According to a piece in the most recent Entertainment Weekly’s “Listen 2 This” music section, a full-fledged reunion of Weezer’s original lineup is in the works, as original bassist Matt Sharp (absent from the band’s last two albums) has rekindled his friendship with frontman Rivers Cuomo.
This is good news, but I’ve got three problems with EW’s story: one, it treats Weezer’s 1994 debut “The Blue Album” like it’s the greatest record in history while disparaging the more recent “Green Album” and “Maladroit,” when in fact the quality gap, at least between ‘Blue’ and ‘Green,’ isn’t that wide; two, it acts as though 1996’s “Pinkerton,” a misunderstood masterpiece that is one of my favorite albums of all time, never happened, not even mentioning it; and three, the piece leaves out the whole story about Weezer being essentially dead for the five years between “Pinkerton” and “Green Album” and coming back from nowhere.
Other than that, good piece. Rolling Stone does a better job with the same story. And on the bright side, neither piece has any reference to human/muppet sexuality.
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 15, 2004 07:48 PM