Thursday July 29, 2021 “All My Favorite Songs” Weezer
Weezer, essentially Rivers Cuomo lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter, is just such an interesting band. Right out of the box, after spending years in the LA club scene Weezer scored two charting singles from their Ric Ocasek (The Cars) produced debut album/CD known as the “Blue Album”.
They followed up with their second album, roughly six years after the Blue Album which was received by generally favorable reviews, but not universally as Rolling Stone named it the “Worst Album of 1996”. Which of course begs the question, is Rolling Stone really a relevant music publication, but the album sales were also disappointing.
Their third album/CD produced again by Ric Ocasek, the Green Album, became an immediate hit delivering such songs as “Islands in the Sun” a continuing summer classic (and winter) even today, ten years down the road...hip, hip.
In addition to Weezer written songs the band has paid tribute with recordings of artists like the Beach boys, ELO, the Turtles, Black Sabbath, Green Day, Michael Jackson and many other artists with versions that are very faithful to the original of each artist's selected songs.
Stay safe and well...and slow and sad is fine but make sure you mix a bunch of fast and happy with them.