Weezer - Raditude
Raditude is in no way unique in Weezer’s recent career. When it’s good, it’s a surprise; when it’s bad, it’s incomprehensibly atrocious. But for the most part, it is dull, empty and devoid of sentiment, and that is its greatest crime.
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I don't even need to hear the album
to know that this review is completely correct
This is the best Weezer album in recent memory
not a grand claim per se but it's way better than Red, Make Believe and Maladroit.
I'm troubled and I dream of the day...
when Rivers finally turns into Ben Folds and can leave the post-Pinkerton cave because I'm not sure it's possible to listen to a Weezer album fairly or at all objectively given how much they mean to so many of us. I wonder if this was put out under a different name, without the weight of expectation, whether it might be one of the debut albums of the year as, now, whenever they release anything it breaks my (emo) heart to even contemplate listening to it. Yet, I know I will listen to it and I'll feel like a orphan trying to love a social worker.
Well done Rivers,
you managed to write an album that's worse than Make Believe.
Can someone go back and correct that Julian Casablancas review from yesterday with added 'Raditude weighting' now please - the poor guy is going to get a massive complex if he listens to this steaming turd and thinks his album is anywhere near as bad.
maladroit was miiiiiiiles better than this piece of turd
I think it's probably fair to say expectations were a bit higher
for Julian C. Great first line, Rob, sadly sadly true
Sean summed it up perfectly for me
Although it is an improvement on The Red Album. At least with this one I skip past the awful songs rather than skipping to the decent ones.
Also it's sad to see 'Can't Stop Partying' singled out for punishment in nearly every review. Granted it is bloody awful on here but the stripped back version on 'Alone II' is brilliant.
I actually like the record
but agree that the two tracks that are an attempt to break the "Weezer template" really don't work.
Like the stuff on the bonus CD too. I'd probably give it a 7 but I'm one of the few people remaining that still seems to like this band.
That Lil Wayne track is amazing
'Cant' Stop Partying'
and 'I'm Your Daddy' are two highlights for me, plus 'Put Me Back Together' is the best Weezer song in many a year.
That said 'Love is the Answer' and 'In the Mall' are real stinkers. If you combined the standouts from this and the Red Album you'd have one amazing record.
As it is you've got two patchy ones. 3 is unfair. 6 is about right cuz some of these songs are Weezer at the top of their game, they just don't seem to be able to tell the difference between the great stuff and the crud anymore
I really like "In The Mall"
Interesting this... different people dislike different tracks.
I reckon Pitchfork will surprise us and give it a semi-decent review. They were nice about the Foo Fighters "best of" today which I hadn't expected.
I've got no beef with this review though. I can see why a lot of people won't like this album, it just happens that I do.
to take up this ^^^ point
it's not like Weezer haven't tried asking their fans which songs should make an album in the past, and that didnt produce much agreement or a flawless record. There is a lot to like on this one though.
Oh and I have no idea what "the guitars are woefully exaggerated" means in this review
The first sentence
sums up my feelings, too. Rather than the bastion of geek-chic and intelligent music with muscle that a lot of people make Cuomo out to be, he's always seemed to me to (not-so?) secretly wish he was a contemporary to idiot American jockrockers. Hence the appearance in the Limp Bizkit video and increasingly dumbed-down, populist music etc.
Which Limp Bizkit video
was Rivers in?!
Dear god
it's so, so bad. If you're Wondering... is the only thing of any merit on there. I'd take Green/Maladroit-era Weezer in a hearbeat over this shower.
I love
that first sentence...don't think I'll even bother listening to this
Maladroit
was the last album I could tolerate. Blue and Pinkerton were staples of my childhood/teen years. Green album was a pretty solid pop record (but yeah, a bit of anticlimactic after the wait from Pinkerton). Maladroit wasn't exactly great but there was a video featuring Muppets. If there's ever a box-set, I'll be on board.
there should be a "this" function on reviews
because i was going to write this also too_alaskan.
Pitchfork gave it 4.5
You'd almost think they were warming to them. EVERYONE seems to hate "Love Is The Answer" though.
...
Love Is The Answer is fucking horrible. And first time I listened I knew straight away which song was written with All American Rejects, but all in all I think it's an ok listen
Well there goes the 'conflict of interest'
with DiS running irritating drop-down adverts AND reviewing the album.