Am I a bad person for going to this? I can't get into much post-Pinkerton, but I'm sorry this was my youth. I'm curious to see the makeup of the crowd. Anyone else not going?

No.  I will not be paying $37.50, or whatever it is after Ticketbastard 'fees' to see them play the Green Album in a bad rock venue.  Weezer is a very good live band, though, or at least they were back in the day.  Let's hope that this record was just a temporary bump in the road of an incredible career.  Before I get flamed, let me make it clear that I'm not saying the Green Album sucks, just that it was very mediocre, and they are capable of much better.  But I'm an idiot, so don't trust what I say.

If it wasn't for the ridiculously long lines to get in that I'm expecting, I would show up very very late. Weezer is ok, but Ozma and Saves The Day....
I saw Saves The Day on some late night talk show, the singer is so off key he's almost singing high harmony.

If it were indeed $37.50, that would be about a dollar a minute if they played the green album, start to finish.

i dislike the new weezer so much i've started questioning whether i even like the old stuff. pinkerton was a progression from the blue album & a good one at that. the new stuff is like a generic blue album. it was a smart commercial move to record it, but a poor long term decision.

Most everything Green and after lacks one key thing...emotion. Maybe its just the strange nature with which Rivers chooses to sing now, but I don't think that's completely it. Maybe they miss Matt Sharp's whackiness.

at 24, i'll probably be the oldest one there.

i, too, will not pay $40 to see weezer. especially with a band like saves the gay opening. plus it couldn't be as good as when i saw them at 328 (for free) 5 or 6 years ago.

i'm glad i didnt go. its not worth 40 dollars. if tenecious d was still opening for them i probably would have considered it.

i went to the show. I initially regretted shelling out the $28.50, but i'd never seen weezer before (i moved to tn right after they played 328 and that no doubt concert or whatever). honestly, i had a great time. they actually played blue album and pinkerton stuff mostly, and only the less painful selections from the newest one. The only drawback really was the crowd - the kid next to us did that 'holding up the cellphone 'HEY GUESS WHERE I AM?' thing' twice. two separate times. anyway, yeah, i was surprised how great the show was.
i think weezer has gone downhill because rivers is pretty delusional. he felt pinkerton was a mistake solely because of a poorer commercial performance, and because of this he goes into hiding for like 5 years. then he decides to write these sort of bland-but-inoffensive songs (not to mention completely giving up lyrically/emotionally etc) in hopes of greater commercial success. weezer comes back, and they're arguably bigger than ever, and it leads rivers to believe that it's because of this 'hash pipe' type stuff, and not because, in fact, they were gone for so long, the hype pretty much built itself up. i just have a bad feeling that this is the weezer we're stuck with from now on.

that bad huh?

Weezer has fallen into shit and will continue to be shit until Dave Fieldman produces them again ie Pinkerton. Everyone should boycott the green album. Well got to go and drink some High Life and listen Harper Valley PTA over and over and over again. God Damn I hate Nashville.
Tune into across the pond M-F 6am to 8am

I went, and I have to say it was a pretty good show aside from all the little emo kids jumping around. The new songs sounded great- especially keep fishin.

Harper Valley PTA? WTF!? That's a great way to get people to listen to your radio show! wanker

um...yeah...damon. don't quote the pink floyd unless it involves syd barret.

good point, lawnwrangler. syd barrett IS pink floyd in my opinion.

I would expect such a comment here. Sorry if I've listened to some mainstream Pink Floyd. I'll try to keep that sort of thing at a minimum from now on.

good idea, my man. we do like to pick on the newbies.

of course even full members listen to crap like kula shaker....isn't that right lawnwrangler.

Kula Shaker was a great band. ExLT, did you ever hear 'Peasants Pigs & Astronauts'?

no. i heard that album with...'un hyacinth meander undst der tatva????' on it. it was a little to loopy for me.....oddly enough.

isn't the singer in kula shaker the son of haley mills? the parent trap is a good movie.

yes he is. he also has a song called 'hey dude'. just like david bowie says in 'suffragette city'.....except he says 'dude' instead of 'man'. how clever.

oh man! what an album that was... one of my all time favs. there was a while were i spent every second of my spare time trying to gather up all the import singles, bootlegs, and videos that i could get my hands on. sad? perhaps. overkill?? probably. but i didn't care... so did any of you ever see 'em live? i saw them in atlanta back in the day... it totally blew me away!

jarvis cocker could beat up crispian mills. damon albarn would take both of them. i think bonehead is the toughest man in brit-pop. brett anderson is the weakest.

have you heard anything by bonehead's new band? it's fucking terrible. It's him, the drummer and bassist from the smiths, and some singer. he's nothing without guigsy.

hmm... i'm not so sure about that. i just don't think mr. albarn's reflexes are what they would have been back in '94. bonehead may indeed be the toughest, but guigsy is, without a doubt, the creepiest man in britpop (with second place going to liam gallagher's unibrow, which has taken on a debaucherous life of its own over the last few years).  i'd also like to go on record as having said that justine frischmann could beat up any man in britpop...

i'll drink to that. elastica's first album fucking rocks.

elastica's first album is also a result of shameless theft from wire and romeo void. i love it though.

alas, it is true that guigsy was a bit creepy. but, my vote for creepiest man in britpop would be brett anderson of suede. in second place would have to be johnny marr- that guy is a coked out bastard.

more notable creepy britpop figures:

reni, of the stone roses
shaun ryder, of the happy mondays
alex james, of blur

... and though it is a far cry from britpop, thom yorke of radiohead is a damn scary looking guy.

...a special thanks to ray davies for his help in brainstorming these creepy men...

i think rollum looks like brett andeson with a big nose.

i think bobby gillespy from prml scrm would win in a brit-pop royal rumble.

i think the features are a much bigger bowie ripoff than the shaker.

Concerning Kula Shaker:
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I can understand some of the complaints that I'm hearing here about their first album.  Yes, it was kind of loopy, and yes, there are plentiful Bowie ripoffs, especially on the first side.  But I really think that this band didn't come into their own until 'P P & A'.  It's not as loopy or as Bowieish.  I did see Kula Shaker in Spring 1997 at 328 and it was nothing less than the best rock show I've ever been to.  What's really sick is that some friends of mine went to see them in Atlanta in 1999, and said it was EVEN BETTER!  This is unimaginable to me.

Concerning 'Bowieish':
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The most blatant Bowie ripoffs ever have come from a group called Spacehog.  These guys have their lips firmly attatched to Ziggy Stardust's ass.  Also very unashamedly Bowieish is 'Head Music' by Suede (or Suede in general, to a lesser degree).

Concerning Britpop superlatives:
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Jarvis is creepy just because of 'This is Hardcore.' Guigsy is just a pothead, nothing to be afraid of. Any member of Oasis, past, present, or future is too stupid to be creepy. Brett Anderson is both creepy and a wimp, while Bernard Butler is an even bigger wimp, but is not creepy whatsoever. Alex James is just a drunkard, nothing to be afraid of. Damon could kick anyone's ass, but '2-D' could get his ass kicked *by* anyone. Oh, and Murdoc is creepy. I suppose Thom Yorke is creepy if you think aliens are creepy, because let me let you in on a little secret - Radiohead are a special breed of prophet aliens sent here to warn the earth about unthinkable perils to come. But perhaps the creepiest of all is Luke Haines. The flowers in Luke Haines' windowsill are creepier than everyone else on this list combined. However creepy he is, though, Justine could still, indeed, kick his ass.

I had the same sentiments when I saw them, which, happens to be the Atlanta show your friends went to.  The PPA stuff was, quite simply, amazing in the live context...  The whole experience caused me to buy a Hammond organ and put it in my dorm room the next semester... everyone thought I was crazy.

In other news, the cage match I would most like to see would have to be between Liam Gallagher's unibrow and one of David Crosby's old livers.

young, skinny alex james looks like jimmy fallon.

exliontamer, share your theory about 'british rock stars who stop caring' with the people.