Hash Pipe

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"Hash Pipe"
HashPipe.jpg
Single by Weezer
from the album Weezer (The Green Album)
B-side
  • "I Do"
  • "Starlight"
  • "Teenage Victory Song"
ReleasedApril 2001 (2001-04)
Studio
Genre Hard rock [1]
Length3:06
Label Geffen
Songwriter(s) Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s) Ric Ocasek
Weezer singles chronology
"Pink Triangle"
(1997)		"Hash Pipe"
(2001)		"Island in the Sun"
(2001)
Music video
"Hash Pipe" on YouTube

"Hash Pipe" is a song by American rock band Weezer. Released in 2001, it was the first single off the band's third album Weezer (The Green Album), and the only one of the Summer Songs of 2000 songs to make it onto the album, although "Dope Nose" and "Slob" were released on Maladroit .

Contents

Background

According to an interview with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, "Hash Pipe" was written on the same night as the song "Dope Nose" off Maladroit. The story goes that Cuomo took "a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila," paced around for a while, then wrote both songs. [2]

Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is featured on the cover of the song's CD single. [3] Since late 2001, the band has played the song live with a reworked guitar solo that no longer follows the verse melody.

According to Cuomo the song is a "Totally insane song about a homosexual transvestite prostitute." [4]

Also according to Cuomo, he had intended on giving this song to Ozzy Osbourne in 2000 after he approached Cuomo for song ideas, but he did not use it. [5]

Composition

With a tempo of 128 bpm, "Hash Pipe" is composed in the key of A minor. [6] The opening line, "I can't help my feelings, I go out of my mind", is quoted from the Beatles' "You Can't Do That".

Music video

The video for the song was directed by Marcos Siega, the first of many Weezer videos that Siega would direct. In the video, Weezer is shown playing while a group of sumo wrestlers are standing in the background. [7] As the song progresses, the wrestlers are shown wrestling and during the guitar solo, the wrestlers play the band members' instruments as the members watch from the background. During the final chorus, guitarist Brian Bell performs a move in which he bends backwards, taking the guitar with him, then thrusts his legs in the way he's bending. This move has become known among Weezer fans as "the impossible bend." [8] According to the mini book that accompanies the Video Capture Device DVD, Siega was asked to avoid referring to the lyrics of the song for the video, due to its themes of homosexual prostitution and drug references.

Reception

The song was met with positive reviews by music critics. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose "Hash Pipe" as one of the 4 highlights from the album. [9] Paul Brannigan of Kerrang! awarded the single 5 stars and named it "Single of the Week". [10]

Slant Magazine writer Sal Cinquemani wrote that the song "is further evidence of the band's punk rock origins, with its crunchy guitar licks and staccato vocals scorched with the residual edge leftover from the alt-rock boom". [11]

In 2014, ticketing company AXS rated it as the band's seventh best song. [12]

Track listings

Radio station promo

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06

US CD retail CD/US retail 7″ single (black vinyl)

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06
  2. "I Do" – 2:10

UK retail CD

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 2:51
  2. "Starlight" – 3:35
  3. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix)
  4. "Hash Pipe" (CD-ROM video)

UK retail 7″ single (green vinyl)

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 2:52
  2. "Teenage Victory Song" – 3:11

US promo remix 12″ single (black vinyl)

  1. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix)
  2. "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Kick Me remix)
  3. "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Under Glass remix) – 4:13

Dutch retail CD

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06
  2. "I Do" – 1:53
  3. "Starlight" – 3:21
  4. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix) – 3:22

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "Hash Pipe"
Chart (2001)Peak
position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [13] 16
Canada Radio (Nielsen BDS) [14] 32
Canada Rock (Nielsen BDS) [15] 3
Ireland (IRMA) [16] 37
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [17] 74
Scotland (OCC) [18] 15
UK Singles (OCC) [19] 21
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [20] 2
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [21] 6
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [22] 24

Year-end charts

2001 year-end chart performance for "Hash Pipe"
Chart (2001)Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [23] 80
2002 year-end chart performance for "Hash Pipe"
Chart (2002)Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [24] 124

Other versions

Rock band Toto started covering the song live in 2018, before releasing it as a digital single, in response to Weezer's well-received version of their own hit song "Africa". [25] [26]

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