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Hey everybody. Welcome to the new Weezer album, I've been trying for two weeks now to think of something to say for an introduction, but everything I write makes me want to vomit. Let me just say that I'm really pleased and amazed to hear my most confused feelings given form in such a faithful manner. The 10 songs are sequenced in the order in which I wrote them (with two minor exceptions). So as a whole, the album kind of tells the story of my struggle with my inner-Pinkerton. If you want to, you can listen with an ear for this story or you can just turn the shit up and rock out with your cock out. I like records that can go both ways like that.}} | Hey everybody. Welcome to the new Weezer album, I've been trying for two weeks now to think of something to say for an introduction, but everything I write makes me want to vomit. Let me just say that I'm really pleased and amazed to hear my most confused feelings given form in such a faithful manner. The 10 songs are sequenced in the order in which I wrote them (with two minor exceptions). So as a whole, the album kind of tells the story of my struggle with my inner-Pinkerton. If you want to, you can listen with an ear for this story or you can just turn the shit up and rock out with your cock out. I like records that can go both ways like that. | ||
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* Weezer was formed in Los Angeles in 1992, though none of its members hail from that city. Singer-guitarist and songwriter Rivers Cuomo is from Connecticut, bassist Matt Sharp grew up in Arlington, Virginia, drummer Pat Wilson comes from Buffalo, NY, and guitarist Brian Bell made his way west from Knoxville, Tennessee. | |||
*Their debut album, <u>Weezer</u>, produced by [[Ric Ocasek]], reached the No. 16 position on Billboard's Top 200 album chart and remained on the chart for 76 weeks. | |||
*<u>Weezer</u> spawned the hits "Undone (The Sweater Song)," which reached No. 6 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, "Buddy Holly" (No. 2. Rock Tracks) and "Say It Ain't So" (No. 7. Rock Tracks). | |||
* The video for Buddy Holly, directed by Spike Jonze, spliced Weezer into Al's Diner on the TV show "Happy Days." Arguably one of the most popular clips of [[1995]], it scored four [[MTV]] Video Music awards, including Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Music Video, and two Billboard Music Video Awards, among them Alternative/Modern Rock Clip of the Year. | |||
* The band has been relentlessly in progressively larger venues and winnings fans across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. Rivers documented some of Weezer's touring experiences and growing popularity in two pieces he wrote for Details magazine (in January and April 1995). | |||
*Pinkerton was produced by Weezer and recorded between September 1995 and June [[1996]] at Sound City, Rumbo Recorders, and Hollywood Sound Studios in Los Angeles; Fort Apache Studios in Boston; and Electric Lady Studios in New York. The album was mixed by [[Jack Joseph Puig]] and released [[September 24]], 1996.}} | |||
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