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albummaster
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- Posted: 08/07/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3522): Weezer (The Blue Album) by Weezer
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Today's album of the day
Weezer (The Blue Album) by Weezer (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1994.
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Overall rank: 68
Average rating: 84/100 (from 1646 votes).
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Tracks:
1. My Name Is Jonas
2. No One Else
3. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
4. Buddy Holly
5. Undone - The Sweater Song
6. Surf Wax America
7. Say It Ain't So
8. In The Garage
9. Holiday
10. Only In Dreams
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Magcelick
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Age: 23
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- Posted: 08/08/2020 02:44
- Post subject: I'm not getting that on the front page
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I'm just getting "default album title" by "default band name" show up for the album of the day with the album cover just being a solid gray square with a question mark on the front page, and when I click on either link, it takes me to [https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=-1]. Am I the only one experiencing this glitch?
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indieshins
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- Posted: 08/08/2020 02:54
- Post subject: Re: I'm not getting that on the front page
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| Magcelick wrote: | | I'm just getting "default album title" by "default band name" show up for the album of the day with the album cover just being a solid gray square with a question mark on the front page, and when I click on either link, it takes me to [https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=-1]. Am I the only one experiencing this glitch? |
No, it happened to me too. I thought maybe it was a joke. But now I see there's an actual album meant to be there, obviously it's not.
On Blue, though - great pop/rock album with some fantastic melodies and punchy production from Ric Ocasek. Maybe a bit too poppy to be an absolute favourite of mine, but for a certain mood, there's almost nothing better.
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- Posted: 08/08/2020 15:02
- Post subject: Re: I'm not getting that on the front page
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| Magcelick wrote: | | I'm just getting "default album title" by "default band name" show up for the album of the day with the album cover just being a solid gray square with a question mark on the front page, and when I click on either link, it takes me to [https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=-1]. Am I the only one experiencing this glitch? |
Woops, sorry.  Now fixed
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- Posted: 08/09/2020 08:52
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As indieshins said it, once you're in the proper mood, this is the best album in the world.
Oh, and Only In Dreams is legitimately one of the best songs ever.
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- Posted: 08/09/2020 18:45
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You can't go wrong with any Weezer album really 
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CharlieBarley
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- Posted: 08/13/2020 23:31
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I love this album
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Tha1ChiefRocka
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- Posted: 08/14/2020 04:04
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Weezer was just a more sincere Pavement.
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- Posted: 08/15/2020 10:53
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| Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | | Weezer was just a more sincere Pavement. |
Weezer sounded like they grew up on Kiss and The Cars and Big Star, whereas Pavement sounded like they grew up on The Fall and Dinosaur Jr. and maybe even The Grateful Dead; Weezer had a more straightforward lyrical style that referenced well-known tropes (and sometimes characters) from American 20th century popular culture, whereas Pavement had a more abstract, cut-and-paste lyrical style that relied on non-seqiturs and the smashing together of familiar phrases in unfamiliar ways; both were super self-aware, and neither were ever self-serious (and, in fact, I'd argue that silliness was an inherent part of each band's charm).
You could definitely argue that Weezer were more earnest than Pavement, but I think it's a mistake to confuse earnestness with sincerity. I really love both bands' early output (Weezer's first two records, in spite of the second's creepiness; Pavement's first three, in spite of the first's overt aping of The Fall), so I don't particularly have a horse in this race, but it's a common misconception that art of a more abstract variety (not that I consider Pavement particularly abstract, but rather in this specific contrast with Weezer) in someway lacks the sincerity of art that is more straightforward, more plainspoken, clearer in its intentions. It suggests that Pavement were somehow being less themselves (or, at least, less true to themselves) than Weezer, when I struggle to find any evidence of that in the actual music.
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babyBlueSedan
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- Posted: 08/15/2020 15:55
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Hot take: "Say It Ain't So" is the worst song here.
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