{"id":18,"date":"2005-07-05T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-09-11T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T04:00:08","slug":"music-of-the-week-weezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"music of the week &#8211; weezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>these songs are by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weezer.com\/\">weezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/images\/articles\/20050705124742427_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nokay, so i don&#8217;t think i was the only one worried that the new weezer album &#8220;make believe&#8221; was going to be a total stink fest. after the last two fiascos that were the green album and maladroit, i think there was good cause for concern. well, i bought &#8220;make believe&#8221; and was, at first, mildly happy with the results. but only mildly. then, after repeated listens, i became very pleased with pretty much all of the songs on the album. one exception being the &#8220;hit single&#8221; beverly hills. it&#8217;s an <em>okay<\/em> song but nothing special in my opinion. the rest of the songs on the disc are prime weezer. my one complaint would be that the witty lyrics that i&#8217;ve come to enjoy seem to be dumbed down a bit. but, the hooks are there and that&#8217;s really what weezer is all about.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong> this is such a pity<\/strong><br \/>\nthis first song, &#8220;this is such a pity&#8221; is in the tradition of old 80&#8217;s bands like the cars. i guess ric ocasek really made an impression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>hold me<\/strong><br \/>\nhere we have classis quiet to loud, huge-hooked chorus weezer. it&#8217;s perfect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>my web host is retarded and made me take these songs down. sorry.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>these songs are by weezer. okay, so i don&#8217;t think i was the only one worried that the new weezer album &#8220;make believe&#8221; was going to be a total stink fest. after the last two fiascos that were the green album and maladroit, i think there was good cause for concern. well, i bought &#8220;make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}