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Generally favorable reviews- based on 191 Ratings
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Positive: 126 out of 191
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Mixed: 36 out of 191
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Negative: 29 out of 191
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FelixJun 13, 2008Mediocre at best, but it is an improvement over Make Believe. A couple stand out tracks, but many songs are forgettable, while others are just duds.
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MattKJun 3, 2008
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LarryC.Jun 5, 2008I'm so disappointed by this album!! I'm afraid that I'll finally have to line up with the reviewers who claim they haven't made any great record since Pinkerton. Make believe at least gave some hopes!!
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JacobT.Jun 8, 2008
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TMoJun 10, 2008
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SteveOJun 8, 2008Weezer is Weezer. Always have been, always will be. I can't understand how people think they've changed. It's been the same distortion, the same Cuomo, and the same power chords for just about 15 years now. But giving this a 0? It sure doesn't deserve a zero I mean come on it's better than hip hop or rap. It's pop rock. Leave it at that.
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JoeB.Jun 11, 2008This album is slightly better than their last two album combined; but it still plays to the masses a little too much. They seem to have lost their creative edge they had on Weezer (Blue) and Pinkerton.
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NiqueJun 12, 2008without the bonus tracks on this cd the rating would be lower. There are exactly 4 songs on this cd worth a damn. The drummer song hasnt made it past 5 seconds after the 1st time I heard it. wow is it bad.
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Dec 22, 2014
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Jan 30, 2015This album flows in the vein of Make Believe with its hastily written lyrics that stretch to unbearable lengths to rhyme. For every decent track, there's a mediocre one. The instrumentals aren't bad, but they aren't anything spectacular. Overall, it's a step up from Make Believe, but two steps down from Weezer's next best album, 2001's Weezer.
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Jan 5, 2016An OK record, slightly better than Make Believe.
Includes great songs like Pork and Beans, Pig, the catchy troublemaker, and a few more, but, in general, you feel like Weezer can give you so much more than this -
Feb 2, 2018This album honestly isn't really that bad. It's only the lyrics that ruins the album. However, the final song is hands down, one of the best songs Weezer has ever recorded.
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Apr 26, 2018The second half of the album is better than the first. Although that's not saying much. Some of the tracks that the others take lead vocals on work on some level, and Angel and the One is a solid enough ending but even still, none of the songs are really worth getting too excited about.
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May 12, 2021
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Cuomo turns the mic over to the other three members of Weezer for a song each (the best: "Automatic," sung by drummer Pat Wilson), unironically salutes the influence of Nirvana ("Heart Songs") and marries fake crowd noise and piano to the thick power chords of "Greatest Man." Rock on.
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A number of plays through and it’s still not clear who, exactly, the band are taking the proverbial out of: themselves, playfully and absolutely intentionally, or us, fans who’ve become conditioned to not expecting the best from a band who, personally, have been a shadow of themselves since that first ‘sequel’ release.
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Like the YouTube culture the "Pork and Beans" video depicts so well, the song--and this album--relies on a high quantity of short-lived pretty good ideas to distract from a shortage of great ones.