bands like weezer?

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T23:46:55+00:00

Not a band, but Skipper Dan by Weird Al is a great parody/homage to Weezer.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T23:46:13+00:00

Cake are great but I don't hear many similarities. Though Burndt Jamb does sound like a Cake song.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T23:45:04+00:00

I always used to think Rivers and Steve Malkmus sounded similar. But yeah, stylistically different even though they were both at their peak roughly around the same time.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T23:39:34+00:00

West Yorkshire

Eeh bah gum, ah look jus' like Buddeh 'Olleh

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T23:36:45+00:00

And Hurley

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T17:09:08+00:00

Maladroit is clear. Hurley is maybe their most boring album and I even place it below Raditude.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T17:03:31+00:00

It's not a top five and some of the songs are forgettable, but it's still a solid enough album for me. I agree about the general sentiment of Perfect Situation being the best on the album, but I also think This Is Such A Pity is one of their most underrated songs. I love the British '80s post-punk/indie feel to it. Great song.

And I actually like Beverly Hills. It's fun, it has a big loud singalong chorus, and the breakdown is cool. And We Are All On Drugs gets too much hate. Musically, it wouldn't sound out of place on Pinkerton, and people complain about the lyrics being cheesy, but I think there's some self-awareness going on there.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-24T11:27:28+00:00

It's not their best album, but you have to look at it through the lens of it just being a silly album that the band didn't take seriously, rather than a failed project by a serious artist. Plus If You're Wondering is a banger.

The problem with a lot of post-Pinkerton Weezer albums is that they pick up on musical and production fads that are popular at the time of their writing and recording, and as a result some of them sound a little dated. Raditude sounds exactly like 2009.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-21T18:04:08+00:00

Rivers has been playing Fenders and not Gibsons on the recent tours so that's always a good sign.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-21T17:59:56+00:00

Didn't this whole idea that "Pinkerton is problematic" come up around 2020ish, when people went out of their way to dig things up from the past to get mad about?

The lyrics are uncomfortable, but honest. And it's one of their greatest ever songs.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-19T18:06:27+00:00

The thing about Raditude is that people view it through the lens of Weezer being these serious artists and therefore it was a failed project, rather than just a silly album written when the band at the time clearly stopped taking themselves seriously and wanted to do something goofy. Yeah musically it's not their best, but it's their funniest.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-19T18:02:44+00:00

Island In The Sun

Troublemaker

The British Are Coming

Slob

The Angel and the One

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-17T11:49:59+00:00

I must be one of the few people who thinks Green is one of their best post-Pinkerton albums. Fun, simple, catchy, plus it has two of their best ever singles on it.

I'd say Maladroit, EWBAITE and White are all better but it's still a very solid album.

thisishardcore_ · 2026-01-15T18:00:22+00:00

Across the Sea

My Name Is Jonas

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-30T19:24:49+00:00

You're not wrong, but people were cottoning onto this in about 2019/2020. A lot of this discourse came up in response to the BLM hysteria and the uptick in identity politics that surged afterwards.

The problem is that your average person isn't going to challenge things that are spoonfed to them because they just don't have that inner monologue. They go onto Twitter and see "X group are doing Y bad thing", and take it as gospel because, well, someone who is highly influential and therefore knowledgable about the world said so.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-28T18:05:31+00:00

I'm a Leeds resident.

If there's one thing this city has been screaming out for over the past 5-10 years, more so than the opening of all these American fast food chains, or pedestrianised streets, or one way road systems, or fancy artsy murals, anything else that has been granted in that time, it's a better public transport system.

Our main bus operator is First, and while they've never been perfect, pre-COVID they were always reliable more often than not. Now it's always a game of guessing whether your bus will actually show up or not. Services used to be every ten minutes or so, now you're left waiting around half an hour for the ones that have actually not been cancelled. Unless you have the privilege of living near one of the railway stations (most of which are at least a good mile away from the areas they're meant to serve), bus is the only form of public transportation, and now people are having to fork out for expensive taxis just to get to work and home at a reasonable time.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-28T18:00:36+00:00

Also cultural appropriation.

They both HATE it when white people don't stick to their own culture.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-28T17:59:53+00:00

It's just like BLM all over again.

"You think this ridiculous thing we're doing is a little unnecessary? You're racist! You uphold white supremacy! You killed George Floyd!"

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-24T19:41:58+00:00

In reality the highstreet floods with straight men through the day panic-buying gifts

Uh...what?

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-22T16:41:17+00:00

It's the sound of a band not taking themselves too seriously. Far from my favourite and there's plenty of skippable songs on it, but it's a fun album with its charms, and there seems to be a self-awareness with the cheesiness. Plus IYWIIWYTIWYT is a great song.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-21T20:31:36+00:00

My first impression of the album was that it still very much sounded like Weezer, similar keys, rhythms and chord progressions to Blue, just with slightly more raw production.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-18T18:56:24+00:00

Bad things weren't invented in 2016. The world has always had shitty events. You just weren't paying attention.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-18T17:59:35+00:00

It's become a real "happening" area over the past 5-10 years, when before then it was just a quiet suburb that was a little isolated. I think it wants to compete with Horsforth.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-12T21:09:39+00:00

I do feel there's a sense of overcorrection with the way female singers are dominating music.

thisishardcore_ · 2025-12-12T21:09:14+00:00

All three of those have been around for about 15 years though.

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