Saw this thread 100x didn't realize yall were talking about the band lol

Gonna give it a spin rn

was just revisiting this today

when i was like 11 i was obsessed over nirvana i picked a guitar and learned about a girl - one time in school bus ride to home island in the sun played and the verses got me in a such mood like daydreaming that the chorus really caught me off guard how instant and loud it hits and idk why the first thing that came to mind is that man they must be nirvana fans for that not that it sounds similar or has the same sound but in retrospective with the knowledge i have now it’s bc island in the sun does play with the “quiet LOUD quiet” formula the pixies invented and nirvana heavily picked from (makes soft verses then go all out on choruses which was new at that time) so unconsciously i think that’s what i picked on and made the connection (that’s kinda of crazy to think about it looking back)

anyway once home i looked up weezer nirvana on google and found this:

and it blew my mind bc at that time like i said i was 11, heavy on nirvana had just picked a guitar to learn about a girl which is a song from the album bleach which is their first album and i loved it and obviously isn’t as popular as never mind or in utero so to find out a band that i thought might be nirvana fans to have them covered a deep random album cut from bleach i was like wow these guys are real ass mfs! no other bands or superstars ever tapped in that it’s usually covers of come as you are, smells like teen spirit, heart shaped box... like irrelevant

then i heard on and off about them here and there but not enough on my radar as in france they aren’t in the pop culture like they are in the us and then i was like 18? i heard pork and beans during a car trip with friends and thought it was rocking but creative - lyrics had lot of character i could tell the guy wasn’t a regular faceless lead singer composer singing boring s*** so that caught my attention artistically speaking

my friend said it’s from the red album and i was like oh huh they got a red album! i knew they had a green one bc that’s where island in the sun is from and that’s their biggest (and prolly only unfortunately) hit in france and bc of the story i just said above so i looked it up and thought it was so creative had it on repeat for weeks - red was all i could listen to then i bought the deluxe physically not knowing if it was gonna be as good but i was like i love all the songs so it can’t be that far off! and little did i know the treat i was in for man

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What did you think it was about lol?

hard

this is like the second time someone says this

am i doing something wrong with the title

cant wait for fantano review so i can put his praise in thread title and say that he cried to it we won

You play guitar? Like fr?

yeah i played other stuff too, i sing and write my songs- ill send you some

Can't wait 💜

when i got into red the other video i found while looking them up and really loved was this:

man that s*** was hitting at the time

altho once i heard pinkerton it took me some time to get into it bc it sounded so punk and raw in contrast to red

why are people mad about rym it seems like they mostly like this album

a 3.4 is good I think

Lol idk really, I live in Portugal, Weezer aren't known here at all (I knew about them from Guitar Hero tbh)

Saw 500+ pages thought it night have been some sort of a darling indy label/artist idk lol

No you ok brudda, I'm just unaware af lol

bc they’ll never giv anything weezer above 4 out of principle

You're welcome here regardless

isn't it like that for a ton of artists

check out the white album

Y'all lovely

Especially you, volunteered to help me on my Dutch classes I owe u one

Will do! Headphone season starts tomorrow as I go back to work

radiohead has two of them

if weezer best stuff can’t get any 4s is because they’re a scum community elitist full of s*** who treats art as something depressing and serious or weird artsy in order to be great

based 👑