What Do You Think About Raditude?

Weezer released its new album a couple of weeks ago. It is called Raditude. It has a really stupid cover and it is their seventh album. At the moment I kinda have mixed feelings about the album. I am not sure if it is totally awesome or the most mediocre album in the world.

The album statrs with one of the most catchy tunes I have heard lately. Somehow "(If you're wondering) I want you to" sounded like the best song ever when I first heard it. The next two songs do not have anything that important to say. The mood in them is quite alright and when you are listening the album they do not catch your attention in any particular way. They are fillers.

The fourth song is "Can't Stop Partying" featuring Little Wayne and it is something we have not heard from Weezer. The song is very trippy, but somehow very cool. The next song is a bit traditional Weezer song with really emo lyrics. The song flows nicely and has nice rising intensity. There just is no reason to start inventing the wheel once again.

Songs from six to ten are not as good as songs from one to five, but they are still quite ok and that is probably the problem since there are four truly brilliant songs in the album. Out of the last five songs I'd like rise up "Let It All Hang Out", it has a killer guitar intro. The album ends with slower song "I Don't Want To Let You Go".

As fan of Weezer I liked "Raditude" quite a bit, but I do not think the album is such an great listening experience to those who have never listened to Weezer. When you listen to the objectively it lacks some coherence. The flow from song to song good be better. Clearly the quality of the material is not that even, but at least the mood in the songs is similar or what I mean they form a unified album.

If you are not a Weezer fan "Raditude" probably does not offer you anything special, but as a fan I would go even as far as saying that this album is way better than their previous album or "Make Believe" ('05).

Songs you should check out:

"(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"
"Can't Stop Partying" (featuring Lil Wayne)
"Put Me Back Together"
"Let It All Hang Out"

New Raditude!

They called me from the record shop. Raditude is here. Will post my opinion after I have listened it for couple of days.

We are living exciting times!

Muse

I bought the new album by Muse the other day and I like it. I've never cared for progressive music are complicated moledies. So as the songs on the new album are much poppier and straight forward than on the previous albums it makes it much more easy to approach the Muse's new album. Some songs even sound like Queen (U.S.E.A.) which is not a bad thing. The album is a very tight package and songs flow quite nicely.

Me like Muse.

Name Your Poison

Because it is Friday I'd like to give a tip on what to drink. Couple of weeks ago I felt like I was about to get ill, my throat was sore and I had no energy. Everyone knows that you can try and stop the early signs of flu by drinking some hot drink with alcohol (rum), so I went and bought a bottle of Rhum Pecoul. After two cups tea with healthy pours of Rhum Pecoul and good night sleep I felt a lot better. So I highly recommend this for anyone who feels that they might have caught a cold.

My recipe for mixing Rhum Pecoul was the following:

- hot water
- tea bag
- sugar
- 5 - 10 cl Rhum Pecoul (according to taste)(don't go over 1 dl, this stuff is really potent stuff, 54%)

Mix this all together and enjoy!

One more chance for Bloc Party?

I have been quite a big fan of Bloc Party for the past few years. Their album "Weekend in the City" was my sound track for 2007 and I still listen some songs from the album quite frequently.

I noticed the new single "One More Chance" in the beginning of September on YouTube went to iTunes and downloaded it straight away.

The song starts with keyboard riff that could (maybe it is) be from any 90s pop song. Somehow it brings to mind Rick Astley. The rest of the song is pretty much the basic Bloc Party quality. Song is quite catchy and you can hear that it is not made by with no musical talent but still it does not make you listen to it again and again like Flux when it first came out.

Even though I am a big fan of Bloc Party, I must say that I am afraid they might have showed us everything they've got give. The fourth album must be something completely different and awesome for me to give one more chance to Bloc Party.

Bastards

So on Saturday I went to see "Inglorious Bastards". I really liked the movie and do not understand why some people are whining that it is not as brilliant as some other movies by Mr. T. Of course it is not as good as his best work. This movie does not try to be a very meaningful or revolutionary movie. It is just simply a very entertaining adventure movie with really good characters.

My favorite was Colonel Hans Landa, he was the true bastard in this movie. Also I must mention Diane Krüger as Bridget von Hammersmark. She was like reincarnation of movie star from the 1940's and extremely attractive. However I do not think Brad Pitt's performance was all that great or worth mentioning. He did a solid role but there is no reason to call it especially good.

The movie also flipped the role of Jews to the role of the mass murderer. Just proves that mass murder is mass murder irregardless of the party that actually does it. Actually all of the characters were not particularly likeable. Everyone seemed to be bastard of some sort and definitely everyone was killer.

But in some situations turning the other cheek just is not enough.

PS.

Crap. Now I started to search for meaning in this film, which it really does not have. If you really like a good adventure film with ambiance from the 1940's, go see this film.

New Weezer rocks!

Have you heard the new single by Weezer? It's freaking awesome. Go and listen it here.

This song just makes me feel that it is 2001 again when first heard Hash Pipe. Of course Weezer was not to me in 2001, but somehow I they just went vanished after 1994. I guess for a nine year old anything that does not play on MTV does not exist. Maybe the situation is still the same.

Listening to Weezer (and Clash, and many others) was my coping strategy through High School. Weezers melancholic songs about people that were not on the main stream seamed to comfort me and kept me going.

I really hope the new album is as good as the new single. If I remember correctly the album is out October 27th. What I know for sure that it is called Raditude.