Was Weezer’s Green Album Really Green?

So, I’m a huge fan of Weezer. I was first introduced to this great band by an ex of mine. He gave me the Pinkerton album because for some reason the song “El Scorcho” reminded him of me.

Maybe it was the famous “god damn you half Japanese girls.” I’m half Korean, but we pretty much “all look same.”

Anyways, I’ve grown to like a majority of the albums the band has put out. I’m at a crossroads with the Blue Album and Pinkerton as my favorite.

The Blue album has the beautiful and serene “Only in Dreams, ” but Pinkerton has “The Good Life,” an athem for all people who finally wake up and say, “I don’t want to be an old man anymore it’s been a year or two since I’ve been down on the floor. Shaking booty making sweet love all the night, It’s time I got back to the good life.”

Gosh that’s a great line.

Maladroit was kind of a disappointment, as so was Make Believe. And I’ve only listened to the Red Album once. It was just…okay.

To hide my disappointment of the band’s musical downfall, I tried to find something else that was bad about them to cover up the truth.

So I decided to pick on their Green Album. Besides having a cover that was green, there was nothing else really green about it.

• The CD cover wasn’t made out of recycled paper
• It came in a plastic CD case, which wasn’t really necessary
• The band members weren’t wearing recycled shoes
• No proceeds of the sales were going towards preserving the rainforest

Worst of all, none of the songs were really green.

So what I decided to do was to write down my green interpretations of what I thought the songs were about:

1. Don’t Let Go – A young woman is driving on a lonely interstate in the middle of the night, and she has just finished drinking her Coke, a much needed source of caffeine. No one is around, and she is about to throw the aluminum can out of the window, but Weezer says “Don’t Let Go”
2. Photograph – Take a photograph of all the trees now….they’ll soon be gone
3. Hash Pipe -If you’re a hippie, you know this
4. Island in the Sun – What’s left of Antarctica in 50 years
5. Crab – Ironically, will be Maryland’s next endangered species
6. Knockdown Dragout – What happens when two old women vie for the last remaining watermelon at an organic market
7. Smile – The oil prices have just dropped below $4!
8. Simple Pages - What Bush reads when he’s memorizing his next speech
9. Glorious Day – All vehicles are zero emission
10. O Girlfriend – Thanks for showing me that organic food is better than processed food

So that’s my whole green interpretation. I think that if these songs would have been about these green topics, the album might have been half as good as the Blue Album or Pinkerton.

An eco-obsessed music lover can still dream.