I'm going to start by confessing that I barely had my first listen a month ago and have only listened to it a total of three times. But trust me when I say I can distinguished an average album from an outstanding one. This, of course, is an outstanding one. Right from my very first listen, this album skyrocketed into my sphere of all-time favorite. This album stands tall among the 90's best. It stacks up high next to "OK Computer" and "Nevermind". And when talking about the best debut albums, it holds just as much accolade.

But what makes it so special? Charm. Charm is something many albums seemed to lack in it's period and that time's smog of grunge and over-seriousness. These songs aren't metaphors for drug use or sour relationships. They talk about being comfortable, playing D&D in your garage, and saying to hell with the traffic of life, just ride the waves. It has off vocal phrasing, cheesy lyrics, and just look at that cover. Just look at it. But these things serve to bring a smile upon your face, bring out the nonconformity to it's contemporaries, what made the music so special.

The most impressive thing about this masterpiece is it's complete lack of filler. There are very few albums that I have listened to where I can honestly say that each piece is just as good as the whole. But this one's different. Every song on here is absolutely incredible. If I were to review each separate track, they would all get five stars, expect for "Undone -- The Sweater Song" and "Only In Dream" for which I might reserve six stars. But reviewing each song would eliminate a key aspect of the product, this is a whole album. What I can say is that these jigsaws fit to make a beautiful picture. Each song flows into the other perfectly.

When re-listening to this for it's 20th anniversary (and I'll admit, I wasn't even around for it's first release), I realized just how important this was to music. It was released just three weeks after the death of Kurt Cobain and it shifted gears for the direction of musical tones in the industry. But beyond that, I was just blown away by how great an album can be. To me, this is the "Doolittle", "Ziggy Stardust", or "Velvet Underground & Nico" of the 90's: an album that strays away from the successful routines of its peers and manages to lives its own ways, different and eventually remembered as legendary. I haven't been this blown away by a group and record since The Band's "Music From Big Pink". And then I heard their sophomore effort "Pinkerton" is even better. Screw waiting another two years to celebrate that one's 20 years, I'm getting it as soon as I get a spare $10.

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Rating	4.8 (6493 ratings)
Price	$26.97
Category	Rock

Weezer Blue

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