Review: Weezer: Weezer (The Red Album)

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USATODAY.com - Pop Candy found this 6/2/2008 on www.pitchforkmedia.com [flag]
Rivers Cuomo has erased much of the word-of-mouth goodwill built up during Weezer's five-year studio silence with three mediocre-to-awful albums that were, in many ways, the opposite of what made his band so beloved in the first place. Can they make a dramatic return to form? [link]

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Early buzz: 'Creep,' Cobain, 'fake weed' and more
Published 6/2/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
... has damaged the clock tower from Back to the Future , among other movie set pieces. - James Franco insists that the weed joke on last night's MTV Movie Awards was written by MTV and used fake marijuana. Take a look . - Tatum O'Neal was arrested Sunday after buying crack cocaine near her home. - Radiohead says that Prince should unblock his cover of Creep (performed at Coachella) from YouTube. Check it out . - Pitchfork gives Weezer's new album a 4.7 out of 10. - Lost 's Harold Perrineau has joined the cast of an ...

Weezer Continues To Age Awkwardly [The Last Word]
Published 6/2/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... • "Like the YouTube culture the 'Pork and Beans' video depicts so well, the song ['The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)']—and this album—relies on a high quantity of short-lived pretty good ideas to distract from a shortage of great ones." [Pitchfork] ...

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