Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here
Talking about Weezer: The band, the music and just how weird it all is.
Episodes
January 22, 2020 • 79 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY SEVEN of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt take on the first solo album by Rivers Cuomo: Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. The collection of demos, rarities and absurdities came out in 2007. But is there enough in the collection to make a decent album on its own?
LINKS:
Alternative Press: Web Exclusive: A conversation with Rivers Cuomo https://web.archive.org/web/200...
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January 15, 2020 • 55 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY SIX of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt take a listen to three more covers of Weezer songs: Toto answering the Weezer “Africa” cover with their version of “Hash Pipe,” The Ataris aping “Butterfly” and Mac DeMarco doing a version of “Undone (The Sweater Song)” on AV Club Undercover.
LINKS:
Toto -hash pipe (weezer cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnESfsyYG0
TOTO - HASH ...
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January 8, 2020 • 62 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY FIVE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. Sara and Matt travel back to 2002 to talk about an album that it seems most Weezer fans have forgotten: Maladroit. The two discuss the bizarre “Dope Nose” and its equally bizarre video, “Possibilities” and the outtake “Living Without You.”
LINKS:
Inkcarceration Festival: https://inkcarceration.com/
Weezer - Dope Nose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQbXhdJYq...
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January 1, 2020 • 44 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY FOUR of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. Sara and Matt ring in the new year in the best way possible: Watching Weezer perform “Africa” and “Don’t Knock The Hustle” on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve a year ago. The two also talk about any new year’s resolutions for 2020 and party plans.
LINKS:
Weezer - Africa (Live from Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZiTM4...
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December 25, 2019 • 51 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY THREE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. Merry Christmas! This week, Sara and Matt talk two original Christmas songs by Weezer: The Christmas Song and Christmas Celebration. Plus, they discuss the epic Weezer music video for “Lost in the Woods,” from the Frozen II soundtrack.
LINKS:
Weezer - Lost in the Woods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnEWs8D9zu8
Weezer - The Christmas Song (Original Mix): h...
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December 18, 2019 • 64 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY TWO of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. Merry Christmas (in a week). This week, Sara and Matt talk about the digital EP “Christmas With Weezer” with the band taking on Christmas standards. Which is good? Are any good? Find out...
LINKS:
Christmas With Weezer https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqi49iHv9rZnVFms9QbWQelWeiXtRML
Tapulous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapulous
Tap Tap iOS game series...
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December 11, 2019 • 73 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY ONE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt are joined by Andrew Roebuck to talk about the cinematic classic “Holiday In the Sun.” The Olsen Twins direct-to-video movie features a Weezer song (Island In the Sun) and the barest hint of a plot. Listen to all three of them try to figure out what happened.
LINKS:
Ranking Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's best movies: https://ew.com/galler...
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December 4, 2019 • 62 mins
It’s episode NUMBER THIRTY of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about some pre-Blue Album (and in one case pre-Weezer!) “raw nuggets” from the Video Capture Device. A song from “60 Wrong Sausages,” a very early live performance of “My Name is Jonas” and a live version of “Lullaby For Wayne” devoted to Pat Finn.
LINKS:
The Answer Man pre-Weezer (rehearsal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE8csg_CAo...
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November 27, 2019 • 37 mins
It’s MINI EPISODE 2 of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. Since Thanksgiving happens this week here in the United States, we decided to just give you a slightly shorter version of the podcast. This week, we talk about two songs on soundtracks. One is the song “California Snow” from the movie Spell (it is also on the Black Album); the other is the Rivers Cuomo solo song Backflip from the Netflix show Green Eggs and Ham.
LINKS:
Ca...
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November 20, 2019 • 67 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY NINE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt are here to talk about Patrick Wilson’s side project: The Special Goodness. Specifically, the first album he put out. It’s hard to find and reflects his state of mind as Weezer first became a success.
LINKS:
The Special Goodness: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCF104F61B103250A
The Special Goodness Epitaph bio: http://epitaph.c...
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November 13, 2019 • 67 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY EIGHT of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt are joined by Matt Belknap of the podcast Never Not Funny about the overlap between Tenacious D and Weezer fans in the early 2000s, messageboard culture and… Beastie Boys.
LINKS:
Smile Train: https://www.smiletrain.org/
An oral history of A Special Thing, the world’s most important comedy message board: https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/...
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November 6, 2019 • 55 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY SEVEN of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt are joined by J. Keith Van Straaten of the podcast Go Fact Yourself to talk about how he knows almost nothing about Weezer. But they discuss Billy John, Marc Cohn and play a game: Weezer lyric or found on Livejournal?
LINKS:
J. Keith Van Straaten: http://www.jkeith.net/
J. Keith’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/j_keith
Go Fact Yourself:...
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October 30, 2019 • 62 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY SIX of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt are joined by Tony Thaxton of the band Motion City Soundtrack and the podcast Bizarre Albums (among many, many other things) to talk about Weezer.
LINKS:
Tony Thaxton: https://tonythaxton.com
Tony's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonythaxton
Bizarre Albums Twitter: https://twitter.com/bizarrealbums
Tony's Instagram: https://www.instagram....
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October 23, 2019 • 72 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY FIVE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about Rivers Cuomo’s MySpace covers. Way back when people were still on MySpace and Facebook wasn’t destroying the world, there was MySpace. And Rivers released four cover songs on MySpace.
LINKS:
A Mad and Furious Master by Rivers Cuomo: https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/A_Mad_and_Furious_Master
Rivers Cuomo - Invincible (cover): ...
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October 16, 2019 • 75 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY FOUR of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about the bizarre world of Weezer’s webisodes. In 2008, Weezer released a bunch of short videos to promote the Red Album and Japanese tour dates. Voice changing. Cute children. Cute dogs. In-N-Out. The webisodes have it all!
LINKS:
Weezerpedia - List of Weezer webisodes: https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/List_of_Weezer_webisodes
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October 9, 2019 • 64 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY THREE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about sumo wrestlers, baby animals and Mexican weddings. That’s right, music videos from the Green Album.
LINKS:
Weezer - Hash Pipe (Official Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BGLtqqkVI
Weezer - Island In the Sun (Spike Jonze Version) (Official Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3zgYW_FAM
Weezer - Island In the S...
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October 2, 2019 • 80 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY TWO of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about Seven More Minutes, the Rentals’ second album. The album came out in 1999, and, like Return of the Rentals, Matt had never heard it before. So… did he like it? Does Sara still love it?
LINKS:
The Rentals' Matt Sharp talks new record and living in Weezer's shadow: https://ew.com/article/2014/10/24/the-rentals-matt-sharp-weezer-...
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September 25, 2019 • 62 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY ONE of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about … not Weezer. This week, it’s time to talk about Homie. The weird Rivers Cuomo side project that led to one fully mixed and released song, a few other scattered songs and some live bootlegs and not much else. Some of the musical stuff that Rivers was doing between Pinkerton and The Green Album.
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An Oral History of the Pe...
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September 18, 2019 • 72 mins
It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt talk about NEW Weezer stuff. That’s right, the new single The End of the Game, the upcoming album Van Weezer and the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy. Yeah, a lot of Weezer news and we (try to) cover it all!
LINKS:
RIVERS CUOMO OF WEEZER: “I HAVE THE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS I HAD WHEN I STARTED”: https://www.kerrang.com/features/wee...
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September 11, 2019 • 69 mins
It’s episode NUMBER NINETEEN of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt welcome Andrew Roebuck (Derncast, Milkshakes and Mimosas) to discuss the mid-90s teen movie Angus. It’s weird, features a Weezer song—but not the original one slated to appear—and has three Oscar winners in the cast. Does this make it a good movie? Well...
LINKS:
Rent Angus on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoyl8J0NR0U
Wavves - Y...
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