After my luke warm reaction to “Evil Urges” I was wary to listen to the new Weezer album (the Red one). My good buddy, band mate and brother-from-another-mother had raved to me about it on Monday and today I got my hands on a copy.

Let’s cut the crap and say: It’s Fucking Awesome. There’s so much life in the album it’s staggering, spontaneous musical decisions throughout and Pork and Beans happens to be the best Weezer single since Hash Pipe. Strange to think that it was written after the boys and girls at Geffen told him they band needed something more commercial. Though isn’t that how Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark came about? Some record label dude saying a single was required? Regardless, Rivers and the boys (for it is clearly a group effort) have done themselves proud with this beauty.