Stream The Rentals' The Story Of A Thousand Seasons Past • Jessica unearthed plenty of info about the Rentals' year-long multi-media project Songs About Time in her Progress Report: Stream the Joey Santiago-guesting mini album number one The Story Of A Thousand Seasons Past at www.therentals.com.
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Tags: Pixies | The Rentals
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The Mary Onettes - Dare (»)
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I love the mini album and the whole project they are doing. I pre-ordered the Limited Deluxe version of the project yesterday. I've always been a huge Matt Sharp fan.
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Yes, this is indeed a very cool project. The history of Matt Sharp and his days with Weezer is incredibly interesting. It's nice that he seems to have turned into this really humble, cool musician, unlike his old friend Rivers who's eternal search for the perfect pop song is so old and irelevant now.
This mini-album has a really nice vibe to it. There is nothing earth shattering going on but it's just really nice, Autumn wethaer pop rock. The kind you can imagine waking up to on a Saturday morning when it's cold but the sun is out and everyone is happy. Hmmm, yes, I like this.
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Agreed on Rivers' search for the perfect pop song. I remember these huge charts he made trying to the elements of what makes a perfect pop song by charting out Green Day, Nirvana, and some other bands. This was right before the Green album. I don't think Matt would have ever allowed that to happen. Once he left Weezer all of Rivers songs lost the great loud-soft-loud dynamic that Matt-era Weezer and the Rentals had. And they didn't use real amps on the Green album. They used shitty pod rack effects that sound terrible.
In short, it was Matt who was the catalyst the Weezer(and Rivers) early pop genius and later just plain greatness on Pinkerton.
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