’s so infectious and immediate yet has an immense classical bridge section part like we’ve seen heard of before... and how it builds back up à la only in dreams.. the best of both worlds, traditional weezer meets a new element to weezer
give this cover a shot! @Unwound @cotton_dockers @VizeGuy @Ground @Womanpuncher69 @deepsleep
seriously can’t stop listening to this lately
(it’s left in white era, apparently was considered for black and now ok human but didn’t made it, it is unknown to my knowledge if they actually did record it tho.. one can only hope)
Dec 18, 2020ithakai didn’t realize this cover was done by the guy who did the zerwee eps! @Terry
im actually obsessed by this... rivers is a mad genuis but also a c*** for making this song and left it abandoned.. not even released as b side nothing just a simple clip homemade demo... the song is crazy, it’s so infectious and immediate yet has an immense classical bridge section part like we’ve seen heard of before... and how it builds back up à la only in dreams.. the best of both worlds, traditional weezer meets a new element to weezer
give this cover a shot! @Unwound @cotton_dockers @VizeGuy @Ground @Womanpuncher69 @deepsleep
seriously can’t stop listening to this lately
(it’s left in white era, apparently was considered for black and now ok human but didn’t made it, it is unknown to my knowledge if they actually did record it tho.. one can only hope)
Will listen soon
- Dec 18, 2020·1 replyithaka
i didn’t realize this cover was done by the guy who did the zerwee eps! @Terry
im actually obsessed by this... rivers is a mad genuis but also a c*** for making this song and left it abandoned.. not even released as b side nothing just a simple clip homemade demo... the song is crazy, it’s so infectious and immediate yet has an immense classical bridge section part like we’ve seen heard of before... and how it builds back up à la only in dreams.. the best of both worlds, traditional weezer meets a new element to weezer
give this cover a shot! @Unwound @cotton_dockers @VizeGuy @Ground @Womanpuncher69 @deepsleep
seriously can’t stop listening to this lately
(it’s left in white era, apparently was considered for black and now ok human but didn’t made it, it is unknown to my knowledge if they actually did record it tho.. one can only hope)
Need new Zerwee
- Dec 18, 2020·edited·1 replyithaka
i didn’t realize this cover was done by the guy who did the zerwee eps! @Terry
im actually obsessed by this... rivers is a mad genuis but also a c*** for making this song and left it abandoned.. not even released as b side nothing just a simple clip homemade demo... the song is crazy, it’s so infectious and immediate yet has an immense classical bridge section part like we’ve seen heard of before... and how it builds back up à la only in dreams.. the best of both worlds, traditional weezer meets a new element to weezer
give this cover a shot! @Unwound @cotton_dockers @VizeGuy @Ground @Womanpuncher69 @deepsleep
seriously can’t stop listening to this lately
(it’s left in white era, apparently was considered for black and now ok human but didn’t made it, it is unknown to my knowledge if they actually did record it tho.. one can only hope)
This is top tier Weezer sound, gonna save ithow can they keep this from the world
