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Numbered, Limited Edition! Superb, Room-Filling Sonics: LP Mastered from the Original Master Tapes for the First Time! Pressed at RTI!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 299/500!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Buddy Holly" - Rated 499/500! 

1990s’ Ultimate Geek-Rock Album Made By and for the Everyman

Includes “Buddy Holly,” “Undone (The Sweater Song),” “Say It Ain’t So”

Weezer doesn’t look like rock stars, its amusing name doesn’t evoke  stadium-heights glories, and the group’s lyrics don’t exude confidence or flash.  For precisely these reasons, and the fact that the band’s songs on its  self-titled debut are the stuff of air-guitar dreams and shout-it-out choruses,  the quartet became ironic arena-rock stars equally celebrated by in-the-know  hipsters and mainstream radio listeners. Replete with urgent melodies, quirky  confessional narratives, wry humor, and gargantuan hooks, Weezer (Blue Album)  remains the best geek-rock record ever made.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI, Mobile  Fidelity’s analog version of the 1994 release Rolling Stone named the 297th  greatest album ever recorded finally possesses the grand-scale sonics that the  music’s bunker-busting hooks deserve. Cars frontman Ric Ocasek’s polished  production is now both free of artificial ceilings that squashed the explosive  dynamics and rid of the compression that saddled the frequency range.  Instrumental separation is vastly improved, and the amount of midrange energy  seemingly doubled. This reissue is guaranteed to help you rock out.

Underdogs and misfits, Weezer emerged from Los Angeles as nerdy kids that  eschewed traditional party-hard ways in favor of studying Kiss records, engaging  in conversations about old LPs, and playing Dungeons and Dragons. The band’s  awkwardness joyfully translates in its songs on its 1994 debut, largely  concerned with jealous insecurities, pop culture, true-to-life heartbreak,  common accidents, youthful misconceptions, and daydreaming. Unlike many of their  indie-rock peers, Weezer finds no need to conceal feelings in obscurities, snark,  or impossibly impenetrable quirkiness.

While every song on Weezer is a delight, “In the Garage,” the ultimate ode to a  heavy-metal practice space and private musical retreat, best spells out the  album’s appeal and the band’s intent. “I’ve got an electric guitar/I play my  stupid songs/I write these stupid words/And I love every one/Waiting there for  me/Yes I do, I do/In the garage/No one cares about my ways/In the garage where I  belong” sings leader Rivers Cuomo, his voice often meshing with that of Matt  Sharp, and giving the material a barbershop-quartet harmonic boost in line with  the catchiness of the guitar-driven bridges and rhythmic foundations.

More than three-times platinum, the Blue Album, as it’s often called, also  claims an iconic cover that pays tribute to that of the Feelies’ Crazy Rhythms.  The picture—as well as the bubblegum-inspired content within—has become an  indelible part of modern culture. Weezer graces must-have lists from Rolling  Stone, Pitchfork, Guitar World, and more. And needless to say, “My Name Is  Jonas,” “Say It Ain’t So,” “Buddy Holly,” and “Undone (The Sweater Song)” are  all modern classics.

"In the early 1990s, Cuomo had an awkward girlfriend who was routinely picked on. His efforts to stick up for her inspired Weezer's breakthrough, a track whose bubble-grunge hooks and lines such as "I look just like Buddy Holly/And you're Mary Tyler Moore" helped the band reach a nation of pop-minded suburban punks. It also earned Weezer autographed photos from the real Mary Tyler Moore." - Rolling Stone

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Musicians:
Brian Bell, guitar, vocals
Rivers Cuomo, vocals, guitar
Matt Sharp, bass, vocals
Patrick Wilson, drums

Selections:
Side A:
1. My Name Is Jonas
2. No One Else
3. The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
4. Buddy Holly
5. Undone (The Sweater Song)
Side B:
1. Surf Wax America
2. Say It Ain’t So
3. In the Garage
4. Holiday
5. Only in Dreams