JC sent Sara and I the gift of an early release of the new Weezer album last week. Now I'm not the best guy to judge a good Weezer album. I liked the blue album, but everybody liked the blue album, right? After that I noticed a stray song of theirs here or there. Passive fandom.

The new album seems to be getting panned a lot by critics. Of course who cares what music critics think, right?

I like several of the songs so far. The first single Pork and Beans is fun. I even like the extremely cheesy, somewhat self-indulgent Heartsongs.

But the best track on the whole album has to be The Greatest Man That Ever Lived. It's ten songs in one. It's every terrible awful pop music cliche' that ever existed, forced to live in a house where things stop being polite and start being real. It's kitschy and overblown, but so what? Anyone who demands complete seriousness from their music probably spends way too much time on Pitchfork and is completely insufferable at parties.

Listen for yourself: The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

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1. This is the worst Weezer album ever...even worse than Maladroit.

2. "Thought I Knew" is the only song that has pulled me back in besides "pork and beans"

3. "Greatest Man That Ever Lived" - I think this is actually based on a Shaker Hymn...but that could be a lie.

4. Pitchfork, while a great resource for indie rock news...it's a POS and a "snob's snob" when it comes to album reviews...they just gave the new My Morning Jacket a 4.7 and it's easily the best album of the year so far. Pitchfork sucks! Go buy the new My Morning Jacket!  


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