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I've got your letter, you've got my song
Oct. 9th, 2007 08:14 pmI spoke to my grandmother a little bit ago. She sounded good. She said that yesterday she wasn't sure she was going to make it through the night, but she did, and today they went out to breakfast, and tonight some of my cousins are out there.
And she told me to take care of myself above all things.
So in the interest of doing that, here's a small first step, and it's a little weird, but weird is how I roll.
I've posted this before, but there's no harm in doing it again because this is my favorite CD in the whole world, by pre-Green Album Weezer which is my favorite band in the whole world, even if this is the very album that destroyed them. I've been listening to it for ten years, and I've never gotten over it. I can't really explain it, so I found a review on Amazon that came...kind of close-ish:
"here it is - this is the album that drove Rivers into seclusion for several years, writing songs for himself in his room and throwing them away.
this is the album where he felt liberated, where he would be creating this new sound for everyone. the emotional nakedness he hinted at in Weezer (funky blue cover) became fully realized here. not only his voice showed his emotions, you can hear it in every note of his fractured guitar - the soaring, pins and needles feeling it elects out of you with every solo, every vibrato. the music drove you because he sang about a pain not only secular to him, it's an album he made for YOU just as much as him[...]
a funny thing happened. about the time this album came out, power-pop/punk was going on it's way out. this cd was left on the side, pushed away in favor of nameless bands long forgotten. only making gold (as opposed to the 4 million weezer sold), cuomo freaked and closed the door on his musical career for awhile to sort through it all[...]
so here is pinkerton - on one hand one of the best albums released in the 90s, yet simultaneously something which drove its creator to the brink of depression. the weezer you see now is 1/2 of their former self. here they are at their height."
( Track List )
Weezer - "Pinkerton" (Full zip)
And she told me to take care of myself above all things.
So in the interest of doing that, here's a small first step, and it's a little weird, but weird is how I roll.
I've posted this before, but there's no harm in doing it again because this is my favorite CD in the whole world, by pre-Green Album Weezer which is my favorite band in the whole world, even if this is the very album that destroyed them. I've been listening to it for ten years, and I've never gotten over it. I can't really explain it, so I found a review on Amazon that came...kind of close-ish:
"here it is - this is the album that drove Rivers into seclusion for several years, writing songs for himself in his room and throwing them away.
this is the album where he felt liberated, where he would be creating this new sound for everyone. the emotional nakedness he hinted at in Weezer (funky blue cover) became fully realized here. not only his voice showed his emotions, you can hear it in every note of his fractured guitar - the soaring, pins and needles feeling it elects out of you with every solo, every vibrato. the music drove you because he sang about a pain not only secular to him, it's an album he made for YOU just as much as him[...]
a funny thing happened. about the time this album came out, power-pop/punk was going on it's way out. this cd was left on the side, pushed away in favor of nameless bands long forgotten. only making gold (as opposed to the 4 million weezer sold), cuomo freaked and closed the door on his musical career for awhile to sort through it all[...]
so here is pinkerton - on one hand one of the best albums released in the 90s, yet simultaneously something which drove its creator to the brink of depression. the weezer you see now is 1/2 of their former self. here they are at their height."
( Track List )
Weezer - "Pinkerton" (Full zip)
