Weezer (Teal Album)

Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album)
Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2019 Ratings: #791 / 805
User Score
2019 Rank: #915
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CRITIC REVIEWS

75
Consequence of Sound

It’s like live band karaoke, and everyone is invited, which is all this really boils down to at the end of the day. They’re not reinventing the wheel; they’re using it.

60
Drowned in Sound

In spite of all the possible pitfalls Weezer could have faced in its delivery, The Teal Album is a truly pleasant surprise, and one of the most likeable records to have emerged in recent months.

60
AllMusic

The meticulous replications of The Teal Album aren't a million miles away from that notebook, but by having Weezer pop into familiar settings, Cuomo has created a hyper-saturated, uncanny valley, where nothing seems quite real. An ideal album for the internet, in other words.

60
NME

Respectful enough to rouse any struggling family gathering but knowing enough to amuse those in on the joke, ‘The Teal Album’ at once satirises the covers album and makes a decent stab at perfecting it.

60
The Needle Drop

For a covers album orchestrated by a popular rock band, The Teal Album could've turned out much worse.

60
Spill Magazine

On The Teal Album, Weezer delivers an outright hilarious choice of ten faithfully-executed classics for an overall colourful experience. Teal is the colour of a band having pure, shameless fun.

58
Pretty Much Amazing

For an album with both a Eurythmics cover AND a Black Sabbath cover it’s a surprisingly listenable, albeit pointless entry in their discography, Weezer has spent a decade becoming more interesting to read about than listen to.

50
Northern Transmissions

The covers never stray from their iconic originals at all, much less enough to warrant the cover’s existence, and the only changes are in tinny or downright annoying transposing/altering of well-known instrumentals, making the album feel immediately enjoyable and just-as-immediately disposable.

35
Under the Radar

I can understand Weezer forgot long ago what they were good at. I know they've forgotten how to write great songs. But here's the thing-at least they used to make better memes than this.

20
NOW Magazine

No band with perfect pitch has ever been this tone-deaf.

MySoftBulletin
69

these bad bitches just melted my semen

ImpalaLT
14

You can’t expect a band like this to do any of the original songs justice, even if a few of the songs aren’t very enjoyable to begin with.

Not only does every cover suck, they all feel so lazily re-done. The vocals sound like they’ve been done in the span of five minutes, the synths sound like bargain bin toys, and everything else is pretty bad.

We all know them nowadays to be a meme band full of nerdy boomers who want to be teenagers, and that “meme” ... read more

jangoj
95

ᴘʀᴀɪꜱᴇ ʀɪᴠᴇʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴜᴄᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀɪᴛɪᴄꜱ
it's all a joke guys. If it weren't for Africa this album wouldn't exist, so this album was clearly not supposed to be taken seriously.
𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘦 𝘰𝘮𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 ... read more

smartfridge
99

Why is it red this is great

BuyAS
57

they really went for the color naming scheme for this one eh?
honestly more weirded out by the face that Cuomo does on the cover than anything on the album. nothing too bad nor too good its all just kinda eh..., basically the most weezer thing that weezer has done and its not even original songs.

TheZetaCoreYT
40

Why does this exist? Like seriously why does this exist?

Average Score: 45/100
Overall Score: 40/100

Favorites (?): Africa, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Happy Together
Least Favorites: Take on Me, Billie Jean, Stand By Me

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Added on: January 24, 2019