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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Weezer evolves, unfortunately, some fans don't, November 5, 2009
Weezer is back with a solid album. They are pushing forward with their style instead of staying in the past. The red album felt more of a experiment to find where they fit, with Raditude, I believe they have found where they want to be.
I'm tired of all the reviews on how the old Weezer (Blue album and Pinkerton) were better. A lot of these reviewers are kids that grew up in the 90s with Weezer's music who all seem to believe that they should just go back to their old style. I call this the nostalgia factor. Listening to the blue album and Pinkerton isn't just a great music experience, it also brings back memories of your childhood and what you felt at that time. Everyone gets older and it's always a great feeling to go back and re-experience something from your youth but most bands don't want to play the same songs over and over.
The only issue I have with this album is that you must get the deluxe edition. The standard edition feels incomplete with only 10 tracks, the extra songs in the deluxe edition really fit with the album.
The songs I would recommend from this album:
"(If You're Wonder If I Want You To) I Want You To"
"Can't Stop Partying"
"Tripping Down the Freeway"
"Let it All Hang Out" (closes thing to weezer's older style)
"I Don't Want to Let You Go"
"The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World"
"Turn Me Round"
"Kid/Poker Face" (GREAT cover)
"I Woke Up in Love This Morning" (Another awesome cover, only with the Japanese edition)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love the record, disappointed because there is no mp3 download, November 5, 2009
This review is for the vinyl release of Raditude. The record sounds great, very loud bass, I had to turn my sub-woofer off. First thing, Amazon lists this as having 2 discs, there is only one, all of the songs are there. A sticker on the plastic wrap states the record is 180 gram vinyl, and it is. The sticker also claims it "includes bonus download of the entire album *US only*". No such thing. Usually there's a postcard with a website and an activation code, nothing came with this. I even found a forum on Weezer's website and others are having this problem.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
RADitude, November 3, 2009
This is an album which is going to elicit strong reactions. I can already see Pitchfork's 0.0 rating being written as we speak, the Weezer "fans" getting ready to bash Cuomo with their vinyl Pinkerton records, and a new camp of teenagers blasting "Can't Stop Partying" while hipsters cringe and throw up their arms in disgust. Yes, this album is going to create a hurricane, maybe even more so than Make Believe, and probably in proportion to how much it is a better album. The rather volatile reactions we've seen coming from the "educated" music crowd towards Weezer is nothing new, but it only gets stronger with time, especially since Weezer have two classic alternative records as their backbone and have changed their agenda to writing rock that sounds like pop, or is it pop that sounds like rock? (What's the difference anyway?) Rivers Cuomo might be the most intelligent rock star in history at throwing off his fans. With every album he travels further and further away from what they want, and yet never seems to lose track of what he wants, and he's got all them little biotches wrapped around his big troublemaker finger. This time they're really gonna be angry. Cuomo just wrote a damn good pop record and that's gonna hurt real bad.
As far away from this album is from the giant emo blister that was Pinkerton, Raditude is really nothing but the synthesis of Rivers Cuomo's greatest powers and ambitions, to create a record that flows from song to song with great hooks, where every song is a winner, fiercely intelligent, that builds upon the contemporary influences while parodying them and ultimately making better music of them. The Green Album might have been a perfect pop record too, but it was almost a little too timeless for Cuomo's ironic goals. Raditude fits right in with these times, it speaks for the very decade of the 2000's and is a perfect ending to that emo-pop which will shortly die and be replaced by the newest fashion. A product of its times, and that is what pop music is ultimately. Has Cuomo finally cracked the code?
This is everything that Make Believe wanted to be, and everything that Red needed to be...faceless generic ironic pop delivered and written 100%. What more do we want of Rivers Cuomo? Really? I can't wait to see how this is gonna play out. The rain of haters has already begun; Nothing I or Erlewine will say is going to stop that. But then the teenage kids are going to start listening to "I'm Your Daddy" (the Buddy Holly of the new generation?) and "I Don't Want to Let You Go" (Cuomo's answer to "Stay Together for the Kids") and we're going to have a rehashed Enema of the State for the critics to beat down. And wait til they discover "Can't Stop Partying". Then we're really gonna be in trouble. Wait til these kids find out that it has the replay value of Rihanna's "Umbrella", or Usher's "Love in this Club" and is just as stupid and brilliant, just as hooky, and then the white boys who don't understand R&B or Timbaland are gonna be scratching their heads and saying, "Wait a second, is this a song we're supposed to like?" The answer is, yes. Rivers Cuomo understands his pop music. Better than you do. At the end of this beautiful episode, Rivers Cuomo leaves us with our mouths open, with disgust, or if we understand music, with blissful happiness, and we are forced to ask ourselves what the value of pop music is in the first place. If we know the answer to that question like Rivers knows it, Raditude is a great album, and we will be listening to it for a long long time...
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