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-{{Featured article headline|[[Collectors Discography]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Make Believe Pitchfork Media record review]]}}
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-'''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.
+'''{{PN|Pitchfork Media}} [[Make Believe Pitchfork Media record review|album review]] for ''[[Make Believe]]''''' was published on [[May 8]], [[2005]]. It was written by [https://pitchfork.com/staff/rob-mitchum/ Rob Mitchum] and awarded the album a somewhat bombastic 0.4 stars out of 10, marking a significant change in the critical discourse around Weezer's output. Below is an excerpt.
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-''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.''
+''Sometimes an album is just awful. ''Make Believe'' is one of those albums.
+''[[Weezer]] have been given a lot of breaks in their second era-- both ''[[The Green Album]]'' and ''[[Maladroit]]'' were cut miles of slack despite consisting of little more than slightly above-average power-pop. The obvious reason for this lenience has to do with the mean age of rock critics, and the fact that most of these mid-20s scribes were at their absolute peak for bias-forming melodrama when ''[[The Blue Album]]'' and ''[[Pinkerton]]'' were released. Even for someone like me, who came late to the Weezer appreciation club, it was impossible to hear these "comeback" albums without the echoes of the earlier alt-rock pillars ringing in our ears.
+''But now there's an antidote to that nostalgic interference. Right from the start of ''Make Believe'', when Weezer lurches into [[Beverly Hills|a flaccid take]] on Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N' Roll" with an unfathomably horrible speak/sing vocal from [[Rivers Cuomo]] (think "I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch"), you can hear hundreds of critics mouthing "no no no" and going into crumpled shock. What's more disconcerting is that the song gets worse over the course of its three minutes (let's just say "Framptonesque voicebox solo" and get back to repressing the memory)-- and it's the album's first single.''
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