I got the Guitar World mag a while back, and I meant to post this but I never got a chance. This interview is hilarious, Rivers is such a nerd. I want to kick his ass. It's so awesome that he's honest. But I still want to kick his ass. sorry i cant find a link, so ill paraphrase: GW: So you like to talk to fans? Cuomo: no, i only talk to em on the net. I try to stay away from them by all means. GW: haha why? Cuomo: because they always want something. GW: ...Like your autograph or to play you a song? Cuomo: yeah. Our fans are little b****es. High Larious!
that's pretty funny, what's up with rivers anyways, didn't he have some kind of nervous breakdown? i've seen him on a few interviews and he never says anything while the rest of the band talks. it's like he's out in space. his songs rock for the most part though.
No nervous breakdown, unfortunately but he's growing a beard and trying to be a badass, as can be deduced from his delicate statements. The new album, Maladroit is supposed to be very Pinkerton like. And that makes me happy.
awesome, pinkerton is musically so much better than the other 2 albums. i just looked it up on amazon and apparently it comes out on may 14th. sweet!
For reasons that will become apparent in my next sentence, I don't have much familiarity with Weezer beyond their best-known songs. I take it "Pinkerton" was an album they made before they decided to become the Pat Boone to Nirvana's Little Richard?
wwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzerrrr!! dude. i'm stoked... I can't wait for May 14... let's see May is going to be a good month.. we got spiderman the movie, episode 2 and new weeeeeeezer! =w=
Swopa--I don't know much about Weezer, either, besides "Buddy Holly," "Hash Pipe," and "Island in the Sun," but... "Pinkerton" was the follow up album to Weezer's debut smash album (the one with Buddy Holly) and it basically flopped. The thing is, probably 99% of Weezer's hardcore fans think its the best thing they've ever done. Sales of the album picked up enough after they came back with the Green Album to where Pinkerton went gold, but compared to their other two albums, it's sales are really weak. If i understand correctly, the disappointing sales of Pinkerton kind of drove Rivers crazy (to a certain extent). I dont know if this really answers your question or you already knew this, but I thought I'd chime in.
Yes, it does answer my question, and even without having heard the album, it gives me more respect for Weezer. It sounds like, having become hugely successful, they said to themselves, "OK, let's make the album we want to make." And since that wasn't as commercially successful, they've been in something of a personality crisis ever since over whether to be themselves, or be the band the mass market wants them to be. Alternating styles for each album is probably not a bad compromise.
man, weezer kicks ass. and i dont think that they are actually nerds but i think that they just act like them for kicks. isnt rivers the depressing one, who when the green album came out he was like "it's no good...it sucks...it's never gonna sell"? their songs kick ass.
Green album, says Cuomo, was purposely made to be, and I quote directly, "a gay pop album." Personally, I think it was an awful album, totally empty and you could tell it was made to cash in on the =w= legacyl. I think it's hilarious how SirCharlesFan said Rivers basically went crazy after Pinkerton did poorly saleswise. That sums it up perfectly.
Same thing basically happened to Lou Reed way back when, after he had a big hit with "Walk on the Wild Side." Having clout with a record company for the first time, Reed hired producer Bob Ezrin (who would later do "The Wall" with Pink Floyd) and a bunch of top-name musicians to record a brilliant-but-weird-and-totally-depressing concept album called "Berlin." When it semi-flopped (like "Pinkerton"), Reed put out a series of schlocky albums, all of which were hits. I found a couple of quotes from Reed on this. On the failure of "Berlin": "RCA definitely dictated that I don't do it again - they made me promise not to do it for at least two albums." And then, on one of the subsequent albums: "This is fantastic - the worse I am, the more it sells. If I wasn't on the record at all next time around, it would probably go number one." So then Lou decided to put out a double album called "Metal Machine Music," which had no vocals, no songs, and no instruments -- just 64 minutes of feedback piled on top of more feedback. And for some reason, he's been a cult artist ever since.
