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“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)”08 May 2008
As is the fate of all albums released this decade (“In Rainbows” excepted, of course), the lion’s share of the new Weezer album has finally hit the internet a month in advance of its release date. While tracks like ‘Pork and Beans’ and ‘Troublemaker’ keep up the traditional pop quotient, the most interesting thing leaked so far has been “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”. Variously described on forums as “atrocious”, “the pinnacle of recorded sound” and “bamboozling”, it’s probably somewhere between all three. Certainly the strangest thing Weezer have ever recorded, it may well also be the best – a genre-straddling epic in no uncertain terms, making absolutely no sense, but at the same time, sounding like something you always knew. Still, by the looks of things, Weezer is going to be the band’s commercial suicide album. Highlight: 2:21 – Rivers’ bitchin’ falsetto, or 4:06 – in which Cuomo quotes Shakespeare. I really wish I was making this up.
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