Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Weezer
Pinkerton
(Geffen, 1996)
Rivers Cuomo sets his diary to music.
Long before Rivers Cuomo became a walking, talking parody of himself, Weezer made their name by extrapolating the best and worst elements of nerdiness (intelligence and humour and introverted self-loathing, respectively) to create a joyous celebration of geek culture. While their eponymous debut, better known as "The Blue Album", defined that role with the whimsical Buddy Holly, this second, darker, grungier, record delved more deeply Cuomo's warped and twisted psyche, focusing on his inability to deal with the fame that hit him like a Mack truck in 1994.
Laying out all of the singer's neuroses like dissection subjects, it begins with Tired Of Sex, an ennui-filled ode to meaningless rumpo - a pre-emptive antidote to Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5, perhaps? - before delving into ever more blackly comic territory. On Pink Triangle, Rivers laments the fact that the object of his affections is gay, wondering that "if everyone's a little queer, can't she be a little straight?" and Across The Sea is Cuomo's super-deranged reply to a letter he received from a Japanese schoolgirl fan. "I could never touch you," sings Cuomo. "I think it would be wrong." Yes, Rivers, I think it would.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, critics and fans were not ready for Rivers Cuomo: Freak-perv, and after Weezer finished touring Pinkerton, they went on hiatus for nearly four years. Some 14 years on, however, this boisterous, challenging record stands strong as a hyper-personal expression of one man's internal and artistic angst - not to mention his wonderfully curious and off-kilter sense of humour.
Mischa Pearlman
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2010
Further Listening
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) (Geffen, 1994)
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty (Merge, 1991)
Green Day - Dookie (Reprise, 1994)
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