weezer - the blue album reissue

Syenye Squirrellyelf · Post by **Syenye Squirrellyelf** » March 10, 2004, 3:43 am

the blue album: deluxe edition
march 23

Disc one: Weezer (The Blue Album):
01 My Name Is Jonas
02 No One Else
03 The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
04 Buddy Holly
05 Undone (The Sweater Song)
06 Surfwax America
07 Say It Ain't So
08 In The Garage
09 Holiday
10 Only In Dreams

Disc two: Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets:
01 Mykel and Carli [b-side]
02 Susanne [b-side]
03 My Evaline [b-side]
04 Jamie [from DGC Rarities, Vol. 1]
05 My Name Is Jonas [live b-side]
06 Surfwax America [live b-side]
07 Jamie [live acoustic b-side]
08 No One Else (live acoustic b-side)
09 Undone [previously unreleased kitchen tapes]
10 Paperface [previously unreleased kitchen tapes]
11 Only In Dreams [previously unreleased kitchen tapes]
12 Lullaby For Wayne [previously unreleased pre-production recording]
13 I Swear It's True [previously unreleased pre-production recording]
14 Say It Ain't So [original album mix]

also due out march 23 is video capture device, a dvd.

it's been ten years since weezer released their first album, and i must say that this album is still one of my favorites. weezer has survived harvard, the rise and fall of emo, and their own green album. i could argue that pinkerton was a better album. i could discuss the merits of matt sharp vs that other dude. i could reminisce about tracking weezer across the vast expanse known as kansas. but this album has been a great friend over the past ten years. i love you rivers.

rock on, rivers, rock on.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » March 10, 2004, 6:27 pm

I couldn't agree more about this album, or about rivers

emmer · Post by **emmer** » March 21, 2004, 3:26 am

I never had a favorite band before the blue album came out, ten years later and I haven't had another favorite band since. I spent my teenage years listening to that one cd over and over, something about their carefree sound just triggers something uplifting in me. "Surf Wax America" was our anthem back in Carlsbad, CA on the way to the beach. "In the Garage" made it cool to be uncool. "No One Else" got me through many a high-school heartbreak. You couldn't write a song that fit the feeling of what it was like to be that shy kid in high school who wanted a girl that didn't know he was alive, better than "Only in Dreams".

They say that the halcyon days of a person's youth are awarded retrospectively. My halcyon days were back when I was a kid and the world was simple, and my most prized possession was my weezer tape.