Pacific Daydream

Although this album came out last autumn, 2017. I did not stumble upon it until February 2018. I admittedly, have not bought anything by Weezer in a number of years. But after previewing this album, I decided to give it a shot. To my surprise, the album is really very good. It has a smooth, pop groove to it and the melodies are extremely catchy. For me, it was really the 1980s pop flavor that bled through the songs that really made it exciting for me; think A-Ha ( of the infamous, Take on Me, fame) or perhaps Real Life. There are admittedly, a couple of tracks here, that are straight up modern big radio pop songs that would cater to a younger audience. But besides that, the album has a very mature and melodic sound. Personally, I think this album got a bad rap with some of the younger fans. Like many music fans, they cry, whimper and criticize if every single album is not a carbon copy of the last. It would seem that most Weezer fans want nothing but reproductions of the blue album over and over again ad nauseam. It's always been a tender point for me to see fans want to pigeonhole an artist into a certain sound and bash the hell out of them when they try to experiment or flex their creative muscles. But do yourself a favor, and ignore all of the talking heads who try to cast a shadow over other peoples art. This is one of the best albums I've heard in a while, and I think it is exceptional among Weezer's many recordings. Pick up a copy, play it and let the hypnotic melodies carry you away into a Pacific daydream.

Weezer has had an incredible run over their past handful of albums. The one with the dog on the cover, well I never got that one, but I actually liked Hurley, and loved Everything... and The White Album. Each album was better than the last. You expect a group to have a lull after a while, especially considering the unusually short gaps between these albums' release dates. But the Weez is on a roll, and keeps it rocking. Er, popping? So yeah, with so much great Weez recently, I waited for summer to come around to listen to this SUMMER ALBUM. Well here we are, and I can't believe it might be even better than White! The Beach Boys tribute continues and intensifies on this one, but nothing is derivative. If anything there's a lot of the 1994 Blue feeling here, but lighter and dreamier. Really though, it's a new kind of Weezer album. Nothing I would consider a novelty here. Even White had Thank God for Girls, but this one you'll want to just listen from start to finish, with no need for the forward button. If you're not sure about the single, do yourself a favor and find the acoustic version of Feels Like Summer, which I think is available on Amazon. And if you do like the single, well, yeah, you need the acoustic version for sure. This album is both timeless and fresh, not something most bands 24 years in can manage, but these guys are seriously climbing the ranks of the greatest bands of all time.

When I first heard" feels like summer"...I was worried. It did not sound like weezer. But, I thought.."this is the one oddball track, maybe the rest are good". "Mexican fender" was released, and that was more like it! I felt better. Then "beach boys" was released and at the time I thought" this is almost the worst track weezer has ever done", ( can't stop partying is the worst) dread set in. " weekend woman" was released, and it was ok, but also not really weezer. I believe "happy hour" next, and I was starting to notice a pattern... I had preordered the mp3 album, and was starting to regret it. 5 songs out of 10....1 great, 3 meh, 1 bad. Then the rest of the album dropped.....I quickly skipped to the last five songs.... and they thankfully were really good. None of them are rock songs. They are pop, but good pop. They are mostly acoustic, and would not be out of place on one of Weezer's classic albums. This is a strange release because it was meant to be a cohesive summery pop record, but it feels like two different records. The first five sound like Weezer making attempts at different genres, with mixed results. The second 5 seem cohesive and modern sounding, while still sounding like Weezer. It turns out" feels like summer" wasn't the oddball single.." Mexican fender" was. It is the only rock song here. Probably put here to hook old Weezer fans into buying this. I hope there is a deluxe version with two or three more songs that are good, because if you take out tracks 2-4 this is a much better album. They have grown on me, and I can see what they were going for, but these three are weak compared to the rest. The last 5 songs saved this album in my opinion, and would have liked a whole album in this style, or mixed with a few more rocking songs. Hoping for an all out rock record next time, something in the style of maladroit, or pinkerton. This album may not "sound like weezer", but these guys are artists, they should make what they want. I'll check it out either way. They make music for themselves not me.... that's how it should be.

Very rápido. El disco está guais, los weeser se lo meresen todo. Son unos chavale que le pegan bien al ruock

I bought this album because they did a tribute to the Beach Boys which came up on my Facebook news feed. So I investigated and loved the tribute and I was more than pleasantly surprised with their other songs which are all catchy. Blasting this cd on my car cd system. Better than most of the rubbish you hear in the charts.

Le CD est parfait musicalement et techniquement. Weezer est un groupe de College Rock qui a su conserver dans le son et l'inspiration la fraîcheur et le punch de la jeunesse, et du coup fait passer un excellent moment à l'écouter - tout en boostant le moral. Merci également à Amazon Unlimited pour m'avoir permis de l'écouter en intégralité avant l'achat du CD.

Es gibt online Bewertungen dieses Albums von Menschen in Green Day T-Shirts. Das ist natürlich schlimm aber es offenbart doch eine gewisse, ja abstruse Sicht der Dinge. An der Musik von WEEZER scheiden die Geister sich ja seit jeher. Nach einem soliden Debut Album lieferte die Band 1996 ihr frühes Meisterwerk PINKERTON ab. Das ist bis heute einzigartig. Und so soll es sein. Es folgten MAKE BELIEVE mit dem unglaublichen Beverly Hills, HURLEY mit Memories und natürlich California Kids vom genialen WEEZER. Und nun: eine Ode an die Beach Boys, schöner geht’s nimmer. Natürlich ist das Surf Pop, aber WEEZER waren niemals etwas anderes. Freunde der Nacht, it FEELS LIKE SUMMER! Es gibt nicht einen einzigen schwachen Song auf dem Album. Wer hier allerdings stumpfen Greendayrock oder langweiliges Totenhosengejohle erwartet der liegt hier falsch. Das stimmt. Allen anderen sei diese Scheibe wärmstens empfohlen. Wie immer: THIS IS POP!

E' un buon Album ma l'anima rock è molto sfumata, diciamo che anni fa erano sicuramente più punk, credo sia una delle band più sottovalutate della storia in Europa.