cervixFORaHEart wrote:ok...we all know that you dont like it.
im just curious what it is exactly that you dont like.
for once, not trying to be a jagoff about it...i am honestly curious as to what makes you dislike these songs.
"The Sweater Song" is completely flaccid and uninspired, and i thought that when i was an 18-year-old college freshman back in 1992 as well. Back then, even with precious little sense of corporate manipulation and no exposure to the punk scene yet whatsoever, i could tell, by MTV's incessant hyping of the song and video, that these guys were a corporate tool and we, the audience, were being manipulated by the record biz to eat these douchebags up.
Years later, when Rivers decided to go all "arty" or whatever with
Pinkerton and no one bought it, and he got all depressed because no one bought his record, i started to realize i was 100% correct in my assertion that Rivers Cuomo is a careerist dink. Vindication came in the form of The Green Album, which was a limp-dicked return to the original limp-dickedness of The Blue Album, which, of course, sold better than
Pinkerton. In other words, oh, damn, no one bought
Pinkerton so i'll punch the clock some more with this Blue Album retread shit.
Finally, they released "Beverly Hills."
Have you heard this song? This "Beverly Hills?" It is offensively bad. It's like "Stacey's Mom" without the MILF--in other words, irredeemably worthless.
When i heard "Beverly Hills" my reaction was the same as that guy in
PCU who was watching TV the whole time and finally found a movie with Gene Hackman and the other guy his thesis was based on in it. I felt like over 10 years of spewing venom at any dork who'd make that stupid =w= with their hands was finally, irrevocably, justified.
"Beverly Hills" is the final proof that the Blue Album was a completely fabricated corporate product. And on top of it, the songs are boring and soaked in that lame-assed vanilla grunge guitar fizz tone they've got going on, like they wanted to coast on the recent grunge movement but not get lumped in with Soundgarden.
Also:
Yeah, that's Rivers in the middle.
EDIT: I'm leaving my "fizz" typo because i realize that it's more appropriate as their guitar tone is too pansied to be referred to as "fuzz." Pick up some Mudhoney albums and call me, assholes.
