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 Post subject: In appreciation of Pinkerton
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:fondly remembers a time when Weezer made great music:
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It's a well known fact that The Good Life is one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded.

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It's a well known fact that The Good Life is one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded.


This is an undisputed truth.
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34 and a half minutes of a pure bliss... no skippable songs
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Al wrote:
It's a well known fact that The Good Life is one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded.


And Butterfly one of the best quiet ones. A career high from Weezer, no doubt about that in my mind.



I told you I would return
When the robin makes his nest
But I ain't never coming back
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i'm not into weezer but i like this one

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Butterfly is awesome. I don't know why I like that song, but I do. I mean, he's singing about a butterfly.

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Al wrote:
Butterfly is awesome. I don't know why I like that song, but I do. I mean, he's singing about a butterfly.


It's a metaphor

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I never paid attention. I always thought it was about a butterfly. What's the mason jar supposed to be?

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I never paid attention. I always thought it was about a butterfly. What's the mason jar supposed to be?


A smothering relationship maybe? I think the mason jar symbolizes whatever he did to ruin the relationship. Women are the butterflies (he "chases" them trying to "pin one down").

At least that's my interpretation, i could be way off base but i think it makes a lot of sense when you look at the lyrics.

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Yesterday I went outside
With my momma's mason jar
Caught a lovely Butterfly
When I woke up today
Looked in on my fairy pet
She had withered all away
No more sighing in her breast
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
It slips away - the ghost slips away
I smell you on my hand for days
I can't wash away your scent
If I'm a dog then you're a bitch
I guess you're as real as me
Maybe I can live with that
Maybe I need fantasies
A life of chasing butterfly

I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
It slips away - the ghost slips away

I told you I would return
When the robin makes his nest
But I ain't never coming back
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry


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Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time. It's so ridiculously good.
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what do you guys think of people saying that pinkerton was the start of the genre we love so much...modern emo

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haha, whatever. In a way Butterfly is like the most emo song I listen to though. So I guess there's some truth to that. The problem is, all them fuckers don't know how to rock like Weezer did. They made it fun.

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haha, whatever. In a way Butterfly is like the most emo song I listen to though. So I guess there's some truth to that. The problem is, all them fuckers don't know how to rock like Weezer did. They made it fun.

i totally agree, but ive heard people say pinkerton started emo.

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I think REM started emo with Everybody Hurts.

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Plus "Across the Sea," "Falling For You" and "The Good Life" are three of the best songs ever written.
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We are talking about the song called Butterfly by Mariah Carey right? :lol:
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MF wrote:
Al wrote:
Butterfly is awesome. I don't know why I like that song, but I do. I mean, he's singing about a butterfly.


It's a metaphor

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Fixed. We are talking about Rivers Cuomo after all.
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flavdave wrote:
MF wrote:
Al wrote:
Butterfly is awesome. I don't know why I like that song, but I do. I mean, he's singing about a butterfly.


It's a metaphor

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Fixed. We are talking about Rivers Cuomo after all.


guy's got the yellow fever :lol:
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