Weezer: "The Red Album "
TobiasAnd it’s not as good as the Blue Album (their debut, so how could it be, right?) blah blah blah. There are some good, even interesting tunes on Red, well-constructed on the whole even if their Xanax-bratitude anthems are starting to sound more and more like something blapped forth by a crew resigned to a fate, fast bearing down on them, that’ll eventually find them getting all BFF with the Today Show cast while introducing “our first full-bore album strictly for toddlers” in some hideous future dimension.
“Troublemaker” opens this can of worms with one hand in the Strokes cookie jar and the other stealing from their own older stuff, a phoned-in but listenable way to segue into “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived,” in turn a big-chorus-fitted slushball of Bohemian Rhapsody For Dummies that depends on “Buddy Holly” for, well, everything that isn’t Queen-like. “Pork and Beans” is the friendly little emo-glitterball ditty you’ve probably heard already, and “Heart Songs” is a mindless roll call of every pop tune singer Rivers Cuomo has ever had glued to his brain.
If anything, it shows Weezer to be a Forever Band, one for whom age won’t matter as long as kids and (more importantly) adults need to indulge their inner idiot now and then.
By Eric Saeger
Homepage: Weezer
Homepage: Interscope Records
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