{"id":3640,"date":"2019-01-30T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2019-01-29T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:17:00","slug":"weezer-teal-crush-music-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3640","title":{"rendered":"Weezer – Teal ( Crush Music \/ Atlantic)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Call it what you like but Weezer have always done things outside of the box and this new record is certainly that. Sort of an appetizer\u00a0for the new Black Album that’s\u00a0about to drop this is a ten-track\u00a0pop record of some fairly big hitters from yesteryear and Weezer have only gone and covered them with immaculate\u00a0attention to detail and I\u00a0very much doubt not a single tongue in cheek anywhere during the recording nor the selection for this record.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there are plenty out there who will fondly look back on school discos where they first heard these tunes or TOTP shows where the likes of ‘Take On Me’ was on every week for half a year and even without MTV there was no escape but Rivers has excelled\u00a0in his pop detail here and like Marmite this will divide opinion no question about it.<\/p>\n

Me, It’s nice to hear his voice and such passion in pop classics but I’m sure once the (Real) new album drops this will enter the curio shelf and won’t\u00a0ever get played again until someone reminds me of the time when Weezer did a pop Covers album.<\/p>\n

‘Sweet Dreams’ is an immaculate\u00a0pop tune and whether you dissect\u00a0it like Marylin\u00a0Manson did and make it your own or you pay homage to it Weezer style there is no denying its a slice of classically written pop from Dave Stewart and I’m sure he’ll appreciate the royalties kerching kerching! One of the most covered modern pop songs isn’t really a stretch for Rivers and co.<\/p>\n

Now I must admit to never listening to A-Ha and always found Morten Hackets\u00a0voice excruciatingly\u00a0annoying and nothing has changed all these years later. Yuck! ‘Happy Together’ sees Weezer take a trip back into the ’60s\u00a0and a grande take on this hall of fame number and its played with the same amount of gusto and pomp as the original.\u00a0 I see a pattern emerging.<\/p>\n

Aha (no not another Scandinavian\u00a0cover but something with a bit of guitar on it. ‘Paranoid’ by Sabbath has a sickly sweet take I just hope they wore fringe satin jackets during the recording and consumed whisky whilst laying down the tracks. It wouldn’t be right if they didn’t – good effort though. We stay in the Midlands\u00a0for a pomp rock version of ‘Mr Blue Sky’ which isn’t that much of a stretch if I’m being honest and if I were to guess that Rivers Cuomo has the entire ELO collection and no doubt is proud of it too.<\/p>\n

‘No Scrubs is a song performed by TLC and was number one in about a bazillion\u00a0countries which is no surprise\u00a0and it now seems that since it was made public that Weezer\u00a0covered it Chilli from TLC has given it her seal of approval (oh shucks thanks I’m sure) and has made it known that she wants to perform the track with the band.\u00a0 Wow didn’t see that coming. Next up is a cover of Jacksons ‘Billie Jean’ whatever next?\u00a0 It’s starting to wear thin now oh thank God there is only one more to go.\u00a0 What started off as a hoot has worn thin please let it stop and get on with some original Weezer songs pleaseeeee?<\/p>\n

Thankfully this circus is brought to an end with a set-closing\u00a0performance of ‘Stand By Me’ which to be fair is again immaculately sung by Rivers and rocked up (if that’s really a thing) but it isn’t so much mirrored the original but twisted Weezer style and that’s fine by me.\u00a0 ITs a great pop song pretty much like a lot of this but please can we have the real new album now please? Now that’s what I call music… Not that this isn’t its just not something you are going to listen to for long and is like a bit of a novelty.\u00a0 so if you too are curious then check it out but be warned you might find yourself out looking for a DeLorean to go find some leg warmers and skinny tie. Oh and Teal is such a lovely colour. there end on a good point.<\/p>\n

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Call it what you like but Weezer have always done things outside of the box and this new record is certainly that. Sort of an appetizer\u00a0for the new Black Album that’s\u00a0about to drop this is a ten-track\u00a0pop record of some fairly big hitters from yesteryear and Weezer have only gone and covered them with immaculate\u00a0attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1139,1140,1138,1137,1141,1136,1133],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-a-ha","tag-black-sabbath","tag-eurythmics","tag-tears-for-fears","tag-the-turtles","tag-toto","tag-weezer","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}