Weezer: Pinkerton
Weezer: Pinkerton
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Weezer
Label: Mobile Fidelity
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 821797139311
Genre: Rock
1996 Sophomore Album Cited on Countless Best-of Decade ListsIncludes 'El Scorcho,' 'Pink Triangle,' 'Tired of Sex,' and 'The Good Life'Loosely Related to Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Confessional Album Lays Bare Frustration, Confusion, Awkwardness, and Loneliness Amidst Power-Pop SettingsFew records claim as bizarre a history as Weezer's Pinkerton. Upon release in 1996, the band's sophomore effort failed to meet sales expectations, lacked a hit single, and drew primarily negative reviews from the press. Then, via word of mouth and reevaluation, the Little Album That Could began build a reputation as an initially misunderstood masterwork - a bold, brave, and exposed creation that happened to have hyper-contagious hooks to accompany the confessional lyrics. Today, it's cited on virtually every Best Albums of the 1990s list in existence.Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI, this LP reissue of the effort Rolling Stone awarded a full five-star review upon revisiting it eight years later brings the band's live-in-the-studio vocals and darker, raw feel to the surface like never before. Leader Rivers Cuomo's decision to record group choruses around three microphones rather than capture them separately finally can be experienced as originally intended, with the immediate vibe paying off in the form of more engaging, edgier results that parallel the songs' personal emotions and frustrated themes. Guitars, which scrape and push, augmenting the trials and tribulations documented in the narratives, are finally rendered in proper perspective.Comprised of nonfiction tunes largely based on Cuomo's dissatisfaction with rock-star life, and written by the singer/guitarist as he attended school at Harvard University, Pinkerton confronts disappointment, loneliness, isolation, awkwardness, and cruel romantic irony with a universal perspective to which anybody can relate. Cuomo selected the character Lieutenant Pinkerton from Puccini's Madame Butterfly as a touchstone, believing the persona symbolic of the tormented protagonists in his songs - and recognizing similar struggles to come to terms with identity.Weezer's aims on Pinkerton have connected with many that identify with it's narratives and adore it's surfeit of melodies. Surpassing cult-classic status and conquering fickle tastes, the record ranks in Guitar World's 'Top 100 Guitar Albums of All-Time'; Spin's '100 Best Albums From 1985 to 2005'; Pitchfork's 'Top 100 Albums of the 1990s'; and Rolling Stone's Hall of Fame.For all the malaise, Pinkerton also contains beloved wit and humor. Shyness and hands-in-pocket diffidence inform 'El Scorcho'; incongruity and surprise surround the simultaneously funny and sad 'Pink Triangle'; tedium and desire collide on the cynical 'Tired of Sex.' Psychosexual confusion, unrequited passion, and good intentions elicit unintended sympathies, a trait that remains one of the record's brilliant turns.Digital clone of original digital master to analog console to latheTrack Listing:A1 Tired Of SexA2 GetchooA3 No Other OneA4 Why Bother?A5 Across The SeaB1 The Good LifeB2 El ScorchoB3 Pink TriangleB4 Falling For YouB5 Butterfly
Tracks:
1.1 A1 Tired of Sex
1.2 A2 Getchoo
1.3 A3 No Other One
1.4 A4 Why Bother?
1.5 A5 Across the Sea
1.6 B1 the Good Life
1.7 B2 El Scorcho
1.8 B3 Pink Triangle
1.9 B4 Falling for You
1.10 B5 Butterfly
