gendy, my sweet pooky
I was hoping for that response.
I guess if alternative music is your thing there is nothing I can say to you.
would any of them be able to sit still for a sec and absorb the subtleties of Bach or Grieg?
You might not have noticed, but the record that got them their 'emo' reputation- Pinkerton - was a rock opera based around Puccinis Madame Butterfly. This gets even better...
Its a little known fact that their followup record, 2001's
The Green Album, was written based around Nietzsches idea of 'pure music' in N. Contra Wagner.
We owe this to Rivers Cuomo- Weezers very own deranged genius songwriter who fits your description of an intellectual musician. Currently, he is attending Harvard to finish off his degree in creative writing. He has a little website->
http://riverscuomo.com -> on which he lists one of his musical influences as your beloved bach
ABBA, am Radio, Bach, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bee Gees, Beethoven, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Chet Baker, Chopin, Dusty Springfield, Fate's Warning, France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Gregg Alexander, Jay Z, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joao Gilberto, Kate Bush, KISS, Les Miz, Metallica, Mozart, Neil Diamond, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G., Oasis, Ozma, Prince, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann's "Dichterliebe", Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, The Cure, Van Morrison, West Side Story
-Before writing the green album, Rivers spent a month living in a 1 room apartment under a busy LA intersection, in which he sealed off the windows with fiberglass, painted the walls black and did without a phone or electricity.
-For the upcoming album 5 (before going off to harvard this fall,) he sold
all of his possesions, with the exception of a few comic books at a storage facility on the east coast, lost 15% of his body weight while medidating with a bunch of monks, and moved into Rick Rubins poolhouse. (most fans found this to be hilariously typical of him.) There's even a picture of Rivers indulging in the Tao te Ching and a diet coke while his bandmates practice a few demos..
All done for the creative process. And I won't even get into the 3 binder encyplodia he wrote on this history of pop..
My point is -Aside from a few catchy Green Day songs,- I've never been into 90's 'alternative'. Weezer is truly a different band. They have a kind of shell with 'superficial music,' and 'passing trend' written on it. But there's an amazing group of musicians underneath with actual chemistry.
Maybe you drew these conclusions from the
keep fishin video where, on the surface, they dance around with the muppets like a bunch of retards. In reality, thats just them having fun, mocking the teeny bandwagon fans whom they affectionately refer to as 'Little Bitches' OTR.
It fluctuates between 2 or three different chords, chorus, 2 or three different chords, chorus, finale.
Easy to follow, easy to duplicate, easy to swallow.
Hmm..You know, Weezer is mostly power chords, but I can tell you for a fact theres a lot more to music than how many keys you can hit- Melody, crescendo, pitch, distortion, creative use of instruments (ie moog.) Pinkerton has some pretty awesome and diverse guitar work on it... 'Across the sea', The good life, falling for you.
When you get down to it, the simplicity is more of an asset; Anybody can play, recognize and enjoy Weezer songs with a simple acoustic guitar or a full instrumental set (There has ev been a classical music cover album
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=sr_1_15/103-8275928-0522229?v=glance&s=music)
I would have to agree for most the music they produced after the summer songs of 2000 (a year after rivers moved away from the intersection.) and before the recent album 5 work (when Rivers began meditating again). Some of their best material is still unreleased, or unavailable to the average listener (you have to know where to get it.)
And Tenacious D is for fluffy married men with three kids.
Agreed, along with the Dr Lou statement.
