Weezer On Indefinite Hiatus - Finally?

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo reveals, "For the moment we are done. And I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."

Well, if you ask me, it's about time. Don't get me wrong they were a good band. "The Blue Album" was solid. Pinkerton was almost as good, but since the critics pooped on the sophomore effort, Rivers has tried to re-manufacture "The Blue Album's" glory, and then write anything he thought would end up on MTV and the next Now: That's What I Call Music compilation. Weezer's story has been a sad one suffocated by self-concious arrogance, and a striving to crawl back to something they would never find again. "The Green Album" was their most painfully pronounced effort to rehash: their geekiness magnified and contrived, and songs that aimed to capture their adolescent quirkiness they had outgrown right after they were so burned by Pinkerton's reviews that were characteristically aggressive and, well, adult.

According to Rivers, he's writing a lot, but cannot imagine the songs working with Weezer's sound. Something tells me it couldn't ever be as good, but I wish him the best and praise him for trashbucketing the band that could never be again.