http://www.nme.com/news/weezer/39838 I'm hoping that this will be good. Red was a mixed bag for me. It has some amazing songs (Greatest Man, Pork and Beans, Dreamin', Automatic, Angel And The One, Everybody Get Dangerous, Miss Sweeney), and it had some absolutely awful tracks (Heart Songs, Cold Dark World). I think that this has the potential to be awesome, Jackknife Lee seems to be a great produced. Pork and Beans and Troublemaker were the two best produced songs on the record, and I think that he could push the band to go back to there simpler pop-rock roots (such as on Blue). On the other hand, Maladroit was made after only a year, and apparently that wasnt very good (I havent heard it yet). I know that there are some Maladroit fans here, though, so maybe im wrong. I am not happy with the different people singing, though. Im fine if they do that during a song for just a bridge or backing or something. Like in Greatest Man and Dreamin', where they switched off vocals, though it was still Rivers on lead. I liked that. Anyway, whats your opinion?
Working with one producer should (hopefully) help the band concoct a more cohesive unit of songs. The Red, Album, while solid, was a bit inconsistent IMO.
Yeah, that was one of my major complaints with it to. None of the songs went together, whereas albums like Pinkerton and Blue and Make Believe flowed well. The Jackknife Lee songs on Red were also the best produced, in my opinion, so i'm glad that they chose him to do this CD instead of Rick Rubin, who didnt seem to be working well with the band.
I thought Red flowed pretty well considering how eclectic it was. But yeah, Jacknife's tracks are the best.