Rivers Cuomo has called “Undone - The Sweater Song” “almost a complete rip-off” of Metallica’s “Welcome Home (Sanitarium).” In honor of the album’s 25th anniversary, here are 10 facts you might not know about Weezer’s debut.ġ. “The record sounds kind of weird, but if you turn it up extremely loud and lie down, it can be rewarding.” “None of these songs are perfect, but I think you can hear that we’re trying hard to be honest and real,” Cuomo later told biographer John D. Though many have praised the Blue Album as one of the most flawless debuts in rock history, the frontman, predictably, took a more self-critical point of view. They also hint at the feelings of loneliness lurking just behind Cuomo’s Buddy Holly glasses, which would come to the fore on the band’s divisive 1996 follow-up, Pinkerton. The songs that heralded Weezer’s arrival show strains of the singer’s trademark ennui, but also brim with wide-eyed romanticism and deeply affecting melancholia. “Because I’m so terrible at expressing my feelings directly, and because no one really cares - and because anything real is almost impossible to talk about - I’ve come to rely on music more and more to express myself,” Cuomo said in his self-penned label bio sheet. The album would peak at Number 16 and sell more than 3 million copies in the U.S.Ĭhasteness, Soda Pop, and Show Tunes: The Lost Story of the Young Americans and the Choircore Movement The band flaunted cardigans, bowl cuts, and lyrical references to D&D and Kiss posters, and their unapologetic nerdiness seemed only to endear them to the young MTV crowd, many of whom were just beginning to take their bargain-priced introductory instruments for a test run in their parents’ basements. Cuomo, Pat Wilson, Matt Sharp and Brian Bell pumped perfect Beach Boys harmonies and finely crafted bubblegum hooks through megawatt amps and crunchy distortion pedals, in the process becoming the unlikeliest of rock heroes this side of Elvis Costello. Arriving on May 10th, 1994, the 10-track self-titled LP best known as the Blue Album provided a new roadmap for alt-rock following the death of Kurt Cobain and the conclusion of grunge’s first era. The music world would show significantly more interest than his classmates.
“They were all like, ‘Yeah, cool, whatever.’”
“I brought it to class and said, ‘Look everybody,’” he recalled in 1995. Twenty-five years ago, Rivers Cuomo was attending community college when his band Weezer released their self-titled debut.
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