Pinkerton by Weezer

Pros: Emotional, fun, and different
Cons: So different that it wasn't a successful followup

Weezer is currently one of the biggest rock bands out there. Right now they're riding on the success of their latest release Maladroit, which came out just a year after another huge success, their self titled Green Album. They're planning ...

Pros: Pink Triangle, Across The Sea, and a buttload of songs to tear your heart open.
Cons: Fairly short, a couple of near-misses. Or would that be near-hits?

Weezer's Blue Album boasted a lot of musical trickery, but surely I wasn't alone in my premonition that it had to be a bit of a fluke. There was just so much that felt experimental about it. None too ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

In 1996, when Pinkerton came out, I was only 15 years old, and about two and a half years from my first real heartbreak, but this amazing album had resonance with me nonetheless, and it's only gained more meaning since then. I remember ...

Pros: Do I have to list them all?
Cons: Takes a little time to get into

Rarely within the world of rock music has their been as strange and amazing a phenomenon on par with ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

Introduction Here I am again…talking yet again about another Weezer album. Pinkerton will be my last Weezer review (since I’ve written reviews on them all) until their next one comes out (whenever that will be). As you migh ...

Pros: catchy, excellent songwriting, good arrangements
Cons: it certainly isn't the Green Album

Without fail, everytime I go to write a review about this disc, I head into the just in section and sure enough, one of my esteemed colleagues has beaten me to the punch by a few minutes or a couple of hours or whatever. And with my luck, I'm sure that ...

Pros: Just about everything.
Cons: Almost nothing.

Over the past year or so, I’ve gradually become a bigger and bigger Weezer fan, collecting all their albums in that short space of time. I started off with The Blue Album, which everyone seems to love, and I can’t say I was any different. I ...

Pros: great music, fun songs, lyrics, touching
Cons: I can honestly say none and mean it

Weezer's return in 2001 with The Green Album sparked my interest in them. I bought the album, and liked it a little, but was more interested in their first release, The Blue Album. I loved it upon purchase shortly after the mediocre ...

Pros: detailed in review
Cons: detailed in review

Weezer were the precious gnomish band that hit huge with bubblegum alterna-pop/rock classics like “Buddy Holly”, “Undone (The Sweater Song)” and “Say It Isn’t So”. Their initial batch of songs that are socially irrelevant but considered the void of music ...

Pros: Some of the best songs ever written, and it's by Weezer.
Cons: Odd track order.

Okay kids, forget what I said about the Blue Album being the best (but not my favorite), now Pinkerton is THE BEST and of course, my favorite. Yes, just a one day real close examination made me change my mind- this album made me come so close to ...

Pros: Perfectly balances emotional lyrics and great songwriting with a solid sense of humor.
Cons: Somewhat bizarre lyrics in places, Production takes some getting used to.

I'll admit to buying Pinkerton with some initial skepticism. Although a lot of (hardcore) Weezer fans consider it the band's best work, others labeled it too big a departure from the Blue Album to be of any worth. I myself didn't think there was any way P ...

Pros: - Yes
Cons: - No

Members Of Weezer In 1996 Rivers Cuomo - vocals, guitar (he wrote every song) Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals Matt Sharp – bass, backing vocals Pat Wilson - drums. Like eating a variety of foods, it is essential to have a ...

Pros: Beautifully orchestrated album, flows very well, "The Good Life", very focused, wonderful songwriting
Cons: Some songs sound the same

Weezer's 1996 release Pinkerton was a disaster. At least that's the way it seemed when it first came out. The Blue Album painted them in a frame that no one in the media or public was eager to let them leave anytime soon, and when Weezer did...

Pros: Their heart's in it, certainly not more of the same, a good listen
Cons: hard to get into, barely similar to blue

So Weezer becomes a bunch of superstars because Blue is the epitome of Da Bomb. For the first time in their life, judging by the blue cover once again, they're getting laid and in such copious amounts that they're as the first song suggests, tired of...

Pros: "The Good Life", "El Scorcho"
Cons: Songs sound the same, too short

The mythology of Weezer goes something like this. Their debut was a short, catchy album full of three-chord pop songs. Their second album was the artsy, heart-on-the-sleeve album that failed to catch the ear of radio. The thrird album recycled the...