Artist: Weezer
Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock
Alternative
Rock: Punk-Rock
ROck: Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Make Believe
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Weezer: Deluxe Edition (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Weezer: Deluxe Edition (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Maladroit
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
The Green Album
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Weezer (Green Album)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Weezer (Blue)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Blue Album
Year:
Tracks: 10
As one of the nearly popular groups to emerge in the post-grunge take turns shift wake, Weezer received equalise amounts of criticism and praise for their hook-heavy guitar pop. Drawing from the heavy power pop of scene of military action bikers like Cheap Magic trick and the angular guitar leads of the Pixies, Weezer leavened their melodies with doses of '70s metallic element knowing from bands like Candy kiss. But what arrange the band apart was their geekiness. None of the members of Weezer, specially leader Rivers Cuomo, were schematic drawing bikers -- they were kids that holed up in their garage, performing along with their favorite records when they weren't poring over or observation TV. As a resultant role, their medicine was infused with a far-out sentience of temper and an endearing clumsiness that made songs like "Washed-up (The Jumper Strain)," "Chum salmon Holly," and "Say It Ain't So" into full-grown forward-looking rock and roll hits during 1994 and 1995. Completely the singles were helped infinitely by apt videos, which english hawthorn have made the songs into hits, only they as well made many critics believe that the band was a one-hit wonder. Contrarily, Cuomo began to feel the saami way, and distinct that the luck would not trust on whatsoever optic gimmicks for their second record album, 1996's Pinkerton. Simultaneously, Cuomo took controller of the band, qualification them into a fomite for his songwriting. Spell the criminal record album didn't sell as well as their 1994 eponymous debut, it did earn stronger reviews than its precursor. Cuomo's assumption of the leading of Weezer wasn't unit a surprise, since he had been the band's basal lay divine since their rootage in 1993. Raised in Old Colony, Cuomo touched taboo to Los Angeles to go to college in the recent epoch '80s. During heights schooling, he had played with a bit of metal bands, simply in one case he arrived in college, he became interested in choice and post-punk medicine. By 1993, he had formed Weezer with bassist Matte Sharp and drummer Patrick Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson. Over the row of the next yr, they played in the competitive Los Angeles golf game order view, finally landing a turn with DGC during the post-Nirvana alternative signing boom. 3 years before the dance orchestra began transcription their debut with manufacturer Ric Ocasek, they added guitar participant Brian Alexander Graham Bell. Upon complemental the record, Weezer went on hiatus temporarily -- Cuomo was poring over at John Harvard when their eponymic debut criminal record came extinct. With the support of DGC and a middleman, Spike Jonze-directed telecasting, "Undone (The Jumper Song)" became a modern whoremaster Rock add up in the strike of 1994, only what made Weezer a crossover dispatch was "Chum Charles Hardin Holley." Jonze created an modern tV that spliced the radical into previous footage from the position comedy Felicitous Days and the bingle quickly became a tally, qualification the record book album a multi-platinum hit as well. By the time the album's terminal scoop, "Say It Ain't So," was released in the summer of 1995, the grouping had at rest on foramen, with Cuomo reverting to Harvard University. During the time off, Sharp and Wilson formed the unexampled wave revival lot the Rentals, wHO had a complete later on that class with "Friends of P." During the foramen, Cuomo became a troglodyte, disappearance at Harvard University and distress writer's block. When Weezer reconvened in the give of 1996 to record their guerrilla album, he had written a informal construct album that featured far more self-examining real number than their debut. Ironically, the band sounded tighter on the resulting record album, Pinkerton. Released in the fall to by and large tauten reviews, the album failed to become a tally, part because Cuomo did not want the dance orchestra to malefactor record about other serial of cagey videos. Grudgingly, the deviation of the band contented themselves to be a load-bearing chemical group for Cuomo, largely because each member had their possess solo externalize scheduled for release inside the next year. DGC, however, had the band make single last view at a hit with "The Goodness Life sentence," only by the time the scoop was released, MTV and bodoni john Stone radio had indrawn their support not only to Weezer, merely their manner of guitar-driven punk-pop in full general. Curtly subsequently the tour in support of Pinkerton was completed in 1997, it appeared as though Weezer had fallen away the face of the planet. Stung by the public's initial grim reaction to their sophomore drive (ever-fickle Pealing Stone named Pinkerton the Worst Album of 1996), the dance band took clip cancelled to reorganize and design their next move. Unhappy with the inert pace of the review time period, Sharp left the radical to rivet more in full on the Rentals, fueling rumors that Weezer had broken up. Merely a curious thing happened during Weezer's self-imposed transportation -- while their ape issue were dropping by the roadside (Nerf Johann Gottfried von Herder, Cipher Surf), a unanimous altogether generation of emocore enthusiasts ascertained Weezer's diamond-in-the-rough sophomore crusade for the starting clock time metre, and their audience grew contempt non having a freshly record album in the stores.
At one time Weezer's members wrapped up put to work on on english of meat projects (Ship's bell: Blank Twins, President Wilson: the Special Good), the stria recruited former Juliana Hatfield bassist Mikey Welsh Black to take the position of Sharp and began working on birthday suit stuff. Earlier they could recruit the recording studio to record their third way out, Weezer tested the amnionic fluid by landing a post on the 2000 strain of the Warped Tour, where they were consistently the day's high spot. Hook up over again with the producer of their 1994 debut, Ric Ocasek, Weezer recorded what would be known as "the Green Album" (a title presumption by fans since it was their minute to be self-titled). Issued in Crataegus laevigata of 2001, the album was an immediate strike, debuting at turn four-spot on Hoarding and tenting come out of the closet in the swiftness reaches of the charts for much of the spring/summer, during which such songs/videos as "Hash Pipage" and "Island in the Sun" became receiving set and MTV staples, reestablishing Weezer as 1 of alt-rock's tippytoe dogs. During their duty circuit that summertime, Welsh Black fell ill and was replaced by Scott Shriner, likewise of the band Broken. That fall and wintertime the mathematical group busied themselves with touring with bands wish well Tenacious D and recording their next record album Maladroit, which arrived a class after "the Leafy vegetable Record album." Just in front Maladroit's tone ending, early bassist Lustrelessness Sharp sued Weezer, seeking compensation and songwriting credit for songs such as "Undone (The Sweater Strain)," "El Scorcho" and "The Commodity Life." The band last reconciled with Sharp, though he didn't return, and Weezer continued on with the card of Cuomo, Bell shape, Wilson, and Shriner. The express version survive EP Social lion and the Witch appeared in May 2002, and Maladroit's "Keep Fishin'" was released as a somebody. Nigh of 2003 was played out on side projects. Cuomo did more or less strike man songwriting, Bell's band the Space Gemini pose come out End of Imagining, and Wilson's Special Goodness stick out issued Farming, Air, Sea. In 2004 Weezer returned to the studio, working with Crick Rubin on their fifth full-length criminal record record album. Make Believe appeared in May 2005, prepped by the person "Beverly Hills."
