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Why Pinkerton Failed (and Then Didn't) - Weezer
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Weezer's Pinkerton is a masterpiece. It's considered one of the best albums of the 1990s today. In Weezer's catalogue it only finds competition with their debut Blue album. But, at release it was panned. It failed commercially and critically. Singles like 'El Scorcho', 'The Good Life', and 'Pink Triangle' hardly made a dent in the charts. This all left Rivers Cuomo heartbroken, and led to the Green album and Island in the Sun. Then, Pinkerton bounced back. Why? How? Find out now.

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@Jacob_Hingst

8 months ago

They really had rivers in the mechanism

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@JayDonagh

8 months ago

I feel bad for Rivers in the 90s, that would've been a traumatic experience dumping all of these complex feelings onto an album only for it to bomb and everyone initially criticizes it

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@damienallbran

8 months ago

"Did anyone try the Pinkerton tonight?" "That's not so good Rivers."

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@floatzilla2242

8 months ago

Pinkerton is an embarrassing album, but that's entirely the point. It's all the feelings that you wish you never felt, trapped in an album. But when you're in a darker place, and you feel things you know you shouldn't, it's incredibly comforting.

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@azedo9710

8 months ago

my favorite line from pinkerton is: ''hey, it's pinkerton time'' then everyone starts yelling this album is so good it deserved a pinkertillion dollars

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@OldSoAndSo

8 months ago

As a high school freshmen when Pinkerton came out I freakin loved the album and had no idea it was considered a failure. You can understand my confusion about finding that out!

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@joncea1

8 months ago

“Shame leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the green album” 😂😂😂 StarWars and Weezer=chef’s kiss! Great video, keep up the great work

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@TectonicImprov

8 months ago

I bought a physical copy of Pinkerton back in August of 2016, so I always liked to credit myself for being the one to push Pinkerton into platinum status. Cello jello

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@daniel90550

1 month ago

One of my favourite Weezer stories is from Brian after Pinkerton went platinum, he made a post about how he made a visit to a recording studio he worked in back in 1990, and how he was proud to see the album Pinkerton hanging on the wall of the studio. He mentioned how he used to be the vacuum guy at the studio, and how his nickname was 'Jazz Rat' because of the 'improvisational ways in which he vacuumed the floors'

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@toalladepapel

8 months ago

these weezer documentaries are keepin me goin rn

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@snoopdoge4462

8 months ago

“I understand rivers better than he understands himself!” -leslie jones

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@CZsWorld

8 months ago

Pinkerton has been my favorite album of all time since probably 2008 but I think I've come to like it even more lately. Maybe becoming big on YouTube over the last 6 years has made me finally able to relate to some of what Rivers was going through after Blue. (Thankfully I can't relate to "Pink Triangle"). Pinkerton is my #1 go to if I'm in a dark place. It never fails to make me feel something.

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@backpack_buddies93

8 months ago

"The Good Life " I love this song from the album. Sometimes I feel like the protagonist, who looks the mirror and no longer recognizes himself. He feels old, with no one else to blame but himself and wants to go back to his younger days, carefree and dancing. He recognizes that he needs to make a change and get back on the path of living a good life. Great video 👍

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@spaceghost71x

6 months ago

What I love most about Pinkerton is the raw honesty. It's like a musical diary with a clear story throughout all the songs. It's very artsy and gutsy.

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@GregBonks

8 months ago

Pinkerton was the first Weezer album I heard. It's always been my mom's favorite Weezer album and she's played it ever since I was a toddler. One of the few memories I have from when I was about 4 was hearing Why Bother, it getting stuck in my head, and humming it in preschool. Now that I'm not a tiny kid anymore Pinkerton is one of my favorite records of all time, it's always meant a lot to me.

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@maplekaaa

8 months ago

Love the video! But... I'm not sure I quite agree with your conclusion that Butterfly is "utterly hopeless". While it is a very difficult song to stomache, and perhaps does showcase Rivers at his lowest. I think that him finally accepting that he is the problem, and has been this whole time, is a hopeful message. At least to me, Butterfly has always felt like him stopping his descent into someone truly terrible, and beginning an ascent into a much more mentally stable person.

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@control_issues

8 months ago

I remember when I discovered Pinkerton existed. I had the Blue Album and loved it. But hadn't really kept up with new stuff coming and didn't know Weezer had released a second album. One day, a couple friends and I were in a pool hall playing pool and I heard a song come on... thought to myself, "This sounds like Weezer." The pool hall had one of those CD Juke boxes that was playing the music, so I went over to see who it was. Found the song and saw Pinkerton for the first time. The song was Tired of Sex. I didn't know it existed, but I recognized the sound. I've never thought Pinkerton was weird or different... I just thought it was Weezer. And I've always liked it.

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@brayden.the.canadian6253

8 months ago

I fucking love Pinkerton

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@MarcButEvil

8 months ago

My favorite comment gets pinned in one week!

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@zeepsterd

8 months ago

Your storytelling is so good man.

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