Why is the Blue Album?
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2023
- Weezer's Blue Album is iconic. This is partly thanks to amazing songs like Buddy Holly, Say it Ain't So, Undone, and My Name is Jonas. But there's more to it. Weezer's self-titled debut has a lot going on behind the scenes and hidden between the lines; that make it fascinating to analyze. For that reason I pose a question: Why is the Blue album?
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Oh btw, Rivers Cuomo, Matt Sharp, Brian Bell, Jason Cropper, Pat Wilson, Pinkerton, Holiday, Island in the Sun 
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Nobody ever asks how is the blue album?
Thanks for the pin Marc!
That’s because everybody knows it’s doing well and getting better with age
Lol true imagine living before Weezer created colors
@@farleyecclesgaming4706 thats actually why footage and photos of Buddy Holly are in black and white, little known fact
no one ask where is the blue album?
I think we don’t thank Weezer enough for inventing colors
This needs to get pinned.
@@I_Love_Learning fr
I agree with you 👍
Beatles
This needs to get pinned.
The fact that Weezer kicked out their guitarist for having a girlfriend tells you everything you need to know about Weezer
🤓 thats actually semi-false. They kicked him out because he accidentally got her girl pregnant and didn't know what to do with it. The girl starts being overtly attached with him and starts hanging out in the studio stealing his attention away from the recording sessions and just overall disrupting his work's quality. Im not sure if its true but he also starts drinking and shows up drunk in the studio.
@@Meleedroit 💀
yeah, cuomo is kind of a horrible misogynist
@@notalleyna :3?
@@lordsubl1me yep sounds exactly like having a girlfriend to me
Rivers' rule of "no girlfriends in the studio" rule is hilarious. The joke just writes itself
Yoko no no.
@@joepermenter7228 Yoko oh no.
@@sadgladbadman Yucko Blow Blow. Apple Foe Foe.
Weezer is not unique in that regard
that’s pretty normal for bands tho idk what y’all are on 😭
We really should start a petition to get that specific hex code named “Weezer Blue.” It’s genuinely so iconic. Same with all the Weezer colours
Good news: #189BCC is called "Weezer Blue" - so no need for a petition!
@@trianglemoebiuswait actually?
@@trianglemoebius I wish I could like your comment but it's 69, and I wish I could like OP's comment but it's 666, this is perfection.
The green album is basically just hello fresh green
It's funny how Rivers was so troubled by being associated to humour because he thought they wouldn't be considered the next Nirvana, when Nirvana were such a humorous band.
You got a good point Daniel.
Nirvana was a sardonic, cynical, depressive band with a tortured soul junkie as the lead who used jokes to cope with serious pain. That was "cool" and "rock and roll" to the core. It felt fresh and punk in 1991. Weezer were a bunch of geeks jacking the popular style with a corniness, which has been done by band class nerds every generation. The quality of the music was irrelevant, it was the image and delivery i'm referring to. The Blue Album sounds like a high school loser's diary, and the problems are all minor juvenile stuff on paper. It's not cool in art to be sad sometimes. It's cool to be tragically depressed (grunge, 2020s alternative), have a confident stoic outlook on real struggles (rap) or completely lacking neuroticism at all (hair metal, mid 2000s pop) in image. Depends on the times and type of music which.
@@dxfifa you got the right answer here, depends on the times
their songs were definitely depressing at times but their stage presence had fun and energy
I mean that did slowly dwindle in the final few months of the band
They had a song called "territorial pissings" ffs
I love how the thumbnail says “Why would Weezer do this?” like, “O God, what horrors this lot hath wreaked upon the land! What ever could have motivated these men to harm the people in such a brutal way? What could have possibly justified these unspeakable horrors in their minds?” and then the album is just Rivers Cuomo saying he’s going to surf to work.
This comment made me realize this video... wasn't just the thumbnail image. I got 4 minutes in to the video just listening, scrolling comments, and staring at the lovely color that is Weezer blue.
Nobody is gonna know what I'm talking about, but it has the same energy as Jenny nicholson talking about evermore park
@@spiritcat101 I know what you're talking about
I don't know where or how you found all of this information that I've never heard about the Blue Album, but this is amazing!
Yoooo exploring the weeper timeline?
Honestly, this information has been circulating the web since the 90s or at least early 00s. If you're a big enough fan of weezer, most of this is common knowledge at this point.
@@Brandon-bc5um I guess your fave Star Wars figurines are all lined up by your bed?
holy shit it's our boy cz lesgooo
Rivers's divorce with reality was cemented when he wrote a song about how he wished to be a celebrity, a decade after becoming a celebrity.
We were robbed of a world where all the weezers had moustaches on the blue album.
Thankfully rivers attempted to correct this with the release of the red album in 2008
The saddest part about Kurt Cobain was that he could’ve listened to weezer if DGC released it earlier
💯👌
I think he still would've been alive
@@flooferfox2407 He died april it was released may
He would have gone straight to the shotgun if he heard these nerds doing this to his style lmao. I like Weezer but I have no doubt Kurt would have hated this album
@@dxfifa if I'm being serious
he probably would have thought they were industry plants
and he would probably not like them for that
I remember buying this album off the cover alone when it first came out. The tone of the album influenced a lot of my musical tastes in high school and college. I embraced Nirvana when all of my friends were stuck in hair metal’s imminent demise. But there was even something about Nirvana that just seemed too earnest. They and their fans seemed to take the band and music WAY too seriously. But Weezer defied this and at the same time never seemed like a novelty act to me. It disarmed the earnestness of the grunge scene with a truthful cheekiness and a wink. It was like the album was saying “Yes the ennui of youth is real but it is also fleeting along as is the desperation of hormone soaked young love and heartbreak.” The blue album captured that ontological lightness of my youth so perfectly. I bought every CD single with all of the B sides and even bought the soundtrack to the movie Angus for “You gave your love to me softly”. It’s in the b sides to the blue album where I finally understood what hooked me into this album. But it’s like the way of all things. No other Weezer album could live up to that first discovery of something new and different that spoke to me. A comedian once said “It’s hard to stay funny when you stop riding the bus.” I would say about Weezer it’s hard to stay awkward and desperate when you start being a rock star.
" It disarmed the earnestness of the grunge scene with a truthful cheekiness and a wink" Thats a perfect summation. Nirvana came along like an atom bomb and blew away all the nonesense, but then the Blue Album comes along and says "Yeah, this is better",
Every time marc uploads I basically jump out of my seat. I can expect a high quality, funny, and comprehensive videos every single time and very few youtubers can ever create that feeling. Amazing job, Marc.
Truly great job, unsubscribed.
@@Meleedroit another terrible fucking video, subscribed!
Back in the 80s, when I was a kid, my dad had developed a device that would automatically switch out the cartridges on our Nintendo NES console. There was nothing like it in existence at that time. It would automatically remove the current game cartridge, and insert the next game cartridge. It would also automatically blow on the contacts to make sure they were clean!
He never went to market with this great invention, and I wish he would have. It would’ve been a real game changer.
That’s kinda random but cool
i first saw weezer through memes now i have blue and pinkerton as one of my favourite album with songs i return to on the regular. the fact that both albums aged quite well is great and leads in more generations to come and appreciate and possibly get inspired by them to pick up and write.
The secret is they were always good. Some cringe lyrics, but great albums all the same.
PINKERTON?!! DO YOU LISTEN TO THE LYRICS?!!!???? THEY SUCK ASS
It's interesting how many are now joining the Weezer bandwagon, but they were unfairly prematurely judged almost 30 years ago. I remember that their work was described as silly and empty in those days. Almost three decades have passed and the album "Azul" stands today as one of the best rock works of the nineties
When I got into rock the 90s and I heard Buddy Holly and Say It Ain’t So on the radio..I was sold! I bought the Blue album and love all the tracks…That album will always be a classic to me..always!
The blue album is considered brilliant today but it wasn't always like that. The world was still grieving for the death of Kurt Cobain and unfortunately Weezer was considered a joke and was massacred by the critics of the time, but they were undoubtedly wrong.
I love the Blue Album and I love Weezer
certified virgincore classic
Saw 'em on the Pinkerton tour in a mid sized club. One of the best gigs I've ever been to. And I've been to a LOT of gigs.
rivers just casually gets into harvard
I KNOW that intrigues me
@@Bell_414I think he applied for the music program, and he was the frontman of a world famous band
Holy hell Brian Bell has a sharp jawline
Cant believe music was invented in 1994 by Weezer so they could make buddy holly
Holly The Bud
Unfriendly Wally
Songs from the blue hole
Rik knew how to make real, genuine rock music that was as accessible as the most poppy pop. Surprisingly harder than it seems, as the road is littered with the bodies of bands that knew how to rock but didn't have pop appeal, or strayed too far from rock and lost their authenticity. The Cars bridged the gap as seamlessly as anyone, and Weezer managed the same.
I love the choice of having them all do something different, but subtle, with their hands.
The blue album is a perfect album. Not a single bad track. You can plop the CD on at Track one, and listen to the whole thing without the desire to skip a track.
I skip the sweater song due to radio overplay.
@@joepermenter7228yeah I will usually skip that along with buddy holly & sweater song.
@@Rountree1985 Feel Ya, but not, Buddy Holly is a fucking anthem and an American treasure....
@@joepermenter7228 The Sweater Song, to me, sounds like they were getting with the grunge trend, and failed at that
@@danielpatternson6149 I feel that sometimes to, I just don't see it as radio friendly. Surf Wax, Holiday, or Non One Else should get played over it in my opinion.
The creation of the blue album was a canon event
bro why does the brian introduction sound so accurate 😭
Holy cow I have that same lightning bolt guitar strap. I suddenly feel so much cooler.
As someone who has only ever heard memes and memes about Weezer and only actively listened to Buddy Holly ironically because of the memes, after watching this video I went and watched every video that you made about Weezer. Now I am doing a deep discography dive of Weezer and am actually enjoying it. Congratulations, you may have just created a new Weezer fan. Hard subscribe.
As someone born a month after this album came out, this was my first album I listened to as a baby and first favorite. They're also my first favorite band. Its not just a literally iconic album, but also personally iconic.
8:54 shoutout to Pat's Lush shirt, very underrated band
I love weezer but i didn’t know most of this. Can’t wait for Pinkerton.
Same here. Pinkerton is my favorite album
Fun fact: my uncle was great buddies with Rivers back when they were in high school here in CT
I want my introduction to joining a band to be someone mooning me, a true showing of how good this band I join will be.
i’ve never heard of this album before
it's alright
Maybe stop stanning lame kpop boys and start stanning lame apop boys
don't worry, everything will be alright in the end
@@MarcButEvil theres just one thing, how am i supposed to sing?
I guarantee you’ve heard songs from it
I think my entire teen angst was shaped by Pinkerton and other people “not getting it”.
Super interesting
, would love a dive into rivers College days and/or the making of Pinkerton!
why isn't the Hurley?
The only reason that public opinion of Weezer changed so quickly was on the strength of the album as a whole and the mythology Rivers spun seamlessly throughout the entirety of the album in his lyrics
certified virgincore classic
8:57 shoutout that member with the lush shirt, I love him now hes my favourite
Actually they built a time machine and brought in a minion™© from the hit movie minions™©
marcbutevil is my favorite youtuber. i wish weezer was real
maybe the real weezer was the friends we made along the way
@marcbutevil oh my gosh i never thought of it like that
This channel deserves so many more subscribers. The videos on this channel are really well put together
I got to see weezer tour the blue album when i was 16 yrs old. It was the winter of '97 at the The brewery- Louisville, KY. Nerf herder opened. It was my first show. It was a small venue..much smaller than you'll ever see them play now. It was $20 general admission. No seats. And of course they were incredible. I gotta say nerf herder was pretty damn good too.
The blue album is easily top 5 favorite albums of all time. And if i had to pick one album that defined my youth, it would have to be this one. At 16 I was strange mix of personality. The odd ball amongst outcast types. Not to be so cliche but i really was the quintessential old soul. In my 20s i discovered this type of stuff and it completely explained everything that befuddled me. But at the time, I didnt understand myself but i knew how i felt. I knew who i was. And i never hid from it. I was really really shy w girls so it was a super lonely time, until i discovered alcohol. But in a nutshell thats why i would pick this album as my youth album. Because of its honesty. It wasn't trying to be anything but true to itself. It wore its heart on its sleeve.
A true rock n roll masterpiece that thought me what punk was before i encountered punk. Its embracing your true self. Its championing individualism. Part of my core essence. And thats why this album will always speak to me.
✌️
If it was the winter of ‘97, Pinkerton was already out.
As weird as it sounds, Pinkerton introduced me into hardcore punk and emo when I found punk bands who cited them as an influence.
ironically they were actually poised to be the next pop-rock headliners (nirvana) among the youngins and kids o the day. it was really only that they didn't have a sophomore release because of rivers/harvard that the mantle was dropped. middle school and high school kids don't really keep up with rolling stone articles.
8:22 This quote killed me 😆
You really could make any kind of content- your editing is on point, youre very funny and charming and you got a good voice for narrations. Never change goddammit
What *is* with these homies?
But seriously, this is amazingly scripted and endearingly put together. A topic I wouldn't normally have cared enough about to research much less watch a 20 minute video on, your powerful voice and enjoyable demeanor coupled with your top notch editing skill had me hooked from start to finish. Bravissimo my dear sir.
so true
man this is sick, will you do one of these for Pinkerton?
I'm waiting for that too. I love Pinkerton ❤️
Wait til Marc finds out you actually can trademark colors
OH SNAP I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
I'm very surprised there's no references on here or in the comments to the eerily similar Feelie's album cover for their debut "Crazy Rhythms". It can't be a coincidence.
My favorite comment gets pinned in one week!
My favorite comment is this one
Could you cover Foo Fighters again?
I love all your videos and your channel.
Could you cover Nirvana? I would like to know what is your opinion about Nevermind.
"Weezer"... That's an interesting name, I always called them "GAY Nirvana"
Well done! Hope to see a vid on Pinkerton next.
Me too ✋️
Blue album became blue album after green came out. Super similar cover just different color and self titled.
If I am remembering correctly, the blue album was the very first “cd” I ever bought. It was all cassette tapes until then.
Very informative and enjoyable information!!!! ❤❤❤
great video, this was a fantastic walk throught. I was legit shocked once I realized you only have 30k subs.
Also, 14:16 jesus I've never heard about STP being thrashed like that. Maybe because I'm yet young and from another country.
Yeah, STP were seen at the time as grunge wanna-bees that were not from the scene, but hopping on the bandwagon. Not from Washington, singer just copying Layne Staley, etc. And that really seemed the case at first, though they found their own style later.
i literally put this on like a bedtime story and fell asleep. i love this video and you
Marc, as always when you make one of your videos, you arouse my curiosity to find more information about something that caught my attention. In this case it was buddy holly, the singer. I've found out a lot I didn't know about him and his career. Thank you Marc. Good job.
weezer formed on February 14, 1992. weezer signed with Geffen on June 25, 1993
I was going to mention the same thing
I find it funny that depending on where you look, the shade of blue changes.
we still wait for the dark side of hurley vid, tho cool video
I’m late to the video but this album is one of my favorite albums to ever be released, my dad has it on CD and when I was little he would play it whenever we went for a drive so it makes me feel a very specific kind of nostalgia every time I hear it
babe wake up new marcbutevil weezer video!!
When I was 15 a good friend of mine who was dying from cancer gave me this album. The next day my family piled into our minivan to drive from Philly to the Jersey Shore. I listened to it front to back, while staring at the album insert, the whole car ride. It was the first time I ever experienced nostalgia from something I had never heard or seen before. They really did capture that perfect feeling of transition from childhood to teenager/adulthood. Weezer wanted to be the next Nirvana but I wanted to be the next Weezer.
Just when I thought that I knew everything about this album I watched the video and I learned even more. Thank you Marc. You did a great job.
Marc got me so into Weezer that I open Weezerpedia once a day just to read up on Weezer lore
I'm literally piecing together a "commemorative" skirt to wear to a Weezer concert next week and finding fabric has been remarkably successful since many of their album covers are solid blocks of colours. I'm struggling to find fabric to stand in for Van Weezer. My only struggle right now is if I peice it together by album release or which order I bought the albums or what looks good.
I love this. Sounds like an amazing passion project! 🎉Have fun!!!!!
Next time you gotta add a purple one to represent Songs from the Black Hole too btw, regardless of its unreleased limbo status.
@@KremBotop gotta be honest, it looked weird with the albums I used. My cousin is a Dead Head and wants to borrow it. >_
Wow, thats actually really cool! Where d'ya get the idea?
How do you only have 30k subs?? Criminally underrated channel
Now if only we could convince Rivers to finally release Let's Go To The 33rd Dimension 😌
That clip of Renholm jumling out the window from "The IT Crowd" was a superb.choice!! Well done sir!!!
the editing is hilarious. hope you do pinkerton soon
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Companies have trademarked hexcodes of colors. Tiffany Teal and UPS Brown to name a few. They can't be used in the same type of business, for example, FedEx can't use UPS Brown but can use Tiffany Teal.
When I looked up this video, this was (obviously) the first result. The second result was Zeepsterd's video about the album. For some reason, seeing the two thumbnails together was so funny that I had to talk about it.
Thank you for mentioning this because I looked it up too
are you making timeline of weezer is pinkerton next?
I bought a ticket to see Weezer open for Live in the fall of '94 at a small venue in Iowa. Met them outside after their set, nice guys, their show was great. Still have my autographed ticket stub. Saw them a few times more but that first show was the best.
i loved the blue album when it came out. it was so unique and different. i also loved the fact it discussed subject i loved like kiss, d&d, comic books, etc. it was beatuiful, "I've got ace frehley I've got peter criss waiting there for me yes i do" hit me in the nostalgia
Another awesome video, learnt a lot of new stuff. Really dig this channel. Hope you can give nirvana a similar treatment sometime.
I've been listening to this album for almost 30 years now. It never gets old and there's always something new. Weezer, Cake, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz (demon days) are seared in to my brain forever.
CAKE. Too good. They should be forced to go into a sweat shop music factory and cover every song ever written in the history of recorded music. Without exception, they'll improve everything they touch. For many years FNM had the definitive War Pigs cover. Not any more.
@robertdouble559 I agree with you, they are amazing and this album is my favourite. Blue album surprises me from the first time I hear it, in my opinion it's because of its melodies, rhythmics and vocals. The album is luminous, without decay and without a trace of Nirvana's tortured souls. This was a new way of understanding pop that has marked a whole generation of current bands. This is one of the few perfect debuts in rock history, it took the Beatles three albums to achieve perfection, the Beach Boys eight.
i wish blue was a real color
This world wouldn't be the same if the blue was either a bit darker or a bit brighter
Bums me out that the aspects of this album that made it so special and relatable to so many people are exactly what Rivers didnt wanna come off as. Amazing video dude 🤘
I had the Cars greatest hits album and it definitely reminded me of Weezer or the Rentals somehow. The Moog part on “Just What I Needed” especially. It’s interesting learning that Ric Ocasek played a role in putting the blue album 💿 together. Btw, my first Fender strat. was similar to Rivers’s strat. Although they’re not my biggest influence, Weezer definitely influenced me as a musician. In fact, I recently bought a new copy of the blue album on CD.
BABE WAKE UP NEW MARCBUTEVIL VID DROPPED!!!!!!
Rivers literally got bullied, listened to The Beach Boys, and then decided to invent Blue.
im high as balls right now ive got noodles and im gonna watch this my day has been lovely I reckon this is gonna go say so good anyhow have lovely days and lives all of you :))))
holy fuck
great great editing
To be or not to be blue that is the question.
Babe wake u- wait im a weezer fan
Excellent presentation! ✌️❤️WEEZER
I saw them as a annoying radio rock band but little did I know they have actual fans who argue over which album is the best. They still made Beverly Hills so I can’t respect them.
Bit too harsh but fair
@@realcopoolman I just like when he goes “MMM” in hash pipe. That’s all.
@@SilkandScrooge damn weird
Oh, I can see a lot of potential in you doing biographies, and exciting stories branching out of that. A pity you only did music related so far. I thought you had 600k subs and tons of videos at first when I saw the Kurt's video.
THE KING HAS RETURNED from 2 weeks
Can't lavish "in" something. One lavishes something (such as Praise) "upon" someone/something.
This video was really well made :)
Right as you said "...in their back pocket...", a Samsung phone ad started playing...never change youtube ad sense...never...change...
Excellent video and info.
Great video, you covered a lot of stuff others don't.
I've never been a big Weezer fan but you are good story teller
Awesome awesome video. Love everything you’re doing about Weezer great stories you did your homework very well.🤘🏽😉🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I’m seeing weezer in Bridgeport in a few weeks it’s going to be my 90th Weezer show since 1996 Pinkerton tour was my first I’ve traveled all over the country to see them very very underrated band and rivers Cuomo is one of the best song writers of all time in my opinion
You are so lucky. That's an amazing experience. In my opinion, they're one of the best band of the all time.
If I had a top ten desert island list the blue album is on it. It was released the year I graduated high school Andy it pushed all the right buttons in a very personal way, so much that I force feed it to my kids that are around the same age when I first heard it and seems to hit them the same. It’s just a great snapshot in time