"not once do they ever seek approval though"

hmm, disagree on this one. Ever since Green they've seemed almost pathologically eager to please

Weezer were suggested to me as a funny choice for me to cover on my ‘Band of the Week’ list on RYM

I want to get to the bottom of whether I’m right to blame this band for everything - basically all the ‘empowered dweeb’ semi ironic rock music that has come out since and defined the generation after mine

This album does seem like it’ll be ‘guilty as charged’ - first song is a love song to Peter Parker, already done a little sick in my mouth

Yes they are undoubtedly to blame for almost all, as you put it, "empowered dweeb" semi-ironic rock music in the past 20 years, but the real kicker is that they're somehow even worse at it than most of the bands they inspired

I'll chalk it up to TMBG and Devo both also being influential in that field

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

i really like this, bumping up to 3.5

Album Rating: 2.0

freak

On a leash

Album Rating: 1.5

freaks unleashed

Album Rating: 4.0

Geeks Unchained.

Van Weezer.

Boom.

Album Rating: 1.5

delete rock music

loonatics unleashed

''Rivers Cuomo is thinking about artificial intelligence and death. A lot of the Weezer frontman’s time is currently spent writing code for computer programs, one of which runs every day without him having to do anything to maintain it.

“Every morning it sends an email to my wife,” he begins. ​“It includes a picture of us, something nice about her picked at random from my journals, my schedule for the day and an explanation of where my head is at. If my plane crashes, it’ll keep going until somebody stops it.”

“I still have all the same negative thoughts I had when I was just getting started, but I try to get on with what I’m doing,” he reasons. ​“I’m like a carpenter or a cabinet maker, just working away in my workshop, as unbothered by my thoughts as I can be.”

Holy shit there is another frickin Weezer album

That is all I have to say

rivers coomer is a 2nd semester CS freshman?

Album Rating: 2.0

Sheila Can Do It is about autogynephilia

Man. I hate this fuckin' band.

People seem to love loving them. I'm kinda jealous.

Album Rating: 2.8 | Sound Off

lmao the jab at pitchfork in the new song is gold. fun tune too

Album Rating: 4.0

Ha! That song's not bad. I think I like this DGAF version of Weezer.

Yeah this one is pretty fun

Album Rating: 3.5

A really good album. AOTY candidate, IMO.

Album Rating: 2.0

damn and i thought i was having a rough time finding aoty candidates this year