Weezer - Make Believe

UnDoNe · #1 04-24-2005, 01:15 PM

This just leaked last night and its a great record! Definitely up there with blue and pinkerton. And Scott Shriner is a great bassist

Against Will · #2 04-24-2005, 01:36 PM

I hope the other songs are better than "Beverly Hills"

UnDoNe · #3 04-24-2005, 01:55 PM

'Beverly Hills' is the worst song on the album Its shocking how such a great album has that as the first track, but it's soon gone...and on with the rock!

FireAarro · #4 04-24-2005, 08:54 PM

Yeah, on the weezernation and albumfive boards everyone's saying how it's really good, but the guys on ozmafans generally say it's just okay so far.. hmm. But the general consensus is that BVH is the worst song on the album (followed by WAAOD "I want to confiscate yr. drugs!").

We don't want to overreact now, do we

P.S. I'm abstaining from the leak, I'll wait 'til it comes out..

PunkerTrav · #5 04-24-2005, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by UnDoNe

Its shocking how such a great album has that as the first track

Weezer has a strong history of choosing poor first singles.

That said, BVH was so bad I pretty much wrote off the whole album. So there's hope for it after all?

FireAarro · #6 04-24-2005, 09:48 PM

Yeah, there's hope. It's pretty decent apparently. Better than Green and Maladroit, or sth.

dancehallclasher · #7 04-25-2005, 03:16 PM

In my opinion this is the worst album weezer has EVER made. I sincerely wish I had never listened to it.

jrthebassguy · #8 04-25-2005, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by dancehallclasher

In my opinion this is the worst album weezer has EVER made. I sincerely wish I had never listened to it.

Even worse than green? Didn't think such a task was possible.

dancehallclasher · #9 04-25-2005, 03:50 PM

The Green Album is insipid but pretty damn catchy. This one is insipid and utterly bland.

UnDoNe · #10 04-26-2005, 07:03 AM

all a matter of opinion i guess

Droog · #11 04-26-2005, 08:13 PM

The Blue Album is one of my all time favorite albums, however since the loss of Matt Sharp and the release of "Green" I have boycotted Weezer, they shall not see my money. I think Rivers has his head way up his a**. The music is trite and un-inspired. Again, all a matter of opinion

Oh yeah, Ken Andrews released the second ON album entitled "Make Believe" over a year ago.

FireAarro · #12 04-27-2005, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Droog

The Blue Album is one of my all time favorite albums, however since the loss of Matt Sharp and the release of "Green" I have boycotted Weezer, they shall not see my money. I think Rivers has his head way up his a**. The music is trite and un-inspired. Again, all a matter of opinion

Oh yeah, Ken Andrews released the second ON album entitled "Make Believe" over a year ago.

So have you heard MB or not?

Heh, on all the Weezer fanboard people were complaining on how Make Believe was a horrible title

Psyrcle · #13 04-27-2005, 11:10 AM

This was the worst Weezer album. They don't have the raw Weezer feel they had on Blue or Pinkerton. It is too much pop. the lyrics are well written but it seems to rub off as rehashed Green album Bsides.

Psyrcle · #14 04-27-2005, 11:12 AM

This was the worst Weezer album. They don't have the raw Weezer feel they had on Blue or Pinkerton. It is too much pop. the lyrics are well written but it seems to rub off as rehashed Green album Bsides.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the album since it was free but I would never sink more than $3 for the still shrink-wrapped first pressing of it.

carrythatweight · #15 04-27-2005, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by PunkerTrav

Weezer has a strong history of choosing poor first singles.

Such as Dope Nose, or Hash Pipe...although both of those albums were throwaway crap...I just think Rivers is too in love with himself to make good music anymore.

UnDoNe · #16 04-28-2005, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Psyrcle

This was the worst Weezer album. They don't have the raw Weezer feel they had on Blue or Pinkerton. It is too much pop. the lyrics are well written but it seems to rub off as rehashed Green album Bsides.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the album since it was free but I would never sink more than $3 for the still shrink-wrapped first pressing of it.

This album isn't as good as blue or pink, but i think it's just slightly better than green and it blows maladroit out of the water. Also, its strange how you say the lyrics are well written as these are probably the worst weezer lyrics yet, but the music makes up for it

Transverz · #17 04-28-2005, 05:48 PM

Funny side story:

I and my 2 friends/bandmates were actually in the BVH video (kinda to the right of the big lighted =W=, next to a couple Playmates, one of which whose boob popped out during one of the takes! Too bad I didn't see it in time

)

Okay, second funny side story:

They first started playing the song at time and a half (1.5x the speed) and that was the first time most of the people who came in late afternoon including me had heard BVH. It sounded pretty cool. Over and over again, it started to grow on all of us. It was really easy to rock to. Then they said, "Okay, now we are going to play it in real time!". HOLY MOLY it was SLOOOOW. Everyone was all off-time rockin' out to it (especially this one Playmate who could NOT dance nor even sway/clap to the timing of music to save her life).

Anyway, what really counts is if you put your face up REALLY close to your TV screen, at minute 02:09, you will see my blurry face for a nano-second! YEAH!!! I now live forever!!!

*until they stop showing this video at least*

-T

jrthebassguy · #18 04-28-2005, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireAarro

So have you heard MB or not?

Heh, on all the Weezer fanboard people were complaining on how Make Believe was a horrible title

It is a pretty dumb title, IMO.

frankosaurus · #19 04-28-2005, 09:07 PM

Blue was full of great songs since Rivers had his whole life to write them (note how much acoustic guitar is on Blue-- from Rivers' open-mic solo days). Pinkerton had some of that songwriting influence, with fewer hooks, but some good emotional subject material to make up for it.

It's well documented that Rivers had writers' block when working on Pinkerton. My theory is that he's basically never recovered from that writers' block.

UnDoNe · #20 04-29-2005, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Transverz

Funny side story:

I and my 2 friends/bandmates were actually in the BVH video (kinda to the right of the big lighted =W=, next to a couple Playmates, one of which whose boob popped out during one of the takes! Too bad I didn't see it in time

)

Okay, second funny side story:

They first started playing the song at time and a half (1.5x the speed) and that was the first time most of the people who came in late afternoon including me had heard BVH. It sounded pretty cool. Over and over again, it started to grow on all of us. It was really easy to rock to. Then they said, "Okay, now we are going to play it in real time!". HOLY MOLY it was SLOOOOW. Everyone was all off-time rockin' out to it (especially this one Playmate who could NOT dance nor even sway/clap to the timing of music to save her life).

Anyway, what really counts is if you put your face up REALLY close to your TV screen, at minute 02:09, you will see my blurry face for a nano-second! YEAH!!! I now live forever!!!

*until they stop showing this video at least*

-T

wow thats pretty cool my friend! i heard on the boards about it being played faster and how a few boardies preferred it to the 'normal' version