![]() ![]() Like it might be Beach Boys-derived, with a great rhythm section and someĪ very sad song about Rivers wondering why his girlfriend is gone, "The "No One Else," written by Rivers about his girlfriend, sounds somehow "Jonas" finally switches back to light guitar for a very artistic finish to Towards the end and mixing in something that sounds like a harmonica, To heavy guitar to establish a slow groove with great vocals. Light and hard guitar sounds - starting off with light, high guitar,īreaking into some power chords, switching back to light guitar, then back "My Name Is Jonas" starts the album off with a breathtaking song, mixing Which is best experienced rather than told. Guitar, although this description pales in comparison to the actual sound, For an overall sound, picture the songĬonstructions of the Beatles and amped up with a more modern-feeling Weezer meshes together musically - especially vocally Rivers, Brian, and Matt Sharp on vocals and bass, and Patrick Wilson on drums, the L.A. With Rivers Cuomo on vocals and guitar, Brian Bell on vocals and guitar, Terms of artistic construction, sound, feeling, and effort. Way to "Only in Dreams," Weezer proves its collective musical talents in Weezer and their album: absolutely amazing. ![]() Only two words need to be shouted from the nearest mountain top about Listened to the album have leapt to the next plane of existence. Recognized by most of America's college students right now. Most people respond "Uh, what's that?" when the name Weezer comes up,ĭespite "Undone - The Sweater Song" ranking among one of the songs Player and stares numbly into space, completely entranced by the incredible When he comes to, he rushes home, throws the disc into the Instantly out of the sky drops a light blue compactĭisc, smacking him (whack!) in the head, rendering him completely By Brian HoffmanĪn innocent student says, "Hey! That's the sweater song!" while idly “It’s more out of faithfulness to my adolescent dreams that I’m still doing this.PDF of This Issue Weezer is more than just the 'Sweater-Song' band WEEZER Weezer. “I don’t think what I do is original at all,” Cuomo says wistfully. Looking five years down the line, he imagines grad school rather than alterna-rock sainthood. The subsequent success of Weezer seems lost on Cuomo. The son of massage therapists, the 23-year-old Cuomo left his native Connecticut in 1990 and went to Los Angeles to be a rock star. Weezer tread the dangerous line between gimmick and straightforward rock & roll: Anguished love songs like “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here” butt heads with half-assed Cuomo asides: “I look like Buddy Holly … and you’re Mary Tyler Moore.” That night we played - and it went great.” An upbeat statement, considering that Cuomo’s persona and lyrics are more sad than goofy. “I was losing my mind that day,’ he says, “so I jogged for three hours around New York. “We made a video like Whitesnake would make a video.”Ĭuomo comes to the surface a week later, calling from a Howard Johnson’s and apologizing for his absence. “The dogs cost 10 grand,” says Sharp with eerie satisfaction. But with the help of director Spike Jonze, the clip for “Undone – the Sweater Song” featuring an out-of-control herd of dogs, has become an MTV staple. ![]() ![]() The trio expresses mock horror at the music biz, too - like the very idea of shooting an expensive video. “I’m so happy, “I’m going to quit today,” says Wilson. “Rivers is the guy, and we do what he says,” says Sharp, not unkindly. Sharp, Wilson and Bell revel in the chance to air their delicate misery. Weezer Cancels Broadway Residency, Citing 'Low Ticket Sales' and 'High Expenses' “We’re going to rip Rivers in this interview,” Sharp says cheerfully, stabbing a vegetable bundle with a chopstick. It’s the day of their New York gig opening for Lush, and the band’s enfant terrible - singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo - is nowhere to be found. “Everybody in this band is sick all the time,” says Weezer bassist Matt Sharp as he, drummer Pat Wilson and guitarist Brian Bell sit in a Hell’s Kitchen macrobiotic restaurant. Later in the year Rolling Stone caught up with the quartet for a piece in which Rivers Cuomo says, “I don’t think what I do is original at all.”īut first, feast your eyes on the most amazing gallery of rockers in sweaters you’ve ever seen: Along with Green Day (whose major-label debut Dookie came out three months earlier), Weezer would become one of the biggest bands of 1994. Produced by Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, the tune got loads of MTV airplay with a bizarre Spike Jones-directed video featuring the band playing the song in slow motion while a pack of dogs run amok. Exactly 15 years ago today Weezer released their supremely goofy debut single “Undone – The Sweater Song,” off their self-titled disc fans call the Blue Album. ![]()
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