Weezer Raditude Tracklist Revealed
So far long-suffering Weezer fans have been less than enthused by the title of the band's seventh album and its pooch-y album art, but now that Raditude has a proper track list, perhaps they'll find more reason to cheer. (That and the fact that the band's launched their own Live Official Bootleg Series, which they explain over at MySpace. The first installment, the 8/27/09 Camden Show, is available already: "Next up is Washington DC, then Denver and Kansas City.") As far as studio material, a number of Raditude's 10 album tracks will already be familiar to you. There are also a handful (plus one) of bonus songs, including one that has more MGMT and Lady Gaga than the others. Fans of Alone II will recognize something, too.
Raditude:
01 "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"
02 "I'm Your Daddy"
03 "The Girl Got Hot"
04 "Can't Stop Partying" (See Below)
05 "Put Me Back Together"
06 "Trippin' Down the Freeway"
07 "Love Is the Answer"
08 "Let It All Hang Out"
09 "In The Mall"
10 "I Don't Want to Let You Go"
Deluxe Edition bonus tracks:
01 "Get Me Some"
02 "Run Over By a Truck"
03 "The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World"
04 "The Underdogs"
05 "The Story of My Life" (iTunes bonus)
06 "Kids/Poker Face" (iTunes pre-order bonus)
Raditude is out 10/27 via Geffen. A song you won't find on it is their cover of "Rainbow Connection," which the band confirms is set to appear on next year's Muppets Remastered album. As far as songs that are on Raditude, here's "Can't Stop Partying" from when Rivers performed it with co-writer Jermaine Dupri and friends for our Decomposed series:
Posted at 5:09 PM by brandon in Album Art
Tags: Weezer
YES
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NO
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A beautiful disaster. And by beautiful disaster I mean normal disaster.
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that video is terrifying
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If 90's Weezer had put out an album with that title and cover, I have no doubt it would have been glorious.
Modern Weezer however, will continue to sodomize any good memories I had of that band.
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You know what? Fuck you. Its not that I even want to defend "modern weezer". I'm just so sick of hearing bullshit like this. I'm sure you thought you were so cool after you posted that, expecting more people to agree with you and post responses like "weezer has been dead since matt sharp left, weezer sold out, everything after the blue album sucks". They finally do something that would "retroactively" become "glorious", and now you're still hating on it? Take it for what it is, its just music.
I saw weezer live and I had a lot of fun, more than I can say about a lot of shows where people stand around like drones and secretly judge each other.
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from experience, those who wish not "to defend modern weezer" are those who got into weezer post-pinkerton (and possibly much later than that) . . . . so yeah, you don't have anything to go on mark. nada.
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if i was at a weezer show in 2009 i would judge myself
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But would you do it "secretly" landon?
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When i first heard about this album i thought " has it really been that long since the red album?" Now i have to admit im somewhat excited for it. At first i thought it would be decent at best, and i don't really like the single at all. But after seeing "I Dont Want To Let You Go" "Cant Stop Partying", and "The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World" on the tracklist im hoping it wont be that bad. I actually happen to like every Weezer album to some extent(even Make Believe), my favorites being Pinkerton and The Green Album.
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Even though I agree Weezer´s 2000s albums have been more a down than an up, their first two albums are buried so deep inside of me, that I still have hopes that they´ll make a great comeback. Sad to say Raditude doesn´t look like it. Probably the best song is this Rivers Cuomo song which I happen to find real and inoccent.
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I am more and more awe struck with each thing that Weezer does. I used to think, and HOPE that it was all one big ironic gesture. But Weezer has become what they used to seem to be against. Please, someone, make them stop.
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Somewhere out there I feel like Rivers Cuomo is laughing to himself and thinking.... well I really don't know what he is thinking but he's definitely laughing.
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Somebody call Matt Sharp and have him come fix all of this.
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I'm just waiting for the day Rivers comes out and admits it's all been a big joke... irony is sooo 1995.
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I like to think that in between the time of Pinkerton and The Green Album, Rivers was actually abducted or imprisoned somewhere, held against his will. There, his evildoers (which were probably just major label execs from the future) removed the pure talent that made Weezer good during the first two albums, and replaced the empty space in his head with a brainwashing session that included copious amounts of bad major label trend music. Help us, Matt Sharp - you're our only hope.
Help us, Matt Sharp - you're our only hope.
Help us, Matt Sharp - you're our only hope.
Help us, Matt Sharp - you're our only hope. ..
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Interesting. But I love Weezer so oh well.
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I was sitting here wondering where I saw that picture... it was definitely in a national geographic I was reading as like a reader's submitted photo. So. Random.
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does anyone else think the song troublemaker is sweet?
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Rivers and co are just having a good time. Don't you remember "Pork and Beans"?
"Imma do the things that I wanna do
I ain't got a thing to prove to you."
Rivers isn't sad and depressed anymore, thinking sad sexual thoughts in his bedroom about a lonely fan in Tokyo. He's married, has a child, and yet he still likes to record music - music that is undeniably catchy, and maybe not as deep, but certainly as welcome as anything else on the radio. More so.
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And, for the guy who said they are becoming what they used to be against, the blue album had numerous references to kiss. Kiss wrote an entire song with one lyric: "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day."
Seems like they are exactly where they want to be.
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I've continued to be a fan always. I wasn't around the internet much when Make Believe dropped, and despite the massive hate it's drawn here, I really fell in love with the album back then. I think the Blue Album is magnificent and accessible; Pinkerton is tormented and friggin' amazing; Green is radio friendly and sad; Maladroit is loud and awesome; Make Believe is optimistic and stupid.
Then came the Red Album. When I heard the lead single, Pork and Beans, I was massive excited, because that song rocks and sounds like old =w= and I thought it was great. And then the album came out, and I still loved it immediately. But unfortunately, the tracks Rivers didn't sing were kind of unlistenable, and Heart Songs is just slightly too much. Red is the black sheep for the family for me.
Now, I wholly expect Raditude to be the worst album ever made. The name is silly. The cover is silly. The track names are silly. The lead single is boring. If this is the best track on the album, then I'm not that interested at all.
Frankly, if this is as bad as I expect, Weezer won't be my favorite band anymore.
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Can we please stop talking about Weezer? If we ignore them, maybe they'll go away.
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Not gonna happen. As long as they continue to write garbage like "Beverly Hills" and "Troublemaker," bros will be there to rock out.
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Gonna be a douche and pile on. I don't get it. I just don't get Weezer's motivation. My only way of figuring this shit out is that they know a certain core segment of fans will buy their albums as long as they have some melodic chord progressions coupled with lyrics no deeper than the average 1950's rock song (no offense to great 1950's rock songs, I mean like "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I want to). I think at this point, it's a financial arrangement - album a year = money, a tour = money. I don't honestly think Rivers sits down with dollar signs in his eyes, but I think it's more to do with the fact that comfortability is the worst at generating art.
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No harm in wanting to have fun.
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Is that album art taken from the same photo series that Beck took the Odelay art from?
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What hasn't already been said about this band?
The band OPENS concerts with cover songs. Rivers openly states The Killers are his current modern day inspiration. They write a hand clap song about Beverly Hills without a hint of sarcasm. Rivers no longer is embarrassed having written the songs on Pinkerton.
The two sets of Weezer fans just do not, and probably will never get each other. It matters very little to myself if the new material is catchy.The fact of the matter is that Rivers is graduated, married, and has nothing to write for other than for amusement and a paycheck. Not only that, but Mr. Cuomo now resembles that over-eager relative of yours that overbearingly wants to be hip. You know that relative that name drops "youtube"? That talks openly about underage drinking with a twinkle in their eye? That listens to rap music unironically ironically?
For reference, freeze frame on a closeup of Rivers during the video for "Keep Fishin'", then again during the video for "Troublemaker".
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you guys suck. weezer are still as awesome as they were in the 90s and i am really excited about this alblum
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i saw them back in 97' at Liberty Lunch in Austin, TX during their Pinkerton Tour....that's how I will remember =w= always....i stopped listening to them (habitually) after matt sharpe left the band but i will at least give each record a fair shot but nothing post-pinkerton (no record as a whole) has done it for me. oh well, i'll always have the blue and pinkerton albums!
dave
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The title for this album doesn't bug me as much as the cover pic does.
Weezer was the first band I ever got into. For me they're like a wife I can't divorce... for better or worse (more often than I'd like), till death do us part, I can't help but love Weezer.
And I love Matt Sharp as much (or more than) the next guy but I don't think bringing him back would change much. I get the feeling that it might even be worse -- I can just see Rivers turning up the cheese just to spite Matt.
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rivers is trolling us all. hes got one more golden album waiting. in the meantime, he drops this shit and laughs as the message boards flare up. calm yoselfs, your only feeding him
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Just like Jonathan Richman and the Modern lovers..He will never make or re-make the first lp,and people bitch and moan still to this day.Rivers,you get him or you don't.I do,I also got over the modern lovers first lp too,hell I can't even put it on anymore and I am so over blue, pinkerton,matt sharp.bla bla bla.I cant wait to hear what this 39 year old dad has to say!!!Do you get it orwhat?If not move on to the next flash in the pan and suck it up till you need your next fix.Damn kids.
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I don't think anyone who posts here actually doesn't like Weezer, we're all just a little disappointed. The Red Album came out and I was pumped. "Pork and Beans" was catchy so i thought it was just to draw in an audience so there would be songs just as good as "photograph" and "perfect situation" but i soon found out Weezer had lost it's from the heart quality. Sounds so cheesy but it really doesn't sound like they're putting a whole lot experience into the songs, like they lost their passion for music almost. I Definitely agree with the possibility of the whole River's is getting older, has a family, and like to drop "youtube" to try and keep with what's hip to the groove. Maybe they're just trying to put out songs so they can get paid and go on tour and do all that fun stuff but I will always enjoy Weezer's music and look forward to the next album hoping they'll put together atleast one classic Weezer song.
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This album has some true pop gems. And some of it falls a little short. At least there's nothing as obnoxious as 'Beverly Hills' *shrugs at the thought of it*.
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