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| '''Indecision and Abandoning the Past''' is an in-depth essay, written in 2010 for the [[Weezer]] fan forum website [[All Things Weezer]] by former poster and current [[Weezerpedia]] contributor [[User:Tom|Tom]], about the years 1997 and 1998 in Weezer's band history. It was originally released in 3 parts on Allthingsweezer.com. It can now be found on Tom's blog "King Tom's Kingdom". | | '''Collectors Discography''' is the name of a chronological catalog of physically released media by and related to [[Weezer]]. It was compiled by [[Karl Koch]] and originally introduced in [[2001]] on [[weezer.com]], where it was originally titled "tunes" (or "tunes - the weezer discography") before being renamed to "Collectors Discography" in [[2010]]. It was included in the info section of the website before the section's removal in [[2014]]. The catalog was only ever finished up to the ''[[Maladroit]]'' era, with some pages (5-8 as well as Appendix C) being marked as "COMING SOON...". They were not finished before being removed from the site. |
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| ''“…and tomorrow we go to LA to make our new record”'' | | ''The Weezer Collectors Discography is an attempt to document all known promotional and commercially released vinyl, CDs, cassettes, DVDs, etc. that Weezer has put out (or appeared on) one way or another since the early days ''till present day. In addition, a new appendix is being added to cover non music merchandise - t-shirts, posters, accessories etc. Like all Weezer Info pages, the Collectors Discography is a continuing work in progress, so ''remember to check back if you dont see something you think should be here, and contact Karl if you think you have info that would help out.'' |
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| ''Rivers Cuomo spoke these words to a Boston audience on January 14, 1998. With Pat Wilson manning the drums, Weezer’s fans, both those in attendance and those who would later hear the show through tapes and MP3s had reason to be optimistic. Sure, '''Pinkerton''' wasn’t a commercial success, but for the band’s fanbase, it was the perfect album. There was some discord among the band during the post-release promotion and tour schedule, but here, in Boston, half of the band was on the same stage, playing together once again. And while Rivers slowly began to distance himself from the Pinkerton material, fans were pleased with these new songs.''
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| ''Indeed, Weezer was off to Los Angeles to make a new record. But Weezer’s third record wouldn’t hit stores for another three years, during which time the band lost and gained a bassist, the fanbase would swell thanks to filesharing and Rivers Cuomo and his music would each undergo dramatic changes.''
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| ''This is not the story of the third album, 2001’s '''Weezer (The Green Album)'''. Rather, this is the story of Rivers’ final months in Boston through the time the band ceased recording in the fall of 1998. Just as information from this time period is sparse, so is the musical output. As Karl Koch put it, the band “refused to let their management even hear what they were doing for the most part, and shared only a small fraction of the music then or since.” Pat calls the time period “one of indecision and abandoning the past.” This is an attempt to explore the time period using the little available news from the era, along with the words of the band and their friends, and to shed some light on one of the most fascinating (if only because little is known about it) periods in Weezer history.''
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