Weezer – Weezer (Blue Album) (Numbered Blue 180g Vinyl LP)

Weezer (The Blue Album) Aptly Available on Blue-Colored Vinyl: Mobile Fidelity Numbered 180g LP Mastered from the Original Master Tapes, Features Superb Room-Filling Sonics

1990s’ Ultimate Geek-Rock Record: Ranked #297 on Rolling Stone‘s List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Includes “Buddy Holly,” “Undone (The Sweater Song),” and “Say It Ain’t So”

Weezer doesn’t look like rock stars, its amusing name doesn’t evoke stadium-heights glories, and the group’s lyrics don’t exude confidence or flash. For precisely these reasons, and the fact that the band’s songs on its self-titled debut are the stuff of air-guitar dreams and shout-it-out choruses, the quartet became ironic arena-rock stars equally celebrated by in-the-know hipsters and mainstream radio listeners. Replete with urgent melodies, quirky confessional narratives, wry humor, and gargantuan hooks, Weezer (Blue Album) remains the best geek-rock record ever made.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g blue-colored vinyl at RTI, Mobile Fidelity’s analog version of the 1994 release Rolling Stone named the 297th greatest album ever recorded finally possesses the grand-scale sonics that the music’s bunker-busting hooks deserve. Cars frontman Ric Ocasek‘s polished production is now both free of artificial ceilings that squashed the explosive dynamics and rid of the compression that saddled the frequency range. Instrumental separation is vastly improved, and the amount of midrange energy seemingly doubled. This reissue is guaranteed to help you rock out.

1. My Name Is Jonas
2. No One Else
3. The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
4. Buddy Holly
5. Undone (The Sweater Song)
6. Surf Wax America
7. Say It Ain’t So
8. In the Garage
9. Holiday
10. Only in Dreams