Weezer - Blast Off!

Blast Off! played for the first time live in Seattle, WA on 8/19/11

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Weezer
• Blast
• off
• rock
• amazing

[MistaRowland]

@TheGreatGatsby1991 Holy shit no.

[MrFrapucinno]

I love Brian Bell.

[captianlinger1]

I've been to the bottom of the world

What I'm doing is I'm looking for a better tune

[added23]

@johnmorisi8 i think your judging his singing too much. the line "its gonna be a long course ship if you act like that" does sound over dramatized but i think he does fine in the other lines. plus, youre comparing backing vocals to lead vocals. hes obviously going to have a different singing style. i see what your saying, his voice doesnt sound cohesive with weezer vocals but his backing vocals fit perfectly

[added23]

"sit back and light up a fat one MAN!" rivers writes the coolest lines

[riversjackson1]

@mbran111 Well it's a line from "Negativland" which was the early version of Blast Off. It goes "been to the bottom of the well now i'm looking for a better tune, so why am i still feeling blue?" Brians "sit back and light up a fat one..." line is from the early drafts of the song too.

[runnersdialzero333]

@johnmorisi8 What the fuck? I was having a conversation, I wasn't trying to argue. I like Brian's voice. I don't think it clashes. I hate Matt's current voice. I think his whispery Dylan impression bullshit would clash with this. Mere disagreement - I'm not trying to troll anyone. Being immature about an opinion that differs from yours strikes me as more troll-like than anything.

Brian didn't even want Weezer's take of "Thought I Knew" released, for what it's worth. Rivers insisted

[johnmorisi8]

@runnersdialzero333

You're great at debating, just revert back to previous arguments that already have been disputed and resolved. I guess you couldn't find any better arguments to prove your point. I'm done arguing with you, you just proved that you're nothing but another worthless YouTube troll.

[runnersdialzero333]

@johnmorisi8 funny. all's i was sayin' was i don't agree with what you're saying.

also, i don't see how you can find matt's modern day dylan knockoff voice any more appropriate for weezer than brian's.

[johnmorisi8]

@runnersdialzero333

As for the word "role", find a dictionary, open it, then find it... FYI, dictionaries go in alphabetical order.

Here is an example: In a movie like The Truman Show, Jim Carrey could have played the role of Truman like how he did (which was appropriate for the movie), or he could've played the role like how he played Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber, which would've have made the movie have an awkward feel. My point is, Brian's overdramatic voice clashes with the Weezer sound.

[johnmorisi8]

@runnersdialzero333

If you are talking about songwriting (which we weren't), go listen to The Rentals' latest instrumental album Resilience, that album is great. Either way, Songs About Time is better than anything Weezer's put out since Maladroit (besides Red maybe).

First listen to No One Else acoustic, then El Scorcho, and hear how good Brian's voice was. Then listen to Thought I Knew, not bad, but not as good. Then here, he is so overdramatic.

[runnersdialzero333]

@johnmorisi8 don't agree. the relationship record is great, the space twins were really good. the rentals were good, but songs about time is just go-nowhere songwriting throughout, to me.

what's this about "knowing their role"? what does THAT mean? brian is given a lead vocal part here and brian bell sings it the way brian bell would sing it. where's the problem?