imdoinf

5y

How is weezerfam doing

ithaka

5y

related tbh

he’s right

lyrics of mirror image >>>>

ithaka

5y

true tho what a wholesome genuine mf

even in interviews dude instead of doing pep talk for a stadium tour he just says “man im liking the lockdown”

DonutHole

5y

I'm ok

Eyesonthesmile

5y

Hearing numbers while walking in the snow

DonutHole

5y

Rivers cuomo more like rivers scamo, am I right?

imdoinf

5y

How is weezerfam doing

ithaka

5y

i was just looking for the YT video that talked about this better than i and what is made me reconsider it but i can’t find it or at least the talking point, it’s from this channel tho:
https://youtube.com/channel/UCSH1TnxRmOZCqI9stj8CnKg

which is my fav new yt channel it goes deep in the lore and gives great contexts culture wise and trivia infos

anyway in somewhere in one of them he puts down the map of how it was for the bbs in 1985 and that basically for once, with dennis no longer and with new wave of sounds coming in since their last studio album in 1980 they went with a hot new producer (dude who did culture club) and totally digital full on keyboards just really try to let go of everything and do a new album that would rebrand them as a current modern act, which is why the title the beach boys would be and stand for this is us the beach boys and what we do and are now and i loved that pov, going back to it despite having mike love pushing some california retro on a song - the rest feels very 1985 and didn’t try to hammer bunch of references or go retro, lyrics or musically, carl takes a key part vocally as to re establish the band and sings with such soul, there’s even a dope stevie wonder song he gave to them and in which stevie does almost all the instrumentation i believe

here’s a single from it carl co wrote and i gotta say going back to it now after the 80s revival it sounds fresh, i think the issue is lot of the fanbase approach’s the album without the context - they either see the band as this sixties surf or psychedelic phase or their hipster 70s thing, and so it follows them onto the 80s where ppl want them to not sound 80s but stick to the formula we want of them, but if you let go of this you get to just take the album for what it is and it’s nothing bad (doesn’t all this talk reminds you of weezer? haha.. it follows every great bands legacies)

but if you don’t know much of bbs lore or albums alone that is not one album i would tell you to check out just yet

ithaka

5y

give this a shot @chuckienugget

Jerry Electricity

5y

Bird With A Broken Wing chorus is just gorgeous