Weezer's "The Red Album"
I’ve been listening to the Red Album, the latest release from one of my favorite musical artists of all time, Weezer. They recently sored to the top of the YouTube charts with their music video Pork and Beans, the highlighted single from the album. Pork and Beans, especially with its corresponding video, is going to be, by far, one of the most defining songs of this decade of music. Its a celebration of independence, self expression and creativity, which is what our generation is seemingly all about with the rise of services such as YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, et al.
However, the life changing moment that is to be experienced after listening to Pork and Beans is sadly lost with the rest of the album. I can’t pick out a bad song at all, however aside from their popular single, I can’t pick out another song that strikes me as great. After listening through once, nothing struck me as “I’d really like to listen to that song again” or even an inkling to check the title so I could remember. It serves best as background music to me. Something good to listen to if you just sit down and need some music while you’re doing something else. Its not something I’d find myself sitting down and listening to for the sake of listening to music.
3.5/5
