Artist: Weezer
Album: Pinkerton
Sometimes sophomore albums are just as good as debut releases, and sometimes they are met with just as much critical acclaim. I’d say that was the case with this album. The majority of the people I know have one common belief about Weezer, which is that there are two eras, before Pinkerton and after. Something changed about the awesomeness of the band’s songs once Rivers wasn’t looking for love anymore.
Have I mentioned yet the time that I saw Brand New and Jesse said “don’t dare me to play it like I won’t” in reference to El Scorcho? I know that I talked about that show, because the entry was just last month, but I can’t remember if I mentioned that. At any rate, when the band played El Scorcho, it brought the whole room together in a different way than we were already bound. There is something beautiful about a room of people breaking into random song.
There are so many emotions that I have tied up into this album, though I can’t remember a specific incident or instance where this album was playing. Although I remember when I realized how amazing it is, so I’ll tell that story.
Right after I got my record player, I spent a lot of time shopping for vinyl, and was rather indiscriminate in the things that I picked up-I was going more for quantity than quality at that time. If I saw something that looked like I might maybe have some interest in it in some way, or if I saw something that was cheap, I picked it up. I have an entire crate of albums that reflect this insanity, but im counting on the day that I just NEED to listen to Martika’s Toy Soldiers.
At some point during this frenzy, I stumbled across a benefit 7” that featured Weezer, Ben Kweller, AM Radio, but mostly I was excited because it had a Phantom Planet song, and at that time I was (not going to lie here, I kind of still am) obsessed with their song California.
Of the four sides to this little guy, the side that ended up getting played the most was the Weezer side, because Why Bother? is a pretty fantastic song, and who can’t relate at least some point in their life to the lyrics? The idea of not even wanting to waste time with someone because in the end they are going to crush ones heart anyway just seems too true. Once someone crushed my heart once, I definitely found myself feeling this way. It isn’t even worth putting myself out there because its just going to end badly and I am just going to get crushed. “it happened to me twice before, won’t happen to me anymore” should be my motto.
Anyway, lifting the needle and taking it back to the beginning of the groove over and over again just lent itself to my growing appreciation for this band and especially this album...I was all about them until they released the green album, but that is a story for another time.
Also, they wrote this song around the same time, and it is on the deluxe version of the album, and it makes me super happy:
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