This is the story behind Weezer’s Green album. After Pinkerton (the band’s followup to their debut Blue album and Buddy Holly) failed to reach the heights of it’s predecessor, frontman Rivers Cuomo vowed to do whatever it took to rebuild the band better than ever. This process would take 5 years of painstaking work, with many false starts along the way. But when Weezer returned with Island in the Sun and Hash Pipe in 2001, all expectations were surpassed. But was it worth the sacrifice?
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The craziest revelation I walked away with was that Rivers was a lean fiend in 2001
I have a love hate relationship with Green, but at the end of the day I'm glad they're still around making music instead of burning out as a relic of 90s rock
pretty good
YEAAAAAAAAH MARK MADE A WEEZER VIDEO
naw but like fr tho
I think it's a testament to what remains my biggest problem with Green, that aside from stand out tracks like Island in the Sun and Hash Pipe it's just so boring and formulaic, and that a video that deep dives into the history surrounding the album spends more time discussing Rivers' depressive episode leading up to the album than the album itself. And frankly the history is so much more interesting than the album as well. It's like the Full Metal Jacket of Alt Rock. The making of is a more compelling story than the product itself.
Fabulous
Weezer is one of the bands to ever exist. I’m very happy MarcButEvil made a Weezerful video about Weezer. Weezer is honestly one of the things in my life, Weezer consumes the part of my life. Weezer is love. Weezer is life.
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weeza
liked, subscribed, commenting. great stuff as always.
could you list what music you used in the video pls?
I would really love to see a video on the Red Album. Geniunely with this video's quality of sources, Red should be at least 40 minutes and we love MarcButEvil content.
I don't know if it's fair to say Mikey ever really buried his internal issues with Weezer considering the circumstances of how he died.
Green album is like asparagus because they are both green
finally new Weezer video❤
Pat sounds like more of a Harvard man than rivers ever does.
He talks like he's doing a political science lecture.
When will you make a vid on their YT collabs with the Fred, Greg bros, and annoying orange
So, the Black Room era was basically that episode where Spongebob forgets how to make a Krabby Patty and he locks himself inside his house and does stuff like nail toast and eggs to the wall?
rivers edge 😭😭
I wouldn’t be a Weezer fan if I didn’t nitpick so… I’m surprised you didn’t mention the 2000 Warped Tour. They played a bunch of the new songs they had been working on and planning for the new album before the label rejected them all. Weezer fans refer to these bootleg recordings as the “Summer Songs 2K” or “SS2K”
Great video Marcbutevil. You always find interesting topics and I honestly finished watching it with the feeling of wanting to see more. Good job👍
Island in the sun is very nostalgic to me
I watched the intro of this video at an IDKHOW concert
it's been a while marky-poo… I missed you…
when i see weezer i might click, but when Marc uploads a weezer video i will very much click
Crab at the booty
I don’t even like weezer. Why do I do this to myself
10:25 matt sharp gamer moment
20:19 what is it covering???
I can’t believe they edged rivers😢
It's very telling that a 31min video about an album which only contains 10 songs barely talks about one of them. Truly, Green Album's least interesting aspect are the actual songs.
Ive always liked The Green Album, but i think the leadup leading to Weezer's comeback is endlessly fascinating. I feel like it's lost to time in a lot of ways.
Excellent work!
good video
I love te green ablum🙂
This channel is so sex
Omg gotta do a pre-Red one now too
I wish i wish you were my boyfriend, cause one of the main reasons why we broke up he was mad about how much i talk about weezer in front of him…
But where is the Oasis video Marc?
I really love the thumbnail for this one
Help I was literally playing island in the sun yesterday and found this channel today 😭 the coincidence is crazy
At this point, Marc can DEFINITELY make a whole documentary on a band.
23:45 Rivers freezing up in the presence of a Japanese girl
Ngl I like the green album