Weezer: Weezer (Blue Album) [GEFFEN]

Why you'll love it

The Blue Album is Weezer's best-seller by a mile, with more than 15 million copies sold worldwide and a 5x platinum certification in the U.S. Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced, and "Buddy Holly," "Undone - The Sweater Song" and "Say It Ain't So" are all here.

This edition

• Geffen pressing (cat# B002515201)
• Produced by Ric Ocasek at Electric Lady Studios

About the album

Given grunge's heavy associations with sludgy, self-loathing torment on the whole, you can well imagine, even if you weren't there at the time, what a delightful breath of Hubba Bubba-scented fresh air Weezer's classic debut album was when it arrived kinda out of nowhere in the spring of 1994.

Weezer (or the "Blue Album," as it's become known) proved you could have it both ways: the guitars were thunderously heavy to fit the tenor of the "alt"-rock times, yet Rivers Cuomo et al. had a seemingly bottomless capacity for summery melodies to pair with those guitars. An instant hit was born, its overall gift for tunes, tunes, tunes, tunes, tunes helped along by smashing Spike Jonze videos for the inescapable MuchMusic/MTV staples "Buddy Holly" and "Undone - The Sweater Song." It remains the Weezer record to beat to this day.

Sorry, Pinkerton. It's just the truth.

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On Geffen (cat# B002515201), a reissue of the 1994 album.