Customer Reviews

Rock Music: A Tribute to Weezer

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4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

being a die-hard fan of the =w=, I was totally let down with this compilation. Maybe my expectations were too high or I was imagining I'd get more out of it, but something was definitely missing.

The major problem with it was the fact that at least 3/4 of the songs sound almost EXACTLY like the original weezer track. Good examples: Piebald's "No One Else." (one of my favorite songs which gets semi-butchered), Midtown's "Suzanne." The songs are an exact replica of the original album version and, quite frankly, Rivers' yelps and squeals are a heckuva lot better than these emo-fied screams.

However, there are some definite high spots on the album. Christopher John aka Elliot's rendition of "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here" fully capitulates what, in my case, i felt when I first heard the song. Slowed down, the song is turned almost into an enchanting ballad. In a similar vein, The Stereo's cover of "El Scorcho" has enough variation and consistency to make it a stand out track. Chris Carrabba's rendition of "Jamie" lives up to his relatively lofty standards as a recording artist, adding the emotional rawness of the acoustic guitar.

In short, a few tracks on this album make it worth buying. However, there is enough disappointments to also make the casual buyer stray away from it. If you're a hardcore =w= fan, go for it, take the plunge and I'm sure you'd enjoy at least most of the songs. However, if you want to hear great covers, be very wary of this.

I'll be getting it because I'm a weezer nut. But that's just me.

The topic of a bunch of bands covering weezer could be very volatile. This album is an excellent example of this. There are some excellent tracks on this album which really show that weezer songs lend themselves amazingly to all sorts of rock genres. Mycomplex's cover of tired of sex, and the Impossible's The good life are very creative. I also reccomend Mock Orange's Only in dreams, Midtown's susanne, and Affinity's my name is Jonas.
However, there are also tracks on this album that make you want to grab the nearest sharpened pencil and commit hari-kari with it just to hear what it's like if you take a perfectly good weezer track, strip it of any soul it had, kick all the talent out of it, mix it in a garbage can with trite meaninglessness and reproduce it void of everything good. Further Seems Forever, Christopher John, The Stereo.... shame on all of you. I hope you cry yourselves to sleep at night knowing that instead of taking a song and doing something creative or valuable with it you have just played it soullessly and whined out the lyrics. If i wanted to hear no musical talent and crying i would turn on R&B. Leave emo out of this you talentless hacks.
I recommend buying this album if you are into the math rock scene, or have a little punk blood running in your veins. Just recognize there will be a few tracks you will skip. If you want to listen to emo, there is enough saves the day or get up kids albums for you to buy to keep you happy for years bopping up and down with your pigtails and retro clothes you payed to much for. Leave my weezer alone.

this cd is great. first off, dont judge this cd based on your love for weezer..judge on how good it is...the covers are great, they maintain the core of weezer, but each of the bands add in their own style...now i'm a fan of 'hardcore' music...so i love the covers by Glasseater and Affinity....so yeah, if your looking for something new, something to keep your weezer fix in check...pick this one up, give it a listen...give it a shot....
k bye.

One of the better qualities of this tribute is that most of the artists try to make the songs their own. However, this is detrimental to the overall sound because it is not very cohesive at all and most of the covers are pretty horrible. One of the better covers is The Dashboard Confessionals, "Jamie," which is actually pretty suited to the lead singer's voice. "Surf Wax America" is pretty horribly covered, just a bunch of screaming, which is disappointing since the original Weezer song is so exciting and fun to listen to. Overall, this is a pretty disappointing record because the reason most of these covers are passable is because they try so hard to sound like Rivers Cuomo and the rest of the band. Covers are supposed to be distincitive of the artists trying to recreate the songs. I would recommend you to not buy this CD, but download these songs from iTunes or something if you want the cover version:

- The Good Life
- El Scorcho
- Jamie
- Only in Dreams

This album is a very nice remake of weezer songs into their own verison of the song, while keeping some of the original parts of it. I think it is worth every penny.

I was horribly disappointed at this weezer tribute album. I was expecting it to be so much better. Weezer is an awesome band, and the bands who play on this cd are pretty good themselves. The only songs that I could bare to listen to were the ones redone by midtown, the ataris, dashboard, and the stereo. The other's were hard to listen to- they so severely butchered weezer's songs. The other reviews led me to think that this could be a cd I actually wanted to purchase. hmmmm... guess I was wrong.

Hadn't listened to this for a few years. Happy to have it. Product was brand new and arrived on the shirt end of the time frame that they said it would. Very pleased.

I like a tribute album to transform the songs, I like when the band redo a song with their sound, imagining it as if it was one of their song. Not to just play the song a the original one.

In that sense, this album is not a good tribute. No one else, Surwax america and some others songs just sound the same as Weezer did them. But some songs are impressive. The Good life by the impossibles is excellent, the way they sing the chorus the hard drums and the way the guitar solo erupt are amazing. Jamie by dashboard confessional is quiet good too, beeing more emotional. The World has turned and left me here is really slow, maybe a little too much, but the piano is good. Just like the piano intro on Say it ain't so. Only in dreams is very different but makes a good cover, as for My name si jonas wich is more hardcore.

Overall, I would call this tribute an underground tribute to weezer. But their is some interesting stuff. I recommend it to all hardcore weezer fans.

there are some amazing versions of some great weezer songs on this cd. I was most impressed with mycomplex's version of tired of sex. They do some crazy stuff on that track and it makes the whole album worth while. Although many of the artists renditions are WAY too similar to the originals, there are some brilliant renditions also.

recommended tracks: Grade "Surfwax America", Mycomplex "Tired Of Sex", The Stereo "El Scocho", and Affinity "My Name Is Jonas"

I guess it now means wholesale slaughter. The only reason I gave this compliation one star was for Midtown's rendition of Susanne. The rest of the album was akin to an Open Mike Night with a bunch of drunken Shriners. Stick with the original.