Last week, Weezer announced that they had completed recording their 6th full length album and that it would be released in April of 2008. It is amazing to think how long ago Weezer hit it big with "The Sweater Song" way back in 1994 on their most popular album, now known simply as The Blue Album.
If you want to hear Weezer at it's best though, you must get your hands on their sophomore follow-up Pinkerton. Pinkerton may have been an initial commercial flop, but in retrospect, it is now regarded as one of the best albums of the 1990's, up there with the likes of Radiohead's OK Computer.
Pinkerton was emo before anyone really knew what emo was. Rivers Cuomo opened his dark and twisted mind mainly on his trouble with girls, loneliness and self-loathing. Pinkerton reads as a chronicle of Cuomo's troubled life from the opener "Tired of Sex" to his obsession with an 18 year old Japanese fan in "Across the Sea" to falling in love with a girl that turns out to be a lesbian in "Pink Triangle." Pinkerton reads like a journal of self-doubt, but that is what makes it so personal to the fans that have embraced it. The sound is raw, emotional but still has that defining sound of power-pop at it's best.
Check out this site here to pick up Pinkerton on vinyl. Check out their video for our favorite song off the album "Pink Triangle" here (Rivers is sporting quite a beard in it):
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