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I don't know how many of you guys saw the post the other day where someone had Claude analyze all of the tracks on Pinkerton. I appreciate that guy's post and all the effort that he put into it. After all, there's a reason us virgins love this band so much--the music is GOOD, and good music deserves to be analyzed.

I thought I would take a crack at analyzing Pinkerton myself. I've been playing, performing, writing, and recording music for 20 years. Some of my notation may be wonky; feel free to offer suggestions for change.

My main thesis is that, rather than the bVII chord typifying the sound of Pinkerton (Claude's assertion), two other chords/progressions really define Pinkerton's sound:

• Moving from the minor 6th chord (vi) to the minor 2nd chord (ii)
• To a lesser extent, brightening the minor 6th chord (vi) to a major 6th chord (VI)

Weezer obviously isn't the first or only band to use either of these, but these are the two things that come to mind for me when I think of what chords/progressions are most common on Pinkerton.

Click here to see the full document with the first five tracks analyzed. I'm working on the back half now.

hello ! ive seen these being posted a ton, and I wanted to throw in my 2 cents. it has also been ordered within tiers. (yes, I am obsessed; i have almost 17.5k scrobbles/listens of weezer in a little over 9 months)

specific thoughts on some albums:

s tier:

I adore pinkerton (deluxe especially), and I have even written an essay about it for school. it is, by far, my favorite weezer album. my favorite song on pinkerton is falling for you, with across the sea being second.

I also really love ok human (am also planning an essay about it for school!). which is why it is above blue. I dont think i have a singular favorite song, but la brea tar pits is definitely up there.

blue is one of the albums that got me into weezer in the first place, but also just an incredible album in its own right. again, no particular favorite, but the world has turned / no one else duo is very good.

white is peak. I like it a lot, california kids and endless bummer are my current 2 favorites off of it. (though, I prefer the s&r version of california kids)

a tier:

I really love ewbaite (especially the futurescope trilogy; sooooo good), but im getting fatigued of listening to go away every other post....

b tier:

van weezer is just really fun to me! one more hit is definitely a guilty pleasure haha

I like green, and island in the sun is why i am into weezer. its a bit samey after the first half though

red is fine? I dont love it, but only a handful of its songs are mainstays on my playlist. same with maladroit, but maladrout suffers from the same-ness that green has.

c tier:

pacific daydream is on the cusp of b, but it just isn't as good as the b tier albums. I do like feels like summer and get right though.

make believe is only up there because of perfect situation and haunt you every day. the demos are a lot better tbh.

d tier:

for a musical fan, I just did not like sznz spring, just didnt feel anything like weezer

I tried listening to black, and I genuinely couldn't power through it, I got halfway through and I was done. can't knock the hustle is good, but, as with the rest of black, the swearing felt unnecessary.

raditude is ehhh. I want you to is good, im your daddy is weirdly good, but other than that 🤷‍♀️ dont really like it. cant stop partying is funny though.

its not the best but cool i guess

Hello. I'm a fairly new Weezer fan. I'm currently listening to O Girlfriend right now after the first time on repeat and it's just so good, and I mean painfully beautiful. I'm currently listening to this to cope with my rs and it feels comforting. I love how the instrumentals just explain how I feel even without words, because at the start it feels like you're spiraling before later on onto the song where it feels like you're an ABSOLUTE wreck atm. Other than O Girlfriend I really do like Don't Let Go and Island In The Sun. Other than the ones in Green I also like El Scorcho and Say It Ain't So.

Hi there, a couple years ago I stumbled across some Weezer demos on YouTube that, as a fan who lost interest after Pinkerton - blew my mind.

I could be mistaken, but I think in the comments people were saying the songs were written in the early 2000s.

I made a 5 song playlist to show to friends (hey, look what Weezer could have put out but didn't!?!), but discovered today that 4 of the 5 songs were taken down.

The only one still up is a track that did make it to an album, albeit in an extremely mutilated form (Haunt You Everyday): https://youtu.be/VNoRB57yLak?si=j5mBSqF2KQFfkndD

I am trying to find the other 4 songs. All I can remember is that they had a similar production quality as the Haunt You version I linked, and one of the songs had a lyric along the lines of 'pretty girls never looked my way'.

the thumbnail was of a black fish outline on a blue background

hopefully a super fan can help me out... those songs were so good

PS I have since gotten into OK Human - awesome record. feel free to suggest more tunes along the lines of Blue, Pinkerton, OK, and these mysterious demos I can't track down

thanks!

and does anyone know if this is actually him and what he really listens to each day???

i have noticed that the playlist and caption update usually once per day.

really not meant to be the most objectively valid list, but just the vibes different songs give me and how i sort of categorise them in my head

u da real rivers cuomo blowing leaves

Here are some of my favorite post Pinkerton songs crafted into a playlist. What are your favorites???

I've never done one of these, and have always sort of hated seeing them posted here. But I saw a couple of them last week and, for better or for worse, got interested. I started working on my own out of morbid curiosity and found that it was much more difficult for me to make this tier list than I thought it would be.

I started listening to the Weez when I was about 6 or 7 and heard the Sweater Song on the TV when my cousin was watching VH1 or something. I didn't really consider myself a "fan" until I saw the Perfect Situation video on Fuse when I was a teenager. I immediately began to listen to Blue and Green and Make Believe and loved them. Then got into Pinkerton and Maladroit, and by that time Red came out and I have been a Fan Club Member since 2018 (maybe 2017).

Since Hurley came out, I have had a bit of Weezy shellshock. To me it just felt like such a cheesy low-effort record when it came out, and I became one of those "Weezer fans that hate Weezer" that we all know and love. I am pretty much out of that and now just get excited for any new Weezer or Weezer-related material that I can find.

Since then, I have continually gone through this thing with new Weezer material: "I don't really like it > its been a year or so, I'll give it a listen again > I like this now, I will defend it on r/weezer ".

I'm happy to discuss...thanks for reading!