Weezer (The Green Album)

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Weezer
Studio album by Weezer

Publication
(s)

2001

Label (s) Geffen Records

Format (s)

LP, CD, MC

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

running time

28:34

occupation

production

Ric Ocasek

Studio (s)

Cello Studios, LA

chronology
Pinkerton

( 1996 )

Weezer Maladroit
( 2002 )

Weezer is the third studio album by the American band of the same name , released in 2001 on Geffen Records . Since the first album already bore the band's name, a distinction was made based on the color of the cover pictures: The first album was referred to as The Blue Album , the third as The Green Album .

This is the first and only album with bassist Mikey Welsh, who replaced Matt Sharp, who left in 1998 to focus more on his side project The Rentals .

All songs on the album were written by singer Rivers Cuomo. In addition to Patrick Wilson, Atom Willard was also involved in the drum recordings .

Track list

  1. Don't let go
  2. Photographer
  3. Hash pipe
  4. Island in the Sun
  5. Crab
  6. Knock-down drag-out
  7. Smile
  8. Simple Pages
  9. Glorious Day
  10. O girlfriend

On the Japanese version of the album, the tracks I Do and The Christmas Song were included as bonus tracks as tracks 11 and 12 . On the English version only the song I Do was represented as a bonus track.

Singles

Hash pipe

  1. Hash pipe
  2. I do
  3. Starlight
  4. Hash Pipe ( Jimmy Pop Remix)

In the NME the song was described as follows: “ […] sounds like Van Halen playing the theme tune to the '60s Batman TV show while celebrating the joys of hash pipes ” (German : “ […] sounds like Van Halen playing the theme tune to the theme tune play to the Batman series from the 1960s and celebrate the joys of hashish consumption ”).

Island in the Sun

  1. Island in the Sun
  2. Oh Lisa
  3. Always
  4. Island in the Sun (video)

The melancholic and acoustically orchestrated song was described in the NME as “ lovely, lonely and very sad ” (German: “lovable, lonely and very sad”), the reviewer said, referring to Weezer's biggest hit to date, Buddy Holly : “ Weezer still feel like Buddy Holly - only as he is now ”(German:“ Weezers still feel like Buddy Holly - but in his current state ”).

Photographer

  1. Photographer
  2. Christmas Celebration

The B-sides of the singles vary depending on the published format (CD, single LP, cassette) or the country of publication. Another song that was released as the B-side of the Hash Pipe single is Teenage Victory Song . Other B-sides of the Island in the sun single are Sugar Booger and Brightening Day .

Photograph was only available as a CD single in Japan. In some other countries only promo singles went to the radio stations.

Music videos

A video clip with sumo wrestlers was shot for Hash Pipe . Directed by Marcos Siega . Under pressure from MTV , Weezer should rename the song to Half Pipe , as the reference to drugs in the title made the song unusable for American afternoon music television. Ultimately, however, the title was simply changed by censorship asterisks ( H *** Pipe ). The broadcaster nominated the video in 2001 in the Best Rock Video category for the MTV Video Music Awards ; however, the award went to the then popular group Limp Bizkit .

To Iceland in the Sun two videos were filmed; the first, directed by Marcos Siega, like Hash Pipe and some later Weezer videos, shows the band playing at a wedding. Spike Jonze later made the more famous second clip, which shows the band members playing with various animals, including a chimpanzee , a giraffe and a bear . This video lacks bassist Mickey Welsh, who was no longer a member of the band at the time of shooting.

reception

The album was received mostly benevolently among music critics. In the American Rolling Stone it was rated 4 out of 5 stars, in the All Music Guide it received 4.5 out of 5 stars and the reviewer attested a return to the debut album. The New Musical Express and Pitchfork Media found the work to be less recommendable .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stevie Chick: Weezer: Hash Pipe . NME, May 15, 2001
  2. ↑ Victoria Segal: Weezer: Iceland in the Sun . NME, October 16, 2001
  3. ↑ News from May 17, 2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at intro.de; Retrieved June 30, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intro.de  
  4. ↑ Green Album at Metacritic
  5. ↑ Review of the green album. Rolling stone
  6. ↑ Review at Allmusic
  7. ↑ Review at nme.com
  8. ^ Review ( memento of May 26, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) at pitchforkmedia.com