Weezer - How Rivers Wrote The Green Album

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Pat with hair

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Bill

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Can you cover Raditude

[@SamSajadi]

Looks like this popped up in your recommendation too for some reason.

[@FlippinT]

True

[@endgameisbad2733]

I took that giant Weezer AI quiz thing. That’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back.

[@slickrick1827]

His voice is deeper than when he sings

[@slickrick1827]

@Marc That’s not true

[@slickrick1827]

@Marc I thought MJs speaking voice was pretty high pitched. I agree it’s true for some but not all

[@suburbanindie]

Same with mine. It's common for tenors.

[@shurbrrt]

accurate description of green

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c r a b i f y o u w a n n a

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crab at the booty

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Taint gonna do no good

[@Daniel-gh7ww]

ye that makes sense

[@behie]

I understand what he is saying when it comes to song writing. Sometimes you don’t even know what you are singing about for awhile.

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Brian is having some deep thoughts

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The rest of the band is like :/

[@coreev]

THE WAY SCOTT LOOKS OFF TO THE SIDE😭😭😭

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He sounds like the David text to speech voice

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Perfectly good source to explain why the Green album was neglected past the singles

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this is so funny holy shit

[@skinnyneckhex]

Was this filmed following a funeral? They all look so sad.

[@logikarp]

Well they had just released Make Believe...so yeah...

[@-Teague-]

@@logikarp no it was a funeral for Pinkerton because Make Believe absolutely murdered it

[@Dofungulous]

They are sad because they are weezers.

[@CurlyChop]

@@Dofungulous it looks like they need help :( their tongues are twisted, their eyes are split... They need a guardian!

[@Treyworld]

Well that explains why The Green album comes off as aimless (soulless).

[@camacaron06]

I do like the Green album but I can agree it’s very formulaic. That’s because he had the Catalog of Riffs project where he made lots of songs between 1999-2005, he especially made a lot during 1999-2001

[@suburbanindie]

I think he's on the spectrum

[@somekidwithacomputer2939]

@@suburbanindie so you're a psychologist?

[@suburbanindie]

@@somekidwithacomputer2939 I need a PhD to think?

[@somekidwithacomputer2939]

@@suburbanindie no, but you probably need to have some level of expertise in that field if you're going to make predictions related to it.

[@Ghosty6464]

Funny as fuck that he says this given that the whole album is essentially about nothing. Still a good album, but yeah. Granted, he was on heavy drugs during this and Maladroit. Both great albums.

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Sometimes.....

[@coreev]

ou i love him

[@lovespread0112]

he is sarcastic or not?

[@patriciofernandez2711]

He must be, because Don't Let Go is such an obvious song. I like it, but it's not Ballad of a Thin Man, I can't see him writing these lyrics and thinking "woah what the fuck am I writing?".

[@FlippinT]

What about the spreadsheets

[@pphaguss]

That started around White/PD

[@Cauldronofbats666]

@@pphaguss actually i think that’s just when he first starting talking about it. i could be wrong but i think that technique dates back kinda far.

[@pphaguss]

@@Cauldronofbats666 In a way, yes, but nothing on the same level. He may have plucked a riff from a past demo or re-used a verse/chorus melody but that was it. The best example pre-spreadsheet is probably El Scorcho. It’s riff is from a 1992 demo, it’s chorus melody from a Harvard music assignment, and a few lines of lyrics from a classmates essay. The song was still mostly written in 1995, though. Whereas with the spreadsheet, Rivers could create a new song entirely out of old parts. Summer Elaine has verses from 2002, a bridge from 2011, and a chorus from 2015. All Rivers had to do was add lyrics, which also came from a database. The repurposing of old an old demo’s chorus as a new song’s bridge is pretty specific to the spreadsheet too. He’s always had an interest in writing this way, he just hasn’t always had the technology to do so.

[@logikarp]

@@pphaguss I think specifically during the late 90's / early 00's, he started using formulas to try and write perfect pop songs, so kinda early form of what he would do with spreadsheets, but similar since they both equate song writing down to a formula.

[@pphaguss]

@@logikarp yea, pretty much. the COR was definitely the beginning of that mindset

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