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I wouldn't even bat an eyelid if Rivers was revealed to sleep in a racecar bed

"How one album ruined Weezer's reputation" This literally happened 15 times tf you mean

Blue album: I think I’m in love Pinkerton: You’re starting to seem a little weird snd needy, but you’re good looking, so I’ll overlook it Green album: Thos isn’t working anymore. I think we should see other people Maladroit: Maybe I was too hasty. I’ll give you one more chance Make Believe: Contact me again and I’m calling the cops

I actually kinda like Make Believe, i just think: This is Such a Pity, Perfect Situation, The Damage in your Heart, Hold Me, The Other Way, Haunt you everyday, and some demos are really REALLY great.

I love almost all Weezer. This is a lower tier Weezer album for me, but there's so much good stuff. I found myself singing along so many times in this video.

I lived in denial of make believe for a long time. I just recently went through another massive Weezer phase and now I’m starting to actually enjoy it a lot more. Pardon me is a good song, perfect situation is great, and haunt you every day is beautiful

i hate how maladroit is hated when it’s such a diverse and great album

When I was a studio intern I actually delivered the 1/4" master tapes with Beverly Hills and a couple other songs to Rick Rubin's house which had the scariest steep driveway. Apparently the album ended up using a different a mix for Beverly Hills, which ended up on the video and my boss was kind of pissed. But I literally held part of that album in my hands and gave it to Rick's assistant. Unfortunately, the song quality was out of my control.

I liked Maladroit. It was like the blue/green albums with a much harder edge. But I like lots of things that other people don't.

Weezer is a weird band for me because I like them and don’t at the same time

Make Believe is an absolute banger. So was Everything will be alright in the end.

calling Rivers the god emperor of Weezer instantly got me in... great video mate

I bought Pinkerton on release day back in ‘96. I bought it after school at the Target across the street from my high school. I loved it then, and I love it now!!

Man, I knew people didn't like Make Believe, but I didn't realize it was hated as much as it is. It's been my favorite Weezer album since I heard it back in 2005

Watched this video thinking you were a relatively popular channel, but you only have 11 subs? Your editing is great, and it's obvious that you put a lot of work and research into this video. I hope to see more content from your channel! :)

Watching videos like this make me realize that Weezer has A LOT of music that hasn’t been released.

I was genuinely shocked by how few subscribers you have, a video with this much work, research, and editing feels like it would be made by a channel with like 300k subs, this is really great content and i really hope you blow up in the near future. I would say good luck but honestly with videos this well made and researched i dont think you need luck. Not even very interested in weezer myself but you kept me interested the whole 23 minutes, great job and i cant wait to see what else you have in store.

A really excellent video, I never looked into the history of this album and I never realized how interesting it is. The video is also presented in a really entertaining way with good writing and editing which only made it even better. Love it!

First 2 albums are essential. Everything beyond has some merit but nothing touches the one two punch classics of Blue and Pinkerton.

The ending conclusion is awesome ha ha. Kudos bro

Damn that chorus for "tell me what you did" was really really good

Probably the most in-depth breakdown of this album. It's extremely appreciated because I've always had a love hate relationship with this album. I like the hooks and sometimes the melodies but the rest of the production came off as lazy and I understand completely why now. Great video

Maladroit might be my favorite Weezer album. I really enjoyed make believe as well.

Maladroit is my second favorite Weezer album

So random that I stumbled upon these videos as I am currently going through a re-discovery of Weezer. I decided to start going back through their catalog and giving their post-Maladroit records a second chance. These videos are a great little backstory to the albums as I revisit them. Cheers!

Loved the effort you put into little editing gags! Never listened to a lick of Weezer and you kept the video interesting and engaging all the way through, great work ^^

Amazing video! Make Believe has always striked me as a pop mess of an album with a few good cuts and it trying to be Green x Pinkerton kind of explains it

Haunt You Every Day feels like Pinkerton’s version of Only in Dreams

You beat me to it! Nice video!

Always loved Make Believe. Thanks for covering it.

this is incredibly well made good job man

I actually loved Make Believe far more than Maladroit or even Green

I hold the unpopular opinion that Red is a fantastic album. I love it.

Great video!! Waiting for the Haunt you Everyday video

I dig about half of the album. Perfect Situation and Haunt You Everyday are highlights. The demo versions are better as are the demo versions of most of the songs that made it, especially the This Is Such a Pity one. Freak Me Out is a dumb song lyrically, but I’ve always loved the melody of it. Also I didn’t know about that strange connection Rivers had to Elliot Smith. I always felt he had a bit of a similar tortured soul in him as a songwriter but refuses to let it out often. Hoping one day he lets it all out. Heard him describe the upcoming Winter album they’re doing as being inspired by Smith so who knows. Last thing…Maladroit is great.

Wow this was really cool to watch! I’m definitely in the minority when I say this is my favorite Weezer album. Though it was cool to learn about the whole process for this album! How you don’t have more subscribers is beyond me but you gained one with this video. Great job 👍

Dude this channel is amazing, thanks for making these videos.

Honestly, besides Haunt You Everyday, I didn’t really care much for Make Believe when I first listened to it. Going through the Demos and coming back to it recently, I’ve found a new appreciation for this album, and I quite like it besides Beverly Hills (just not exactly my cup of tea, there). Make believe is still in the lower half of their Discography for me, I think, but I like that I now can at least say that Make Believe really *isn’t* all that bad, even if it’s not perfect. My opinion on Make Believe aside, this was quite a nice video, I enjoyed the further insight on the Album and it’s evolution up to release, and the presentation over all. Keep up the good work.

blue isnt intentionally power pop, in fact power pop is a made up journalism term, it’s a niche that over time got its audience and created bands trying to capture a specific sound into a genre, today there’s many bands from the 2000s and after giving power pop its own genre (basically recapture early beatles short pop songs with hooks songwritting and avoiding long guitar solos, the anti pretentious genre if you will) taking influence from elvis costello (at the time named new wave but now is revisited power pop) weezer BY NO MEANS created blue album listening to the rasperries or cheap trick, sure ric ocasek produced it and they loved the cars - but that’s another band who when it came out was titled as new wave, since like i said power pop was never an actual movement, you’ll never find any fans from that era claiming to be into power pop or power pop reviews with concrete references to what power pop is if you will, it’s a bit of a revisionism effect blue album has songs like only in dreams which couldn’t be further far away from music such as rasperries or cheap trick and some very vulnerable lyrics , what kind of power pop band sings about staying in the garage playing dungeons and dragons? at the end of the day the point is that blue album is a product of its era, more so heavily influenced by nirvana and especially pixies with the touch of bringing beach boys harmonies onto all that, rivers has most likely never listened to rasperries or cheap trick and i wish this narrative stopped which is ironic coming from someone who is fascinated and a fan of the made up power pop pop genre, if anything green album with its repeated formula and no long solos is more power pop than blue ever was

You just earned a subscriber. Love the musical cues, (Austin Powers/Always Sunny) the humor, and the wealth of knowledge. Great content.

Truly love your channel. Keep doing the good work👌

I think this was about the time I tuned out. I wasn't the only one not feeling it apparently. I'm rediscovering them now and they have been hella busy since. I mean recording 4 albums THIS YEAR holy shit. And their discography will always remind how crazy people were for the TV show LOST. Great video, great channel, much success, have subscribed.

I’m glad I got recommend this! You’ve earned a sub! I’m looking forward to more videos in the future!

ive always ignored this album other than a few songs but i rly loved the editing and research in this, im definitely checking out the demos .

It’s a messy record, but one I’ve got a lot of love for. Sure, it drags a bit in the second half, the lyrics are cheesy as hell and there’s some actually awful songs on there, but it’s still a fun pop rock record and you can tell Rivers genuinely took these songs from his heart, as simple and corny as they might be. There’s a lot of charm to it in a way, I could never hate this album. It helped me through some rough spots and I hold it close because of that

Awesome video. I listen to the make believe demos all the time.

I never give weezer albums a good listen through anymore so videos like this pique my curiosity. Just took a listen and it’s pretty good.

Damn this is really high quality for how new the channel is, good video dude

I love this channel so much its insane

Maladroit was a good and underrated album. And obviously the first two were great. I was kind of done with Weezer when they put out the Beverly Hills single. They lost credibility with me as artists. That song was clearly a gimmick and was put out to make money to have Beverly Hills type money ironically. I still cringe every time I hear it. They just got a little too wonky and silly as their career progressed. Make Believe had some good tracks on it though it wasnt all bad. Haunt You Everyday is one of their best songs IMO.

Hey man you’re going places, amazing video

Just cane a across your channel and are enjoying the videos. Keep up the good work!

I wouldn't describe Blue as Power Pop. That sort of music is jangly, and richer with vocal harmonies and are overtly more influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Who, and whomever was popular in the early to mid 60s. Blue sounds like Nevermind with great harmonies and nerdiness.

Yo excellent video, gonna binge your channel now

Very high quality work. Can tell you're a very creative and dynamic creator. Looking forward to your future stuff. My only suggestion is you that should maybe turn up the volume on the background music a little bit, it's in this awkward zone where it's discernible enough that I notice it, but not quiet to the point where I can't tune it out.

These videos are hella good 👍

Fucking dying that freak me out was originally about a spider that fact has made my week

I just discovered your channel. I like it alot

I liked make believe. Haunt you everyday is a master piece

Yes. I like this album! Favorites: Perfect Situation, This Is Such A Pity, Hold Me, Peace, We Are All On Drugs, Pardon Me, My Best Friend, Freak Me Out, Haunt You Every Day Least Favorites: Beverly Hills, The Damage In Your Heart, The Other Way

This is such a good video like holy crap I don't really have anything else to add all the other comments just put it so well

the initial version of Perfect Situation is still one of my favorite Weezer songs

White is my favorite album but I like Make believe as well. Good vid!

I prefer Green to Make Believe for sure, but Maladroit is the best of 2000’s official output

While I appreciate the absurdist version of Weezer today, the music hasn't done much for me in a long, long time. I go back and listen to those first two The Rentals albums and I wonder what post-Pinkerton Weezer would be if things had worked out with Matt Sharp. It doesn't seem like the rest of the band has that much sway over Rivers. They just kind of tie themselves to something sturdy and try to ride out the storms which predictably end with a mish mash of sad boy rock and vapid pop hits. He doesn't seem to move anything forward. Matt Sharp has plenty of his own sad boy songs with The Rentals, but he was wrapping them in weird metaphors and being way more innovative and experimental with the sound. That kind of influence in Weezer would have made a huge difference.

Great ending. Also great video.

Cheers to you saying something good about Haunt You Every Day. My favourite on Make Believe. In my opinion, quite overlooked.

Beverly hills introduced me to Weezer. I really liked that song when I was 13 in 2005. my sister bought me the album for my birthday and I remember thinking it was pretty terrible.It didn't rock like Beverly hilld. Luckily not soon later I discovered blue/Pinkerton through lime wire and 17 years later weezers still one of my favorite bands. My take is that they've been really inconsistent with their albums(but not in a bad way). They like to experiment and honestly it's usually not my cup of tea when they stray from the style that made me fall in love with them. I absolutely love "everything will be alright in the end," "ok human," and "van weezer," but I cant listen to anything off of the black album, pacific daydream, and so far the seasons albums they're currently working on.

They started making music that they thought people liked instead of being who they are

I love make Believe, 11/10 video

I still listen to Pinkerton pretty often, but I haven't listened to a whole Weezer album after Green. They just don't make the music I enjoy anymore.

I love " This is such a pity "

Make believe, this is one of my favorite. Great video and channel

As far as Beverly Hills goes it’s greatest achievement was getting a cover featured on the simpsons in the episode where Lisa goes to a private school in waverly hills. if I recall correctly they got weezer in to sing it with the lyrics changed to suit the episode

I lmao'd at the origin of Freak Me Out. I remember loving it in highschool and think it was such High Art at the time when it was just about some guy Freaking out about a spider

really, really well done

Weird that I've been listening to the blue album (on CD) for the last few weeks, and now I'm getting Weezer vids like this recommended to me 👀

cant wait for ur haunt you everyday vid that song is so fucking amazing

Even in the failures, Weezer is still incredibly interesting. Every album and song help to understand River's complex mind, and I think it's really cool. And timeless.

The B-sides to this "Dark Belief" ain't too shabby and it's funny cause I've always described it as Pinkerton meets Green before hearing that about Make Believe...it all makes sense now

“My best friend had a rocky relation with this album.” Ha, Good one.

I'm a fan of this album. "Beverly Hills” rocks, though.

The most vocal Weezer critics are really the most hurt fans. I understand where the hate comes from though, because Weezer did start out as something very special.

I love The Green Album, I love Maladroit, I love Make Believe. I saw Weezer live on the tour for Make Believe. It was one of the best shows I've ever been to.

I was in a band when Make Believe came out, the three of us in the band all loved Weezer and I remember us sitting down in front of the frontman's computer and watching the video for Beverly Hills for the first time. We were horrified. Make Believe put me off Weezer until Van Weezer came out. I tried listening to albums over the years, and aside from the first half of the Red album, nothing really hit me as being decent. I hated Raditude, don't remember a single track from Hurley or Death to False Metal, and Everything will Be Alright In The End and the White Album struck me as very middle of the road. Precious Metal Girl got me listening again, and I'm enjoying SZNZ so far. Though when all is said and done I predict that they will have one good album's worth of songs stretched over four releases with a lot of filler.

Narrator sounds like he's British but lives in America now

I always thought that Make Believe was a very 'lazy' album because it feels just so...lazy. But learning about how troubled the production was, it certainly makes a lot more sense why the album feels that way to me. Its not that they didn't try, its that they had to pur everything through a blender to fit it into the album.

Love this album! Actually, this's one of my favorite Weezer albums

The best song on here is "this is such a pity"

I like your analysis. Great job 👍

I hate weezer but this video is well edited, entertaining and interesting. the background music could be louder tho, just a little

I like such kinds of videos, keep them coming.

I disagree. Make Believe didn’t help things but in my opinion Raditude solidified Weezer’s downfall.

I just want to thank you. Saying that Haunt You Every Day is a masterpiece made me listen to it and now it's probably my favorite Weezer song

best youtube channel, a true weezer warrior

The easy answer is they went pop rock and never looked back. That was the issue. The edge was lost.

This video is incredible well made. I really enjoyed it.

Well I fucking love 'Make Believe'

I like Make Believe.