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  1. 1 hour ago, kylet said:

    My homie runs Take This To Heart records. I texted him a screen shot of your comment and showed him the seller on ebay. We both had a little chuckle and then he said "get me the seller's email". He's kidding but........we could probably pursued him to cancel this ding dong's order if we knew his name or address lol. 

    Lol. I will hold up my end of the bargain, if this happens. AFAIK, you can see a seller’s zip code but nothing more specific to help conclusively drop the hammer on a customer.

  2. SWYA Chris voice was my fave. I saw them at the House of Blues in Anaheim in 2002 with Ash and Kind of Like Spitting and that voice worked well on tracks from all their records, especially electric Jessie & My Whetstone. I saw them again after In Reverie at the Palladium and he was doing the In Reverie voice on everything and it did not sound good with the older songs, IMO. 😕

  3. 10 hours ago, vasefullofrocks said:

    These opinions are wild. 

     

    In Reverie is great and Sound The Alarm is too. It's not "faux-angry" or embarrassing. It's clear pain from someone who's incredibly depressed and lost their way. If you don't like it, that's fine. But the emotions are real.

    My apologies in regards to questioning the validity of their feelings. I get that it’s personal to Chris and people who resonate with his lyrics and expression (and that people like all their albums). I also apologize that I’m taking a more casual view on the band as someone who loved the first 4 records and didn’t join them for the rest of their artistic journey. I get that there are a lot of people who still love everything they do.
     

    My comment intended to be about the “angry” sound of the music that was introduced on that record and how Sound the Alarm, in general, feels like it’d come in a band’s career before they released their slower, indie pop “mature” record (I feel like it sounds like it’d also come before SWYA). For me, Sound the Alarm and the later records remind me of bands that aren’t as good as Saves the Day and blend in to the crowd more than what they had been doing previously. For me, TBC and SWYA and IR feel like sharper, more focused, more creative albums and it’s interesting that the band actually got angrier (at times) and less focused (IMO) as they went instead of getting slower and more boring (and following the In Reverie path) as many bands do.

  4. What makes In Reverie even weirder is they immediately abandoned that more polished, softer, “mature” direction with their follow up album Sound the Alarm, which is more faux-angry, embarrassing and unfocused than Can’t Slow Down (which was actually made by kids and is fun and dope). I’ve skimmed every record since Sound the Alarm as they’ve been released and they all sound like they’re by a less sophisticated and experienced band than the one that recorded TBC/SWYA/IR. Instead of getting old and boring, they somehow got less focused and more inexperienced sounding, IMO. (Sorry cause I know some people legit like their last 4-5 records for what they are)

  5. Downloaded it off IRC overnight the day it came out. Incredibly disappointed. I was sort of in disbelief that the album was that short and seemed like experimental demos for a side project. I’ve slightly grown to enjoy it more, especially in hindsight as it’s the last STD album I consider listenable, but it’s still a bizarre out-of-left-field entry in what was the peak of their discography IMO.

  6. I revise my previous review after scanning Pacific Daydream and Black album again.

    OK Human sounds almost identical to several songs on both those albums, just without the annoying production choices and embarrassing electro flourishes. The soft, pleasant melodies and less guitar focused makeup has been on their last 3 records and OK Human is just way less immature/obnoxious in execution.

    EWBAITE/White album was a nice renaissance before whatever this is now. Looking forward to dumb fun with Van Weezer. 

  7. 1 minute ago, Derek™ said:

    This entire thread and everything about it is embarrassing past the point of satire: the hypothetical you've presented would induce a wince or two if the last page and a half didn't already fry and numb every cringe-nerve in my body.

    I see your point but I disagree due to the soft misdirection of the voice-of-reason character (the construction worker) turning out to also be engaging in the inanity.

  8. Imagining the scene outside McDonalds 5 minutes before opening. 54 year old men with goatees, shouting to their friend 8 spots ahead in line, “if you don’t see the records when you walk in, go into box out position and I’ll rush in and flank you while you visually locate them.” Mixed in, shy 23 year olds looking at their phones, perfecting the language on their eBay draft, “should I say limited edition or out of print...why not both?” Lost in all this, a construction worker who, of all days, volunteered today to pick up breakfast for their crew, “I have no idea what promotion all these people are lining up for but I’m buying all of it and putting it on Facebook marketplace.”

  9. 2 minutes ago, Boaty McBoatface said:

    If you wanna talk about hot garbage, you gotta talk about Green Day though

    GD feels more embarrassing post-2000 but I think they’re both companies with lots of people on their payroll who leaned towards different crowds. GD seemed to go for teens and FF aimed for an older crowd but they are both making calculated, proficiently assembled widgets that will “work” in the current financial wasteland of rock & the music industry.

  10. Always found it semi-interesting how Foo Fighters and Green Day wound down their time as a young, energetic band with slower, less effortful, less commercially successful albums (Warning and There is Nothing Left to Lose, both released within a year of each other) then re-emerged a few years later as their ‘roided out, music business minded selves and are still cranking out big rock widgets 21 years later. Even if the music is not as good, impressive.

  11. 1 hour ago, deftbarley said:

    The lyrics kill this record. All around awful and cringe. 

    There was a good review that talked about how Rivers can’t resist the comfortable distance of ironic detachment and cheese, even when making his mature, personal ‘masterpiece’ record. I read like 10 in a row and can’t remember which magazine it was from.

     

    If he were to ever record a sincere, honest record, even if it was still silly and fun, sans the 70s pop affectation but with the same reliance on piano and strings over electric guitar, I think he could retire with an absolute adult banger under his belt. This feels like a decent Weezer album from an alternate dimension where their music aged with the members and kept experimenting and not the gem from that different reality.

  12. Dang. This isn’t “bad Weezer” but it’s totally not my bag. The single made me think it’d be Weezer but without the focus on guitars, more laid back, slight 70s pop vibes but, after the first 2-3 songs, which are a bit interesting, this becomes a more straight up homage to that older pop. If you dig the bands/songwriters referenced in the reviews, check this out. Rivers does a pretty sincere take on their stuff without injecting too much Weezer into it.

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