Pequenos Intervalos III

Ahhhh Weezer. One of my favorite Jeffersons characters. I always used to love it when George would come home from his successful Laundromat and shout "Weezer! Fix me some Whitey Stew! And no goddamn zebras! Aaaaaah HATES ZEBRAS! You muthafucka.cock..sucka!"

So imagine my supplies when I learned that Weezer had come out of retirement to become a bunch of young white guys playing really heavy power pop. First of all, am I crazy or is it impossible to listen to "The World Has Turned" without singing the lyrics to "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? The music isn't the same or anything - it's just the way he sings it. Drives me up the food chain. But let's talk about the album. Very warm fuzzy yet HEAVY guitar tones. Friendly vocals from nice neighborly young adults. Sugary Beatles/Cheap Trick-style chord progressions but played much less interestingly than either of those bands - mostly just simplistic barre chords and maybe a couple of notes on top. All midtempo - no Exploited-style hardcore or Cannibal Corpse-style death metal on here, for some reason. One letdown for me personally is that the two big hits "Say It Ain't So" and "Buddy Holly" are fantastic songs that sound like The Beach Boys! But the rest of the album doesn't SOUND like The Damn Beach Boys! Fuck!