My personal feeling about Weezer is that they made two of the best rock albums of the '90s, two good albums that traded lyrical coherence for good hooks, and
Make Believe, a near-abortion that revealed how lucky we were to have Rivers Cuomo babble about hash pipes and dope noses instead of starkly announcing "We Are All On Drugs." "Pork And Beans" has a
Blue Album-worthy chorus hook and distortion pedal push, but the lyrics are a pretty embarrassing attempt to seek sympathy for his "uncool" songs. Now "Heart Songs" offers a star's sequel to "In The Garage," name-dropping the artists who helped him throughout the gestative years of his career (before Nirvana changed his life) over a creepily tepid backdrop featuring acoustic guitar, strings and what sounds like a glockenspiel.
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