Jake Brennan (Host)

And I guess we kind of laughed at it back in 1994 when it was released, when it smacked us in the face as the opening line from the band's Buddy Holly single.

I didn't take Weezer seriously at the time.

I took them and the Blue Album seriously.

I took the band and the album for granted.

I really did.

And it wasn't until their follow-up in 1996, it wasn't until Pinkerton that I started to think of Weezer as a real band, at least a band that I was interested in.

And the irony is that that was kind of the point of Pinkerton.

Rivers Cuomo, he wanted to be thought of as a real artist, somebody akin to Kurt Cobain.

And when he made Pinkerton...

That helped him achieve that goal, but he ended up distancing himself from that album.

There's the irony.

He dismissed it for a bunch of different reasons, but it was a commercial flop and it was a huge departure from the Blue album.

But that Blue album was the album that caused us in the first place to not take him seriously, which is the thing that he was trying to correct with Pinkerton.

I don't know.

It's all very confusing.

He's since come around on Pinkerton, sort of.

There's a bunch of conflicting comments out there.

But I believe deep down, Rivers Cuomo knows what a great album that is.

But for me, Weezer never really recovered after that.

And being from Boston, being part of the rock scene back then, we had a direct connection to Weezer all of a sudden because of bass player Mikey Welch, who was well-known around town.