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[SUP-Ronin]

This video cracks me up. Haven't seen it in a while. Your thoughts and opinions?? The whole thing is sort of an odd flashback.
If you liked happy days, and have never seen this. It's worth watching.

YouTube - Weezer - Buddy Holly

It's late, and I'm bored.

[apes3978]

I never thought much of the song at all... I think the only reason the song made any dent on the charts was because of the "novelty" of the video...

I just wonder how many of the people watching the video even know (or knew) who Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore are... My guess is very few...

[steshell]

Is this the video that was incuded on the Win95 cd?



Steve

[Dave Mc]

I always liked the song, before I had seen the video. The video was just done so well, that made the entire package all that much better.

[Megotu]

Anyone else think they were wearing Dick Grayson sweaters?

[Bill]

I never thought much of the song at all... I think the only reason the song made any dent on the charts was because of the "novelty" of the video...

I just wonder how many of the people watching the video even know (or knew) who Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore are... My guess is very few...

Weezer was actually really popular at the time. This video came out after "Sweater Song" which was an even big hit for them.
And even though I wasn't alive to see or hear Buddy Holly and The Mary Tyler Moore Show was only a late-night rerun I'm still familiar with such novelties as radios and televisions.

[apes3978]

Weezer was actually really popular at the time. This video came out after "Sweater Song" which was an even big hit for them..

"Sweater Song"? Never heard it, at least not that I'm aware of... But then again a lot of time I don't know the names of a lot of what is played on the "Top 40" stations and most of the time, I don't give a rat's a**...

And even though I wasn't alive to see or hear Buddy Holly and The Mary Tyler Moore Show was only a late-night rerun I'm still familiar with such novelties as radios and televisions.

Well, I wasn't referring to the people that are the vast majority of the "MEGO age bracket", they were alive when "oldies" radio still played The Crickets/Buddy Holly so they'd know who he is/was and some even knew of Mary Tyler Moore as a primetime show, or as you (and me) knew it more from late night re-runs... I was aiming my point more at the punky lil teeny-boppers who seem to mock or knock anything done before last year as "old"... If they think of a something from last year as "old", God knows they must think of Holly and Moore as ancient history (if they ever heard/seen them at all...)

[Bo8a_Fett]

great song, great vid.....

[Earth 2 Chris]

I've always kind of liked Weezer. They seem like a bunch of geeks who happen to be in a rock band. This video was the last great video on MTV as far as I'm concerned.

Chris

[SUP-Ronin]

They are alright, I am not a huge Weezer fan. They don't get much play on regular radio, and I didn't really dig this song until I saw the video. Top 40?? I don't think they are in that bracket, probably a good thing, considering the dribble that is usually on the charts.
You can hear them pretty often on Sirius or xm Satellite Alternative stations.

[huedell]

Hey apes---just to clue you in....

WEEZER was one of the BIGGEST acts of their time and Rivers Cuomo
(the singer) was at one point considered to be a master songwriter by
the bigger rock critics----not that all that matters to your or my
PERSONAL opinions of their music----but it seemed like you were
making them out be less popular than they were.

Personally?

I think WEEZER is one of the best bands of all time----and I like
many of their songs----and I think the video in question is TIGHT AS HECK---
---as is their Muppets video

To me, WEEZER is everything that's "right" about rock music....even to
the point where they recognized that they had "no image" or a "nerd" image
and played a negative into a positive by focusing on that rather than running
away from it.

[vintage spideyfan]

I was, for a time, an enormous Weezer fan. The Blue album, which features "Buddy Holly" and "The Sweater Song", is my second favorite album from the group. IMO, their finest hour was probably their sophmore release "Pinkerton". I really got into Pinkerton while going through a messy breakup. Kind of lost interest in the band after the original bassist, Matt Sharp, left. Was able to see them back in 2001 while they were touring for the Green album. Not the greatest show I've seen, but alot of fun. I recommend anything of their's from the 1990's. Not really a big fan of anything post green album, but they seem like a fun group of guys and I still kind of dig them.

[vintage spideyfan]

I was, for a time, an enormous Weezer fan. The Blue album, which features "Buddy Holly" and "The Sweater Song", is my second favorite album from the group. IMO, their finest hour was probably their sophmore release "Pinkerton". I really got into Pinkerton while going through a messy breakup. Kind of lost interest in the band after the original bassist, Matt Sharp, left. Was able to see them back in 2001 while they were touring for the Green album. Not the greatest show I've seen, but alot of fun. I recommend anything of their's from the 1990's. Not really a big fan of anything post green album, but they seem like a fun group of guys and I still kind of dig them.

If anyone here is a fan of the Pixies, check out Weezer's cover of "Velouria"...Good Stuff

[huedell]

I was, for a time, an enormous Weezer fan. The Blue album, which features "Buddy Holly" and "The Sweater Song", is my second favorite album from the group. IMO, their finest hour was probably their sophmore release "Pinkerton". I really got into Pinkerton while going through a messy breakup. Kind of lost interest in the band after the original bassist, Matt Sharp, left. Was able to see them back in 2001 while they were touring for the Green album. Not the greatest show I've seen, but alot of fun. I recommend anything of their's from the 1990's. Not really a big fan of anything post green album, but they seem like a fun group of guys and I still kind of dig them.

vsf...your post there could've been mine---point for point.

cool.

[apes3978]

Hey apes---just to clue you in....

WEEZER was one of the BIGGEST acts of their time and Rivers Cuomo
(the singer) was at one point considered to be a master songwriter by
the bigger rock critics----not that all that matters to your or my
PERSONAL opinions of their music----but it seemed like you were
making them out be less popular than they were.

All I'm going by is what I remember, and at least around here, they weren't all that big... The only thing I knew of them was that "Buddy Holly" song, but if it was another huge Top 40 song, then that "Sweater Song" must have been big here too... (It's pretty bass ackwards around here and until it's at it's most popular, nothing really hits around here...)

To me, WEEZER is everything that's "right" about rock music....even to the point where they recognized that they had "no image" or a "nerd" image and played a negative into a positive by focusing on that rather than running away from it.

Weezer, Presidents of the United States, Bowling For Soup and the other nerd groups... I don't get their appeal... But then again I'm sure a lot of what I like wouldn't be liked either but that's the way it goes...