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Weezer wheezes the tunes

Monday, May 30th, 2011 | musiX | No Comments

I have a great idea! Instead of releasing new music Weezer should, from here on out, only record unexpected and wacky covers. In Vegas. Dressed as the Village People. Weezer recently covered Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” in the studio (they’ve also done Gaga and MGMT in the past), and I must say they did a pretty good job. But it’s not enough for me. I need more. I need something zanier. More out of their element.

Here are TDoL’s Top 5 Zany Cover-Song Suggestions for Rivers & Co. … or are they zany?

1. “Make It With You” - Bread
2. “Sucka Nigga” - A Tribe Called Quest
3. “Fight Fire With Fire” - Metallica
4. “Pursuance”; “Psalm,” Parts 3 and 4 of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
5. “Luckenbach Texas” - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson

Weezer’s cover of “Paranoid Android”:

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Tags: "Paranoid Android" cover, Radiohead, Weezer

What in the world happened to Weezer?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | musiX | 9 Comments

There was a time when I liked Weezer, which now seems like ages ago. The Blue Album, Pinkerton, even The Green Album are all great, divergent documents of Rivers Cuomo as a socially awkward and prolific pop songsmith. Since then it’s just been awkward. Really awkward.

I haven’t been able to stomach the band’s last three records. Now Cuomo & Co. are working on a new one. I recently saw live videos for two new songs, “I’m Your Daddy” and “The Girl Got Hot.” One word: Awkward … OK, two words: Really awkward.

“I’m Your Daddy”

“The Girl Got Hot”

Tags: "I'm Your Daddy", "The Girl Got Hot", Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

Hand jive

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | musiX | No Comments

I just saw Wu-Tang Clan live for the first time. Not a minute went by where RZA or some Wu-Wear wearer in the audience didn’t flash the Wu-Tang “W” (place thumbs together and hold it high!). I recall seeing photos of people making the same hand sign at Weezer shows. It got me to thinking about all the different ham-fisted hand salutes …

Of course, there’s the classic devil horns, which originated … well, it’s been argued by scholars of metal as to who started it. Some say it was Ronnie James Dio. Gene Simmons claims it was He who first drew devil horns as illustrated on the cover of 1977’s Love Gun album … of course, according to Gene Simmons, he also started the concept of sex with groupies. And sex in general … oh, and breathing.

But there are others. Van Halen had one—sort of a variation of the devil horns where you form a diamond by placing your pointer fingers and thumbs together and formed what I guess was a “VH.” And then there’s the lovable li’l heart sign, shown left at an M.I.A. concert. If you go to a metal show, they’ll maybe raise a clenched fist or simply flip the classic I’m-pissed-at-the-world (i.e. my parents) middle finger.

I think next time I go to a rock show I’m going to drop the “OK” sign. It just says, “Hey, nice job.” Unless you’re in Brazil or Spain, where it means “asshole” or “cuckoldry.” I think Gene Simmons invented those, too.

Tags: Gene Simmons, KISS, Love Gun, M.I.A., Ronnie James Dio, RZA, Van Halen, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan