HERE I AM (COME AND TAKE ME)

There is little in the way of substantive philosophy other than the social prejudices of the yuppie class, which holds the simultaneous beliefs that the current arrangement is producing highly satisfactory results and, at the same time, is somehow terribly wrong.
David Geddes: The Last Game of the Season (The Blind Man in the Bleachers)

Aaron Copland, the 20th-century American composer of such works as "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for the Common Man", believed that there was but one requirement for a potentially good music listener. "He must be able to recognize a melody when he hears it," Copland wrote. Although familiar with the classical avant-garde of his time, Copland preferred to write simple music that could be easily enjoyed by a mass audience. He sometimes took inspiration from jazz. Eventually, he went Hollywood.

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, the turn-of-the-21st-century American composer of such works as "Buddy Holly" and "Undone (The Sweater Song)", can recognize a melody when he hears it... Eventually, he went "Beverly Hills".

Anyone looking for a return to form on Weezer's sixth album-- fourth since their late-1990s hiatus, third self-titled-- would do well again to think of Copland. Struck by writer's block for his final 17 years, the maestro told a journalist, "It was exactly as if someone had simply turned off a faucet."

Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush will both love this album.

Make Believe was a gift to the simpletons. The Red Album is a fanfare for a common band.


We ate cereal.
Aleksander Hemon: The Lazarus Project