>I personally don't get it. These are just empty middle of
>the road pop songs. This is still a an entire league away
>from their first two albums, which I know will they probably
>will never sound like again, but you just can't help but
>compare everything against that standard, oh well.

my feelings exactly. Weezer was great for the balance between dorky/quirkiness and disaffected grunge, when you take away the 'disaffected grunge' and just have dorky/quirky pop-rock, its not something I want to listen to