Weezer new self-titled album for 2016 (the White album)

Weezer Announce New Self-Titled Album and Tour
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/weezer-announce-self-titled-new-album-and-tour-20160115

New self-titled album (the White album) will be self-released by the band on April 1, 2016.

This is Weezer's 10th studio release, and their fourth self-titled album (after the Blue, Green and Red albums).

 

3 shows in Europe?

 

It'll be a Weezer vs Cheap Trick new album deathmatch on April 1

 

Oh, no. I'll be getting both, thank you. I a little nervous about both of them. I'm not loving what I'm hearing from either. I'm sure I'll catch on to the CT songs quickly. However, I'm still a little empty after the last Weezer album.

 

I have been buying each and every Weezer album hoping it is the one that really captures the old magic and I have been disappointed in varying degrees each and every time! Those River's Home Recordings discs are the best thing they have released since Pinkerton. (Love the deluxe version of 3 with the diary) Yes...I will buy this one too....and probably only remember a couple of songs a year from now.

 

I think their stuff has been kind of disappointing for a while now. Going back to the Red album, I liked some of the bonus tracks ("Pig", "The Spider") better than most of the album itself.

 

Anyone get tix for any shows of the 2016 tour?

Thank God For Girls

 

Really? It seemed like in general their last album was actually really well received amongst the fans and many gave it the "best since Pinkerton" moniker and considered it a redemption for all the mediocrity.

 

Well I thought Raditude was pop perfection but the hardcore HATED it

 

That's because Matt Sharp left the band after 'Pinkerton.' His falsetto vocals and fuzzy basslines have been sorely missed since. He was a key component to the Weezer formula. Sure, they can still rock and they still put out some catchy songs here and there, but without Sharp, they have not come close to the heights that they reached on those first two records.

 

^this, yes, but also the quality of Rivers songwriting went down the toilet after Maladroit and has never been seen again. I just can't take 45 year olds singing about stuff that matters to 13 year olds seriously, but maybe that's just me.

 

Well at this point, it's cut and dry...

Hardcore fan: all albums, anticipating more.
Casual fan: Blue Album, Pinkerton, a couple more here and there.
Fair-weather fan: Blue Album, Pinkerton, scattered hits here and there.
Ex-fan: Swears by Blue Album, Pinkerton and thinks they're garbage on every other thing they ever did. (I doubt that's a fan.)

 

I remember everyone hating Pinkerton when it came out. It was only about 10 years later did people kind of wake up and think it was a good album.

 

I hate to disagree Mr. Nodeerforamonth (Great name), but when Weezer went on hiatus and fans thought it was over, it began creating momentum-remember at that point Cuomo was back at Harvard. By the time The Green Album came out in 2001, the anticipation was enormous even without Matt Sharp rejoining.

 

What about those of us just waiting for Songs From The Black Hole to finally see the light of day?

 

Just about every one is on the Rivers Cuomo releases. I put together two versions of that fine album though I had to piece them together. You are hardcore my man even if you don't have anything else but "Pinkerton". Good point.

 

I love The Blue Album, like Pinkerton, The Green Album, Maladroit is ok, and have been mostly disappointed ever since.

The only label that applies is for Rivers and "Diminishing Returns"

 

Maladroit is really good and I recommended it to anyone who is a casual, fair weather- or ex-fan.

 

Yes, I didn't say all their albums were as good as the first two. They range from great to almost good. But there are still plenty of quality songs though any kind of innovation, influence, or growth is probably unlikely. You know what you get with many current bands anyway, most aren't very diverse. But they'll be above average when in comparison with their contemporaries until their contemporaries step up their game. So yeah, if you want music that will challenge you, chances are it's somewhere else.

You can tell I'm tired of the "I heard two or three singles since 'Pinkerton' and they all sucked" argument. Not talking about you of course Dreamisover (if you want it!). I hope I'm not coming off like an idiot here-I appreciate if anyone even likes one song from a band I like so it's really no biggie-I shouldn't label-makes me look pretentious or something. Sorry bout that.

 

The assembly of SFTBH you can produce using mostly the Alone demo albums isn't quite accurate to either complete CDR tracklistings that are in the Weezer archives, mainly due to the fact the Superfriend Reprise has yet to be officially released. Also, we don't know what versions of each song were originally used - the Deluxe Edition of Pinkerton would have been the perfect opportunity to include an approved final presentation of the full abandoned concept, but now I doubt it's ever going to happen. I've "rolled my own" in the past, and even the longest mix doesn't pass the 30 minute point, so technically you could include everything on a single disc. My guess is they're waiting until the band is no longer active and the rest of their vault has been cleared out before giving us this most wanted of holy grails...

P.S. In my opinion, Maladroit would have worked much better as the immediate follow-up to Pinkerton rather than having the second self-titled come out first.

 

I agree that the songs were astonishingly tightly crafted, contemporary pop-rock - a shame that the lyrics were astonishingly cringe worthy.

 

I myself am very excited for The White Album. Thank God For Girls is actually a really cool record, and Do You Wanna Get High? is a beautiful cross between Maladroit and Pinkerton (though the earliest incarnation does come from 1997). King of the World is also hardly a bad track. Given the producer has been posing on the ATW messageboard with some very promising info, this album is shaping up to be a great release.

 

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Definitely, I know what you mean. Some also feel edited or not totally completed, but the longer version I did is 20 songs, 40 minutes. Here's the running order. Used "Pinkerton" versions for those tracks.

1. Blast Off!
2. Who You Callin' B___?
3. Oh Jonas
4. Please Remember
5. Come to My Pod
6. Oh No, This Is Not For Me
7. Tired of Sex
8. Superfriend
9. She Had a Girl
10. Dude, We're Finally Landing
11. Now I Finally See
12. Getchoo
13. I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams
14. Waiting on You
15. No Other One
16. Devotion
17. What Is This I Find?
18. You Won't Get with Me Tonight
19. Longtime Sunshine (long)
20. Longtime Sunshine (short)

Some mixes on YouTube include other stray tracks that kind of fit the theme to lengthen the album also. A lot of Weezer's album aren't too long anyway so 30-40 minutes is pretty close. Remember The Green Album is only 28 minutes long (that's like a 1964 length!).

 

Very true. I remember seeing them in January 1997 on that tour and getting a lot of "you still like those guys?" comments from classmates because the album had bombed so badly that everyone who loved them for the Buddy Holly video had moved on.... Weezer were "over", Pinkerton was a major bust and it seemed like only a small number of us actually liked the album, and now people look back at it as this massive classic that defined 1996. To the general public, Weezer was a one album wonder band who fizzled fast with their second album. It wasn't until the passage of time that the album began getting more popular.

 

I remember a few weeks ago hearing "The Good Life" on the NPR station here and it led to my friend I've known since those days and I actually talking about how funny it is we hear it on the radio now whereas in 1996 you couldn't pay people enough money to touch the Pinkerton record