Its funny how often your favourite band will suddenly 'sell out', or produce something that 'just ain't like their old stuff' and you will be royally peeved at them for trying to do something different and failing. The fact is every band must go through a transformation at some stage, every band must grow and mature, and develop their music accordingly. Weezer are a testament to this, and not because they have had some world conquering Kings of Leon type transformation into the biggest band in the world, but because they have failed to ever have any such transformation.
Rivers Cuomo, who is now 40, is still trying to make the same music he was 15 years ago, and 'Memories' is evidence of this. In many respects I don' blame him, Blue Album and Pinkerton were two of the greatest raw, honest to God fun rock albums ever. Unfortunately he's exhausted his reserve of such musical ideas.
'Memories' is a bland and unexciting punk tune, with the mandatory splattering of riffs, River's very punk vocals, and a chorus that as Shin aptly put it, sounds like a High School anthem. Thats not the anthem the kids came up with, but those the teachers did. Perhaps this shows River's age, is he now the daggy dad trying to be cool?
3.5/10
None the less I love you Weezer, and please come to Australia and play for me, just play the entirety of The Blue Album and Pinkerton..
oh and.. that album cover? seriously wtf? Lost didnt even have a theme song.
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