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much is to be said about weezer particularly its cache in the Internet age and my (complicated) feelings about Pinkerton, but I did a Blue Album relisten on behalf of nostalgia and realized this is like, a sublime power pop song, still as good when I was 13!
Mar 9, 2024
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I must have been 8 or 9 when this album came out. I only heard it because an older family friend showed me. It was the first album I ever heard that wasn’t filtered through my parents, and that a cool 13(-ish) year old girl was showing me only made me more fascinated with it. I felt like I was in on something, even if the record ended up going platinum six times over.
But the reason I can say it’s my favorite album is that it’s actually good. The songs are catchy and accessible, but not without depth. It has some of Stephan Jenkins trademark cringe (try listening to any other 3EB album and its everywhere), Kevin Cadogan was able to blunt his worst instincts.
Listening to it in recent years leaves me with a feeling of aneomia — a strange sort of nostalgia for the life I imagined a cool young adult living in 1997.
Oct 2, 2024
such a tender and fun time... could just be looped in with that era of indie rock but there was something so distinct about it (twee? sparkly? childlike? maybe that's my own perception of its influence on me at the time?) someone still loves you boris yeltsin, freelance whales, clap your hands say yeah, midlake, islands, rogue wave, throw me the statue ETC!!!! i feel like i'm puking at homecoming bc my ex bf is grinding with my best friend and i am going home to burn a CD about it!!!!!
Dec 4, 2024
loved this when it first came out. listened again and it's quite literally aged so so so finely. the 80s pop references are nuts
Feb 1, 2025
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so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level
Feb 11, 2024
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alright hear me out: carbonation and coffee with a squeeze of orange shouldn’t work, but it does. Been making them daily and i feel a lot better in the morning each time i do
Mar 7, 2024
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the greatest love song of the 21st century??? wait…. They don’t love you like I love you
Feb 25, 2024