My Favorite Album of All-Time... (Pt. I)

this is my favorite album of all-time.

i have always been known to speak in exaggerations,

so i may (and probably will) tell you the same thing

about a variety of other albums as well...

but THIS is the one, the one that changed everything for me...

i was somewhere in the range of 16 years old,

i was in Virginia for a family vacation that i had

no interest on being involved with.

while watching TV, i found this new station 

called MTV2, that actually played music videos

and the first video i saw was "El Scorcho" by Weezer.

Weezer at the time had been a pretty fringe band for me.

i liked the Blue Album alot

& i knew how to play "Say it Ain't So"

but other than that, Weezer was just another

band that wasn't Blink-182.

but that video & that song hit me right in the chest.

right place, right time, right on.

i went out to a now-defunct record store in Utica

& bought the album before i took the train to NYC

to visit my sister & on the 3-hour trip

this album single-handedly changed the way

that i wrote music to this day.

the guitar tone on "Tired of Sex" is so dirty

& "Getchoo" sounds like it was played on a chainsaw.

and it's not to say that the Blue Album wasn't loud,

but when Pinkerton wants to be heavy, it's fuckin' heavy...

Rivers was great back then at

pulling you apart with his lyrics.

everything he said was just so real,

but he was never afraid to sound vulnerable or silly.

& honestly, is there any question that

"Across the Sea" isn't the best sad song ever?

luv weezer

wish they wouldn't put out bullshit anymore.