Weezer - Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition)
Pinkerton has to go down as one of my favourite albums. Ever. It’s the perfect combination of teenage catharsis and angst with simple, massively hook-laden power pop rock. Sadly at the time it got quite the critical pasting and so it was hastily shoved under the carpet as Rivers Cuomo proclaimed it a “hideous” album and went into recluse-mode. So needless to say a deluxe 2-disc edition featuring outtakes, live versions, discarded songs, B-sides and a very, very strange interview always seemed very unlikely and it’s appearance is almost as exciting as the stereo version of Pet Sounds. Almost. It’s clearly in the collectors item category (since the songs that didn’t make the original cut are really only here in demo version although the live versions striking) but it’s also a timely reminder of an album that simultaneously killed and saved Weezer’s career.
