School is Crap, I've Had It!

Anyone remember Weezer's second album, "Pinkerton?" It was like their "Paul's Boutique." Everyone hated "Paul's Boutique" at first because the Beastie Boys' first album had all kinds of Led Zeppelin samples, and Kerry King from Slayer played on it, and this one was way different. It wasn't a typical hip-hop record. But then, "Paul's Boutique" came out and it was a real hip-hop record. The samples weren't heavy metal, they were soul and funk. It was probably the best record they ever made, but everyone hated it at first. I remember in high school, my friend Seth went out on lunch to buy it, and within listening to it for five minutes in his car, he threw it out the window and said it was crap. Yeah, two days later, he went back and re-bought it. It took time to grow and build a huge underground following. Weezer's "Pinkerton" suffered the same fate. Their first album, the first self-titled one (the 'Blue album') was so perfectly pop. It was well-produced and clean, the lyrics were vague or general. "Pinkerton" was a different story altogether: the lyrics were painfully personal, the production wasn't necessarily dirty, it was just different. The music itself didn't sound perfect, it sounded more real and honest. This is why it's the best album Weezer's made. Please, go find this record and listen to it at least three times in a row. I beg you.

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