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-<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="margin:0; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Featured article: ''<u>Kara's Flowers</u>''</h2><br>
+<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="margin:0; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Featured article: ''<u>Pinkerton Rolling Stone record review - 1996</u>''</h2><br>
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-'''Kara's Flowers''' was a Los Angeles-based punk-pop/power-pop rock band that is most notable for having evolved into the funk-pop band '''Maroon 5.'''
+'''The first [[Rolling Stone]] album review of "''[[Pinkerton]]''" was written by Rob O'Conner and published in [[1996]].''' This review has since become famous, as it is very indicative of the poor initial reception that ''Pinkerton'' received. Rolling Stone published a [[Pinkerton Rolling Stone record review - 2004|new review]] in 2004 that ranked the album much higher. <br><br>'''Rating:''' {{Rating-big|3.0|5}} (3.0/5)
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-Kara's Flowers is related to [[Weezer]] in that [[Mykel and Carli Allan]] ran the Kara's Flowers Fanclub.  Kara's Flowers also contributed the exclusive track "Yesterday When I Was Handsome" to the [[1997]] [[Vast Records]] album "''[[Hear You Me! A Tribute To Mykel And Carli]]''."
+Although no one in the band originally hails from Southern California, [[Weezer]] have got the sound and attitude of early-'60s Los Angeles down. Melodies bounce with vigor; in the lyrics, help is just a sunshiny day away. There is still plenty of Weezer's signature dorkiness on ''Pinkerton'', the follow-up to their successful [[1994]] debut, [[Blue|Weezer]]. Guitars veer off key; tempos speed up for no apparent reason. But what you get is true to the sun-'n'-fun aesthetic of great jangly pop.
-While attending Brentwood School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Kara's Flowers, and played their first gig at the Whisky a Go Go on [[September 16]], [[1995]]. When Valentine joined in [[2001]], the band adopted the name Maroon 5.
+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?"
-The band released one album as Kara's Flowers, 1997's "''[[Fourth World]]''," which was recently put back into print.
+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 geeky teenager pose is an artist well on his way to maturity.
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+— Rob O'Conner, 1996
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