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CD Review: Raditude [Deluxe Edition]

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Band: Weezer
Label: Geffen Records
Release: November 3, 2009

1. “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” – 8.9
2. “I’m Your Daddy” – 8.0
3. “Run Over By A Truck” – 7.8
4. “The Girl Got Hot” – 7.5
5. “The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World” – 7.9
6. “Can’t Stop Partying” – 4.4
7. “The Underdogs” – 5.5
8. “Put Me Back Together” – 6.4
9. “Tripping Down The Freeway” – 7.3
10. “Love Is The Answer” – 7.7
11. “Let It All Hang Out” – 6.5
12. “In The Mall” – 6.1
13. “I Don’t Want To Let You Go” – 5.8
14. “Turn Me Around” – 6.2

Background: Weezah! Okay I’ve spent maybe 30 minutes total in my lifetime listening to these guys. I think”Undone” is pretty sweet as well as “Say It Ain’t So” and maybe their cover of “Velouria” too. I do remember listening to their 2008 release a little bit. Pretty average from what I remember.

The Real Deal: Not going to joke around here, I was hoping this album would be worse than Bonnie “Prince Billy’s Beware. That was effectively the worst album I’ve heard all year.  This album starts off pretty great, I’m not going to lie. “I Want You To” is a nice upbeat pop number. But then… “I Can’t Stop Partying” is just dumb. It’s like “I Gotta Feeling” except even more pathetic. Besides maybe three songs maximum (that sound similar to something out of the Louis XIV catalog), I get a sense that Weezer is just dabbling in a plethora of rock genres. It seems like they recorded a bunch of intrinsically different songs and simply slapped them on here. So yeah, this is the worst album that I’ve reviewed all year. Got anything worse?

Final Grade: 6.9

2 thoughts on “CD Review: Raditude [Deluxe Edition]”

  1. Blue Album (both songs you liked are on this) is one of the best albums ever…. They have never even come close to that since. I don’t even pay attention to their releases.

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  2. How would you know they haven’t come close if you haven’t payed attention to any of their other releases? That’s like saying I think Black Lips! is BL’s best album, but I haven’t really payed to attention to the other four.

    I’m sure their other releases haven’t been as good as Blue Album (this one at the very least), but I haven’t listened to all their other albums in order to make that judgment.

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