I often say I would never see weezer today, and wish I could have in 1996 or 1997.
From the looks of this set list from the show at the Forum earlier this month it appears they at least know not ALL the people in the audience are dumb kids who associate Weezer with TRL instead of 120 Minutes.
I see a nice selection of old songs (even Suzanne, which to my knowledge only appeared on the soundtrack to Mallrats – a movie nobody under 25 has seen I’m sure) with only the TRLest juicy (crappy) pop tunes mixed in to keep the teenage girls screaming.
My parents can chime in and remind me that back in 1995 I was even a card carrying weezer fan club member… and I still have the exclusive christmas single (1996?) to prove it – as well as the signed (by Brian Bell) Space Twins EP (was it an EP? there were only two songs).
Is this a personal thing? Or, just don’t like their music anymore?
I remember 120 minutes. It was one way that the mainstream got a taste of alternative. In CA we had KROQ to do that job, which was all I listened to growing up since my pre-teen years.
ummm… but you don’t think that KROQ gives you non-mainstream music anymore….right?
And I guess it is personal… in the sense that a lot of us waited five years for a really talented guy to release another album and when he did we were treated to songs like “hash pipe.”
KROQ has changed a lot over the years. They’ve become VERY much like many other radio stations because payola is too proffitable. I don’t listen to that station very often anymore and haven’t done so for a few years now.
In the begnining they were the station that introduced southern California to much of the non-mainstream music. I remember that they were the only local radio station that would play Midnight Oil. Thing are a lot different now with satellite radio and HD radio. There are more options and stations to choose from.
Yeah, I admit that album was pretty bad.
midnight oil was non-mainstream? I remember midnight oil being played on the local pop radio station in Marietta Ohio.
Is satellite radio really catching on? I don’t know anyone that has it. In a falling economy I don’t see people running out to spend money on “pay” radio.
well . . . depends on the definition. Does a band have to be small and unknown to be considerred non-mainstream? Or, just unlike the mainstream popular music played? If a band’s sound is non-mainstream and varies different than the current tastes, then they suddenly become widely popular(like Nirvana), does that make them suddenly mainstream?
I consider Amy Winehouse to be non-mainstream. Sure she’s very popular, but her style of music is not a current trend and very few groups use that type of style nowadays. Going against the current music trends would classify her as non-mainstream. Because many people like her music, that makes it mainstream?
ah – but if she is very popular – her music isn’t really “against the current music trends” is it? A trend is simply something that is popular.