Weezer (Blue Album)

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Studio album by
Weezer
ReleasedMay 10, 1994 (1994-05-10)
RecordedAugust–September 1993
Studio Electric Lady, New York City
Genre
Length41:36
Label DGC
Producer Ric Ocasek
Weezer chronology
The Kitchen Tape
(1992)		Weezer
(1994)		 Pinkerton
(1996)
Self-titled albums chronology
Blue Album
(1994)		 Green Album
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [40]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [41]
Chicago Sun-Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [42]
Entertainment Weekly B (1994) [43]
A+ (2014) [44]
NME 7/10 [45]
Pitchfork 10/10 [6]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [46]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [47]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [48]
Spin A [49]

The Blue Album received critical acclaim. [50] Rolling Stone praised the album in its year-end review, saying, "Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is great at sketching vignettes (the Dungeons & Dragons games and Kiss posters that inspire the hapless daydreamer of 'In the Garage'), and with sweet inspiration like the waltz tempo of 'My Name Is Jonas' and the self-deprecating humor of lines like "I look just like Buddy Holly / And you're Mary Tyler Moore", his songs easily ingratiate." [51] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice was less complimentary and awarded the album a "neither" rating. [52] The "Buddy Holly" video won four awards at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards , including prizes for Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Video. [53] In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 294 on its updated “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list. [54]

Legacy

The Blue Album has become one of the most highly regarded albums of the 1990s, as well as of all time, appearing on many "best of" lists. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 294 on its 2020 list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [55] It was previously ranked at 297 in 2003, and 299 in 2012. [2] [56] In 2002, the readers of Rolling Stone ranked the album the 21st greatest of all time. [57] Blender named the Blue Album among the "500 CDs You Must Own", calling the album "Absolute geek-rock, out and proud." [5] Non-U.S. publications have acclaimed the album as well: New Zealand's The Movement placed it at number 39 on a list of "The 101 Best Albums of the 90s",[ citation needed ] and Visions of Germany ranked it number 32 on a list of "The Most Important Albums of the 90s". [58] In November 2011, the Blue Album was ranked number three on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1994, with Bad Religion's Stranger than Fiction and The Offspring's Smash in first and second places respectively. [59] The album also peaked at number 25 on Guitar World's "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list. [60]

Reviews of the album when its deluxe edition was released have reflected its rise in stature, continuing to be positive. In 2004, PopMatters gave the album a very positive review, saying, "I'd go so far to declare the 'Blue Album' one of the greatest records of the last 20 years." [61] And Rolling Stone reiterated its original positive review by further describing it as "big, vibrant pop-rock that would inspire thousands of emo kids". [47] Blogcritics gave the album 10/10 and described it as "one of the most important debut albums of the last ten years". [62]

In naming Weezer the 26th best album of the 1990s, Pitchfork summed up the album's critical recognition:

An album so substantial the band misguidedly attempted to tap into its resonance through cover graphics a mere two releases later. In 1994, 70s rock had come to mean either a bastardized version of Led Zeppelin or a bullshit reconstruction of punk rock. As guitar nerds, Weezer sought influence there but found true inspiration in forgotten bubblegum power-pop like Cheap Trick, Raspberries, 20/20, and The Quick. Most impressively, Rivers Cuomo rescued the thrilling guitar solo from finger-tapping metal and disregarding grunge/punk. A decade later air-guitaring to the album feels far less embarrassing than singing along. With the help of Spike Jonze, Weezer kept joy alive in arena rock, making the critical repositioning of Weezer as some emo touchstone even more absentminded. They called themselves Weezer, knowingly, for chrissakes. [63]

NME credited the album as a formative influence on melodic emo. [64] AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album 5/5, calling it "a great record, but more than that, it's a great record emblematic of its time, standing as one of the defining albums of the '90s." [40]

The band performed the album in its entirety during the Memories Tour in 2010 [65] and is set to do so again during the Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour in 2024. [66] On March 15, the band performed the album in its entirety at the Lodge Room in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles as a pre-kickoff of the Voyage Tour, with Dogstar as the opening band. Former bassist Matt Sharp attended, and Dominic Fike sang and played "Say It Ain't So" with the band as a surprise. [67]

Accolades

PublicationCountryAccoladeYearRank
Blender USA500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die [5] 2003*
Music UnderwaterUSATop 100 Albums 1990–2003[ citation needed ]2004No. 10
Stylus Magazine USATop 101–200 Albums of All Time [68] 2004No. 177
Pitchfork Media USATop 100 Albums of the 1990s [63] 2003No. 26
Rolling Stone USAThe 500 Greatest Albums of All Time [69] 2020No. 294
Rolling StoneUSAThe 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time [70] 2022No. 82
NME UK NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time [71] 2013No. 250

( * ) designates lists which are unordered.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rivers Cuomo, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Name Is Jonas"
3:23
2."No One Else" 3:14
3."The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
  • Cuomo
  • Wilson
4:26
4."Buddy Holly" 2:40
5."Undone – The Sweater Song" 5:05
6."Surf Wax America"
  • Cuomo
  • Wilson
3:04
7."Say It Ain't So" 4:18
8."In the Garage" 3:56
9."Holiday" 3:26
10."Only in Dreams" 8:03
Total length:41:25

Personnel

Weezer

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Weekly

Weekly chart performance for Weezer
Chart (1995–96)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [72] 47
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [73] 19
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [74] 40
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [75] 10
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [76] 48
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [77] 22
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [78] 61
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [79] 6
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [80] 35
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [81] 8
UK Albums (OCC) [82] 23
US Billboard 200 [83] 16
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [84] 1

Year-end

1995 year-end chart performance for Weezer
Chart (1995)Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [85] 89
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [86] 47
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [87] 84
US Billboard 200 [88] 43
2002 year-end chart performance for Weezer
Chart (2002)Position
Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) [89] 69

Singles

YearSongPeak positions
US Modern Rock
[37] 		US
Bill-
board
Hot 100
[37] 		US
Hot 100
Airplay
[37] 		UK
Top 40
[82] 		Sweden
[90] 		Nether-
lands
[91]
1994"Undone – The Sweater Song"6577435––
"Buddy Holly"2-18121427
1995"Say It Ain't So"7–5137––

Certifications

Certifications and sales for Weezer
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [92] 2× Platinum200,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [93] Platinum15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [94] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [95] 3× Platinum3,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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