Weezer : Keep Fishin'
...a power-pop stomp with shrieky off-kilter harmonies...
From white-bread American geek idol to creepy-bearded internet chatroom weirdo, the peculiar metamorphosis of Rivers Cuomo has been a pretty unsettling affair. Seeing this, the nice folk at Geffen have put Damage Limitation Exercise Mk.1 in action: in an effort to make Rivers look halfway normal, they’ve put him in a video with The Muppets.
Although ‘Keep Fishin’’ falls somewhat short of the best case scenario - no audible Miss Piggy backing vocals, no winsome, Cuomo-sung ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’ on the B-side - it still fizzles with energy: a power-pop stomp with shrieky off-kilter harmonies, lovably gauche high-school heartbreak lyrics, and guitars so crunchy you could vacuum-pack them and put them in a kid’s lunchbox.
Louis Pattison
Although ‘Keep Fishin’’ falls somewhat short of the best case scenario - no audible Miss Piggy backing vocals, no winsome, Cuomo-sung ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’ on the B-side - it still fizzles with energy: a power-pop stomp with shrieky off-kilter harmonies, lovably gauche high-school heartbreak lyrics, and guitars so crunchy you could vacuum-pack them and put them in a kid’s lunchbox.
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