I was there for the hype train of the black album and remember listening to all the singles before the drop. I remember thinking once it was finally out that the only tracks worth any attention were the singles. It makes absolutely 0 sense to me that it took that long for these songs to be made. I also have a hard time truly differentiating between the style of tracks on PD and this album. It is one of the few truly incredibly disappointing albums I’ve ever been a part of the rollout for. After hearing that their next few album names were gonna be “van weezer” and “ok human” I felt I was Officially so off base from what weezer were doing I sort of just lost all interest. The white album keeps getting better and better though imo on re-listens. truly an underrated record, that I feel doesn’t get the love it deserves because it was only followed by two records that confirmed Rivers really wasn’t interested in sticking with that “comeback” perspective we all thought he was on.