My undramatic, middle of the road opinion: all Weezer albums after Pinkerton have a couple of excellent songs, a couple of terrible songs and an array of middling songs, aside from Green and White which are both sort of pleasantly decent all the way through.

Hasn't worked for Greenwood so far.

Far as I can tell, 2016 basically broke everyone's collective brain and now they're picking up the pieces and assembling them into whatever shapes make the world seem simple and understandable again.

These guys would probably have heart attacks if they looked up what goes on in the original fairy tales a lot of Disney stuff was based on.

The idea of it just smacks of an 'epic rap battles of history' style quirky novelty item. I didn't listen to it expecting to cry at the end.

It'd say the concept is more cutesy than edgy.

Maybe I'm a cynic but I suspect one of the main motivations for this kind of thing is to troll the type of dork likely to get vocally upset about it, and then ride the backlash-backlash waves to viral victory.

You know you're getting old when you see people getting nostalgic for stuff you found pretty shitty even at the time.

The film director comparison is perfectly apt. Scorsese doesn't write most of his films, or build the sets or hold the camera, so what does he actually do?

Yeah I remember hearing something to that effect.

I don't really get the problem with Green. It's slight, but still an enjoyable bunch of songs.

It's the least essential QOTSA album by far but I wouldn't say it's bad or anything, it's mostly pleasant enough. The songs just sound a bit thrown together.

Era Vulgaris was an odd omission given that the chorus of it gets quoted on the album iself (just before 6s and 7s if I remember).

Sorry, but on 2015-era internet everyone and everything must be aligned rigidly either with "hard" feminism or violent MRA misogyny in preparation for the coming Ragnorok. Pick a side!!

I'd say he's one of the great "oh it's that guy"s, except the name 'Bob Gunton' is too great not to say at any opportunity.

The amount of records they've made and the years between them have nothing to do with anything. If they got 34 million streams then clearly their old work is still of value to people, more than plenty of prolific younger acts.

34 million streams suggests people still find value in their product. Technology now allows people to access that product for essentially nothing. If people at large can access stuff for free and not feel guilty about it, they will. That doesn't make the amount they're now willing to pay an accurate reflection of the…

"I guess I don't get this "Oh boo-hoo" attitude people always have when creators want to be paid fairly for their work."

Thing about the book is, take away the amazing prose and just film it and chances are you're stuck with a slightly stodgy melodrama. The Redford movie was a pretty solid attempt at a faithful adaptation and it's boring as sin.

It's more that it spends two and a half hours on a story that could've been told in 90 minutes, doesn't go particularly deeply into the non-Pheonix characters and is non-committal about the ideas it touches on to the extent that it barely ends up saying much of anything. And yet it's elliptical enough that people are…