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Weezer |  | Artist: Weezer
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1521
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 41 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 24629
UPC: 720642462928
EAN: 0720642462928
ASIN: B000003TAW
Release Date: March 20, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | My Name Is Jonas | | • | No One Else | | • | The World Has Turned And Left Me Here | | • | Buddy Holly | | • | Undone -- The Sweater Song | | • | Surf Wax America | | • | Say It Ain't So | | • | In The Garage | | • | Holiday | | • | Only In Dreams |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Blending the best aspects of pop, punk and grunge, Weezer's eponymous debut came as a much needed bit of relief to the too-serious American indie scene of 1994. Produced (and strongly influenced) by former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, Weezer blends churning, power-pop guitars with Beach Boys harmonies and the awkward lyrics of singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo. On standout tracks such as "In The Garage" and "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here", Weezer introduced the wider world to the then-new concept of Geek Rock. However, it was "Buddy Holly"--and its corresponding Spike Jonze-directed video--that propelled this album into the charts. Unfortunately, this song also branded them as nothing more than another novelty act, an unfair fate for an album--and band-- that's since had so much influence. i--Robert Burrow/i
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A fantastic debut album! November 19, 2003
Harry Michaels (United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Weezer's self titled 1994 debut was a refreshing change from the somewhat dull alternative rock of the time; this album was the closest you could get to the breezy, carefree attitude of punk rock without actually entering the punk rock ball park! Weezer proved that you didn't have to treat music as seriously as a heart attack to make an outstanding album, demonstrated by songs such as 'Surf Wax America' and 'No One Else'.pThe entire "geek rock" image was quirky and marketable, and singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo shamelessly used this angle throughout the album, singing about his own resemblance to Buddy Holly, using the destruction of his sweater as a metaphor for a dissintegrating relationship, surfing to work, and the somewhat pathetic but painfully real desire to have a girlfriend that doesn't laugh at anybody else's jokes. The album has it's darker moments, too, however. Perhaps the most serious song, "Say It Ain't So" (incidentally, perhaps the best song) is nothing short of breathtaking, and the epic "Only In Dreams" is hauntingly beautiful.pCombining influences from opposite areas of the musical spectrum (80s heavy metal and 60s Beatles/Beach Boys/bubblegum pop), "Weezer" is one of the greatest debut albums of all time. We've all heard "Buddy Holly", but there's so much more to "Weezer" the album, and Weezer the band than that.
Where it all began.......... November 12, 2002
Joe Henderson
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Weezer" is easily the best album I have ever bought. Originally, I had only ever heard "Buddy Holly", and sheerly bought the album to complete a "3 for £20" sale. However, when I returned home and played the album, I was absolutely amazed......pThe album kicks off with "My Name Is Jonas", certainally not the best tune on the album but a great way to start things off, with a great acoustic intro before kicking into the (now) familiar "weezer-esque" riffs. Wonderfully immature and catchy, with its "the workers are going home" chorus, this song grabs your attention to the album straight away.pEvery track on the album is a stormer (with the slight exception of "surf wax america", a little on the bland side), with "no one else" colliding a chirpy tune with some really quite dark lyrics, "the world has turned" with its brilliant lyrics and plinky acoustic riffs, "buddy holly", easily the most catchy song of all time, "undone", another immature and in some ways quite bizzare track, "say it aint so", a suprisingly laid back start to a tune which turns into an emotionally brilliant masterpiece, "in the garage", a song in which rivers sings about his own little hideaway, which im sure we all have, "holiday", a hugely optimistic and head-banging track, before the oh-so-perfect 8-minute stormer "only in dreams", which is perhaps the most beautiful and moving song i have ever heard.pThose willing to turn away from the sum 41s of the world and get an album which truely is "all killer" must do themselves a huge musical favour and buy this album.
underestimated October 12, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Some reviewers are right in pointing out how weezer in certain songs such as 'only in dreams' and 'say it aint so' take on a 'darker', more moving aspect.brCompletely true for these songs, but also for the others. Song lyrics have being labelled quirky, as well as the songs being called carefree and a breath of fresh air in the atmosphere they were released.brPoint is almost none of these songs are competely what they seem. Buddy Holly, when listened in the knowledge that Rivers Cuomo described it a 'sick', takes on a slightly different aspect, when you realise he seems to be mocking a vulnerable girl he has left. All the other songs are personal too, and carefully thought out, as for example 'surf wax', is where the content seems to be about wishing to live an unconventional lifestyle ('of rats that run around and round in the cage'), by using the metaphor for surfing. However the more moving, personal moment is when Rivers sings 'all along the undertow is strengthening its hold, i never though it'd come to this now i can never go home',to represent how he can't escape what he calls in another song as a life with a 'low mileage wife'(lullaby for wayne).brThis is all simply to say that Weezer because of 'quirky lyrics', and 'poppy songs', are misinterpreted. They are a far more interesting band than most would give credit. The lyrics (something i despair of in many pop songs becasue their often so pretentious)are worthy of someone who is studying english at harvard. Unlike many pop songs the lyrics really are moving, and they really are well though out.brOf course lyrics are only half the story. The songs are awesome as well. Infact they complement the lyrics very well (especially in 'only in dreams', with the crescendo at the end communicating the emotion of the lyrics almost as if you were experiencing what Rivers sings about). The songs are also however excellent pop songs, a pleasure to listen to.brBuddy Holly may have a darker side, but the song itslef is just so much fun to listen to.
wow June 20, 2002
Jimz
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is the most amazing album i have ever bought, surpassing even nevermind and in utero. i played it 15 odd times in a row, and still it never bores me. every song on it is amazing. my name is jonas gets the album off to a start. the acoustic intro makes you think, o this is all very nice, and then the loud guiatar comes in. the world has turned and left me here (track 3) is sheer brilliance, and buddy holly (track 4) is geeky, but very fun. in the garage (pronounced 'graage') is a great song about rivers' writing studio, and track 10, thats only in dreams, made me cry the first time i ever heard it. (im a little bit over emotional though). and i found out earlier that that they recruited brian bell, rythum guitar, 3 days before they entered the studio!
an excellent debut you HAVE to check out January 2, 2004
L. Penrose (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
there isn't a bad track on this album and it acts as a really good introduction to the band. rougher and rockier than "the green album" i discovered this cd about 2 years ago and it's still one of my favourites (after pinkerton). my favourite track of all is "say it ain't so" but the singles, "buddy holly" and "undone - the sweater song" are well worth the money alone.
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