Eulogy For a Rock Band
Had it Up To Here
The British Are Coming
Foolish Father

Those are my favs from it.

Beginning of The End should be on Van Weezer tbh

Even Da Vinci couldn't paint you
And Stephen Hawking can't explain you
Rosetta Stone could not translate you

wym he named the song after me
i do love that lil instrumental piece, the buildup especially when that guitar duels the piano notes and goes higher so good

but i picked my username bc of the poem! well same poem that inspired the song but still

yes the guitar was def the main focus here especially with the trilogy section at the end, if you watch live performances of it rivers gets really high in it like never

but the album can be seen as a damage control: at that point in time of the weezer lore between hurley and this it was one of the longest break ever and with raditude and hurley in a row, the fanbase was fuming and it was getting bad

that’s why right when they dropped hurley they started doing the blue album + pinkerton shows, they started working on. early ewbaite during that and the amount of endless songs that has being dropped along the way, karl would invite some vip people to listen to it and fill some poll about which they liked the best and like what are their favorite weezer albums and what not

for a long time this insider info has tainted the album for me as i think it’s dangerous to pander to fans

but i come to understand that rivers just likes to study thing and wanted to get ahold of where the backlash was coming from and getting their pov to work around it and still bringing some record that sounds new and with ideas and not just blue 2, like the trilogy with the instrumental pieces and all is at that stage something we never had on record

i love lonely girl i believe it’s a finished song off of a demo from green, and it was great to get ric ocasek back to produce (rip, singer guitarist songwriter of the cars who produced blue album and green before this)

da vinci is so infectious

love british especially the chorus and also loved that at that time it was really the first time we heard rivers tap into his falsetto like on british or ive had it up to here (the original home demo is even way higher pitch)

aint got nobody was such a relief at the time that was a great move to open the album with that, it was definitely the most reassuring sound ever for any fans,yet they found a way to criticizes (but you’re married with kids!) some oldheads will never be happy..

but yeah it was a necessary comeback album, not my fav of the post hurley era but it has strong songs man and reestablished the band

IMA LOST FOR WORDS

what’s odd is that the original teasers used as the roll out to the album and gave visuals to the conceptual of its story had different mixes of the song

that s*** was so exciting tho

it is!!! and it’s gonna be a different version apparently the mix of the single was cut short for the movie so the end is just the solo bridge of the song repeated, apparently album version ends different

tonight.

HE SMIRKED IN THIMBNAIL HE KNOWS

@op is amazing

no u

bruh the hell is the avi

yea i see the need for comeback album after Hurly and Rad being the last two of the last three albums. and ya i feel the same about it not my favourite from post hurly but it has a lot of strong songs i just wanna listen on repeat

also does the title reflect the need for a comeback album kinda sounds like it for me “everything will be alright in the end” sounds like they knew they f***ed up with the previous albums but they’ll make up for it now

yeh if anything with the album rivers proved he can give whatever they want when he feels like it, he never lost anything it’s just he wants to do new things and ideas

funny trivia there’s a symbol on the album cover that says EYD, and it’s not a label or anything so no one knew what was that all about

turns out it stands for EXCEPT YOU DIE which was the original title “everything will be alright in the end except you die”

there’s lot of early versions of the album but what we got is prolly the best anyway, some great demos tho id def like put rules of life instead of back to the shack altho this later served as to reassure fans even more (“maybe i should play guitar and pat should play the drums” referencing the fact during raditude and hurley pat would come on guitar a lot and rivers just sing with his mic, it would make for an amazing entertaining show tho!!! they had perfect circle drummer josh freese to play the drums at that time)

damn how did i not notice at first the lyrics make it so obvious

Also how old is Rivers he looks so young in this

For some reason, he does not age

hah kinda spoke on the title in my first reply just above, good idea but it’s more within a personal pov the title plays in with the characters concept of the album but really (as any concept albums) reflects his own fears, like there’s a reason foolish father is the song where there’s the reveal of the choir singing the album title, i think that’s what that title echoes

in this he was like 44? hes now 50 and still looks amazing today

brazzy

this man better tell us where he found the fountain of youth on his new album .

maybe it’s the vipassana meditation nah rick rubin does it too and look at him

back to the shack really grew on me

have really good memories of when that used to come on the radio all the time and I would listen with my dad, still love it

☺️ those are the best memories aren’t they