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May 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Weezer: Van Weezer

Weezer Van Weezer Crush Music/Atlantic This is the fifteenth album by American band Weezer. Here is a review of the album:
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February 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 222 – Foo Fighters, Sydney, 2018

It wasn’t that I was desperate to see the Foo Fighters again – although I was curious (call it a perverse ‘professional curiosity’ if you like…) I saw the Foos when they had only just formed and were rather good. I saw them again, two albums later, as part of a Big Day Out. And they were quite shit. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Aussie, Australia, Concert, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Foos, Gig, Live Gig, Live Gig Review, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 222, Stubs: # 222 – Foo Fighters, Sydney, Weezer ·

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January 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Weezer: Weezer (The Teal Album)

Weezer Weezer (The Teal Album) Crush Music/Atlantic That Weezer has survived to make a dozen albums simply means they’ve recorded nine or ten albums more than necessary. Any of you getting raged and ready to defend Maladroit or Make Believe or to say any of the other self-titled/colour albums should be saved due to a single song like Pork and Beans or whatever, […]
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January 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, Sydney)

Foo Fighters & Weezer ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park; Sydney, Australia Saturday, January 27 The Foo Fighters are a strange beast – they have been in existence some 22 years. Started, as a solo project by Dave Grohl, a dumping ground for demos he’d been building up in Nirvana’s final moments and then in the […]
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May 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Monkees: Good Times!

The Monkees Good Times! Rhino Records Perhaps no one expected that a new album by The Monkees in 2016 would get rave reviews, but Good Times! is deserving of a great gush. For a start it’s fun (with an exclamation mark to remind us – though it almost evokes that famous question-mark from those hippie-times, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50th Anniversary, Adam Schlesinger, Album Review, Andy Partridge, Ben Gibbard, Death Cab For Cutie, Fountains of Wayne, Good Times, Harry Nilsson, Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Monkees, Neil Diamond, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo, The Monkees, Weezer, XTC ·

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October 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Weezer: Everything Will Be Alright In The End

Weezer Everything Will Be Alright In The End Universal Republic What’s important here is not that this is the best Weezer album in a decade or more. What’s important is that that is no real compliment, let alone any sort of achievement. Weezer’s back catalogue is an embarrassment. A couple of still-listenable albums – in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blue Album, Everything Will Be Alright In The End, Gordon Gano, Green Album, Maladroit, Pinkerton, Ric Ocasek, Rivers Cuomo, The Cars, Violent Femmes, Weezer ·

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June 25, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Boa Constrictors: Nice Try

Boa Constrictors Nice Try (Independent) Joe Astle, as Boa Constrictors, pumps out confidant, cute, tousle-haired power-pop and snotty, bratty almost-punk that so clearly references Jonathan Richman he even covers Back In Your Life. I’m reminded of Gisli when listening to this, that same almost-Weezer feel, but it’s Weezer if calmed down and in demo-phase, though, […]
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July 14, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1929

 Weezer, Pinkerton (1996) I found a copy of Pinkerton on vinyl not so long ago – a couple of years, three or four even? – and it didn’t cost that much. Excellent condition. New in fact. It was a good thing to find. It’s always been my favourite Weezer album. Sure, that debut record is […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Pinkerton, The Blue Album, The Green Album, The Red Album, Vinyl, Weezer, Why Bother? ·

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