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“Pork and Beans” was released as a 30 second sample last week and will be released as a single this Thursday, April 24.

The band has also released the tracklisting for their new album, which is supposed to come out in June.

It should go something like this:

1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
3. Pork and Beans
4. Heart Songs
5. Everybody Get Dangerous
6. Dreamin’
7. Thought I Knew
8. Cold Dark World
9. Automatic
10. The Angel and the One

The deluxe version, which will be through iTunes, will feature the additional tracks: “Miss Sweeney”, “Pig”, “The Spider” and “King”.

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The single will be released in it’s entirety on April 22.

For now you can sample the track right here.

It doesn’t sound that bad, but it’s only 30 seconds long, so it’s kinda hard to judge the track. It sounds like old school Weezer to me. The music is reminiscent of their debut self-titled album, while the lyrics remind me a little bit of Pinkerton.

We’ll just have to wait and hear what the rest of the song is like…

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Get ready, drum rolls please…

It’s self-titled!

The band’s third self-titled album will hit shelves on June 17 and was co-produced by a guy named Rick Rubin.

Hopefully, this will be better than Weezer’s last couple of albums.

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“Hey Weezer punks,

We have one song left to mix and then it’s on to mastering. We should be all done very soon. Then we chill for a minute.

The album will be out in June so with any luck you will hear a new Weezer song on the radio soon. I think I know which song is the first single but I’m not sure so I can’t tell you. I’ll give you some hints, though. It’s one word, starts with a T, ends with an R and contains twelve letters. You should be able to figure it out because you’re smart li’l Weezer fans.

The album is meaty, crunchy and melodic like a good Weezer album should be.

Peace out,

Rivera”

Let’s hope that he’s telling the truth about the new album being “meaty, crunchy and melodic”, because I don’t think that the band has made a solid album since Pinkerton. But hey, June is right around the corner, so we don’t have that long of a wait.

For now enjoy “Perfect Situation”, because both the song  and video are awesome.

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It originally appeared on L.A. radio station KROQ’s 1999 Christmas compilation; but it also appeared on imports of the band’s 2001 self titled album, aka The Green Album and I think it was also a single.

Basically, it’s what we’ve come to expect from Rivers Cuomo; him being alone. However, this time poor Rivers is left beside the Christmas tree all by himself.

I know what Rivers needs for Christmas…a hug.

It’s still a cool song.

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Basically, this is 18 track compilation of demos by Cuomo from 1992 to like 2005. Most of the material is taken from Weezer’s early days, outtakes/demos from The Blue Album and Pinkerton; which is very good, because Pinkerton is hand’s down Weezer’s best album. Also from around this time are tracks taken from the space-themed concept album, Songs from the Black Hole, which was supposed to follow Weezer’s debut album.

Other tracks worth mentioning are a demo of “Buddy Holly” and a cover of Ice Cube’s “The Bomb”.

The compilation gets stale towards the end with newer demos; which makes sense since the last few Weezer albums aren’t really worth mentioning.

The booklet is also pretty cool, since it features various pics, lyrics and histories on the songs featured on the album.

I guess if you have the extra cash you should pick this up; but I’d probably wait until after the holidays when I hopefully get some cash coming my way.

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