Weezer planning next album

2008-09-19 by Alex101 | 26 Comments
Weezer doesn't plan to waste any time in getting to work on its next album. Drummer Pat Wilson tells Billboard.com that the quartet plans to start recording the follow-up to this year's Weezer (aka The Red Album) in early November.

"A week after we get off tour, we're gonna be in the studio with Jacknife (Lee) again," reports Wilson.

Lee, who produced two songs on the latest Weezer album, is coming to California for the sessions, and Wilson says work on the project has already begun. "We send him stuff that we've got, ideas that we have, whether it's a whole song or a killer riff we can build around or something," Wilson explains. "It's all going to him right now."

Wilson says that as on the "Red" album, all four members of Weezer will be writing, singing lead and switching instruments: "It just seemed like that was the healthy way to keep everything feeling fresh. After 15 years of doing it the other way, it just felt like it was time." And Wilson credits the opening up of Weezer's creative process with helping the band become more prolific.

"Now that we've got more writers, we don't have to wait for (frontman) Rivers (Cuomo) to have a bunch of songs he's happy with," he notes. "We used to take forever to make a record, then tour on it forever and be burnt out and not do anything for two years. This is a lot better."

As for the next album's title, Wilson admits, "if I had my way, we would just use colors from now on, then we wouldn't have to think about titles. We must've had a hundred titles for the ('Red') record, and none of them felt right so we just gave up and said, 'OK, let's just make a color.'"

Weezer's next album will also be the last for its current contract with DGC Records, but Wilson says the group has "no idea" what it plans to do in the future. "We're just really focused on trying to make the best record we can," he says. "I'm sure at that point we'll have all kinds of different options and we'll figure out what's the best for us."

Source: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003852551

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McP3000
September 19th 2008
4121 Comments


oh hell naw

zulop
September 19th 2008
174 Comments


When will these guys realise their music is fucking terrible? I can't believe that I let some idiot convince me that "Pinkerton" was worth a listen. The lyrics especially eat at my patience.

AP07373
September 19th 2008
493 Comments


I wonder which 4 chords they're going to use on this album?

Electric City
September 19th 2008
15756 Comments


lol zulop

this will suck as usual.

marksellsuswallets
September 19th 2008
4885 Comments


Hooray for more horrribly rushed and forced music! Man they must be spending a heck of a lot of money on something...

Electric City
September 19th 2008
15756 Comments


although think of it they take 4 years between shitty albums and the time between blue and pinkerton was like one or two years sooooo

Skyler
September 19th 2008
1084 Comments


band is pretty much dead to me. blue album + pinkerton is all the weezer i'll ever need.

Consigliere
September 19th 2008
278 Comments


The only good thing this band ever made is Only In Dreams, I cant stand the rest of their songs...

JAV
September 19th 2008
3545 Comments


Rivers needs to stop having sex. Maybe his pent up frustration will help him make good music again.

marksellsuswallets
September 19th 2008
4885 Comments


Yah, and they manage to sound horribly rushed after a period of 4 years between albums :confused: makes no sense to me...

Wildcatforever
September 19th 2008
441 Comments


they need to call it quits.

Walrus487
September 19th 2008
59 Comments


I might be the only one who feels like this, but I can't wait. They are my favorite band. Can't Wait to see them October 5th.

RevengeSoldier
September 19th 2008
308 Comments


Erm... Too early by a long stretch...

HollywoodConstantine
September 19th 2008
15 Comments


I can't wait either dude....We need more bands like weezer foo fighters and gin blossoms. they're amazing.

Cesar
September 19th 2008
2732 Comments


^Is that a joke?

Chewie
September 19th 2008
4544 Comments


length doesn't make a difference:

Kid A-Amnesiac: 1 year

Meteora-Minutes To Midnight: 4 years

Erratic
September 20th 2008
1120 Comments


I'm gonna stray from the popular opinion here and say hooray.

Dimmu Burger
September 20th 2008
82 Comments


I don't want to hear the other guys sing. I want Rivers, Rivers is Weezer. Use another name if you're gonna do something completely different.

Walrus487
September 20th 2008
59 Comments


I know what you're saying. I wanna hear Rivers, maybe a little Scott. That's it.

Ironpriest
September 20th 2008
403 Comments


yeah, the others singing really ruined the red album for me. if it was only rivers singing, i might of actually given it more listens. the other guys just sound like proper tools when they sing having said that, blue is classic and i plan on getting pinkerton


chewytapeworm
September 20th 2008
524 Comments


Weezer make me chuckle every now and then.

Thats about it!

RevengeSoldier
September 20th 2008
308 Comments


But, derekchewie11, they're Weezer not the super-deities, Radiohead. When you release a sucky album it's generally not a good idea to release another sucky album the year after.

I think they should end Weezer, to be honest, the days of the Blue Album is long gone...

zulop
September 20th 2008
174 Comments


"I can't wait either dude....We need more bands like weezer foo fighters and gin blossoms. they're amazing".

Yea, we really do need more original and non-monotonous bands like those don't we?

Foo Fighters are such a joke. There is just nothing particularly special about them yet everyone loves them here in England. Idiots.

Burning_October
September 20th 2008
162 Comments


Im not sure what to think of this. In my opinion, post-90's Weezer is still great. The Green Album is a fantastic piece of pop music, and Make Believe, while it does have its bad moments (My Best Friend, Freak Me Out), has some awesome songs (Perfect Situation, This is Such a Pity, Hold Me, Peace, The Other Way, The Damage In Your Heart, Haunt You Every Day). Red was a mixed bag in my opinion. It has some great songs, such as The Greatest Man, Pork and Beans, Dreamin'. But it has some crap to, like Heart Songs and Cold Dark World.

In any case, im interested to see what they'll do with this. I think that they could make something of a comeback with this one, we'll have to see.

Oh, and even if you dont like new (as in post pinkerton) Weezer, I think that we should all be excited about the contract being up. Once their contracts up, all of their unreleased demo's can finally be released. And some of the bands best work has been b-sides and such.

Eaeon
September 20th 2008
11 Comments


God damn it, they're just making music, what harm are they doing to yall anyway? If you talk so much sh1t about them, then just don't listen to them.

Damian808
September 22nd 2008
83 Comments


Erratic, Burning_October & Eaeon, nice one. I also don't realy care for much post 90s Weezer, but I don't wish them dead - I just simply tune out.

I love the site, but people here on Sputnik really do talk a lot of sh*t.



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