Wow. Just… wow. This video legitimately had me in tears. Has my life’s work amounted to this? Am I fated to forever be on the cover of the OBJECTIVE worst Weezer album? Whenever I close my eyes, I think back to the jump in 2009. After years of training and failed attempts, I had finally done it; I took in all the incredible sights of the living room as I soared through the air in the most rad way possible. When I won that NatGeo photo competition, when Rivers chose me to be on the cover of Weezer’s new album… I was on top of the world. But then the reviews came in. I then devoted my life to passionately defending Raditude as a misunderstood masterpiece, a brilliant work of art. But sometimes it becomes too much. And as I sit here writing this, I’m starting to think, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I need to stop fighting and let Anthony Fantano and all the other philistines on TH-cam have their way…. No. I refuse to give in. Not only will I maintain my stance on Raditude, but I will double down on Raditude 2: Still Partying. This WILL be the OBJECTIVE best Weezer album. I will get features from every generic pop-rapper in the game, help Rivers write the most epic lyrical poetry, and find the most overblown synthesizers The Girl from Pacific Daydream has in her “stuff to never use” folder in the laptop that I stole. Prepare for an epic magnum opus, the Morbius of rock albums, the best, most epicest party extravaganza your ears will ever be blessed with. Or I could just get Butch to throw something together. That might be easier. Anyways, time to get back to partying! I told The Lawn Gnome from Pinkerton that there would be Asian girls at this party. Cheers! -Sidney
Teal struck up me pretty weird since it's idea came from a one lone girl from Iowa who wanted Weezer to cover Africa by Toto, at the time when it was a meme, she made a twitter acc to promote it, it went viral, weezer responded and covered the song, which is nice yeah? but for them to cover one song as a fan request, to them deciding to make an entire cover album is just baffling to me, why? no one said "wow weezer made a good cover of africa, why not cover other songs you like?" it's just weird.
The way I see it, the band had a lot of fun covering those two Toto songs, and wanted to try it some more. At this point, the band is just having fun with their music, and decided to just give it as a nice little surprise while black was on the horizon. I can see the negative effect it may have, but I enjoy it a lot purely due to the main energy from the band.
@@cyndaxero3363 tbf, it wasn't all that bad, their live performance of Everybody Wants to Rule the World on Jimmy Kimmel alongside the original vocalist of tears for fears is really good.
Originally, rather than do "Africa," they released a cover of Toto's "Rosanna" instead, and I think it would've been funnier if they just left it at that.
Your mention of Make Believe having its sound crushed down so the songs would be cohesive together made me seek out some of the demos for tunes like Haunt You and Hold Me and now I wish we had an album with that production. Dude sounds like he's having a genuinely hard time and Haunt You sounds genuinely massive and heavy. Lyrics still aren't the best but I think there's something special in some of those.
My friends and I still talk about the day we skipped school and drove to Best Buy to buy and listen to Make Believe the day it dropped. We listened to it twice back to back because, I don't know, maybe we thought we listened to it wrong? "We should've just gone to class" was and still is our consensus. That said, I didn't quit Weezer until Raditude, an album so bad that I didn't give Weezer another chance until White Album, and I didn't even go back and listen to EWBAITE or Hurley until I was stuck quarantining during the pandemic. Raditude just broke me.
Lol I was just enjoying this man's videos earlier this morning and then this video starts on Autoplay and I didn't realise that it was uploaded less than an hour ago until half way through the video XD
Raditude is so good if you swap out can’t stop partying for the alternate, and skip love is the answer and in the mall. Solid 10 tracks with the bonus tracks included. It’s in my top half and has been from the beginning.
Van Weezer is weird because it’s not like Rivers is unfamiliar with metal. He made some solid Shrapnel-style metal in Avant-garde/Zoom, so I don’t know why he just made a nondescript Weezer album with a occasional dive bomb. His use of autotune in recent years is also annoying, it’s not like he needs it, it only makes his voice sound gross and artificial
I read years ago this comment regarding Raditude "this album is one of the worst albums and the reason is simple. Raditude is an album that forgets one of the principal rules of songwriting: specificity leads to universality"
I love Raditude so much but sometimes I have my doubts as well. Objectively, was chosen as the worst album but I still love and enjoy it after so many years.
I will say one thing: last summer I was on my friend's boat cruising down the bay on a perfect day and he blasted "Feels like Summer" and I dunno, it just felt right in that moment.
I like all the weezer albums, but my first albums and what got me into weezer were Red and Ratitude. I love these albums and they are what I have weezer nostalgia for. I know I am in the minority, but these are my Heart Songs. Also, what an excellent youtube channel. Excellent work
I was not a big fan of Make Believe when it first came out, but when I listened to it a few years ago, it had a bit of a charm to it--probably either the nostalgia or the realization it's still 1,000 times better than most of the albums released after it. I still can't stand "Beverly Hills" or "We are All on Drugs."
I never thought of it, but I like all the sad songs on Make Believe more than the happy ones. Never occurred to me in terms if happy/sad; I just thought they were trying to make songs that appealed to everyone.
I love Weezer. (I mean I'm here- that's pretty obvious.) I can't find much to complain about, and I actually do like Raditude quite a bit even considering it's status in the community. There's no Weezer song that I hate. Except for fucking Beverly Hills. This song hurts. I can't stand the almost speaking like quality Rivers' voice has in the verse, and then It breaks into the chorus. I hate that goddamn chorus. I hate it so much. But, I still love everything else Weezer has ever done, even if some of it is cringey or poppy- I love this band so much.
I have to admit that it hurt me to see Raditude as the worst Weezer album objectively speaking. But it's because it's one of my favorite albums, there's nothing I can do about it. I will continue to love this one even if my opinion is not very popular.
I was in middle school around the time The Red Album and Raditude came out and my parents even took me the the Blink 182-Weezer concert at Shoreline in September of 2009. I knew of Blue, I knew of Make Believe, and I knew of Green. Raditude and the Red Album defined my middle school years and I've listened to Weezer growing up since. We talk about Subjective and Objective, damn Weezer changes when life changes. I used to love tracks like Girl Got Hot because that was the story of most of the girls I knew going into High School. Tracks like Pink Triangle and Slob are a little more adult and talk about relationships in ways a middle schooler wouldn't understand. They're just fun tracks to listen to. Now older, I appreciate albums like EWBAITE and Maladroit because damn I understand them, I grew up and went through angst and the workforce. Art and music will always be subjective, and we may not ever like the same Weezer songs again as we get older or wiser. If You're Wondering If I Want You To needed an official Sara Bareilles featured recording and I love that track fight me.
Was in middle school when Blue came out and I fell in lobe with weezer. Then Pinkerton came out in '96 when I was a sophomore and it blew my mind. And, yet, people didn't get it when I did. I kind I'd knew at that time that people were mostly daft. But, of course I am from SC and that is the norm, right? Anyway, green was an anthem to my beginning of college, and while overproduction was the way with this Album, I loved it and Oh, Girlfriend was the song that I played over and over when I went through a huge heartbreak. 'I MISS U AND I WONDER HOW U FEEL ABOUT ME TOO' I love U Rivers. Always. You are my angel and savior.
I love Red. It ranks 7th in my ranking, above Green and Maladroit. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived, Pork And Beans, The Angel And The One, Dreamin are all great tracks.
Pacific Daydream > White Also, I would say teal doesn't really count. It's just a fun cover album that's mostly on the good side. But it's just covers. I'm never gonna sit down and listen to Teal like I would OK Human or Pinkerton. I do have most of the songs on it in my super mega Playlist of everything.
The Raditude thing honestly doesn't surprise me. I was on a break from Weezer at the time, so I didn't hear the whole thing when it came out. The first I had heard or seen anything from the album was the live versions of If You're Wondering with Sara Bareilles and I'm Your Daddy with Kenny G. It cannot be overstated how much those two elevated the material. When I finally got around to hearing the album, I definitely checked out on it for good.
Red is my favourite post-Pinkerton album. So it's weird for me because I've always felt like I'm the one and only hardcore Red fan on the planet. To me it's Weezer at their most tongue-in-cheek and also at their most self celebratory. Something I think was best encapsulated by The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, one of their all time best deep cuts imo. Outside of the Brian/Pat/Scott songs I really don't think there's a single bad track on it. If you make your own track list and replace them with three of the Deluxe tracks then what you're left with is a perfect album.
@LeaderCole Thought I Knew and Autuomatic are perfectly decent tracks, Cold Dark World is the only one I fully can do without. But thematically I understand why every member of the band got a song, so I'll still defend it.
For me, Ms. Sweeney was fine, and it’s unfortunate most of the tracks are somewhat less catchy, especially towards the end. But the sheer number of greatness put into that album absolutely, beyond anything else, makes Red a Top 3 album for me as well.
ALSO AS THE BIGGEST MALADROIT FAN I HAVE HEARD OF HURLEY!!!! THAT ALBUM MADE MY OCULAR NERVE GO POP ZOOM!! ALSO RADITUDE IS A GREAT ALBUM YALL ARE JUST BRAINWASHED
Before watching:in the comments of last time I said Raditude #1 for sure but now I’m thinking the early make believe critic reviews will raise it higher then it deservesz
Raditude is objectively the worst album, instead Blue is that kind of album where the first album is perfect and instantly became a classic and it's impossible to create that perfection again.
It really is Raditude, every other album I get how they eventually find their audience but not with that one. It’s their most cynical collection of songs. Pacific Daydream is actually a really solid pop album. Black is messy but also fine for what it is. Make Believe is all over the place but it’s highlights are great, one of the most over hated albums ever made.
Make Believe was terrible. Raditude is my equal fave, with Pinkerton. It's fun and catchy, and the opening song hooks you in right from the start. The bonus songs are pretty sweet, too.
I am actually shocked and outraged that Raditude got the bottom. It has ONE terrible song in Can't Stop Partying and the rest is absolutely golden 00s pop-punk. I'd put it above many Blink-182 albums. Black is the bottom for me and Teal doesn't count. I think it's also important to know that Black was started before Pacific Daydream, it wasn't Rivers trying to shove more pop down our throats, it was Rivers following through on something promised years earlier.
@gnome from pinkerton Hey, at least I get pretty girls around me. You really need to get off those incel forums, dude. And at least I remembered to bring the bacon for Thanksgiving, that turkey you made was the driest thing I’ve ever tasted. Also, my album doesn’t have love songs named after Del Taco hot sauce, and Rivers didn’t write about c00ming to fan mail on Can’t Stop Partying. Checkmate, Gnome from Pinkerton. -Sidney
Know a guy on a music server I'm in who genuinely considers Raditude a great album. Though every time I've interrogated the idea theyve only ever been able to talk about the record in terms of like, reactionary pushback to its legendary breadth of criticism. So even the one genuine fan of the album I'm aware of only likes it for the sake of being a contrarian, even if they arent aware of it.
I can tell you why it’s good. • I’m Your Daddy and Girl Got Hot are super fun pop tunes. The lyrics being so ridiculous sets those songs apart from being too generic. If you can enjoy the songs instead of hoping for a rock masterpiece, they are fun. • Can’t Stop Partying has really fun backing vocals. That’s all I got for it. The version found on the Weezer iTunes EP is legitimately fantastic though. It has loud electric guitars and slap bass. • Put Me Back Together and I Dont Want to Let You Go are pretty sad and they have good pop tunes. They remind me of when that sound was popular and they remind me of lonely winters. I really connect with them. • Trippin Down the Freeway has a really fun payoff in the last chorus, and I love the melody of the chorus. Also, the 08, 09, and 0’10 joke is funny. • Let it all Hang Out is just fun. Would have fit on Hurley. • I can’t defend love is the answer or in the mall. Love is the Answer (laid back mix) is awesome though. The drums and humming make the song good.
I think slowly over time the Weezer fandom will come to agree that Raditude is at least better than Black or Pacific... the back end of the album (minus the controversy of LITA) it really comes across as a well done memorial and send off to 2000's pop punk. Very enjoyable when filtered.
Honestly, Raditude, PD, Van Weezer, kinda Black, they might not be great and have a couple bad songs. But also they're insanely fun to just throw on and vibe too.
@@catsupempire3920 hearing it at first was odd for me because I listened to it before I listened to their entire discography, and every album I heard after hearing black made black just worse and worse. Kite is great, CKTH is fun, and California Snow is great musically. Hell I even think Zombie Bastards is fun, but everything else is just so "ugly". If I only had the instrumentals I would like it a lot more, but lyrics are pretty bad, like Red Era bad. "Prince" is one of my least favorite Weezer tracks.
I’d say there is a sorta consensus on red of it being the Beatles white album of weezer. On a lower scale of course (both as in less songs and less good) but A.very experimental and B.very inconsistent. Most agree Greatest Man, Angel and the One, and Pork and Beans are good. Most agree Thought I Knew, Cold Dark World, and Everybody Get Dangerous are bad. The other 4 are more divisive but especially if you include b sides it’s an album where most agree at least a third of it is good to great and at least like 20% is at best filler and often outright bad
I agree with basically the whole ranking but as a certified Weezer apologist I could even make an argument for Raditude being good if I think about it long enough
I love "Love is the Answer" it's imo one of the best songs on Raditude so I don't get why all the hate Definitely better than "I'm Your Daddy" and 10x better than "Can't Stop Partying"
Not a massive fan of Hurley or Pacific Daydream but Pacific Daydream is actually the album that got me into Weezer (I know weird). I heard some of their blue album stuff before but thought Pacific Daydream was good indie pop in the Summer of 2017. At the end of the day Pacific Daydream not a favorite (anymore) but I think it has some respectable moments. Sorta the same feeling with Hurley.
@@Scrub_03 i agree. Because of how great the top albums are Hurley is always going to be in that 7-8 spot for me even tho it’s a goat album just because weezer is so good. I just wish people weren’t so accepting of “it’s mid” when they should be struggling to put it at 7
Make believe is so over hated, definitely not bottom 5, Pardon me, the other way, and Haunt You are such great songs, and the rest minus beverly hills and my best friend are p good as well
Nah man, Pacific Daydream is great. I will routinely declare to myself that it's 'hot, hot 100 degrees' at various points throughout the day irregardless of what the temperature actually is
Red Should Have Been: 1. Pork And Beans 2. King 3. The Angle and the One 4. Dreamin' 5. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived 6. Miss Sweeney 7. Thought I Knew 8. Pig 9. Heart Songs 10. The Spider Raditude should have been: 1. Want you To 2. Tripping Down The Freeway 3. The Underdogs 4. Put me Back Together 5. Let it all hangout 6. I'm your Daddy 7. Get Me Some 8. The Girl Got Hot 9. I don't Want to let you go 10. Kids/Pokerface Hurley should have been: 1. Memories 2. Ruling Me 3. Hang On 4. Trainwrecks 5. Time Flies 6. All my friends are Insects 7. Smart Girls 8. Brave new World 9. Represent 10. Unspoken
As a metal head, I would say Maladroit is more heavy metal than Van Weezer. I think metal fans would generally think VW more as glam rock. VW has some fun lead work, but it lacks the sort of heavy riffs that Maladroit has that makes it feel more metal.
I think the Red album is my favourite Weezer record. I would never say it's they're best. I'm not even sure if it's top 5, but I think it is my favourite
Fan since basically day one No clue why Raditude gets the extreme level of hate that it gets I get it, people dont love it But to me, its got some hard pop bangers and honestly, a few of my fav most fun Weezer songs I think it is trapped in its moment, a moment that saw Rivers reaching for pop fame and the band trying out some intense pop sensibilities The second half of the album is pretty bad other than one song but the front half, sorry, is excellent Sorry 😊
I knew Raditude would be last. I knew it was coming, and I prepared myself for disappointment. And then, lo and behold: Raditude in last place. My first Weezer song I ever heard was Put Me Back Together, and It was in the very early stages of my life. I was a little kid and my parents only played it when we were cleaning. Then I heard it again in middle school, and I cried. It was so nostalgic and beautiful. Put Me Back Together became my favorite song, my personality, and the only thing I would listen to during rough times, and it still is. Then, I later got very VERY into Weezer. I listened to all of Raditude, and I appreciated it. I saw it as good ol' fun. I thought the album was upbeat, fun, and a real connection with what unashamed fun really can be as a youth. I even saw it as funny in a way. It slowly became beloved to me. It's not my favorite album from Weezer- that spot goes to blue. However, Put Me Back Together is still my favorite piece of music I've ever heard, and Raditude is dear to me. And that was Raditude from the perspective of a lover of the most hated album ever. Enjoy.
You can’t talk about the Red Album and not mention “Greatest Man,” an astonishing achievement in any era and easily the best Weezer song of the 21st century
I definetly like to pick and choose from different Weezer Albums, I guess that's a good thing, from Buddy Holly to Happy Hour, to Dope Nose, Hash Pipe I could go on, I'm weird in the way of not picking an album from a group I enjoy and seeing what I like, I'm trying not to do that this time with SZNZ Summer lol
I actually have Hurley in my Top 5. It's got great songs (Memories, Run Away, Trainwrecks), good songs (Hang On, Time Flies, Ruling Me), and a bad song (You know which one). It's no Pinkerton, Blue, or EWBAITE, but I love it
Raditude is a Weezer classic. Think about it. The girl got hot. Put me back together. Tripping down the freeway. Let it all hang out. I don't want to let go. Get me some. Run over by a truck. The prettiest girl in the whole wide world. The underdogs.. I think the problem with most Weezer albums after Pinkerton is the song selection (besides White and EWBAITE). Instead of making classic albums, they made average albums with amazing bonus tracks.
Wow, I just spent 12 and a half minutes just to learn that it's Weezer and it's Weezy. What a ripoff. jokes aside, it was cool to see the different reasonings behind each ranking, and compare them to my personal ranks despite my somewhat incomplete catalog. I am currently up to 2016 for albums (+ OK Human and SZNZ: Autumn [yes I know this is not an album], specifically _not_ deluxe albums because then I can go back and listen to all the good stuff I missed out on...or bad stuff idk) and the rankings of the pop stuff seems to be a warning... but maybe I'll like or even love them! you never know unless you try anyway, I have to go lie on the floor and listen to Can't Stop Partying (Nightcore) for the next 12 hours to -numb myself to all human emotion- prove the greatness of Raditude in all forms and break away from the hivemind
Teal isn’t horrible. Africa, Take On Me, stand by me, happy together are all great covers. Billie Jean, sweet dreams, no scrubs are terrible covers. That’s what makes this album so average.
i'm proud to be the world's biggest raditude fan, because i'm the world's only raditude fan. i'm your daddy in particular is unironically my favorite weezer song. and the deluxe edition has the underdogs, which honestly is so good it could've carried the album if was on the standard release. some might say that this is a result of me not thinking about the music consume, but i prefer to believe that it's simply because i can't stop partying partying oh god please help i can't stop partying partying but fr this both of these videos have not surprised me. but i do wonder where szns would've fit if it was considered an album, as well as death to false metal which i personally believe to be the most unlistenable collection of songs that has ever had the nerve to call itself an album
Bruh everything has lower rankings Than I would think. I think because I love everything and everything in the bottom half is at least a 70 except make believe and raditdue. Like goddamn how was Hurley so low it’s my number 7. I agree stuff is over produced recently but I will love it. Just the fan rankings I am annoyed with. Black is so so good, so Is PD but I understand why it’s low.
I don’t think The Red Album is that bad. Pork & Beans, Dreamin’, Thought I Knew (the MTV 2008 live version) and Heart Songs are ok, even if some of the lyrics are a bit stupid or simple. About Make Believe, some of the hate is justifiable. Beverly Hills, My Best Friend and Hold Me are just plain disappointing. However, “This Is Such A Pity”, “The Damage In Your Heart”, “Perfect Situation” and especially “Haunt You Every Day” are some genuinely nice songs. The only song I can really listen on a tiny rotation from Raditude is “Put Me Back Together”, just because it sounds ok and it doesn’t piss me off. “If you’re wondering” is not that good of a song, imo. It’s a meh start.
Now, Hear me out, I haven't listened to every Weezer album, I haven't even listened to all of Raditude, But it is not scientifically possible that Raditude is the worst Weezer album, For one simple reason: It has "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" on it. That song is an absolute banger, You can try to knock it, But you will always fail. The rest of the album could be the worst songs Weezer's ever made by far, But even then that one song would give the album merit.
For me, Pacific Daydream is a phenomenal album. I was going to write top 3, then top 5, then realized how many more records would still take precedence (Blue,Pink,White,Green for me imho) but surely PD is their best pop record, i don't find it overproduced and most of the songs are just amazing (Any friend of Diane so good, the hits Mexican Fender& Feels like summer, also Get right, Wknd woman). I guess what i mean is that it's better than Hurley, Red album, Van weezer.
I’ve really come to appreciate PD. It’s a great summer album and manages to capture that lazy, upbeat feeling throughout. It’s probably one if the Weezer albums I listen to the most!
Wow. Just… wow. This video legitimately had me in tears. Has my life’s work amounted to this? Am I fated to forever be on the cover of the OBJECTIVE worst Weezer album? Whenever I close my eyes, I think back to the jump in 2009. After years of training and failed attempts, I had finally done it; I took in all the incredible sights of the living room as I soared through the air in the most rad way possible. When I won that NatGeo photo competition, when Rivers chose me to be on the cover of Weezer’s new album… I was on top of the world. But then the reviews came in. I then devoted my life to passionately defending Raditude as a misunderstood masterpiece, a brilliant work of art. But sometimes it becomes too much. And as I sit here writing this, I’m starting to think, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I need to stop fighting and let Anthony Fantano and all the other philistines on TH-cam have their way….
No. I refuse to give in. Not only will I maintain my stance on Raditude, but I will double down on Raditude 2: Still Partying. This WILL be the OBJECTIVE best Weezer album. I will get features from every generic pop-rapper in the game, help Rivers write the most epic lyrical poetry, and find the most overblown synthesizers The Girl from Pacific Daydream has in her “stuff to never use” folder in the laptop that I stole. Prepare for an epic magnum opus, the Morbius of rock albums, the best, most epicest party extravaganza your ears will ever be blessed with.
Or I could just get Butch to throw something together. That might be easier. Anyways, time to get back to partying! I told The Lawn Gnome from Pinkerton that there would be Asian girls at this party. Cheers! -Sidney
Well said dog from raditude
This comment is amazing but "the Morbius of rock albums" is what broke me
Isn't the dog actually dead
This comment is better than half of Weezer's worst songs.
@@Kryogenix2 no he isn't he just commented right there
All this tells me is that Weezer is the most psychotic band on the face of the earth
Teal struck up me pretty weird since it's idea came from a one lone girl from Iowa who wanted Weezer to cover Africa by Toto, at the time when it was a meme, she made a twitter acc to promote it, it went viral, weezer responded and covered the song, which is nice yeah? but for them to cover one song as a fan request, to them deciding to make an entire cover album is just baffling to me, why? no one said "wow weezer made a good cover of africa, why not cover other songs you like?" it's just weird.
The way I see it, the band had a lot of fun covering those two Toto songs, and wanted to try it some more. At this point, the band is just having fun with their music, and decided to just give it as a nice little surprise while black was on the horizon. I can see the negative effect it may have, but I enjoy it a lot purely due to the main energy from the band.
@@cyndaxero3363 I guess that's the case, since afterwards they kept posting covers on their youtube channels of other songs like Paranoid Android
@@cyndaxero3363 tbf, it wasn't all that bad, their live performance of Everybody Wants to Rule the World on Jimmy Kimmel alongside the original vocalist of tears for fears is really good.
I’m glad it spawned a whole album, while it was quite random, I think the album’s good
Originally, rather than do "Africa," they released a cover of Toto's "Rosanna" instead, and I think it would've been funnier if they just left it at that.
Your mention of Make Believe having its sound crushed down so the songs would be cohesive together made me seek out some of the demos for tunes like Haunt You and Hold Me and now I wish we had an album with that production. Dude sounds like he's having a genuinely hard time and Haunt You sounds genuinely massive and heavy. Lyrics still aren't the best but I think there's something special in some of those.
My friends and I still talk about the day we skipped school and drove to Best Buy to buy and listen to Make Believe the day it dropped. We listened to it twice back to back because, I don't know, maybe we thought we listened to it wrong? "We should've just gone to class" was and still is our consensus.
That said, I didn't quit Weezer until Raditude, an album so bad that I didn't give Weezer another chance until White Album, and I didn't even go back and listen to EWBAITE or Hurley until I was stuck quarantining during the pandemic. Raditude just broke me.
the consequences of being unable to stop partying
Lol I was just enjoying this man's videos earlier this morning and then this video starts on Autoplay and I didn't realise that it was uploaded less than an hour ago until half way through the video XD
Raditude is so good if you swap out can’t stop partying for the alternate, and skip love is the answer and in the mall. Solid 10 tracks with the bonus tracks included. It’s in my top half and has been from the beginning.
I like in the mall as well.😬😂
Van Weezer is weird because it’s not like Rivers is unfamiliar with metal. He made some solid Shrapnel-style metal in Avant-garde/Zoom, so I don’t know why he just made a nondescript Weezer album with a occasional dive bomb. His use of autotune in recent years is also annoying, it’s not like he needs it, it only makes his voice sound gross and artificial
It's hard living in this cold dark world as a Love is The Answer fan.
I read years ago this comment regarding Raditude "this album is one of the worst albums and the reason is simple. Raditude is an album that forgets one of the principal rules of songwriting: specificity leads to universality"
I absolutely love red album.
Same
It isn't bad but not my favorite
That's one big ratitude
Some underrated
Same bro
I love Raditude so much but sometimes I have my doubts as well. Objectively, was chosen as the worst album but I still love and enjoy it after so many years.
I love Raditude
i love raditude especially the cover
Me too
Raditude is fun and features 2 great bonus tracks. Make Believe however has too many mid tempo songs and should be last.
Pacific daydream and Red are so good for me. I love both of them.
I will say one thing: last summer I was on my friend's boat cruising down the bay on a perfect day and he blasted "Feels like Summer" and I dunno, it just felt right in that moment.
that moment felt... like summer?
It's the perfect introspective summer album
Feels Like Summer is a very annoying song in my opinion.
I love Hurley album. I think is great. I think there is a little bit of Hurley in all of us.
I like all the weezer albums, but my first albums and what got me into weezer were Red and Ratitude. I love these albums and they are what I have weezer nostalgia for. I know I am in the minority, but these are my Heart Songs.
Also, what an excellent youtube channel. Excellent work
Make Believe is Pinkerton light but lacking the crunch. The emotion is there but the like emo isn’t there. Like have you heard haunt you everyday!
I was not a big fan of Make Believe when it first came out, but when I listened to it a few years ago, it had a bit of a charm to it--probably either the nostalgia or the realization it's still 1,000 times better than most of the albums released after it. I still can't stand "Beverly Hills" or "We are All on Drugs."
I never thought of it, but I like all the sad songs on Make Believe more than the happy ones. Never occurred to me in terms if happy/sad; I just thought they were trying to make songs that appealed to everyone.
yeah, haunt you everyday is one of my favorite weezer songs
I love Weezer. (I mean I'm here- that's pretty obvious.) I can't find much to complain about, and I actually do like Raditude quite a bit even considering it's status in the community. There's no Weezer song that I hate. Except for fucking Beverly Hills. This song hurts. I can't stand the almost speaking like quality Rivers' voice has in the verse, and then It breaks into the chorus. I hate that goddamn chorus. I hate it so much. But, I still love everything else Weezer has ever done, even if some of it is cringey or poppy- I love this band so much.
Raditude is an album for the intellectual
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Ratitude sucks
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I have to admit that it hurt me to see Raditude as the worst Weezer album objectively speaking. But it's because it's one of my favorite albums, there's nothing I can do about it. I will continue to love this one even if my opinion is not very popular.
Here before name change
God damn it
What was the og name
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Name change?
I was here
I was in middle school around the time The Red Album and Raditude came out and my parents even took me the the Blink 182-Weezer concert at Shoreline in September of 2009. I knew of Blue, I knew of Make Believe, and I knew of Green. Raditude and the Red Album defined my middle school years and I've listened to Weezer growing up since. We talk about Subjective and Objective, damn Weezer changes when life changes. I used to love tracks like Girl Got Hot because that was the story of most of the girls I knew going into High School. Tracks like Pink Triangle and Slob are a little more adult and talk about relationships in ways a middle schooler wouldn't understand. They're just fun tracks to listen to. Now older, I appreciate albums like EWBAITE and Maladroit because damn I understand them, I grew up and went through angst and the workforce. Art and music will always be subjective, and we may not ever like the same Weezer songs again as we get older or wiser.
If You're Wondering If I Want You To needed an official Sara Bareilles featured recording and I love that track fight me.
Was in middle school when Blue came out and I fell in lobe with weezer. Then Pinkerton came out in '96 when I was a sophomore and it blew my mind. And, yet, people didn't get it when I did. I kind I'd knew at that time that people were mostly daft. But, of course I am from SC and that is the norm, right? Anyway, green was an anthem to my beginning of college, and while overproduction was the way with this Album, I loved it and Oh, Girlfriend was the song that I played over and over when I went through a huge heartbreak. 'I MISS U AND I WONDER HOW U FEEL ABOUT ME TOO' I love U Rivers. Always. You are my angel and savior.
I love Red. It ranks 7th in my ranking, above Green and Maladroit. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived, Pork And Beans, The Angel And The One, Dreamin are all great tracks.
Yes thank uou
Agreed. it's a weird album, but it has some very strong tracks. "Cold Dark World" is terrible and "King" should've been put on instead.
i am not kidding when i say i love red so many times more than white
I've literally cried over The Spider. I am a sixteen year old boy who's cried over Weezer. It's just that good. I love Red.
@@hicourtneyyourthedevil5844you are sixteen year old boy who live in-
I love Pacific Daydream. That’s in my top 5. I love listening to it at my boat and my summer BBQs
Don't think I missed that split second clip of Wendigoon. I'm watching you.
Pacific Daydream > White
Also, I would say teal doesn't really count. It's just a fun cover album that's mostly on the good side. But it's just covers. I'm never gonna sit down and listen to Teal like I would OK Human or Pinkerton. I do have most of the songs on it in my super mega Playlist of everything.
I genuinely like Raditude, but knew it'll be at the bottom. Great work on the video and all the other Weezer content! Can't wait for the next one.
hey look, i found the polar bear!
The Raditude thing honestly doesn't surprise me. I was on a break from Weezer at the time, so I didn't hear the whole thing when it came out. The first I had heard or seen anything from the album was the live versions of If You're Wondering with Sara Bareilles and I'm Your Daddy with Kenny G. It cannot be overstated how much those two elevated the material. When I finally got around to hearing the album, I definitely checked out on it for good.
Red is my favourite post-Pinkerton album. So it's weird for me because I've always felt like I'm the one and only hardcore Red fan on the planet. To me it's Weezer at their most tongue-in-cheek and also at their most self celebratory. Something I think was best encapsulated by The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, one of their all time best deep cuts imo.
Outside of the Brian/Pat/Scott songs I really don't think there's a single bad track on it. If you make your own track list and replace them with three of the Deluxe tracks then what you're left with is a perfect album.
@LeaderCole Thought I Knew and Autuomatic are perfectly decent tracks, Cold Dark World is the only one I fully can do without. But thematically I understand why every member of the band got a song, so I'll still defend it.
Red Fandom Unite
I also feel like Red doesn't really get the credit it deserves. I appreciate the eccentricity of it
For me, Ms. Sweeney was fine, and it’s unfortunate most of the tracks are somewhat less catchy, especially towards the end.
But the sheer number of greatness put into that album absolutely, beyond anything else, makes Red a Top 3 album for me as well.
Red was the first weezer album i got on vinyl
ALSO AS THE BIGGEST MALADROIT FAN I HAVE HEARD OF HURLEY!!!! THAT ALBUM MADE MY OCULAR NERVE GO POP ZOOM!! ALSO RADITUDE IS A GREAT ALBUM YALL ARE JUST BRAINWASHED
High as a Kite and I'm Your Daddy are top tier Weezer songs
Dont forget wheres my sex
Before watching:in the comments of last time I said Raditude #1 for sure but now I’m thinking the early make believe critic reviews will raise it higher then it deservesz
Ok maybe I overvalued pitchfork. They are an office full of dorks after all.
Or yahhhhh know, you can pick and choose from every album. Raditude as some great stuff on it, and Pacific Daydream is also filled with gems.
Raditude is objectively the worst album, instead Blue is that kind of album where the first album is perfect and instantly became a classic and it's impossible to create that perfection again.
It really is Raditude, every other album I get how they eventually find their audience but not with that one. It’s their most cynical collection of songs. Pacific Daydream is actually a really solid pop album. Black is messy but also fine for what it is. Make Believe is all over the place but it’s highlights are great, one of the most over hated albums ever made.
Completely agree with ya
Fitting that the Super Smash Bros. Brawl theme plays in the beginning, considering many consider that to be objectively the worst Smash Bros game.
so you were saying that there's an alternate universe where Make Believe is Pinkerton 2 and not "How do you do, fellow kids?" the album?
Make Believe was terrible. Raditude is my equal fave, with Pinkerton. It's fun and catchy, and the opening song hooks you in right from the start. The bonus songs are pretty sweet, too.
Great videos! You should do a personal ranking, people will hate you no matter what you pick, or how you rank them, but you should do it! Very Weezer.
I am actually shocked and outraged that Raditude got the bottom. It has ONE terrible song in Can't Stop Partying and the rest is absolutely golden 00s pop-punk. I'd put it above many Blink-182 albums.
Black is the bottom for me and Teal doesn't count. I think it's also important to know that Black was started before Pacific Daydream, it wasn't Rivers trying to shove more pop down our throats, it was Rivers following through on something promised years earlier.
Eeerrrrmmmm ur wrong?
Dawg I'm a Weezer fan do you think I know how to read
@gnome from pinkerton Hey, at least I get pretty girls around me. You really need to get off those incel forums, dude. And at least I remembered to bring the bacon for Thanksgiving, that turkey you made was the driest thing I’ve ever tasted. Also, my album doesn’t have love songs named after Del Taco hot sauce, and Rivers didn’t write about c00ming to fan mail on Can’t Stop Partying. Checkmate, Gnome from Pinkerton. -Sidney
Do you even listen to pop punk?
@Kayati Chop While I rather dislike Raditude, I despise Pacific Daydream. I'd commit murder were that album a person.
not me keeping an eye out for this video even though i didn't even know who weezer is
Know a guy on a music server I'm in who genuinely considers Raditude a great album. Though every time I've interrogated the idea theyve only ever been able to talk about the record in terms of like, reactionary pushback to its legendary breadth of criticism. So even the one genuine fan of the album I'm aware of only likes it for the sake of being a contrarian, even if they arent aware of it.
I can tell you why it’s good.
• I’m Your Daddy and Girl Got Hot are super fun pop tunes. The lyrics being so ridiculous sets those songs apart from being too generic. If you can enjoy the songs instead of hoping for a rock masterpiece, they are fun.
• Can’t Stop Partying has really fun backing vocals. That’s all I got for it. The version found on the Weezer iTunes EP is legitimately fantastic though. It has loud electric guitars and slap bass.
• Put Me Back Together and I Dont Want to Let You Go are pretty sad and they have good pop tunes. They remind me of when that sound was popular and they remind me of lonely winters. I really connect with them.
• Trippin Down the Freeway has a really fun payoff in the last chorus, and I love the melody of the chorus. Also, the 08, 09, and 0’10 joke is funny.
• Let it all Hang Out is just fun. Would have fit on Hurley.
• I can’t defend love is the answer or in the mall. Love is the Answer (laid back mix) is awesome though. The drums and humming make the song good.
But Raditude is good though
Another great video. Good job 👍
Blue is only album I ever owned, still gives me goosebumps every time I listen that album after so many years.
I love Red. It ranks number 3rd in my ranking list.
I think slowly over time the Weezer fandom will come to agree that Raditude is at least better than Black or Pacific... the back end of the album (minus the controversy of LITA) it really comes across as a well done memorial and send off to 2000's pop punk. Very enjoyable when filtered.
I really enjoy Pacific Daydream. I haven't given Raditude much of a chance, but I will say I enjoy the black album more than Hurley.
Honestly, Raditude, PD, Van Weezer, kinda Black, they might not be great and have a couple bad songs. But also they're insanely fun to just throw on and vibe too.
Oi black is good
@@catsupempire3920 hearing it at first was odd for me because I listened to it before I listened to their entire discography, and every album I heard after hearing black made black just worse and worse. Kite is great, CKTH is fun, and California Snow is great musically. Hell I even think Zombie Bastards is fun, but everything else is just so "ugly". If I only had the instrumentals I would like it a lot more, but lyrics are pretty bad, like Red Era bad. "Prince" is one of my least favorite Weezer tracks.
@@TylerYTwo I love "I'm Just Being Honest". "Prince" is fine for me. Everyone has different taste, though.
Sorry but Pacific Daydream is as bad as people say.
Glad to see someone is willing to be objective.
Same here👍
I’d say there is a sorta consensus on red of it being the Beatles white album of weezer. On a lower scale of course (both as in less songs and less good) but A.very experimental and B.very inconsistent. Most agree Greatest Man, Angel and the One, and Pork and Beans are good. Most agree Thought I Knew, Cold Dark World, and Everybody Get Dangerous are bad. The other 4 are more divisive but especially if you include b sides it’s an album where most agree at least a third of it is good to great and at least like 20% is at best filler and often outright bad
I agree with basically the whole ranking but as a certified Weezer apologist I could even make an argument for Raditude being good if I think about it long enough
Songs in Raditude are super catchy and fun. Some lyrics are problematic, but they are easy to ignore.
I love "Love is the Answer" it's imo one of the best songs on Raditude so I don't get why all the hate
Definitely better than "I'm Your Daddy" and 10x better than "Can't Stop Partying"
What's funny is I've recently used Weezer as an example of a band that has had the same sound and has been making music forever.
Nah I think maladroit is underrated but also love Hurley, it’s not as good as maladroit but is much more underrated
Pacific Daydream is amazing and QB blitz is in the top 20 weezer songs
Not a massive fan of Hurley or Pacific Daydream but Pacific Daydream is actually the album that got me into Weezer (I know weird). I heard some of their blue album stuff before but thought Pacific Daydream was good indie pop in the Summer of 2017. At the end of the day Pacific Daydream not a favorite (anymore) but I think it has some respectable moments. Sorta the same feeling with Hurley.
Yea PD is solid. But Hurley is an actual masterpiece and I mean that.
I'm a massive fan of both Pacific Daydream and Hurley, it's a little depressing always seeing them always ranked as just low-mid
@@Scrub_03 i agree. Because of how great the top albums are Hurley is always going to be in that 7-8 spot for me even tho it’s a goat album just because weezer is so good. I just wish people weren’t so accepting of “it’s mid” when they should be struggling to put it at 7
Mexican fender is amazing
@@jacobfilasky2729 YES ITS STRAIGHT FIRE
Make believe is so over hated, definitely not bottom 5,
Pardon me, the other way, and Haunt You are such great songs, and the rest minus beverly hills and my best friend are p good as well
Nah man, Pacific Daydream is great. I will routinely declare to myself that it's 'hot, hot 100 degrees' at various points throughout the day irregardless of what the temperature actually is
I genuinely do not remember a single thing from Pacific Daydream, this is why it's one of my least favorite Weezer albums
I love Pacific Daydream
Phenomenal videos. Would love to see you tackle a band like Green Day in this format!
Red is carried hard by the bonus tracks
Same with Raditude and Hurley. If you include the bonus tracks I bet you get different ratings.
Miss Sweeney is a great song
We got robbed not putting Miss Sweeny, Pig, Spider, and King on red to begin with
Red Should Have Been:
1. Pork And Beans
2. King
3. The Angle and the One
4. Dreamin'
5. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
6. Miss Sweeney
7. Thought I Knew
8. Pig
9. Heart Songs
10. The Spider
Raditude should have been:
1. Want you To
2. Tripping Down The Freeway
3. The Underdogs
4. Put me Back Together
5. Let it all hangout
6. I'm your Daddy
7. Get Me Some
8. The Girl Got Hot
9. I don't Want to let you go
10. Kids/Pokerface
Hurley should have been:
1. Memories
2. Ruling Me
3. Hang On
4. Trainwrecks
5. Time Flies
6. All my friends are Insects
7. Smart Girls
8. Brave new World
9. Represent
10. Unspoken
The question is:
Did the people who rated these albums include the bonus tracks or not?
As a metal head, I would say Maladroit is more heavy metal than Van Weezer. I think metal fans would generally think VW more as glam rock. VW has some fun lead work, but it lacks the sort of heavy riffs that Maladroit has that makes it feel more metal.
I like Ratitude though, especially "Let it all hang out" it's one of my favorite Weezer songs.
Raditude is not great, but If You're Wondering..... is one of my favorite Weezer songs.
Love the channel Weezer video series :D thanks for bringging this to the world.
here before the first 1k views
also i can't believe raditude is NOT the best weezer album...the video must be broken
Weezer forever! They are one of the most versatile bands of all times. Always growing and working. I love Weezer and Raditude is my favorite album.
I think the Red album is my favourite Weezer record. I would never say it's they're best. I'm not even sure if it's top 5, but I think it is my favourite
the outro song omfg i'm crying
This is not a popular or objective answer but I love Teal and Raditude
Fan since basically day one
No clue why Raditude gets the extreme level of hate that it gets
I get it, people dont love it
But to me, its got some hard pop bangers and honestly, a few of my fav most fun Weezer songs
I think it is trapped in its moment, a moment that saw Rivers reaching for pop fame and the band trying out some intense pop sensibilities
The second half of the album is pretty bad other than one song but the front half, sorry, is excellent
Sorry 😊
Polar bear in a snowstorm right here
I knew Raditude would be last. I knew it was coming, and I prepared myself for disappointment. And then, lo and behold: Raditude in last place. My first Weezer song I ever heard was Put Me Back Together, and It was in the very early stages of my life. I was a little kid and my parents only played it when we were cleaning. Then I heard it again in middle school, and I cried. It was so nostalgic and beautiful. Put Me Back Together became my favorite song, my personality, and the only thing I would listen to during rough times, and it still is. Then, I later got very VERY into Weezer. I listened to all of Raditude, and I appreciated it. I saw it as good ol' fun. I thought the album was upbeat, fun, and a real connection with what unashamed fun really can be as a youth. I even saw it as funny in a way. It slowly became beloved to me. It's not my favorite album from Weezer- that spot goes to blue. However, Put Me Back Together is still my favorite piece of music I've ever heard, and Raditude is dear to me.
And that was Raditude from the perspective of a lover of the most hated album ever. Enjoy.
I can't stop parting sounds is like something a TH-camr would write or something on the same level as Friday.
You can’t talk about the Red Album and not mention “Greatest Man,” an astonishing achievement in any era and easily the best Weezer song of the 21st century
I definetly like to pick and choose from different Weezer Albums, I guess that's a good thing, from Buddy Holly to Happy Hour, to Dope Nose, Hash Pipe I could go on, I'm weird in the way of not picking an album from a group I enjoy and seeing what I like, I'm trying not to do that this time with SZNZ Summer lol
My worst ranking list include in this order: Raditude, Make Believe and Pacific Daydream.
Put me back together from radditude is really good imo. Make believe is underrated as hell
I'm obsessed with your rankings Weezer's videos.
I absolutely adore the Red album
I actually have Hurley in my Top 5. It's got great songs (Memories, Run Away, Trainwrecks), good songs (Hang On, Time Flies, Ruling Me), and a bad song (You know which one). It's no Pinkerton, Blue, or EWBAITE, but I love it
I agree. I was in college when Raditude came out. I listened once and thought it was one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard.
Raditude is a Weezer classic. Think about it. The girl got hot. Put me back together. Tripping down the freeway. Let it all hang out. I don't want to let go. Get me some. Run over by a truck. The prettiest girl in the whole wide world. The underdogs..
I think the problem with most Weezer albums after Pinkerton is the song selection (besides White and EWBAITE). Instead of making classic albums, they made average albums with amazing bonus tracks.
Wow, I just spent 12 and a half minutes just to learn that it's Weezer and it's Weezy. What a ripoff.
jokes aside, it was cool to see the different reasonings behind each ranking, and compare them to my personal ranks despite my somewhat incomplete catalog. I am currently up to 2016 for albums (+ OK Human and SZNZ: Autumn [yes I know this is not an album], specifically _not_ deluxe albums because then I can go back and listen to all the good stuff I missed out on...or bad stuff idk) and the rankings of the pop stuff seems to be a warning... but maybe I'll like or even love them! you never know unless you try
anyway, I have to go lie on the floor and listen to Can't Stop Partying (Nightcore) for the next 12 hours to -numb myself to all human emotion- prove the greatness of Raditude in all forms and break away from the hivemind
Teal isn’t horrible. Africa, Take On Me, stand by me, happy together are all great covers. Billie Jean, sweet dreams, no scrubs are terrible covers. That’s what makes this album so average.
i'm proud to be the world's biggest raditude fan, because i'm the world's only raditude fan. i'm your daddy in particular is unironically my favorite weezer song. and the deluxe edition has the underdogs, which honestly is so good it could've carried the album if was on the standard release. some might say that this is a result of me not thinking about the music consume, but i prefer to believe that it's simply because i can't stop partying partying oh god please help i can't stop partying partying
but fr this both of these videos have not surprised me. but i do wonder where szns would've fit if it was considered an album, as well as death to false metal which i personally believe to be the most unlistenable collection of songs that has ever had the nerve to call itself an album
I think the underdogs is kinda boring
Bruh everything has lower rankings Than I would think. I think because I love everything and everything in the bottom half is at least a 70 except make believe and raditdue. Like goddamn how was Hurley so low it’s my number 7. I agree stuff is over produced recently but I will love it.
Just the fan rankings I am annoyed with. Black is so so good, so Is PD but I understand why it’s low.
I can't find anything wrong with Raditude. I love it.
I know, I am in the minority but I really love Raditude
Same here
raditude defender here. Screaming and crying
Ok human is weezers best album and if you disagree you’re wrong
I'm ready for this video!
I don’t think The Red Album is that bad. Pork & Beans, Dreamin’, Thought I Knew (the MTV 2008 live version) and Heart Songs are ok, even if some of the lyrics are a bit stupid or simple.
About Make Believe, some of the hate is justifiable. Beverly Hills, My Best Friend and Hold Me are just plain disappointing.
However, “This Is Such A Pity”, “The Damage In Your Heart”, “Perfect Situation” and especially “Haunt You Every Day” are some genuinely nice songs.
The only song I can really listen on a tiny rotation from Raditude is “Put Me Back Together”, just because it sounds ok and it doesn’t piss me off. “If you’re wondering” is not that good of a song, imo. It’s a meh start.
Raditude is so much fun. I’ll always love it.
wake me up when another weezer sound weezer album drops
what a surprise the last place is
Raditude has a good album cover. Also... IT'S BAD BUT NOT WORSE THAN TEAL
Raditude is a great album.
Now, Hear me out, I haven't listened to every Weezer album, I haven't even listened to all of Raditude, But it is not scientifically possible that Raditude is the worst Weezer album, For one simple reason: It has "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" on it. That song is an absolute banger, You can try to knock it, But you will always fail. The rest of the album could be the worst songs Weezer's ever made by far, But even then that one song would give the album merit.
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Ratitude is great and I’ve previously seen many people who say it’s their best album.
Raditude is one of my favorite albums.
For me, Pacific Daydream is a phenomenal album. I was going to write top 3, then top 5, then realized how many more records would still take precedence (Blue,Pink,White,Green for me imho) but surely PD is their best pop record, i don't find it overproduced and most of the songs are just amazing (Any friend of Diane so good, the hits Mexican Fender& Feels like summer, also Get right, Wknd woman). I guess what i mean is that it's better than Hurley, Red album, Van weezer.
I've also come to like some Raditude tracks very much tbqh XD
I’ve really come to appreciate PD. It’s a great summer album and manages to capture that lazy, upbeat feeling throughout. It’s probably one if the Weezer albums I listen to the most!
Make believe and red are really good for me personally. We are all on drugs is still the worst weezer song.
Pacific Daydream is a gem. I think it's more underrated than Hurly and Maladroit by a long shot.
I agree with you. Cohesive, solidly listenable throughout, and some great high points.
+1, totally not understanding the hate
Is in my top 5 Weezer albums. It’s very different, but in a good way.
@@U570 I think the hate mostly stems from the fact it’s a pop album, even though Weezer’s made pop music long before PD