Matt Sharp and Rivers Cuomo - Mrs Young (Live)

Matt Sharp and Rivers Cuomo playing together at California State University, Fullerton on Feb 12 2004

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[arexisacubscout]

"matt and rivers the way it should be" spoken from a true fan. Matt is what gave weezer their fuzzy heavy sound they had on Blue and Pinkerton, after those albums that sound slowly faded away. Mikey and scott are both good, but Matt is one of the foundations of weezer, since he's been gone weezer hasn't been the same, and probably never will be. Thank god for Matt Sharp.

[Danisegura]

Matt and Rivers, the way it should be.

[joeytags]

One day...

[Runepriest442]

thesoftsquid... its obvious that you have never played in a band. It would be my dream come true to see Matt and Rivers and Pat and Brian play together again. The music those four made together was the better than either incarnations have made separately since then. Even if they played in a room to no one but themselves. They have a connection a chemistry that is undeniable... Its NOT the same without them TOGETHER... Whether its the Rentals or Weezer. I miss them playing together.

[thesoftsquid]

Look, even if Matt rejoined the band they'll still sound the exact same. Rivers writes all the songs and gives minor input to the rest of the band. They'll still be playing pop songs without any feel even if Matt were to come back. I'm actually glad he left to play with the Rentals for the fact that he now plays what he likes to hear (essentially that old pinkerton sound).

[psychoboo13]

It's funny how Matt and Rivers have such a similar relationship as David Gilmour and Roger Waters.

[Holysweetgoddamn92]

@greenplastikme That is just a ridiculous thing to say. Listen to Rivers home recordings which are completely him. Rivers was always the lead songwriter and after Pinkerton failed, he tried different songwriting experiments. He used formulas from Oasis, Green day, and Nirvana to try and make a hit song. Matt sharp did not write songs for Weezer. Post-pinkerton Weezer just picks bad songs for the albums...they have released good songs that were demoted to bonus tracks, or never released.

[greenplastikme]

@pollywolly67 I always thought Matt was the creative talent behind the band in the Blue album and Pinkerton, I really hope he gets some satisfaction from people starting to notice that the band hasn't been the same since he left.

[greenplastikme]

That sucks -- it's like two halves of one talented person. Matt has all the writing talent and Rivers has all the singing talent, separate they just don't sound right ...

[VxGRooGsxV]

i didn't cry because of the song, i cried because of seeing

Rivers and Matt together again, playing a song.

[louphebe]

beautiful!!! T_T

[KLove3232]

Matt just seems like a huge drama queen..