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May 2008
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Weezer has bumped up the release date of its latest disc to June 3. The title of the new album is, wait for it, "Weezer." That's right, this will be the THIRD self-titled album for the geek rock group. However, everyone is calling it "The Red Album," because apparently the cover is red, just like 1994's "Weezer" is now known as "The Blue Album" because of its cover following the release of 2001's "Weezer" which is known as "The Green Album" because of, you guessed it, a green cover.  Hi, we're Weezer. While this is a picture of the four of us, it's not our album cover because we're standing in front of a white background. We like blue and green and red, kind of like Joseph and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat. Or Speed Racer. The band has actually ventured out to create other album titles, such as "Pinkerton," "Maladroit" and "Make Believe," but those didn't sell as well as the color albums, at least at first. And front man Rivers Cuomo has been famously working on this perfect formula for a pop song, so maybe the album cover is part of it. I doubt the band will ever do "The Black Album" or "The White Album" because seriously, who wants to compete with Metallica and the Beatles? Not I. Back to the matter at hand, the album is bumped up, apparently due to the success of single "Pork and Beans," which hit #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart, and if you pre-order it from iTunes, you can get early access to U.S. tour tickets. However, if Rivers and Co. are anything like Coldplay and Pearl Jam, they'll just ignore us in SoCal anyway. You can listen to "Pork and Beans" here. Although I think the title is just stupid, it's a good song. |
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