Weezer

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studio album
First released:
May 14 2001
Also known as:
  • The Green Album

Overview Edit

Weezer, also known as "The Green Album", is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 15, 2001 on Geffen Records. The release is the second Weezer album to be produced by Ric Ocasek. Weezer became a worldwide commercial success, reaching number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 and charting in numerous countries. The album featured the hit singles "Hash Pipe," "Island in the Sun," and "Photograph", and was seen as a rebirth for Weezer, following a hiatus since their 1996 album, Pinkerton, which was initially a commercial and critical failure.

Weezer was the band's first release without longtime bassist Matt Sharp who had quit the band in 1998 to focus on his own band, The Rentals. Sharp was replaced with Mikey Welsh, who performs bass on this album, his only album appearance with the band.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
493045
Release dates:
  • May 15 2001 in United States

Genres

Rock, Alternative, Alternative Rock, Emo, Indie. Vote on Genres

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4 stars Weezer: Streamlined and Refocused
Some reviewers have expressed a measure of ambivalence about this new Weezer album, and understandably so: it downplays some of the things the band's audience has come to expect and treasure.

Weezer's first record was a kind of dream come true for a certain type of bespectacled nerd--- the sort who plays Dungeons & Dragons, reads comic books, and worships Kiss (the band whose emboldening machismo is only complemented, for such listeners, by a makeup job worthy of the X-Men). For a legion of thes…
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2 stars Lightweight Weezer doesn't cut it
Nobody loved "Weezer" and "Pinkerton" more than me, and that's why I can say wholeheartedly that "Green" (or whatever we're supposed to call it) sounds like a bunch of dumb kids imitating Weezer. It has none of the intelligence, imagination, and wry wit of their first two albums. In fact, all it does have is Rivers Cuomo's reedy voice and the wall of guitars. Where are the riveting guitar leads? The neck-snapping shifts in dynamics? The delicate guitar intros and intervals? The intricate vocal a…
Written by S. A. Keister

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Credits Edit

  1. engineer

  2. performer

    1. Mikey Welsh [bass guitar]
  1. producer

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Weezer 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: May 16 2001
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Weezer 11 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: May 14 2001 in United Kingdom
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14 tracks format: 1 x CD
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