Rivers Cuomo On How Metallica Influenced "The Sweater Song" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

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  • @KeonPH
    @KeonPH Год назад +347

    Conan actually introduced Weezer back in 94 with Undone - The Sweater Song 🧥 So this really comes full circle.

    • @MaxPrehl
      @MaxPrehl Год назад +15

      They talk about that in the full interview!

  • @AbidingDude420
    @AbidingDude420 Год назад +372

    The blue album is one of the best alternative rock albums of all time.

    • @Micah_S_0x4D
      @Micah_S_0x4D Год назад +13

      💯Thank Matt Sharp. 😇

    • @Redsdelight
      @Redsdelight Год назад +15

      Absolutely. One of 3 albums that I can listen to each song without skipping any. Its a masterpiece of an album.

    • @phenom5817
      @phenom5817 Год назад +8

      In no particular order - Weezer: Blue Album; Live: Throwing Copper; Nirvana: In Utero; Stone Temple Pilots: Core; Pearl Jam: 10

    • @Micah_S_0x4D
      @Micah_S_0x4D Год назад

      @John Siaz 🤣

    • @regaul4248
      @regaul4248 Год назад

      alright

  • @luigiyang7268
    @luigiyang7268 Год назад +43

    I like how Rivers still talks like a shy introvert teen

  • @m1l1t1am1ke
    @m1l1t1am1ke Год назад +146

    I think Metallica playing Sweater Song right after Weezer closes their set with their Enter Sandman would be fkn awesome

    • @trixdropd
      @trixdropd Год назад +5

      lets make this happen. Ball in your court @metallica

    • @revwillyg6450
      @revwillyg6450 Год назад

      Agreed! But for real I never thought sweater song sounded like Welcome Home Sanitarium. Have to listen again back to back

    • @Brandon-bc5um
      @Brandon-bc5um Год назад +1

      @@revwillyg6450 haha for real? I noticed it immediately the first time I heard welcome home. I was like, wait, I've heard this a thousand times before...

    • @EmpyreanLightASMR
      @EmpyreanLightASMR Год назад

      Metallica's busy making their next album that'll come out in 2036.

    • @christopherperdigao5087
      @christopherperdigao5087 Год назад

      The cover I didn't imagine I needed to hear. If Metallica won't do it Jim Breuer does a great James Hetfield impression.

  • @bannedtwice7767
    @bannedtwice7767 Год назад +28

    Rivers is a master at writing catchy ass songs.

  • @jessperson9750
    @jessperson9750 Год назад +22

    Conan makes a good point- you never hear anyone say "Hey that kinda sounds like Weezer" about any other band. Incredibly Unique- never sounds like anybody else.

  • @RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia
    @RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia Год назад +26

    Pinkerton is one of my favorite albums of all time & got me through some really tough times.

  • @MediaPastimes
    @MediaPastimes Год назад +99

    Rivers Cuomo was the sole inspiration behind my decision to start playing guitar, I saw him in the music video for "Hash Pipe" - and thought "I look like a nerd, he looks like a nerd, but he absolutely shreds and looks so badass! I want to be like him!!!" Still playing, and I still think of Rivers every time I see a beige or green stratocaster.

  • @spridle
    @spridle Год назад +21

    I wish Rivers recorded a serious folky indie CD. It has so much potential.

  • @TheArtofGuitar
    @TheArtofGuitar Год назад +12

    Rivers is a metalhead at heart. Metalheart perhaps?

  • @RabidRavenTV
    @RabidRavenTV Год назад +9

    I had a guitar magazine around 1995 with a Rivers interview where he was asked about writing riffs and he said I just try to keep it pretty simple like James Hetfield

  • @wvusmc
    @wvusmc Год назад +8

    I owe this guy many thanks for making my grade school days more awesome.

  • @matthew7535
    @matthew7535 Год назад +7

    Musicians talking shop! Gotta Love it!
    Conan’s passions 4 music is underrated! WE as a collective should encourage him 2 pursue it more!
    Thank you 4 making your podcast feel as if it’s a sit down with friends! 🌍❤️‍🩹

  • @comedianfunnyguy1232
    @comedianfunnyguy1232 Год назад +2

    I love seeing the loving listening Conan has when listening to his guests on his podcast, this is true love.

  • @WileECoyoder
    @WileECoyoder Год назад +7

    "Sanitarium" might be the perfect Metallica song to have inspired another, considering Metallica had lifted concepts for that song from 2-3 others (chiefly "Rainbow Warrior" by Bleak House and "Tom Sawyer").

  • @ryancroteau5382
    @ryancroteau5382 Год назад +263

    If time has taught us anything, it is that Lars is always cool with sharing Metallica music for free.

  • @providentpathfinders219
    @providentpathfinders219 Год назад +1

    Electric Ballroom, Tempe AZ. First time I saw them live. Back when they were doing smaller shows still.

  • @stefanmarraccini8646
    @stefanmarraccini8646 Год назад +14

    One of my favorite songs from Weezer. That riff is epic, but Rivers nails a triple for me at least. Lots of hooks.

    • @Paul-dw2cl
      @Paul-dw2cl Год назад

      Rivers nails a triple? is that street slang?

    • @Paul-dw2cl
      @Paul-dw2cl Год назад

      What are you saying, is my question

  • @joem5903
    @joem5903 Год назад +2

    Billy Gibbons and Moving Sidewalks did that to Jimi. the first show whee they opened for him in Texas. They didn't have enough original tunes yet to fill up a 30 minute set, so they played Purple Haze. Jimi was supposedly amused.

  • @LedaSBotelho
    @LedaSBotelho Год назад +38

    The Blue Album is so iconic. What was said is absolutely true. You don't hear anything similar to Weezer's sound. Gotta give it up to Rivers.

  • @mypal1990
    @mypal1990 Год назад +13

    Since listening to this episode, I'll never unhear the Metallica nod in "The Sweater Song."

    • @gdoubleyou3159
      @gdoubleyou3159 Год назад +3

      Another thing you can't unhear is the strong Kurt Cobain vibe on their original album, especially Say It Ain't so.

    • @gusmc01
      @gusmc01 Год назад

      True. I play them both...had never made a connection...but now the similarity is all I hear!!

    • @Brandon-bc5um
      @Brandon-bc5um Год назад

      I dont understand how some people have never heard this before. Its ALL I could hear when I first heard welcome home for the first time lol

  • @brentj.peterson6070
    @brentj.peterson6070 10 месяцев назад +3

    Rivers is SO reserved!..He doesn't say alot ..but what he does say is important. And.. how cool and down to earth is Conan??

  • @tanyalong749
    @tanyalong749 7 месяцев назад +1

    I saw the Deftones play the Sweater Song 20 years ago. It was great. Unforgettable.

  • @matmorkinsti
    @matmorkinsti 3 месяца назад

    I pieced a Strat like this when I was a a teen. Mexican sea foam blue, t-shell pick guard, hot rail pick-ups, and eBay rosewood fretboard

  • @deathbeforedecaf7755
    @deathbeforedecaf7755 Год назад +48

    Weezer is one of the best acts to see live. They still are good. Cannot say that about a lot of the old acts. Highly recommend seeing them. So much fun!!

    • @Brandon-bc5um
      @Brandon-bc5um Год назад +3

      I just saw them at firefly fest and they played I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams and You Gave Your Love to Me Softly, one of their best sets out of 7 times I've seen them

  • @toddleopold2009
    @toddleopold2009 Год назад +2

    I've been enjoying this Rivers Cuomo interview. Thanks.

  • @jorgee3934
    @jorgee3934 Год назад +17

    A Metallica/Weezer song swap album would be amazing 🎉🎉🎉

  • @Jan-se1nd
    @Jan-se1nd 7 месяцев назад +1

    Weezer was such a huge part of my early teen years. It always makes me happy to think of those times with my friends, transitioning from very much being a child to a teen -- suddenly being 15 and going to parties and getting drunk with good friends while listening to the Blue Album.

  • @ganza5560
    @ganza5560 Год назад +1

    So dope that you got Cuomo on here. Conan really does have friends and he doesn’t forget them!

  • @wideblueeyedfear7520
    @wideblueeyedfear7520 Год назад +6

    my two influencers, conan and rivers

    • @coldvoid
      @coldvoid Год назад +1

      Oh jesus 🤦‍♂️

    • @m1l1t1am1ke
      @m1l1t1am1ke Год назад +2

      @@coldvoid you have angst about that, too?

    • @coldvoid
      @coldvoid Год назад

      @@m1l1t1am1ke why do you care, "
      m1l1t1am1ke" whatever that means xD

    • @MikeMSmall
      @MikeMSmall Год назад

      Same

    • @m1l1t1am1ke
      @m1l1t1am1ke Год назад

      @@coldvoid whatever that means? Of course you're too simple to even be able to decipher it 😆🥴

  • @jaycostescu2408
    @jaycostescu2408 5 месяцев назад +1

    On their broadcast debut on Conan in '94, Rivers is actually reading lyrics from a song my band gave him after Weezer's Toronto show at the Opera House the weekend before. I realize I'm super late to this comments page, but there you go...

  • @ZenShroud1
    @ZenShroud1 Год назад +46

    "And how did Lars take it?"
    "He pursued litigation."

    • @yodaisgod2
      @yodaisgod2 Год назад +1

      I got that reference.

    • @atenachos6282
      @atenachos6282 Год назад +5

      Kids these days will not understand the power of Napster 😄

    • @JNMKlover
      @JNMKlover Год назад +1

      ​@@atenachos6282 Exactly. I still have a CD that I made from Napster. I don't listen to it, but I gotta keep it right?

    • @codymartinez830
      @codymartinez830 Год назад

      Except they stole that main riff too......

    • @crabnutsmcgee6030
      @crabnutsmcgee6030 Год назад

      Meh

  • @jessebbedwell
    @jessebbedwell Год назад +2

    The Blue Album and Pinkerton are two of my favorite albums that I have been made aware of.

    • @Micah_S_0x4D
      @Micah_S_0x4D Год назад

      Thank Matt Sharp 😇💯

    • @jessebbedwell
      @jessebbedwell Год назад +1

      Yeah, after the first two albums I lost interest. The first two records all seemed to be about the narcissism of youth.

    • @GtaNewsITA
      @GtaNewsITA Год назад +1

      @@jessebbedwell If you stopped listening after Matt left you're missing out.
      Definitely check out the White Album, Ok Human and Everything Will Be Alright In The End, they're on par if not better than Blue and Pinkerton.

    • @Brandon-bc5um
      @Brandon-bc5um Год назад

      @@GtaNewsITA Yeah. Also sznz autumn is pretty good and winter is going to be especially good

  • @andypike1234
    @andypike1234 Год назад +5

    Sweater song is my favourite song from Weezer and Metallica my favourite band. Cool.

  • @redfive5856
    @redfive5856 Год назад

    Great that a kid from CT had to move to CA to discover Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground.

  • @adi9296
    @adi9296 Год назад

    oh hey Rivers! Nice to see/hear him here.
    Could you maybe also consider having Billie Joe Armstrong on? That would be really nice too

  • @aldersmoke1
    @aldersmoke1 Год назад +9

    Funny, the main thing I hear in "The Sweater Song" is the clean chord section from Slayer's "Seasons In The Abyss."

  • @joseapsantos3633
    @joseapsantos3633 Год назад

    Boa noite, um belo vídeo muito bom.

  • @Tangerinetambourine
    @Tangerinetambourine 7 месяцев назад +2

    Similar story - My old band got booked to open for Vanilla Ice (for some reason) years ago and I made the mistake of telling the promoter that we were closing with Ice Ice Baby. We thought that it was gonna be hilarious and the promoter agreed....then he kicked us off of the bill 😂

  • @mgers75
    @mgers75 Год назад +6

    They released 3 singles from the Blue Album and could've easily subbed those for Surf Wax America, Only in Dreams, Jonus, or In the Garage and been just as successful.

    • @potatowater285
      @potatowater285 Год назад +4

      Jonas is literally my absolute favorite weezer song

    • @mgers75
      @mgers75 Год назад +3

      @@potatowater285 Agree I remember getting the blue album and not knowing anything about them other than the Undone song/video that had just started getting airtime on MTV and Alternative radio. Was blown away by Jonus. It was an absolutely perfect opener to a debut album

    • @gdoubleyou3159
      @gdoubleyou3159 Год назад +3

      Only In Dreams is one of my favorite non single songs of all time

    • @roberthieber1
      @roberthieber1 Год назад +6

      The World Has Turned and Left Me Here is great too!

    • @gdoubleyou3159
      @gdoubleyou3159 Год назад +1

      @@roberthieber1 You can essentially just let the album play through.

  • @Bat_Rag
    @Bat_Rag Год назад +4

    Weezer always reminded me of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys

    • @wmvnotmp4
      @wmvnotmp4 Год назад +1

      The beach boys were a big influence for them especially on the blue album

  • @capt.alessandrothundernutt7310
    @capt.alessandrothundernutt7310 Год назад +3

    Pinkerton was so underrated

  • @nathanmv
    @nathanmv 9 месяцев назад

    I love whenever Andy tells tha

  • @traviswilliams4548
    @traviswilliams4548 Год назад +3

    Now all I hear is James singing The Sweater Song. "If you WANT to DESTROY MY SWEATAAAA"

  • @suhailyounus913
    @suhailyounus913 6 месяцев назад +1

    Blink 182's "Adam's Song" is also very similar Metallica's One. If you play guitar there's almost no mistaking the similarity.

  • @JoeyArmstrong2800
    @JoeyArmstrong2800 9 месяцев назад +2

    I love watching him shred Yngwie Malmsteen.

  • @CaptainKirkDiggler
    @CaptainKirkDiggler Год назад

    1:54 Holy Schnikees! It is...

  • @dangercat9188
    @dangercat9188 11 месяцев назад +1

    In the garage and say it ain't so are my fave weezer songs. Buddy Holly is another one.

  • @DidiRizzo
    @DidiRizzo Год назад

    WEEZER!!!! ❤❤❤❤ all of it all day long

  • @nickferry7796
    @nickferry7796 7 месяцев назад +1

    Weezer definitely sounds like The Cars meets Nirvana but that alone is very unique

  • @qnniikq
    @qnniikq 8 месяцев назад +2

    lol this is the one video with weezer facts that I don’t already know. They other podcast videos I already knew

  • @Fatherstrulyhome
    @Fatherstrulyhome Год назад

    Hey hey🍾👋👊😎🔥🔥

  • @trendgames6023
    @trendgames6023 Год назад +1

    weezer is such a good band

  • @JavierFernandez01
    @JavierFernandez01 Год назад

    RIVERS CUOMO?! :D i never once wondered what his name was.
    Its a good one. :) he looks like a rivers cuomo.

  • @Syclone0044
    @Syclone0044 Год назад +1

    The Blue Album is the only CD 💿 I’ve bought three times:
    1. When I was in high school and bought a shitty scratched up used disc from a dipshit friend on a lark, only to discover what an absolute gem the album is.
    2. I finally bought a proper new retail CD.
    3. They released the Deluxe Edition 2-disc set and I had to buy that too. It’s definitely worth it.

    • @Brandon-bc5um
      @Brandon-bc5um Год назад

      I've owned and listened to that album on every format it was released on

    • @Ou8y2k2
      @Ou8y2k2 10 месяцев назад

      I got that on stone stele, then vinyl, 8-track, cassette, cd, variable rate 320-bit mp3, then FLAC. Now its in grained in my brain.

  • @lachauntiswashington231
    @lachauntiswashington231 Год назад

    nice

  • @mrcali68
    @mrcali68 10 месяцев назад +2

    Am I alone in thinking that Jordan Schlansky and Rivers Cuomo are somehow similar ...yet totally different?

  • @Jacob-ir6zi
    @Jacob-ir6zi Год назад +3

    He looks more like Johnny Knoxville than Johnny Knoxville looks like Johnny Knoxville

  • @focalized
    @focalized Год назад +2

    Hum is a good band like Weezer but a bit heavier and les fun but just came to mind. Singer sounds similar.

  • @nealeshaffer3140
    @nealeshaffer3140 Год назад

    I always thought it was just the Pixies "Where is my mind?"

  • @mohdzulfadli6276
    @mohdzulfadli6276 5 месяцев назад

    0:16 at this point Conan didn’t realize what he just did 😉

  • @DickieCombs
    @DickieCombs Год назад +2

    Weezer songs give me nostalgia for a life I've never lived.

  • @treborretsnom6186
    @treborretsnom6186 Год назад

    MORE MORE MORE

  • @Brandon-bc5um
    @Brandon-bc5um Год назад

    what?! I always thought that was just a coincidence lol wow

  • @deesnutz42069
    @deesnutz42069 Год назад

    Deftones have done the ol' "play one of weezer's songs before weezer performs after deftones at a festival" trick once or twice.

  • @MikeysMorgue
    @MikeysMorgue Год назад +2

    Metallica/Weezer tour! 🤘🏼

  • @TrentHuggins
    @TrentHuggins Год назад +1

    This is Kurt, you cant convince me otherwise.

    • @mattdad8429
      @mattdad8429 11 месяцев назад

      What do you mean by that?

  • @chadmoore4968
    @chadmoore4968 Год назад +1

    Surprised Lars didn’t try to sue him.

  • @johngulotta7951
    @johngulotta7951 Год назад

    dude that's so weird I'm going to do a mix Metallica's my favorite band and I love Weezer too

  • @charizardmaster13
    @charizardmaster13 Год назад +2

    Hot take undone is a better riff than sanitarium. Not saying sanitarium is bad before the metallica fans come for me

  • @Filthy_Rich_556
    @Filthy_Rich_556 Год назад

    Just listened to sanitarium. Can confirm. Same riff, in a minor key. Everyone though Rivers was joking.

  • @Syclone0044
    @Syclone0044 Год назад

    Hey, umm.. did you hear about the party after the show?

    • @jodieitkonen4880
      @jodieitkonen4880 Год назад

      Aw man, it’s gonna be the best! I’m so stoked! Take it easy bro

  • @mattwatts33
    @mattwatts33 Год назад

    I will always think of sanitarium when I hear sweater song now.

  • @jimmyguitar2933
    @jimmyguitar2933 Год назад +3

    Rivers never ages. He still looks 20, and he's what, 50?

  • @heffe4257
    @heffe4257 Год назад

    Remember when the media tried to say Conan was a “trailblazer” of podcasting?

  • @ericy1005
    @ericy1005 Год назад

    Be cooler if he lifted the clean riff from Bleak House Rainbow Warrior.

  • @dickheaddan4106
    @dickheaddan4106 Год назад

    Johnny Knoxville lookin good these days!

  • @robertloerwald3
    @robertloerwald3 Год назад +4

    Wonder if his love of Metallica is why he bought a Boogie

  • @notch7751
    @notch7751 Год назад

    At quick glance I thought it was Johnny Knoxville in the thumbnail

    • @dublinbounder
      @dublinbounder Год назад +1

      To me, Rivers has the face of Johnny Knoxville but the body of Fred Armisen.

  • @fcallo
    @fcallo Год назад +1

    how the heck this guy still looks young? He beat Jared Leto, Keanu Reeves and even Paul Rudd!

  • @TraceVandal
    @TraceVandal 7 месяцев назад

    I have never heard Rivers talk in 30 years of being a Weezer fan.

  • @foulodor3271
    @foulodor3271 Год назад

    The Feelies

  • @kisschicken
    @kisschicken 4 месяца назад

    "You have such a unique sound." "So yeah, we straight stole that riff from Metallica."

  • @BatshitVashti
    @BatshitVashti 7 месяцев назад

    Authenticity

  • @thestarseeker8196
    @thestarseeker8196 3 месяца назад

    TIL Conan knows about riffs

  • @yolocards2
    @yolocards2 Год назад

    Pinkerton is the best alternative rock album of all time.

  • @KARIS1961
    @KARIS1961 7 месяцев назад

    Just love Weezer ❤

  • @orcanimal
    @orcanimal 7 месяцев назад

    I wish just for once he'd stop everything in the middle of an interview and just shout into the microphone -"Sorry, I just can't keep up the lie anymore. Yes, goddamnit, it's me! I'm Kurt Cobain. I just needed a break. I'm alive!' and then go back to the interview as usual

  • @wrdswpns1139
    @wrdswpns1139 Год назад +2

    Studio is to dark 🌑

  • @curtisbush5728
    @curtisbush5728 5 месяцев назад +1

    Sweater song is more of a nirvana "paper cuts" bite, than metallica .

  • @zevmag
    @zevmag Год назад +1

    Oh that's why Metallica is greatest influence including The HU, the Mongolia folk/metal band!!

  • @brennanolowney7190
    @brennanolowney7190 Год назад +1

    I love early Weezer, but they definitely ripped off Pavement’s sound.

  • @rangers11ization
    @rangers11ization Год назад

    He's listening🤣🤣🤣 Sona is hilarious 😂

  • @Guanjyn
    @Guanjyn 7 месяцев назад

    Weezer are such a great band. It's a shame they only made 2 albums.

  • @dereklundblad
    @dereklundblad Год назад

    And Sanitarium was a rip off of Bleak House's Rainbow Warrior, in the early days they took a lot of riffs from the NWOBHM and Dave also hahahahahaha

  • @ilikespacedinosaurs
    @ilikespacedinosaurs Год назад +2

    The Sweater Song is a borderline rip off of "I Bleed" by The Pixies lol

  • @blutomindpretzel1735
    @blutomindpretzel1735 Год назад +2

    seriously though, if Metallica did one show without Sandman in the set I'd be impressed. It's severely overplayed

    • @tijmen6947
      @tijmen6947 Год назад

      Wouldn't be that surprised. They played sets without Nothing Else Matters recently as well

    • @MikeysMorgue
      @MikeysMorgue Год назад

      The have played recent sets without playing Enter Sandman! Right when concerts started back up after covid they decided to play club shows. They didn't play Enter Sandman at all!

  • @futuresequence.
    @futuresequence. 7 месяцев назад

    When I saw Limp Bizkit with Metallica, they covered 2 Metallica songs. It was weird.

  • @schaag
    @schaag 10 месяцев назад

    yes, with a lot of imagination you can see this connection. but i know what he means. i've written a few songs over the years and i have exactly the same thoughts on some of them as he does. However, only I can see that and no one else :-)

  • @Jmilillo
    @Jmilillo Год назад

    It’s literally happy Metallica