Weezer (1994) (Blue Cover )

Artist: Weezer
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Label: Uni/dgc Records
UPC: 00720642462928
Release Date: 5/10/1994
Buy.com Sku: 60180566
Item#: MMMV74
Buy.com Sales Rank: 26446
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. My Name Is Jonas ~ Weezer
2. No One Else ~ Weezer
3. World Has Turned And Left Me Here, The ~ Weezer
4. Buddy Holly ~ Weezer
5. Undone-The Sweater Song ~ Weezer
6. Surf Wax America ~ Weezer
7. Say It Ain't So ~ Weezer
8. In The Garage ~ Weezer
9. Holiday ~ Weezer
10. Only In Dreams ~ Weezer

(P) 1994 DGC Records
(C) 1994 DGC Records

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Weezer: Rivers Cuomo (vocals, guitar); Brian Bell (guitar, vocals); Matt Sharp (bass, vocals); Patrick Wilson (drums).
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York in August and September 1993.
All songs written or co-written by members of Weezer.
Weezer: Rivers Cuomo, Brian Bell (vocals, guitar); Matt Sharp (vocals, bass); Patrick Wilson (drums).
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York in August and September 1993. Includes liner notes by Todd Sullivan.
Personnel: Rivers Cuomo, Brian Bell (vocals, guitar); Matt Sharp (vocals); Patrick Wilson (drums).
Recording information: Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY.
There's a demented pop fanaticism to Weezer you gotta love. Weezer's debut, produced by former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, combines Pixies roller-coaster guitar rides with a helping of Beatle-esque moptop harmonies. Ocasek's production and Weezer's strong material will bring a glimmer of recognition to the eyes of anyone who remembers the Cars' melodic pop hooks.
Weezer's songs are groovy garage sales you wish happened every weekend. Songs like "The World Turned And Left Me Here" and "Surf Wax America" betray the heart of a kid who would rather skateboard to work every day than face up to the responsibility of buying a car.
Rivers Cuomo's wit and songwriting chops are evident in "In The Garage," where he sums up his generation's fascination with kitsch pop culture. Cuomo readily makes fun of Kiss posters and his own "stupid words" and "stupid songs," but later, in "Say It Ain't So," his self-mocking seems more like self-protection. After a decade of divorced parents, Cuomo comes to terms with a childhood he didn't want to give up. "Dear Daddy I write you in spite of years of silence," he admits, begging him to "Say It Ain't So."
WEEZER breathes life into the bloated corpse of guitar rock. If they'd only stay little till their pop records wore out, maybe more bands would be as enjoyable as Weezer.
There's a demented pop fanaticism to Weezer you gotta love. Weezer's debut, produced by former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, combines Pixies roller coaster guitar rides with a helping of Beatle-esque moptop harmonies. Ocasek's production and Weezer's strong material will bring a glimmer of recognition to the eyes of anyone who remembers the Cars' melodic pop hooks.
Weezer's songs are groovy garage sales you wish happened every weekend. Songs like "The World Turned And Left Me Here" and "Surf Wax America" betray the heart of a kid who would rather skateboard to work every day than face up to the responsibility of buying a car.
Rivers Cuomo's wit and songwriting chops are evident in "In The Garage," where he sums up his generation's fascination with kitsch pop culture. Cuomo readily makes fun of Kiss posters and his own "stupid words" and "stupid songs," but later, in "Say It Ain't So," his self-mocking seems more like self-protection. After a decade of divorced parents, Cuomo comes to terms with a childhood he didn't want to give up. "Dear Daddy I write you in spite of years of silence," he admits, begging him to "Say It Ain't So."
WEEZER breathes life into the bloated corpse of guitar rock. If they'd only stay little till their pop records wore out, maybe more bands would be as enjoyable as Weezer.

Producer: Ric Ocasek

Engineer: Chris Shaw; Christopher Shaw

 
Artist Overview
Weezer's 1994 debut yielded the band two big hit singles in "Buddy Holly" and "Undone - The Sweater Song," whose quirky appeal gave the initial impression that the group was some kind of novelty act. Despite the wiseacre veneer though, Weezer went on to successfully combine bracing, punk-poppy alternative rock with a deep sense of irony that often made it impossible to tell whether the band was rocking out or "rocking out." This conceptual tension endeared Weezer to indie aesthetes, while the band's charging riffs and pummeling rhythms endeared them to a larger audience.

Artist Influences
Beat Happening | Buddy Holly | Buzzcocks | Cheap Trick | Devo | Dinosaur Jr. | Elvis Costello | Green Day | Kiss | Nirvana (US) | Pavement | Pixies | Ric Ocasek | Sebadoh | Sonic Youth | Superchunk | The Cars | The Feelies | The Knack (1~US) | The Ramones | They Might Be Giants | Van Halen | Yo La Tengo

Artist Contemporaries
Abandoned Pools | Alkaline Trio | Audio Learning Center | Beck | Ben Folds | Ben Kweller | Biffy Clyro | blink-182 | Butterglory | Cake | Chisel | Chopper One | Cupcakes | Eels | Epperley | fIREHOSE | Flaming Lips | Foo Fighters | Fountains of Wayne | Green Day | Guided by Voices | Helium | Holiday With Maggie | Hot Mute | Imperial Teen | Jimmy Eat World | MxPx | Nada Surf | Nerf Herder | Pavement | Piper Downs | Possum Dixon | Radiohead | Remy Zero | Room Full of Walters | Sammy | Shalini | Size 14 | Sloan | Something Corporate | Superchunk | Supergrass | Talk Show | Teenage Fanclub | The Benjamins | The Blondes | The Breeders | The Exit | The Flys | The Frogs | The Get Set | The Like Young | The Moog Cookbook | The Presidents of the United States of America | The Pulsars | The Reunion Show | The Rocket Summer | The Smashing Pumpkins | The Stereo | Thrush Hermit | Tsar | Ultimate Fakebook | Uptown Sinclair | Urge Overkill | Veruca Salt | Ween | White Octave | Wolfie

Artist Followers
Brand New | Jimmy Eat World | Lincoln | Midtown | New Found Glory | Tsar | Vendetta Red


 
Compilation Appearances
Where Is My Mind
Mr. Deeds
Smallville: The Talon Mix
Myspace Records Vol 1
Nickelodeon Kids Choice Vol 2
Stacked With Hits 2006 / Various (Can)
Radio Disney Jams Volume 9 (w/ Bonus DVD)
Jdrf's Hope For The Holidays

 
Associated Artists and Works
A Punk Tribute To Weezer ~ Artists, Various
Artists, Various
A Punk Tribute To Weezer ~ Various Artists
Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 05/10/1994
Original Release Date : 1994
Catalog ID : 24629
Label : Geffen Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 39m : 25s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : AAD
UPC : 00720642462928

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.190)
- "...Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is great at sketching vignettes...and with sweet inspiration...his songs easily ingratiate."

Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.190)
- "...Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is great at sketching vignettes...and with sweet inspiration...his songs easily ingratiate."

Spin (4/04, pp.87-8)
- "Feedback duels with adroit finger-picking; galloping punk pastiches break for bridges that genuflect in the church of Brian Wilson." - Grade: A

Entertainment Weekly (10/14/94, p.60)
- "...college-radio-friendly... anti-cool quartet strums solid pop melodies with singsongy, anthem-like choruses, peppered with grunge fuzz that at first seems strangely at odds with its self-deprecating lyrics..." - Rating: B

Entertainment Weekly (4/2/04, p.66)
- "[This deluxe edition] is often more sonically varied than the original." - Rating: B

Entertainment Weekly (10/14/94, p.60)
- "...college-radio-friendly... anti-cool quartet strums solid pop melodies with singsongy, anthem-like choruses, peppered with grunge fuzz that at first seems strangely at odds with its self-deprecating lyrics..." - Rating: B

Q (3/95, p.106)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...this is a loud, well-crafted, AOR-friendly, classic pop-rock given a left-of-centre twist by [Rivers] Cuomo's mildy eccentric world view..."

Q (3/95, p.106)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...this is a loud, well-crafted, AOR-friendly, classic pop-rock given a left-of-centre twist by [Rivers] Cuomo's mildy eccentric world view..."

Alternative Press (3/02, p.96)
- Included in AP's "Essential Punk Influences '02 Style" - "...Their debut's power pop is brainy yet deceptively simple, a sort of AOR rallying cry made by geeks for geeks."

Alternative Press (3/02, p.96)
- Included in AP's "Essential Punk Influences '02 Style" - "...Their debut's power pop is brainy yet deceptively simple, a sort of AOR rallying cry made by geeks for geeks."

NME (Magazine)
(2/25/95, p.39)
- 7 (out of 10)
- "...four nerds from upstate Connecticut who can make a brilliantly genial, melodic noise, riddled with jokey allusions to the staple parts of the American musical myth..."

NME (Magazine)
(2/25/95, p.39)
- 7 (out of 10)
- "...four nerds from upstate Connecticut who can make a brilliantly genial, melodic noise, riddled with jokey allusions to the staple parts of the American musical myth..."

  
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