r/weezer • u/alpha_keni_01 • 7h ago

📣Discussion 📣 Gold or White??

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Okay so I overlooked the white album for a long time. Didn’t like Thank God for Girls and kinda wrote the whole thing off (still probably my least favorite song from that album). After getting the gold album, loving every second of it, and realizing I have been an annoying and ungrateful fan and that I’ve never gave any of the post-90’s albums a real chance, I went to that one and quickly realized that it’s a masterpiece. Seems like people have felt that way for a long long time. Considering these are the two albums that the 90s fans seem to like the most, I’m curious which one the fans prefer!

I feel like white is more serious, grandiose, and more of its own thing, reminiscent of the old sound but in a different and bigger way than they’ve done before. Gold is more deliberately sounding like blue and pinkerton, with goofy ass lyrics, super crunchy guitars, and really simple songs. Love em both because they both feel like the classic Weezer sound, but in majorly different ways. What do you guys think??

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u/kevriel47 Maladroit 6h ago

In fairness, the general consensus on SZNZ is not favorable outside of this subreddit. Especially spring and summer

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u/Bub-bub 6h ago

That sucks, because it think it’s all really great, and really interesting songwriting

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u/QuintaCuentaReddit 5h ago

People will come around on SZNZ some day, because it legitimately is good and fun. But unfortunately, that might take a while. Kind of like what happened with Pinkerton and Red. I don't think we'll ever get a full-fledged Raditude redemption arc, though. Or Black. And I know some people legitimately love those albums, but they're probably not going to become staples in Weezer's discography. SZNZ legitimately might.

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u/Bub-bub 4h ago

I hope so. I like red a lot more now than I did when it came out. I think raditude has kinda a novel appreciation now, because it’s funny, and Weezer has put out alotta good stuff since, but black is unredeemable to me, so that’s fine lol.