Ongoing History Daily: Peak Weezer?
Over the years, Rivers Cuomo has proven himself to be an extremely prolific songwriter, resulting in a lot of Weezer albums and EPs. There are fifteen studio albums, ten EPs, at least 37 singles, and more than 40 music videos. This is from a band that released only two albums in the 90s.
That’s a lot of music. But is it too much? Rivers seems to think so.
He said this in a podcast called This Little Light hosted by Flea of the Chili Peppers: “I think, if I were to go back and plan out an ideal artist’s career, I don’t know — maybe there’s too much quantity. Maybe the whole thing would be more impactful if we could go back in time and just release the very best stuff. Cherry-pick and release it in a very strategic way. But hindsight is 20/20, and hopefully, future generations will sort it all out and they’ll focus on the best stuff.”
In other words, maybe sometimes less is more.
Kinda wish they’d stopped with their first album and remained a myth.
I loved Pinkerton too as a kid, but I feel it’s so extremely cringe on hindsight, and I was just so disappointed with the band from their third album onward.