Score: [4.0]

Review
I’m sure we all remember when these guys came out and made it cool to be nerds, then when the baggy-jean culture arrived they were nowhere to be found. Well, this album brings me back to the days when I use to drink my soda pop with ice cream in it, so, I figured I’d write a review on it.

Ok well this album is about… umm highschool life. So it’s not about anything special, it’s not deep, and it’s not exactly groundbreaking, but it’s definitely not Good Charlotte. What makes this album so good, is the chemistry, it’s just effortless. You couldn’t even tell which song was a single without already knowing. Each song seems to compliment the next, and in the end you realize you like every single song. It’s just so rare that someone can feel so satisfied after listening to an album. So if you’ve ever been, or still are, in highschool, this album will be a lot of fun, or serious when it needs to be.

Even if you don’t like Weezer, or even if you don’t like rock, I still think you’ll find a way to appreciate this album, cause everyone else will, and one day when you’re at a bar and they play their song and some hot chick says, “I love this song, oh Weezer is like the cooooolest band”, and all you do is nod your head like a poser, you’ll think about this article and you’ll think about me. You odn’t want to do that. Get the album.

[Weezer: Official Site]

-Jamie

BRC-MUSR-4.0-RA

Score: [2.5]

Review
Double album? Haven’t people learned yet? The industry seems to think that if you release an album that has 2 CD’s it is suppose to make it better, well really, it doesn’t. These stupid double albums are just putting on tracks that were never suppose to make the album anyways. Sure, we’d love to hear more of our favourite bands and artists, but sometimes it’s the wait and the patience that make the next song that much ebtter to listen to.

It’s hard for me to know where to start with this album, but I tihnk the most noticable problem with the album is Anthony Kiedis. I love the guy, but his age is really starting to show. It’s just really noticeable when the band still tries to get ‘funky’, yeah, that shit was cool when you were on drugs, but it just doesn’t have the same effect anymore. The Peppers’ sound has matured a lot over the past 2 decades, and I think they should keep growing. We all appreciate their funk tracks, but that was a different time.

Double the tracks, double the dissappointment, if they just condensed the album to all their ballads, I probaly would’ve scored this album as much as a 4.

[Red Hot Chili Peppers: Official Site]

-Jamie

-BRC-MUSR-2.5-RA