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Weezer remains my favorite band...ever. It'd take something very special to top Blue Album and Pinkerton in my mind, especially when you add nostalgia to the mix. But I'm a little more realistic about modern day Weezer, especially the band's latest record, Raditude (don't get me started on the title). The notoriously snarky Pitchfork, however, takes singer and songwriter Rivers Cuomo to task in its review of Raditude, acccusing Cuomo of writing songs specifically for Rock Band.
"Of course, these journal scrawls are backed largely by power-pop -- what else could it be?" wrote critic Rob Mitchum in his largely negative review. "Cuomo proved for all time with the first two Weezer records (and fleetingly since) that he's a master of the genre, popping out melodic sing-alongs and fuzz-guitar riffs, and Raditude largely goes back to those basics. ... All together, it sounds like the first record ever written with the goal expressly in mind of being kick-ass to play on Rock Band."
The ironic part is MTV Games and Harmonix have consistently proved they're big fans of Weezer in their downloadable content lineup. Several tracks from Weezer's last release, The Red Album, appeared on the Rock Band store right around the time The Red Album was released. It wouldn't be very shocking to see the same thing happen with Raditude sometime in the near future.
(The single is actually pretty awesome.)
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addiction41999
Weezer started out great...but much like all bands that blow up, they begin to lose touch with what the band started out to be. Maybe they get older, maybe they get blinded by money and overproducing, maybe they just don't care they way they used to, or maybe they just get bored and want to do something different.
Either way, Weezer WAS a great band 'till about the Green Album (I still say WTF was Maladroit!!), and now they just cater to Pop Music instead of the Nerd rock genre they started out with. I'm afraid that Muse will end up the same way but so far so good...that's a whole 'nother issue though.
Oh yeah... and Who gives a crap about rock band, Guitar Hero 4 Life!
zeedee892
So what if they tailor the album to the game? I'm more upset that the album is crap. I say we give Weezer a basement, pizza, soda, one guitar, one bass, a drum set and we lock them up during the summer of 2010. Once we unlock the doors, we'll have the album in between Blue and Pinkerton.
leakime
Rock Band Sucks. Guitar Hero RULES!
vferg
I love pitchfork, and personally their review was quite fair... I mean I heard samples from this upcoming album for the last month now and the only thing I can think was wow Rivers really went over the hill on this one. I expected PF to give them a 3 or under personally, they even gave Devendra Banharts newest release which was actually not half bad a 4! Weezers new album beating out Devendra? I dont think so... Weezer have been steadily pushing out albums every few years, so why is it all of a sudden this album is getting so much attention? IMO its probably the worst thing I ever heard them put out and am very disappointed with the direction they turned musically. Its all about trying to release the next big pop song in Rivers eyes which is fine but there are always alternative ways to making great pop, catering to high school kids with horrible lyrics and song titles such as "Im your daddy" doesn't seem like the best way to me. Personally I cant wait till this new album gets forgotten about, which shouldn't take that long considering the group of people he targeted with this release. Sorry for the rant but I really love music and this release was well embarrassing, everything about it just feels awkward, when can I actually listen to this and not feel embarrassed?
SmarterThanYou
Weezer's songs work good in rock band because the melodies are catchy and simple. I don't mean simple in a derogatory way at all - Weezer is awesome. It just makes their music easy to pick up and play along to.
stoney2
weezers awesome, and i don't care if they did or not, it's still a great album
nodrodee
A band made and album for RocBand - Say It Aint So
Gwarnine
I don't like rock band and i don't like weezer lets send them both to mars.
SirCitadel
blue was the epitome of their sound. green was short of that. rivers started to show his age with red. and raditude should have stayed in the oven a couple more years.
SneakySnipes1
Let me start out by saying that Weezer is one of my favorite bands of all time, now that I've said that I have to say that I don't like Pinkerton at all and this new album I sampled 30 secound snipets of and didn't like it very much at all, my favorite is the make believe album cus its good when ur depressed, my 2nd fav is the red, then blue and then green, I don't see why hardcore weezer fans love the blue and pinkerton so much....like its on another level, there not even my faves and i own all of weezers stuff....
blindsideofthesun
Oh, above post was aimed at the reviewer, not at Klepek. Pinkerton for life!
"When I look in the mirror, I can't believe what I see! Tell me who's that funky dude starin back at me?"
blindsideofthesun
So you're saying their songs are fun to play along to, even in as simple of a form as pounding on plastic instruments...and this is a bad thing? Are you kidding, you snarky, full of yourself, delusional music snob. You're one of the types that the second a band makes a buck and is good at it, suddenly that band is no longer relevant, because they're not "fringe" enough for you. Because it's not an exclusive thing and someone who's not in your clique of uber-cool outsiders digs it, you're not allowed to like it. Freakin grow up, and stop convincing yourself that it's cool to hate something just because everyone else likes it.
My teenage years were full of jamming in the garage with my friends to the first two Weezer albums constantly, trading off instruments and going back and forth. Why? Because even from the very beginning, Weezer albums were just fun to play along to, whether in a garage with real instruments, or on a game system with plastic ones. That fact hasn't changed, only thing that has is they've become what you percieve to be more "mainstream", and that does bug your "too-cool" sensitivities sooo much, doesn't it...?
ThePsychoGamer
I'm a huge fan of Weezer (there probably my fourth favorite band, behind Breaking Benjamen, Three Days Grace, and Bad Religion)
Notafanboythatiknow
If they are makings songs to RB, let them be. All "artists" want to sell their stuff any way they can.
Zmeeds
Weezer made two relevant albums. The rest may have well been performed by my chemical romance for all I care
Dajonz
Patrick, come now... Weezer can't possibly be your "favorite band... ever." John Bonham and Tupac just rolled over for fs sake!
Weezer absolutely is a Rock Band sensation - I was a sophmore in high school when their first album hobbled out the gate - they haven't made a better one since. They truly are chite mate.
sdc10
sorry for double post
sdc10
Pitchfork sucks plain and simple
sdc10
Pitchfork is full of idiots plain and simple
Spartan593
I hope this isnt like bubblegum pop Weezer. I love all there albums(even Maladriot) but all the reviewers have it as "power pop" and its saddnes me. I know Rivers is just having fun now, as there already a success, and rich(for the most part) but the new single is really good, so I hope the rest of the album is to(might be there weakest in a while though) as for catering to Rock Band? Who knows? All there songs are verse chorus verse chorus bridge/solo chorus hahaha. thats already rock band friendly.
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