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Today's album of the day

Pinkerton by Weezer (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1996.
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Overall rank: 130
Average rating: 83/100 (from 1558 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Tired Of Sex
2. Getchoo
3. No Other One
4. Why Bother?
5. Across The Sea
6. The Good Life
7. El Scorcho
8. Pink Triangle
9. Falling For You
10. Butterfly

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[HoldenM]

Weezer? I hardly know 'er!

Track picks
5. Across The Sea
6. The Good Life
7. El Scorcho
8. Pink Triangle
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[LordMark]

My favourite emo album of all time. I love it even more than I love The Blue Album. While Pinkerton is an excellent album from start to finish, the highlight is definitely the 1-2-3-4 punch of "Across the Sea", "The Good Life", "El Scorcho", and "Pink Triangle".

[II]

One of the few albums on BEA that has a track rating average range of 86-90, which could mean according to BEA users that all the tracks in the album complement each other and create a balance of arguably no weak points. That astonished me when I first noticed it. Some track ratings have dropped a little bit but it still has the same effect.

Musically and compositionally, it is very well made as it is balanced with each track flowing naturally from one to another with the Gb Major key being used several times, and there are also some key changes, tempo changes and dynamics changes in the songs usually as the 2nd chorus ends which is not very common in rock music, hence, it enriches the compositional variety of the song's rock-ish instrumental capabilities and transcends the experience, and was probably inspired by the operas the frontman Rivers Cuomo was listening back at the beginning of the album's production (which II would get into later).
Lyrically, it shares themes of rock-star fame issues, Japan, depression and struggling finding love and hoping to preserve it. Which makes the album more vulgarly adult-oriented in the lyrical sense and discusses on some inner-feelings and issues more relatable for people in the depressive sense, although some lyrics across the album can feel openly awkward (Across the Sea is the most lyrically uncomfortable song, and Tired of Sex is quite explicit as its title etc.), which is probably a main reason why the album got mixed reviews when it was released, but later on achieved probably one of the greatest positive changes of opinions regarding an album ever in modern music history, since Cuomo in this album is generally discussing about struggling unsuccessfully finding love and its consequences and not wanting being alone, something which many people can relate to, and it's musically pretty great.

Pinkerton is one of few albums in modern music history which started out as a big project, which was supposed to be a rock opera called: Songs from the Black Hole, inspired to make one after listening to a recording of the 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, which the song Butterfly takes its title from, the album's title Pinkerton is taken from one of its main characters, the US & Japan themes are inspired of the opera's story and its sad themes inspired Cuomo to make sad music. However, the project was abandoned as he felt lonely studying in Harvard at the time, and the project turned out be a short 34-minute 10-songs album, similar to how The Who's Lifehouse was shortened and the Beach Boys' SMiLE which would be recreated as was planned decades later.

An importantly great album which is at least in my top 25 albums of all time, because of the natural flow of the tracks' music.
II've always preferred it over the Blue Album since for me and as the track ratings on BEA shows: five songs of it are strong while the other five are weak, so it enlarges the imbalance, which Pinkerton doesn't have.
The album's B-side (tracks 6-10) is the strongest part of the album for me since it showcases strong tracks one by one, so it's possibly one of musically strongest B-sides on any album ever.