Leading up to the beginning of Weezer's Spring Tour, I'm going to feature PINKERTON era songs, including all 10 songs off the record, culminating on April 1st. We have tickets to go see the Myrtle Beach House of Blues show!
For the tenth Weezer Song of the Day, Pinkerton continues with track #4 Why Bother? It was originally part of the Songs from the Black Hole project, which morphed into Pinkerton.
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The back of my head is in the video a couple times, as I was standing at the front near Brian Bell.
Here's a live performance from Australia last year. There was the possibility of a single, but never a video:
I've seen Why Bother? performed live 4 times. According to Setlist.fm it has been played live over 300 times since 1996. I saw it at my first two Weezer shows, then at two Pinkerton memories shows.
Why Bother? is a song of avoiding the pain of rejection. A great guitar and drum duet rock throughout its 2 minutes and is especially prevalent withe chorus. The guitar solo is fantastic like the vocals. The perfect record continues...
'Maybe you could break my heart next summer"
We are Rocking it Out!
What do you guys think?
Weezerpedia Entry for Why Bother?
What was your favorite performance?
Project Info:
So why did I create this blog? To document my Weezer Song Project. Over the next year, I am going to attempt to listen to every...EVERY Weezer song recorded. All the album tracks and b-sides will be easy, but there are some unreleased songs that may or not be accessible. Hopefully, the search (and destroy) will be fun to follow. At the moment, the list has 213 songs! My list includes You Gave Your Love to me Softly, Longtime Sunshine, Turn Me Round, Waiting on You, and Back to the Shack. We learned early this year that a new Weezer record is on the way and we got to hear Back to the Shack twice on the Weezer Cruise II.
So here is the master list from Karl et al. on Weezerpedia!
I will soon publish my Google Doc Spreadsheet, which will document my progress.
Here is my Spotify playlist.
Paul Loves Weezer YOUTUBE Playlist
PLW Rater! It's not quite Leonard Maltin, but it will work.
1 - Go get a beer...It's still a Weezer song, but it's a good time to rent a beer
2 - Head Bobber...The song causes at least moderate movement
3 - Rock it out...Banging of the head and the arm is in the air \m/
4 - Undone...No choice but to jump around
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