What It's Like On the Inside of Love
By Kyle Anderson 05.25.05 3:00 AM
The year was 1996. People were so busy making fun of Bob Dole that they weren’t noticing that their modern rock radios were spitting out a bizarre speak-sung story song that had a wide-ass hook you could drive a truck through and a nerd-core vibe that sounded suspiciously like Weezer. The song was Nada Surf’s “Popular.”
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This Is Such A Pity...
By Kyle Anderson 05.13.05 3:00 AM
But then Weezer’s cult blew up something huge and all of a sudden they became this sort of power-pop juggernaut, and people (especially journalists) began talking about Cuomo as though he invented the genre—as if all those Lemonheads and Matthew Sweet records never occurred a couple of years earlier. Sure, Pinkerton is a masterpiece, but Rivers Cuomo ain’t Alex Chilton.
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