The Internet was now a hub of forums and illegal file sharing. Pinkerton had become an underground sensation lovingly rescued largely by teens that looked up to Cuomo as their impassioned king of misfits.
But, honestly, I never want to play those songs again; I never want to hear them again. In May of , Weezer released another self-titled record, the so-called Green Album. In a nod to their debut, the cover art mirrored that of the Blue Album and Ric Ocasek was back on production duties.
The band had scored another platinum hit. In , Rolling Stone readers named Pinkerton the 16th greatest album of all time. Two years later, RS amended the original review of three stars to a full five out of five. Most significantly, Cuomo went on the record about finally making peace with his masterpiece in This time, Cuomo gave the people what they wanted.
In , the band released a deluxe edition of Pinkerton and embarked on an international tour playing both the Blue Album and Pinkerton in their entirety. Fourteen years after its release, Pinkerton had finally gotten the recognition it deserved.
Pinkerton has become the gold standard for Weezer records, with each new release held up against what initially seemed like a career-ending flop. On September 16th, — just eight days shy of its 20th anniversary — Pinkerton was certified platinum, capping the surreal saga of an album that took the better part of two decades to move from embarrassing to essential.
Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Can you tell me why you abandoned that in favor of Pinkerton? Um… [Twenty-second pause] Wow. We are going back 15 years here. So that would be one contributing factor, my change of heart. Also, I had this really painful surgical procedure on my leg, which lasted 13 months in all and it took me to a place, emotionally, where the whole idea of this whole rock opera started to feel too whimsical for where I was emotionally, going through the pain of the procedure.
And so I scrapped the whole idea and went to a more serious and dark place. You started going to Harvard in this time period. It has been described as a very bleak time in your life. Is that how you recall your first semester there? I was craving mental stimulation for about a year and a half leading up to that point, being on the road. Touring in a van and just feeling like I was wasting my life.
To go back to college was so exciting to me. And on top of that, to be Harvard! Just the greatest place in the world for me to be. I was quite excited. I was pretty isolated living on my own. You had just become a huge rock star. What I meant by that was that I felt like I had so much musical potential, artistic potential, to get into really sophisticated art music, classical music—and I just felt like I needed some intense training in the fundamentals.
And giving the same interview over and over. You know, after a year of that I just felt like extremely frustrated and like I was not going to reach my potential as an artist.
Listen to Pinkerton now. On top of that, he was in physical agony after undergoing a series of surgical procedures to extend one of his legs. Madama Butterfly ends with Butterfly, finally realizing that Pinkerton never loved her, killing herself as he watches.
The marriage at the center of the story is really in name only: Lieutenant Pinkerton weds a child and then abandons her. Released on September 24, , Pinkerton was greeted with mixed reviews, but the album enjoyed something of a revival two decades later when it became certified platinum. Following the critical response to Pinkerton, however, Cuomo sank into a crushing depression for several years; at his lowest, he lived in a blacked-out apartment under a freeway outside Los Angeles.
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