Released: 2008

Genres: Power Pop, Pop Rock

The Musiquarium’s Weezer (Red Album) Review Score: 3/5

On Weezer’s third self-titled album, the band seems to throw several different things at the wall to see what sticks, but like their disharmonious outfits on the cover, the variety here isn’t necessarily cohesive; however, it does make for a somewhat interesting listen.

While it’s got nothing on any of their songs from the nineties, Pork and Beans is still one of Weezer’s best songs of the 2000s, which is accompanied by an iconic music video. The mini epic The Greatest Man That Ever Lived isn’t particularly great, but it’s one of the band’s more adventurous songs of the decade. Heart Songs finds Rivers Cuomo serenading the songs that he loves dearly, and despite its good intentions, it’s as cheesy and saccharine as you’d expect it to be. Everybody Get Dangerous sounds like a Weird Al parody of Red Hot Chili Peppers. The other members of the band each get one song to sing on the latter half of the album and lets just say that there’s a reason why Rivers Cuomo is the singer in the band.

Weezer (Red Album) is not a very good album and is vastly inferior to the previous two self-titled albums, but it is marginally more exciting than Make Believe was (as if that’s any kind of benchmark to have).

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Written by Brett Nippard