Underrated or overrated band?

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WHAT? everyone knows fucking weezer dude

here's the thing about bands. they run their course eventually. the beetles knew this and split up. most good bands do and leave a lasting legacy. weezer should have split up after Maladroit in 2002. Everything after that is worthless.

>Rivers on par with Brian Wilson
absolutely cringe

how do you go from this
youtube.com/watch?v=8RFTB5vgV_4
to this?
youtube.com/watch?v=Wq-kTw2N5bI

>pop savant on par with Brian Wilson
Read it again, retard. The guy can't put an album together to save his life, and these days he can barely write a decent song, but the guy has a rarely-matched ear for catchy hooks.

based poster

weezer has a lot of good stuff hidden in their demoes and bootlegs that are better than the official albums. after pinkerton bombed, rivers became obsessed with chart relevance and making pop hits at all costs because he couldn't handle the harsh criticism. he even designed a whole spreadsheet formula and computer program to write the perfect pop song or some shit and that's how we got stuff like pacific daydream and the green album. he sacrificed a lot of decent tracks and ideas for what he perceived would be commercially relevant, that's also why they still sing about topics like partying, girls, skating and surfing in their 40s. that's also why raditude and hurley exist. weezer are capable of more, but they've given up because they want to stay a pop act. that's why they caved in to making that novelty africa meme cover and the album after it when that actually charted.

stopped listening to them after the 90s, is anything they made post-2000 worth listening to?

white album is ok
most of their new stuff is crap though
rivers alone recordings and weezer album 5 + songs from the black hole bootlegs are pretty good though

While the Weezer were on vacation, bassist Matt Sharp's Rentals achieved great pop on Seven More Minutes (Maverick, 1999), an album sprinkled with juvenile optimism and a paean to romance.
Drummer Pat Wilson formed the Special Goodness and guitarist Brian Bell formed the Space Twins.

Weezer returned with Weezer (Geffen, 2001), that contains the hits Hash Pipe and especially the hit Island In The Sun (vaguely reminiscent of Maurice Williams' Stay ).

Maladroit (Geffen, 2002) is not a particularly invigorating or original album, despite a couple of catchy power-pop numbers ( Keep Fishin , Dope Nose ).

Make Believe (Geffen, 2005) is sort of invisible music: it contains songs that vanish rapidly in the subconscious of the listener without leaving any trace. The anthemic and sarcastic Beverly Hills was the hit that climbed the charts, but Perfect Situation might be the real standout. This Is Such A Pity is a diligent imitation of the Cars.

More filler surfaced on Red (2008), drowning the effervescent Pork and Beans and the ambitious rap-rock of The Greatest Man That Ever Lived . Their assembly line of pop hooks produced Troublemaker .

Raditude (2009) was just about only pop filler.

Rivers Cuomo sang on BoB's hit single Magic (2010) The group then released Hurley (2010), that marked a return to their emo roots ( Brave New World ).

Everything Will Be Alright In The End (2014), with the stomping Ain't Got Nobody , Foolish Father and The British Are Coming , and the California concept Weezer (White Album) (2016), with LA Girlz , King Of The World and do You Wanna Get High (better than the single Thank God for Girls and opener than California Kids ), were decent returns to form, but Pacific Daydream (Crush, 2017) was mediocre at best, with only Weekend Woman to remember.

underrated