The title says it all. How much can we judge a song by a 30 second preview? I don’t want to say too much or get my hopes up, but the chug-a-long chorus combined with the textbook Cuomo melody has a very Blue Album vibe. But that could be wishful thinking. I’ll make up my mind April 22nd, when it’s released.
UPDATE So I just got an email with a Yousendit link containing a radio rip of the full song. Just listened to it once, and all I can say is: “RED ALBUM FTW!!!” I wonder how people will take the Timbaland dissin’? Enjoy.
UPDATE 2 Better quality rip now available below, for your listening pleasure. And some surprise praise for the tune from Pitchfork! Those guys like TOTALLY HATE WEEZER NORMALLY!
Weezer – Pork and Beans (Preview).mp3
Weezer – Pork and Beans (Radio Rip).mp3
Weezer – Pork and Beans.mp3
(Oh, and it’s not a reworked “Pig”, BTW)
Saw this linked over at http://music.epicureforum.com and it would be excellent if they could drop back into the Blue Album days. Everything after Pinkerton has been a disaster.
I agree. The guitars sound very blue album. Not sure about the melody or the lyrics yet. But hopefully.
fuck he looks like he should have been cast in “before the devil knows you’re dead”. he has that same air of normality combined with a hint of desperation. and slight insanity.
i think the release date got pushed back to june
Really, really. Sounds like the Blue Album? Sounds like Pinkerton? Who the fuck cares. No one cares about fucking Weezer anymore. Think about it really. Deep down inside. How much constant whining can you hear about the same old asian girl? We have all come and gone down that road. Its time to move the fuck on and grow up. Come on Truskett. Let it go. The last album was shit. Admit to yourself. It had a good single, and thats it, a good single. We saw it, had a giggle. We did also see ElScorcho, which was epic.
Im tired of Rivers whinging. He hast the Hot Asian Tang. What more does he want? Just sing songs about being a rock and roll star. Take a not out of Liams book. Just be a cunt.
Tim Rogers has wrote better songs by a million par. Fuck you if you think otherwise.
Hurry up and pick me up Truskett. Im so bored I went to you green themed website. Ohh, rough? Who goes to the blog? Fucking no one actually, I checked the stat counter. We arent that popular.
I like Weezer tbh. This could be good…
No one cares about Weezer?
That’s why the last album sold over 1,000,000 copies right?
Only heard it once and already singing it..reminds me of car trips to university in the rusty old Toyota singing the Blue album..bring it!
Dearest Jono,
You do realize Rivers has been saying, for the past couple years now, that because of his marriage he is over the “songs about girls” stuff? Did this clip, at all, sound to you like it was about some Asian girl?
And if by “one good song, the single” you’re referring to “Beverly Hills”, then I can’t say I take anything else you said in your post all that seriously.
Jono, you clearly know nothing about music and your opinion should be immediately disregarded by everyone who reads this site. How about you let the people listen to the clip and see if they like it? No one cares about Weezer? I care about Weezer, you lose.
Also, that “good single” you were talking about BETTER have been Perfect Situation and not Beverly Hills. Judging by the content of your post though, since PS is about girls and you think Rivers needs to stop whining, you are probably talking about BH. In which case, reread the first sentence of my post.
I’m a dirty hobbit and she’s a sexy elf so she might be… “Oh! You dirty hobbit. Take off my bodkin and my jerkin.” “Oh, yeah… pixie ears. But that sword.” What if she was a hobbit slayer? I’d just use my enchanted amulet. “Yeah. Yield to me, hobbit-slayer. You will touch my magic cock.”
i think the biggest difference is in the bass. sounds more like the old matt sharp style
Well argued Jono, well argued… you don’t wanna go?
Bad Memories?
Of us… Of our wedding…
Yeah I forget about it most of the time too…
Rivers is a God. Weezer is one of the most successful bands of the 90’s, and continues to sell a shit load of albums and continues to get a shit load of radio air time. Saying that every album past pinkerton sucks is just plain ignorance. He has never released a bad album and more importantly he has never released the same album twice. He is constantly refining his briliant pop masterpieces. This new album is going to be bad ass. Just like every other album Weezer has released thus far. Quit being a hater and go listen to whatever indy pop bullshit you think is good right now. Weezer is a rock force that will never die.
Thanks Max Gags…..agreed. Although Make Believe was a major step down from his usual work IMO. The single sounds great…..bring back the crunch!
“Max Gags” on River’s Cock.
Uh, yeah, I spent some time with Ray before he went and I just wanted to say that I think we should all remember that Ray, by the end, he loved Jesus. Now, I know, Liz, there’s no proof for Jesus, but then there’s no proof for lots of things, like science or the stock market and we believe in them. Look, what I’m trying to say is that if I was dying and I decided that even though I’d never particularly been into, say, Enya before but that now I really, really was into Enya and that in fact, I thought Enya was great and that Enya died for our sins and I wanted an Enya themed funeral with pictures of Enya and lots and lots of mentions of Enya, then I think it would be a bit bloody rich for my sister to ban all mention of Enya from my funeral. Yeah?
*Sigh* I think Rivers has lost the plot. He is so obsessed with catchy pop riffs that he’s forgotten that his best album (Pinkerton) was a result of soul searching and all that other poetic crap that makes a song good. I’m sorry to say this, but I think that this song is not a step in the right direction. Samples of his own voice saying ‘hey hey’ and his strained singing to try and sound like a stoned rapper. This is not the Rivers I fell in love with. Why can’t he sing about how it sucks to be an old rocker or something? More soul searching is needed for a decent track, and no more analyzing what makes songs good, cause you end up with manufactured shit. Singing about doing the things he wants to do is kind of childish, as he is a grown married (and judging by pictures) an overly normal looking man. I don’t think he’s even dissing Timberland. I think he actually wants to work with him. Rivers needs to become a heroin addict or something. I’ll always be a Rivers fan, but this song ain’t right, yo.
Lol wtf Clinton??!? This so iz SO right so evryfun yu say shud be compleetly disreeegarded!!! ITs a FACT that records sales means a record is artistically relevant and musically apt… Lol le rivers is le kewl. This is the rivers i fell in love with clintoon you are such an idiot.
ESL comments make me chuckle, every time =p
This song was recorded after Weezer met with execs at Geffen, who complained the band hadn’t produced any commercially viable tunes on this new album. So Cuomo wrote this: a snarky comeback that’s catchy as can be. I dig it!
Back to the basics for Weezer?
http://saynoradio.com/2008/04/15/weezer/
love the song. my computer also likes it and promises not to crash.
To the people supporting the album, I love you guys! To everyone else, just shut up and enjoy the music. Why is everyone so stuck on the fact that it has to sound like “The Blue Album,” or “Pinkerton”?? I have to admit, they are both phenomenal albums, and way higher in quality than their more recent efforts. But if we had a Blue Album or a Pinkerton all the time, I honestly think we would get bored. Then there would be people on here talking how their shit all sounds the same. I love the Weez, and any real fan will just go along for the ride and enjoy it for what it is.
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
Weezer has sucked since Pinkerton. Pork and beans and troublemaker have to be the worst one two combo to hit the airwaves since the backstreet boys bullshit. Both those songs are so annoying, I wish that Rivers would loose his voice so we won’t be subjected to any more horribly annoying music.
I don’t listen to “indie pop” at all, but yes, every weezer album post-pinkerton has been a bad parody of the first two. The reason so many people fell away is because Weezer never grew up or progressed after pinkerton. There’s more varnish on the turd, that’s all.