![]() (I liked “The Green Album.” I also liked Pinkerton. I have a vivid memory of buying the album the week it dropped - 20 years ago this Saturday - racing home, closing the door, hitting “play” on my CD player, and waiting to have my hair blown back. I will admit to not knowing what to make of Maladroit in 2002. Nor would I blame anyone for letting it Homer Simpson Into The Bush years later. ![]() After a whiplash like that, I wouldn’t blame anyone for not quite knowing how to absorb Maladroit when it came out. In 2002, it followed Weezer’s blatantly polarizing self-titled, aka “ The Green Album,” which I don’t need to remind you was a deeply intentional pivot away from the heart-in-a-blender Pinkerton. Let me backtrack by saying that Maladroit, Weezer’s riff-packed fourth album, has been rightly embraced by history as the band’s most heavily underrated project, and possibly its most divisive. In Weezer’s Maladroit era, Rivers Cuomo reminds me a lot of that guy. In conversation with him, It didn’t matter how sure you were of your feelings on any subject - he could verbally twist any cogent line of thinking (and look totally harmless while doing so in a mussed-up hoodie and five o’clock shadow) until you started questioning the nature of your own reality like a Westworld robot. Reading this 2002 SPIN cover story, I’m suddenly reminded of a boss I once had who was one of the smartest people in the room, and he knew it. The more insight you try to gain by reading old album reviews and interviews with Rivers Cuomo (or even newer ones, for that matter), the more your brain starts to feel like a martini shaker. ![]() Regardless of era - and there are many at this point - Weezer might be the most confounding rock act of the 21st century. ![]()
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