It seems that it's music week here on Circuits of Fever, as I am here with yet another concert post. Just having seen Tegan and Sara last week, I headed back to Downsview Park last night to see Weezer for the first time:
I am by no means a die-hard fan of Weezer. In fact, I haven't bought a single Weezer album since The Green Album. But they are a band that has persevered through nearly two decades (and, as a result, two generations) and are one of the biggest and most influential bands to come out of the '90s. So when I got an e-mail announcing that they were going on tour to perform the The Blue Album, I knew I had to get tickets. The Blue Album is one of the most highly regarded albums of the '90s, and by far Weezer's most substantial record; it's one of those albums that you can play to just about anyone born from the late '70s to mid- '80s regardless of what their favourite genre of music is, and they'll likely know most of the songs and their lyrics, too.
Their set last night was cut into two parts with an intermission in-between: the first half featured their greatest hits from most recent (2010) to Pinkerton (1996), and the second half featured the entirety of The Blue Album played in order from first to last track (they even changed their outfits during intermission to match the ones they wore on the cover of The Blue Album — they are the founders of "geek rock," after all). If audience participation was any indication, the second half was by far greater than the first — like me, people were there to see Weezer perform the entire Blue Album live, which likely hadn't been done since its release 19 years ago. Nearly every person there knew every single word to every single song, bringing out proper lighters to wave around instead of cell phones, and feeling generally nostalgic for "the good ol' days." Needless to say, it was epic.
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