I've got your letter, you've got my song

[maypirate]

I 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."


1. Tired of Sex
2. Getchoo
3. No Other One
4. Why Bother?
5. Across the Sea
6. The Good Life
7. El Scorcho
8. Pink Triangle
9. Falling For You
10. Butterfly


Weezer - "Pinkerton" (Full zip)

Comments

[sarayan.livejournal.com]

The last time you posted this, I downloaded it, and while I can never love it with the same intensity you do, I do love it, and I might never have loved it if you hadn't shared it with me. So, thanks.

[crazyloststar.livejournal.com]

i love this album oh so much. <333

[wofl-iron.livejournal.com]

So I downloaded this the day you posted this entry, and I added it to my itunes a few days ago, but I had not, until now, gotten a chance to sit down and listed to it.

I did that this morning. And I realized that I'd heard all of these songs before, just not in order, not in context.

And now I have, and it's amazing and even though the songs were familiar, they were entirely new and I understand perfectly why you love it so much and I can't stop listening to it now.

I dunno. I just thought you might like to hear that you've made me look at something in an entirely new light and that I think this album is amazing too. <333