Reviews inc. They get progressively lazier.
>Weezer - The Other Side of the Good Ol' Fence
Excellent pre-Blue Album demo from Weezer, ripped and uploaded for the first time ever, and posted on Sup Forums yesterday. I'm glad I caught the thread, but I've heard six of these eight tracks before on the more infamous Kitchen Tapes demo.
"Say It Ain't So" doesn't have quite as much punch as on the Blue Album, but is a lot twangier, and the lo-fi edge is nice. The bridge ("LIKE FATHER, STEPFATHER") is almost just as hair-raising as on the album.
"Paperface", woefully absent from the Blue Album and only available in its deluxe editon years later, is my high point of the tape. Rip-roaring, more punk than power pop, but catchy all the same. Cuomo straining his voice, even when whispering one verse (before building to a primal yelp for the chorus), is so freakin' sweet. This sounds like a fully fleshed out track that just got cut from the final album for being too punk or something.
"Undone (Sweater Song)" is infinitely better than its studio counterpart, featuring floating disassociated voices singing the verses, slower tempo, and a much rawer, grittier sound. It's probably the most obviously demo-ish track here though. I love how a freewheeling guitar joins in on some deeply-mixed channel midway through the song.
"Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me" and "My Name is Jonas" build gloriously to noisy finishes and "Thief" very abrutply cuts off, which I kind of like actually.
The more ballad-like songs on here are also great, if comparatively more similar to their studio counterparts. Mostly every song is a highlight, and I may actually enjoy the whole thing more than the Blue Album, believe it or not. I'm really not a fan of "Buddy Holly" so that certainly helps keep things competitive.
>7/10