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Weezer by Weezer
Weezer is an album by Weezer, released in 2001. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 147 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hash Pipe”, on 66 lists with a best position of #2.
Weezer, better known as the Green Album, came out on Geffen on May 15, 2001, with Ric Ocasek back behind the board for the first time since the band's debut. It closed a long silence. After Pinkerton got a lukewarm reception and sold disappointingly in 1996, the band drifted off into side projects, and while they were gone something funny happened: fans found each other online and Pinkerton started looking better every year. A comeback show at the Summer Sonic festival in Japan got them rehearsing again.
This time Rivers Cuomo kept his diary locked. After the raw confessions of Pinkerton, he wrote short, simple songs that keep their feelings at arm's length, and the band plays them tight and bright, fuzzy guitars and bubblegum melodies with nothing wasted. "Hash Pipe" is a chugging, leering riff monster that became a hit around the world, "Island in the Sun" is a lazy summer daydream, and "Photograph" bounces along happily.
Reviews were mostly warm, it entered the Billboard 200 at number four, and sales have since passed 1.6 million. It is the only Weezer album with bassist Mikey Welsh, who left a few months after it came out because of health problems.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Weezer on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hash Pipe | 66 | #2 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | Island in the Sun | 60 | #4 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 3 | Photograph | 20 | #41 | – | 2001–2014 | |
| 4 | Simple Pages | 1 | #84 | – | 2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.