Metacritic Music Reviews, Maladroit by Weezer, When it rains it pours: After going five years without a Weezer album, fans of the quirky alt-rockers get two new discs. May 1, 2017 - Weezer - Maladroit [iTunes AAC M4A] (2002). Posted on 10:12 by Zelda789. Genre: Alternative Rock, Power Pop, Emo. Released: May 14, 2002. Quality: iTunes Plus AAC M4A. Label: Geffen.

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• ' Released: March 26, 2002 • ' Released: September 20, 2002 Maladroit is the fourth studio album by American band, released on May 14, 2002, through. Cd Label Software Border Collies. Produced by the band themselves, the album is the first Weezer album to feature bassist, following the departure of former bassist in 2001. The album features, uncommon to Weezer's previous releases. Maladroit received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics - despite this, it ranked as the 90th greatest album of all-time in a Rolling Stone readers poll. As of December 2007, the album has sold 605,000 copies in the United States, having reached a high of #3 on the US and quickly going. Two singles were released from the album: ' and '. Contents • • • • • • • • • Background and recording [ ] For the band's fourth studio album, Weezer attempted to incorporate an innovative system in which the group would release demos in format on the band's website every day while in the studio working on Maladroit.

This resulted in dozens of different versions of over thirty different songs circulating on the Internet before the album was released. The idea was to keep solid communication open with the band's fan base on the group's official as well as, more crucially, on unofficial message boards such as the Rivers Correspondent Board (which was closed to the public at Cuomo's request, chiefly so that members of the press could not gain access). Yet frontman and the fans strongly disagreed on a number of creative aspects of the album. One thing they did agree on was bringing back the old summer 2000 song 'Slob' for use on the album. Cuomo commented, 'I never would have thought to put the song 'Slob' on the record if the fans did not request it.

Scott Shriner also wanted a hidden track, 'Are You Gonna Be?,' for the album.' Regardless of disagreements, Weezer fans are still 'specially thanked' in the album's and the album title itself was suggested by a board member on the Weezer message boards who went by the screen name of Lethe. The band's uploading of MP3 demos onto its website resulted in many major radio stations playing the still unreleased (and sometimes unfinished) songs on the radio for the masses to hear. Due to a spat between Cuomo and the record label Geffen/Interscope, Weezer self funded the recordings for Maladroit and the label was unaware of the recordings at all until the radio began to play them. It is said that Cuomo was so excited for fans to hear the music he personally mailed copies of 8 out of the 13 songs on Maladroit to key radio stations and press outlets. In the week it was leaked to radio stations, the lead-off single 'Dope Nose' reached #25 on 's chart without an official single having been issued.

The airplay resulted in a gag order being issued by Geffen Records in which they requested that Weezer return the master tapes from the Maladroit sessions and apologize to each radio station that played the song. The band members resisted, citing that they had funded all the sessions themselves and that apologizing seemed pointless. The fans resisted as well, forming an online group called 'Unreleased Weezer for the Masses' that rallied for the release of the album. The hit songs 'Dope Nose' and 'Hash Pipe' (off ) were both written using the same method on the same night, with Rivers Cuomo allegedly taking 'a bunch of and.