Weezer Recalls The Slow Building Acclaim Of Pinkerton | Questlove Supreme

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson visit QLS in the studio. Ahead of its 30th anniversary Weezer reflects on its famed debut, the blue album. Patrick and Rivers describe their own upbringings, the earliest days of Weezer, and how The Cars' Ric Ocasek was the perfect producer. This conversation between peers shows some intersectional histories and creates a few laughs too. Weezer is spending the fall of 2024 on the Voyage to the Blue Planet tour. Celebrating 30 years of the Blue Album, which they’ll be playing in full. Tickets are on sale now weezer.com/tour
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[@whyyoulittle4537]

Pinkerton is the greatest album Weezer ever made!!!!!

[@earthhuman5448]

Rivers, Questlove, and that guy from The Needle Drop!!! Killer combo

[@maddox9176]

Are you talking about Anthony fantano?

[@QLSProducer]

ha. That's not Needledrop...

[@chandler_martian]

@@QLSProducerHe’s bald and has glasses. There’s only one man it could be. 🍉

[@GABRIEL_CRAFT]

Remember being a big fan of The blue album and remember Pinkerton coming out in my senior year of high school. What music publications say and What serious fans thought were totally different. But the internet wasn't as proliferated as it was in the 2000s and Rivers just wasn't aware that so many kids loved it... But they realized it on the warped tour and in Japan 😊

[@chrisknight3734]

Me and my friends loved Pinkerton when it came out and knew it was at least marginally better than Blue. I personally loved how it sounded and it's no surprise that Dave Fridmann (engineer) went on to do more great things

[@richardfoltier1]

I adored Blue when it came out, so refreshing and powerful, but when I heard Pinkerton, it touched my soul directly, I didn't need anything else to listen to, no record has had that effect on me since. A masterpiece.

[@QuestloveSupreme]

Thanks for that

[@Jestinace]

Pinkerton is their best record

[@pervertedalchemist9944]

I remember when "Pinkerton" was released, it was hated. Rolling Stone even had a scathing review of it - only to recant their several years later.

[@QLSProducer]

Seems like time proved to be the ultimate juggernaut for that album

[@bigbananadealer846]

called it the worst album of the 90a and then everybody gave it perfect scores like 5 years later

[@blue_axolotl64]

i feel bad for Rivers and Weezer, almost every album they have released has gotten some scrutiny. when they made blue they got called industry plants, when they made pinkerton they grossed out everyone, when green came out everyone thought they had sold out, and every album after that was considered kinda mid and everyone just wants them to do what they did back in the 90s
im glad rivers eventually got the audience he deserved for pinkerton, he really drives me to make my own music, i really cant write in any way other than pinkerton-esque self reflection because of it. the album both saved and ruined my teen years, hope Rivers is doing well

[@chandler_martian]

It’s funny that in retrospect the record isn’t THAT different from the Blue Album, but because it didn’t have a Buddy Holly type of song on the record, everyone hated on it until they realized it was actually great years down the line.

[@Fakename70]

It’s totally different. The playing on the debut is restrained by comparison. They sound unleashed on Pinkerton. And, not “everyone” hated the change.

[@chandler_martian]

I still feel like lots of songs are accomplishing the same goal, just with a more raw and vulnerable presentation. Why Bother basically sounds like it could be on the Blue Album with how snappy and catchy it is.