Raditude
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Raditude
Raditude is the seventh studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on November 3, 2009 and is their final album on DGC Records, Geffen Records and Interscope Records. The title of the album was suggested to Weezer vocalist Rivers Cuomo by actor Rainn Wilson. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Melodic sing-alongs, fuzz-guitar riffs-- Weezer are going back to basics, making music that sounds for (but also often by) 13-year-olds.
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Consequence of Sound
t’s goofy; it has slick production, and it doesn’t hold a candle to the first two classic Weezer albums.
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AV Club
It’s an odd record—a personal statement without the person.
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NME
Rivers Cuomo polishes up with Lil Wayne and Lady Gaga, but it's hollow inside.
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Slant Magazine
Even the most dogged members of the Weezer fanbase will struggle to mount a shred of defense for such an abhorrent cocktail of deluded lyricism and indolent musicianship.
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Rolling Stone
Raditude is full of gloriously cheesy Weezer tunes, led by the ridonk geek-love anthem.
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PopMatters
Weezer are now writing nothing but unabashed pop songs, aiming for nothing but the top of the charts and hoping you'll come along for the ride to multi-platinum glory. Word of advice: don't.
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SPIN
Raditude, an aggressively obnoxious 30-minute montage of FM-radio real-estate grabs, superficial genre-hopping, embarrassing diction.
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IGN
Just when you thought it couldn't get more strange.
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Punknews
Unlike Weezer's past two releases, it's good enough to listen to a couple times, but make sure your fingers never go too far from the "skip track" button.
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No Ripcord
t’s given me three entertaining songs, all of which sound like songs my roommates and I would love to play on Rock Band, much to the chagrin of our neighbors.
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BBC
The sound, almost literally one assumes, of a band in a midlife crisis.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Listening to Raditude shows no signs that Weezer is going to deliver another heartfelt gem, and worse, it makes me wonder if it was all a front to begin with.
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All Music
Ultimately, it's Weezer's deft mixing of immediately hummable rock with lyrics that reveal Cuomo's own melancholy gaze on the pop landscape that makes Raditude a passionate surrender to growing up and a throw-your-arms-up-and-scream ride down the other side of the mid-life roller coaster.
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Drowned in Sound
At least their fans can finally find closure: Weezer have passed the point of no return.
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QRO Magazine
Weezer hasn’t changed – you, and the world, have.
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Pop Dose
Nope, this one doesn’t sound like Pinkerton either.
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Escapist Magazine
It's Awesome! Listen to it.
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Justin the Librarian
Overall, Raditude is just a great set of catchy songs done by a band that has had really good moments and really bad moments.
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Shepard Express
Raditude might further tatter Weezer's standing among long-time fans, but its heart is in the right place.
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Ca Va Cool
Weezer clearly don’t take themselves seriously, so why should we?
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LA Times
The weird aftertaste of "Raditude" isn't that Cuomo has so surrendered the oddball charm of his band's first two albums, though. It's that his late-career pursuit of mindless, opulent fun is so transparent that it almost taps a deeper vein of interior sadness than anything on "Pinkerton."
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Skiptrack Music
o the album is terrible yes, and there's no way I could give it a positive review, but since Weezer seems to actually be good again, we can look back on Raditude as an intriguing and at some points hilariously bad vision of what Weezer could have been if they'd continued chasing pop success and piling on inappropriate co-writers.
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CL Tampa
Your enjoyment of Raditude is entirely dependent on your feelings about Weezer’s brand of pop music — sing-a-longs, whoa-OH choruses, and inane lyrics that you can’t get seem to get out of your head.
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Pinpoint Music
Like my analogies and lactose intolerance, life ain’t perfect, and neither is this album and all I had hoped for. But it doesn’t totally suck either.
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Alternative Addiction
It's not in the top tier of the band's albums but it's another good release.
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Antiquiet
The Red Album’s nostalgia trip was more on the mark, but Raditude has its redeeming moments. Unfortunately, it tries too hard to ride the current tide and adds too many unnecessary ornaments to hide tracks that don’t entirely rise to the Weezer standard.
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Grateful Web
A few decent tracks, nothing memorable. Selling it back to the record store.
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My San Antonio
Despite its quirks, Raditude is yet another energetic slice of rock and power-pop that sounds like Cuomo, who mocked his rock-star status on last year's Weezer (aka The Red Album), is revisiting lost youth and young romance.
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Phawker
The lyrics go from one spectrum of dumb to the other, but it has more than enough hooks to keep it afloat.
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Sutherland Manifesto
Good songs are good songs. Weezer fans have stuck around because all of their records have at least had a few of 'em. Fortunately, we finally got record full of 'em.
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The Clarion
Overall “Raditude” is a great album especially for Weezer fans.
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Spectrum Culture
It may or may not be what fans wanted, but it is exactly what Weezer needed.
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Melodic Net
Great hooks and solid songwriting. This should appeal to most Weezer fans and the fans of pop in general.
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Entertainment Weekly
He may brag about downing ”bottles ? of the Goose,” but his armor of choice remains an insanely catchy melody
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The 405
There's a point where irony is a little too ironic, and it's often around the seventh album and we're all getting older.
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Diffuser
'Raditude' is actually a very good album. You know why? It sounds just like every other Weezer album.
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Common Sense Media
Alt-rockers deliver witty yet mostly tame tracks.
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Some Weird Sin Record
34 of the most joyless and cringe-worthy minutes of my life, I want them back, Rivers, give me my fucking minutes back.
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musicOMH
It serves as neither a welcome step back or as much of a step forward.
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Under the Radar
To be honest I found the whole album hard to stomach.
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