Here are 2 of our most loved albums of the moment. We like the music, we're not just big fans of the colour red, honest..:
What a happy day it was when this was released! Weezer have released some doozies in their time which makes it harder to judge their new album fairly, because you inevitably compare it with Pinkerton and The Blue Album. Shockingly, The Red Album holds its own in such company.
There are a few questionable lyrics in this album (see the track, "I Am The Greatest Man That Ever Lived") but it's almost as if they're doing it intentionally. Listening to the album - everytime that I think "who thought that line was a good idea?", some spectacular Weezer-esque harmonies kick in and I think "who cares? Awww listen to Weezer go!"
Favourite tracks on The Red Album are: Troublemaker, Pork & Beans (the lead single with the video clip that the whole internet is talking about, check it out here), Dreamin' and Heart Songs. Oh Weezer, us Play4mesters love you. And Rivers Cuomo you're right when you sing, "everyone likes to dance to a happy song, with a catchy chorus and beats so they can singalong" in Pork & Beans. That's why we love Weezer.
These Melbourne boys have come a long way. They're young and they're hot and they play rock n roll. They can pull off saying things like "here we go, rock n roll!"And I want them to take over the world.
It wasn't that long ago that I saw the Skybombers play in front of 15 people at various Melbourne venues, now they're international superstars (thanks mainly to LA radio station Indie 103.1)!
Take Me To Town is a classic rock album; it has songs to air guitar to, it has a ballad for a crowd to wave lighters from side to side to, lots of guitar shredding and just listening to it - you can feel the mid-guitar-solo-rock-jumps.
