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User:Meriamory
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RWA: What's your take on this whole "Weezer" thing?
Mikey: It totally sucks and is a big bummer.
- —1998 interview with Mikey Welsh
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hiii!!! hellooooo!!!
My name is Meri! I'm a guitarist, singer, and Weezer fan. I got into Weezer in autumn 2023, after my mom starting singing In the Garage while we were driving to a garage sale.
My projects
I'm currently going through the entire list of concerts to make sure they all use the more sophisticated format that the recent pages do. This'll probably take a while to complete, but it's kinda fun! Currently, I'm on July 2005, the third leg of the Make Believe tour. I'll return to working on this as soon as the maintenance is over!!
My Weezer collection!
I don't usually get albums on more than one format, unless it's Hurley.
CDs
- Blue Album (Standard and deluxe)
- Pinkerton (Standard and deluxe, but my deluxe is missing the sleeve)
- The Green Album (2nd pressing - has lame Hash Pipe )
- Maladroit (US)
- Make Believe (1st pressing)
- The Red Album (US, standard. I have the deluxe on iTunes though)
- Hurley (US, standard)
- EWBAITE
- The White Album (US)
- Pacific Daydream
- Black Album
- Van Weezer
Vinyl Records
- Blue Album (WRONG FONT!!!)
- Pinkerton
- The Teal Album (technically my brother's)
- OK Human (first vinyl I ever bought!)
- SZNZ: Spring
- SZNZ: Summer
- SZNZ: Autumn
Rare Artifacts
- Black Album CD with Eye of the Storm by ONE OK ROCK mispressed onto it (I almost sold this to Burnst after joining the Discord, but decided not to)
Weezer-adjacent
- Rock and Roll Part Three (Enhanced CD)
- The Doubble Donkey Disc (Cassette)
Wishlist
- White Album vinyl
- Hurley Deluxe CD
- Hurley vinyl
- Get Weezer to sign all my Hurley memorabilia
- This band will acknowledge their own album someday yet, goddamnit!!
Shows I've seen!!
Indie Rock Road Trip - Weezer concert: 06/27/2023 (Wasn't a huge fan of Future Islands. Was a huge fan of acoustic No Other One!)
Sea.Hear.Now Festival 2023 - Weezer concert: 09/17/2023 (Foo Fighters were great here too!)
Next show
Voyage to the Blue Planet - Weezer concert: 09/13/2024 (Praying for a White song in the starting set!)
Albums ranking
1st: White Album
2nd: Blue Album
3rd: Pinkerton
4th: OK Human
5th: EWBAITE
6th: Maladroit
7th: Hurley (yes, really!)
8th: SZNZ: Autumn
9th: SZNZ: Winter
10th: SZNZ: Summer
11th: Van Weezer
12th: Make Believe
13th: Black Album
14th: Green Album
15th: Red Album
16th: SZNZ: Spring
17th: Raditude
18th: Death to False Metal
19th: Pacific Daydream (I will die on this hill)
Something I wrote after listening to Hurley daily
Seven days of nonstop Hurley. I almost forgot the final night, but ultimately I'm glad I stayed the course. Oddly enough, listening to this stupid album over and over has given me a different perspective on Weezer as a whole. I now realize that a lot of the songs I kinda despise on other albums are of roughly equal quality to a lot of the songs on this album, which I really am a fan of overall. Where's My Sex is bizarre and weird. Smart Girls is dumb as hell. Hang On is totally corny. And yet, I love all three of those songs. If I can enjoy a song with such lines as "Yumi, Sherie, Allison, Mary / Which one do I want to marry?", what's stopping me from liking Troublemaker? I consider myself a Red Album hater, but a song like Where's My Sex is really on the same level as, say, Everybody Get Dangerous.
I used to hate these other songs for how ridiculous they are. After all, Weezer made Pinkerton! There's nothing funny about Pinkerton! It's not the 1990s anymore, though. I've always defended Hurley, but it wasn't until I did this that I really understood why. Hurley is equal parts dumb fun and honest writing. Time Flies, the closer, is a serious look at aging and mortality. Meanwhile, Ruling Me, the second song, is a goofy pop tune including the absolute all-timer line of "My ocular nerve went pop-zoom". Both of these types of songs can coexist, and the album is better for it. Maybe albums like Blue or White and albums like Red and Hurley can coexist, and Weezer is better for it.
Maybe part of being a Weezer fan is learning to let go.
