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Although ''[[The Green Album]]'' is almost universally considered {{PN|Weezer}} strongest offering of the past decade — some fans even ascribe it the “classic” status usually reserved for the band’s first two albums — there remains a consensus that the record is a bit of a missed opportunity. In [[2002]], not even a year removed from the record’s release, [[Rivers Cuomo]] himself wrote an email to Weezer fan [[Ridd Sorenson]] with the following thought: | Although ''[[The Green Album]]'' is almost universally considered {{PN|Weezer}} strongest offering of the past decade — some fans even ascribe it the “classic” status usually reserved for the band’s first two albums — there remains a consensus that the record is a bit of a missed opportunity. In [[2002]], not even a year removed from the record’s release, [[Rivers Cuomo]] himself wrote an email to Weezer fan [[Ridd Sorenson]] with the following thought: | ||
<blockquote>Do you think it’s possible that the songs on Green are actually really good and that we just choked in the studio? I mean, not just me, but all four of us in Weezer. I feel like if we had managed to attack the songs with more conviction, people wouldn’t have noticed the things like impersonal lyrics or repetitive song structures as much. | <blockquote>Do you think it’s possible that the songs on Green are actually really good and that we just choked in the studio? I mean, not just me, but all four of us in Weezer. I feel like if we had managed to attack the songs with more conviction, people wouldn’t have noticed the things like impersonal lyrics or repetitive song structures as much.</blockquote> | ||
It’s a bit crass of Cuomo to have chalked the blame up to “all four of us in Weezer” since ''Green'' is the Weezer album over which he asserted the most dictatorial control, but his concerns here ring true: simply put, the pointedly undercooked and dashed-off vibe of the album compromises the immense potential of its material. “[[Hash Pipe]],” “[[Island In The Sun]],” “[[Photograph]]” and “[[Knock-Down Drag-Out]]” are about as fleshed-out as they need to be, but there’s a definite sense of the incomplete and undeveloped in the other six tracks on the record (and not in an artful, Kafkan sense). It’s no coincidence that most Weezer fans can agree that until the fourth or fifth attentive listen of the record, about half of the tunes are hard to distinguish from one another. | It’s a bit crass of Cuomo to have chalked the blame up to “all four of us in Weezer” since ''Green'' is the Weezer album over which he asserted the most dictatorial control, but his concerns here ring true: simply put, the pointedly undercooked and dashed-off vibe of the album compromises the immense potential of its material. “[[Hash Pipe]],” “[[Island In The Sun]],” “[[Photograph]]” and “[[Knock-Down Drag-Out]]” are about as fleshed-out as they need to be, but there’s a definite sense of the incomplete and undeveloped in the other six tracks on the record (and not in an artful, Kafkan sense). It’s no coincidence that most Weezer fans can agree that until the fourth or fifth attentive listen of the record, about half of the tunes are hard to distinguish from one another. | ||