Rivers has lost it. Everyone knows it and no one wants to admit it. Every album since their awesome debut has been a little bit worse than the one before it and I can only imagine that “Make Beleive” is gonna continue this trend. Rivers would be serving the music world much better as a lead guitarist in some random dude’s up and coming band because the guitar work, as always, is pretty good, but the songs he puts around the solos just pale in comparison.
Rating: 2 / 5

I’m sorry but this stuff is just trash. The green album was a huge letdown (except for hashpipe and island) and now comes this god-awful album. When the blue album came out I was in third grade. It was the first real album I ever had (I didn’t count the wierd al ones). Even though I basically only listened to the sweater song and buddy holly, it still thought it was amazing. I soon forgot about them and didn’t even realized that they had released a new album(pinkerton). Years later, my friend and I were talking about music and he started raving about weezer. I agreed with him but I pointed out that they were basically a one-hit wonder. He disagreed and we got in a huge argument before I admitted that I only listened to two of the songs. When I got home I pulled out a shoe box in the top of my closet and pulled out the worn copy of blue. 40 minutes later I was in shock (not really) of what I had been missing. The entire blue album was brilliant! I went out and bought a new copy of it and while I was there I noticed pinkerton. It was only nine bucks so I figured why not. Although it has a dirtier sound and some songs gave me a headache it was still just as well written as their previous effort. Even though I didn’t really like “el scorcho” or “getchoo” at first, they soon grew on me. I was really looking forward to green album but it turned out to be a letdown. Rivers used to be my idol but now I consider him to be just another fred durst. Both of them started out being really into their music (not that limp bizkit was ever good) until they realized what type of music sold more copies. Next comes TRL and then you have a sell-out. Im not really into calling people sell-outs but Rivers easily defines the term along with that sugar ray guy. I mean hell, rivers wore a NEON OLD NAVY TECH VEST! I mean he can do what he wants to but…. Anyways, their old albums with matt sharp are awesome. Sadly, the term “emo” ruined what could have been one of the better bands of the late 90’s…
Rating: 1 / 5