In the first 8 seconds alone, a series of remarkable trademarks are established: first, there are those chugging, heavily down-stroked rhythm guitars Rivers Cuomo’s geeky faux-rap parody that comes with a smile in the brilliant form of the opening couplet, “What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl? / Why do they gotta front?” - sung in a melody so damn good that it transcends the kitsch entirely and that striking little synth lick that had folks asking Weezer “where’d the keyboards go?” as late as seven years later.įour quick lines - all in just under fifteen seconds - and with a warm little swell of feedback, we’re into the pre-chorus, a heavenly sweet swirl of “woo-hoos,” more winning melodies, a bright and tasteful little guitar lead, and a rising falsetto line - “and that’s for ahh-all time!” - so perfect that the band could never quite recreate it live. For now, in 1994, there is The Blue Album, and there is its crown jewel single “Buddy Holly,” and boy is it ever something.
Jonze is tearing up the box office with his feature-length motion picture Where The Wild Things Are.īut that’s all in the distant future. Likewise, it also happened to boost Jonze’s career into the stratosphere, and like Weezer, he’s entered a new league of mainstream popularity that at the time would’ve seemed impossible: as Weezer gets ready to release its own attempt at a hypercommercial blockbuster, Raditude, Mr. And though the infallible melody and charming pop cultural lyrics played their part, it’d be hard to contest the fact that it was the Happy Days-themed music video - one of the greatest of all time - that put the song over the top.
Keep up with Weezer at their official website.“ Undone - The Sweater Song” was the first Weezer song to capture the imagination of the alt-rock nation (and in 1994, it really did have enough of a set perimeter and population to be called a “nation”), but “Buddy Holly” was the first to make the band pop superstars. That date has since circulated around the internet, but Koch corrected it a few years ago. … 30 years on, we are nowhere near the end of the story."įor years, Weezer said their first practice was on Feb.
"So much has changed," Koch concluded, "and yet, having been there for it for every step of the way I can truly say that for all the changes and amazing adventures that have happened, the spirit of weezer has not changed hardly, if at all. Koch also honored the late Mykel and Carli Allan, Weezer's original fan club managers who died in a 1997 car crash along with their younger sister Trysta. Guitarist Brian Bell replaced Cropper before Weezer released the "Blue Album." Koch's note also paid tribute to late Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh, who replaced Matt Sharp for the "Green Album." Bassist Scott Shriner has assumed the position since then. A new Weezer project known as SZNZ is expected later this year. They returned in 2001 with the " Green Album" and have since released 12 more studio efforts, including last year's Van Weezer and OK Human. But regardless of when the name stuck, the band that has been going strong for 30 years now was born."Īfter the "Blue Album," Weezer released the cult favorite Pinkerton in 1996 before taking a hiatus. He added, "For all of this, weezer wasn't really even 'weezer' yet, because the band wouldn't get its name until a few hours before their first show on 3/19/92, closing the night out at Raji's after the debut performance of Keanu Reeves' Dogstar. On day 3, Rivers rolled tape on his 8 Track cassette recorder, and they recorded everything till they had something they could listen back to." Koch continued, "The room at TK was hot and sweaty - gross, frankly - and the band worked very hard, ironing out a million snags and mistakes, repeatedly jamming the songs until they sounded like rock music. It has the hit rock singles "Undone – The Sweater Song," "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So." "Blue Album" being Weezer's triple-platinum 1994 self-titled debut. "On 2/15/92, Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Matt Sharp and Jason Cropper met at TK Productions at 1956 Cotner Ave in West LA, for the first of 3 days of rehearsals, running through about 20 different songs numerous times, including a few songs that would make it to the Blue Album 2 years later." "And just like that, it's been 30 years to the day that weezer was born," Koch said.
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