Album Reviews
As a songwriter, the band's singer and guitarist, Rivers Cuomo, takes a juvenile tack on personal relationships. Throughout Pinkerton, he pines for all the girls he can't have, the girls he can have but shouldn't, the girls who are no good for him and the girls about whom he just isn't sure. "Across the Sea," which begins with a deliberately corny piano intro, is the tale of an 18-year-old girl from Japan who has captured Cuomo's heart by letter. "They don't make stationery like this where I'm from," sings Cuomo wistfully. In "Pink Triangle," Cuomo humorously describes desperately trying to wed a young woman who is a lesbian: "If everyone's a little queer/Why can't she be a little straight?"
Weezer over-rely on catchy tunes to heal all of Cuomo's wounds. In "El Scorcho," the song's infectious chorus proves to be slim reward. "Tired of Sex," a look at a brooding stud's empty sex life, is as aimless as the subject's nightly routine. But "Butterfly" is a real treat, a gentle acoustic number that recalls the vintage, heartbreaking beauty of Big Star. Cuomo's voice cracks as he unintentionally bludgeons the fragile creature in the lyric, suggesting that underneath the geekyteenager pose is an artist well on his way to maturity.
(Posted: Feb 2, 1998)
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- Tired Of Sex
- Getchoo
- No Other One
- Why Bother?
- Across The Sea
- The Good Life
- El Scorcho
- Pink Triangle
- Falling For You
- Butterfly
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Review 1 of 4
harrypluto writes:
Don't become the Party, you're changing your words for your own benefit so what you say now has always been what you said. Change the stars back to their original place, even if they aren't correct.
Jul 11, 2008 22:01:49
Review 2 of 4
godson86 writes:
Rolling Revisionists. Why change the review guys. This "critic" gave this album 3 stars back in 93'. Why change it now? There was two reviews of this album for a reason. And it wasn't because there was a typo the first time.
You guys can't change history, I'll keep remembering.
Jul 1, 2008 16:31:10
Review 3 of 4
thecollegedropout writes:
The second best weezer album so far. It's much more personal, almost completely abandoning the mass appeal that the first album somehow managed to garner. It's a polarizing album though, a kind of love and hate album, good thing i love it.
Jun 13, 2008 21:54:36
Review 4 of 4
weezer1026 writes:
Best album I've ever heard....no doubt about it.
Oct 18, 2006 19:58:37
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