I have no idea what the **** "emo" is...nor do I really care.
I was having this exact discussion some time ago regarding Weezer, and the point I was trying to make was that not only did Weezer jump off a serious cliff artistically speaking, but they were one of the few bands I could think of that did so so badly that the dive actually tarnished their initial brilliance.
One of the things I love so much about Weezer and Pinkerton was the band's ability to paint a thick, dark streak of cynicism across the universe of pink adolescent tragedy.
What subsequent records by Weezer suggested was that the black streak was accidental. That whatever that green album thing was was what Weezer had been trying to get at all along, and we were all duped into thinking that there was a tongue in a cheek when there was none to begin with.
That aside, I do still love their first two records, and simply pretend that the band was crashed into by a double decker bus following their sophomore effort. That tends to work for me.
-The World Has Turned and Left Me Ghost Jam
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