As noted in the last post, my big brother started making me aware of music in the mid-90s. While No Rain was and has remained my favorite track of that era, Weezer's debut "blue album" was a revelation to me. Like so many other late-20 somethings in America, Blue was a gateway drug into the rest of the "alternative" universe. I fell in love with that music without the aid of videos like Buddy Holly immediately accessible.
A few years later, Pinkerton came out and while it initially seemed like too much of a departure, it grew on me and became one of my all-time favorites. For several years, both CDs stayed in my regular rotation while Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp bickered the band into silence.
In the aftermath of Y2K, it was announced that weezer (sans Sharp - good for him) would play a comeback tour with Dynamite Hack. As soon as they were posted, Russ got tickets to the show at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit. It was my first concert.
We were able to exploit our friend, Ben's wheelchair to push our way up to the front row for what is still my favorite concert experience ever. The band was on. The fans in the balcony were jumping up and down so much that the structure started to literally bounce to the cusp of collapse. It was incredible. I had such a blind, youthful faith in music and life at that moment.
Six months later, this turd of a song came out, crushing my faith in the record industry and humanity in general. Since then I have wanted nothing more than for them to stop making records so I can go back in time and Eternal Sunshine them starting in the year 2000.
Lyrics from Island In the Sun as translated filtered through Translation Party
http://translationparty.com/#9200334
"We have more memory, you may not need your money, call the sea, I love the floating zone."
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