Weezer - Pinkerton (w/ guest Jesse Elliot)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

In revisiting another one of our favorite artists, Brian and Bill welcome singer, songwriter, and musician Jesse Elliot (jesseelliot.com) to talk about Weezer's Pinkerton (1996, DGC). We address honesty, heartbreak, and the stigma of being labeled a weirdo as we discuss the album, track by track.

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0:00.0	I'm tired.
0:02.0	I'm tired, so tired.
0:29.1	I'm tired of having sex.
0:37.2	Hey, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:40.2	And I'm Brian.
0:41.1	And today we have a guest with us, Jesse Elliott. How you doing, Jesse?
0:44.9	Good. Thanks for having me.
0:46.7	Jesse is a singer-songwriter and musician.
0:52.8	I saw that when I was looking up stuff for the Springsteen podcast where on his Wikipedia
0:58.6	page it said singers slash songwriter and musician.
1:03.3	That's interesting.
1:05.1	I mean, there's a distinction between singer, songwriter, and musician.
1:10.1	Yeah.
1:10.3	And Springsteen can absolutely be categorized as both.
1:15.3	I always thought that a singer-songwriter would be a musician, like by necessity, but I guess not.
1:25.2	Yeah.
1:25.6	I mean, I think of musicians as being like masters of, you know, craft,
1:33.3	rather of technique and craft and an instrument and songwriting being much more about, you know, design, you know, of like a song. And so it's different interests, I guess.
1:49.0	Well, you've got your album coming out shortly. Yes? Yes. I gave you my all. We'll be
1:56.1	coming out in June. And we're actually picking up the CDs this weekend.
2:04.3	It's coming weekend.
2:06.0	So they'll be available, you know, in advance sales at shows and things.
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