It’s a surprisingly fun album! A similar sound to that of EWBAIT, with heavy guitars, some nice vocals and good drum and bass. A nice little tribute to one of the most influential Hard Rock / Hair Metal acts.

Favourites: The End Of The Game, Beginning Of The End, Precious Metal Girl
Least favourite: 1 More Hit

Happy 35th anniversary Flood!

TMBG are one of my favourite bands. They and Weezer are 2 of the driving factors in getting me to listen to music outside of just the pop-radio stations. A Seriously underrated band.

Anyway, this album is just a fun listen! Goofy but also kinda morbid . A blend that works surprisingly well! No song overstayed its welcome. A fantastic album from start to finish!

Favourite tracks: Birdhouse In Your Soul, Istanbul (Not Constantinople), Your Racist Friend, Road ... read more

I think whatever way you spin it, this is definitely in the top 3 Paramore albums. Personally it's my favourite! They didn't reinvent post-punk revival but rather iterated on it in a way only a band like Paramore can!

A (kinda) experimental beauty of the modern age!

Favourite tracks: This is Why, The News, Running Out of Time

Franz Ferdinand return!

The Human Fear feels experimental. Lots of different instruments and styles present. It somehow sounds great though. Well produced and has that classic FF style and vibe! I don’t know why the score is so low here.

Favourite tracks: Hooked, Night or Day, The Birds
Least favourite: Black Eyelashes

This is a straight bop! Harsh but catchy. Can’t wait til the album drops!

NOTE: I’m Reviewing the 2001 Remaster

Wasn’t expecting to end 2024 and start 2025 on such high notes but that’s how it be!

This is one of the best albums of the 70’s. It sounds clean but also kinda rough (I mean that as a compliment) if you get what I mean. Fantastic!

Favourite Tracks: One Way Or Another, 11:59, Heart of Glass
Least Favourite: Fade Away And Radiate

There’s a reason this is a classic. Fun, explosive and energetic! A Landmark album for the 90’s and the wider Pop-Punk scene!

Favourite Tracks: Basket Case, She, When I Come Around
Least Favourite: Emenius Sleepus

Very surprised by this! I was going in expecting something just alright, nothing too special. But I really like this! Feels very classic. Heavy guitar, great drumming, great vocal delivery. Really good!

Favourite tracks: Bobby Sox, Dilemma, Living in the ‘20s
Least favourite: Corvette Summer

Thought I should get round to this since its 20th anniversary is this year.

What a brilliant album! You can feel the power radiating from this. Strong chords, amazing lyrics and instrumentals. It hits so hard! Surprised at the hate it gets.

Favourite tracks: American Idiot, Jesus Of Suburbia, St. Jimmy
Least favourite: We Are The Waiting

There will probably never be an “orange album” thanks to this

Just the Deluxe stuff, Itunes exclusives and the Japanese bonus track:

Get Me Some - A decent heavier track. It's kinda good actually (70)

Ran Over By A Truck - This really good! Should Have been on the album (86)

The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World - Decent. Not bad. just kinda repetative by the end. (65)

The Underdogs - Not Bad! Very sweet and somber! (90)

The Story Of My Life - Another solid acoustic demo! (95)

Kids/Poker Face - What? Why? - (20)

I Woke Up In Love This ... read more

A Track by Track Review of This weird thing

I'm Your Daddy - Why is Kenny G here? Why did they add a sax here? I'm confused (21)

(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To - I Really quite like this version. This was ment to be a duet and you can't tell me otherwise (80)

Why Bother? - It's a fine live version. It's just fine. (69)

Brain Stew - A really interesting version of this song. It's actually kinda good. (75)

Buddy Holly - Yet another ... read more

Note: I Listened to the "international version" on youtube which has the bonus track "Turn Me Round"

REVIEW 100 LET'S GO!!!

Flatter than a peice of paper. Wetter than a puddle. This is just a boring mess. Sometimes I went "alright, this decent!' than the next track I go 'ew. Who let this get past the mixing phase.' It's just as bad as they say.

I'm going to give you some alternate versions of 3 songs on here that are better:
Can't ... read more

A surprisingly good debut EP for a band. Sure it’s pretty rough (except for Banquet) but that’s what a debut is gonna be like for an up and coming band. Solid!

Favourite tracks: Banquet, The Answer
Least favourite: She’s Hearing Voices

Just the Deluxe stuff and the Japanese and UK bonus Tracks

Miss Sweeney (90) - Beautiful. That's it. An amazing song!
Pig (89) - Jesus why were none of these on the album? Another Beautiful track
The Spider (60) - Rivers please stop trying to write songs about spiders. Your not very good at it
King (80) - Alright. I Like the heavy sound but Rivers vocals aren't really doing it for me.
Life is What You Make It (84) - A pretty solid cover
Meri-Kuri (100)- Easily the best Weezer Cover ... read more

NOTE: I'm reviewing the 'international version' on Youtube which has 3 bonus tracks 'It's Easy', 'I Can Love' and 'The Weight'.

This is overhated. There are some really great tracks on this. The Angle and the One is the defenition of a hidden gem! It feels like they took some and critisisms of Make Believe and went back to a harder more guitar oriented sound, adjacent to Maladroit. It's your typical Weezer fare really. Pretty damn ... read more

I actually kinda vibe with this one. The piano is pretty damn good. It’s an overall pretty solid track.

This is album is designed to make you happy! The sampling is great, the lyrics flow beautifully and it just has a vibe. Only reason this isn’t higher is because De La Orgee made me feel like that one Sackboy gif

Update: I decided to listen to the bonus disc that I have with my copy. It’s decent! Mostly remixes and some b-sides. Made me up my rating a little bit from 89 to 93.

Favourite tracks: The Magic Number, Eye Know, Me Myself and I
Least favourite: De La Orgee

Should have called it "Weezer (Blue Album) and it's the same but there's forty more songs so it's not"

I reviewed this ages ago but the review sucked so I decided to re-listen to this and write this updated one.

This keeps the dark lyrical themes of Turn On the Bright Lights, but adds a more dynamically open sound to the bands sound. It works pretty well! It’s kinda like an expansion on what the band can do, a show of what a tad more polish can do to change the vibes of an album

Favourite tracks: Evil, Slow Hands, Length of Love
Least Favourite: Take you on a cruise