I am not sure if it is a joke or not, but either way the new Weezer album cover is brilliant. Spinner.com announced today the new “red” album and track listing for Weezers new record. The band is promising “Blue Album and Pinkerton influences” which would be brilliant if it turns out to be true (though that is an easy thing to say to grab users interest irregardless of how it really sounds).

I really hope this album is in that vein as I think that type of stripped down honest music could make a lot of headway again, plus I just would love to hear it. Weezer has always made great music, I just felt like the last record was to… mainstream sounding? I am not sure if that is the most appropriate term for it but its how I feel. That is not to say it was bad just wasn’t really what I was interested in listening to.

Here is the track listing
Weezer, ‘Weezer’ Red Album

1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
3. Pork and Beans
4. Heart Songs
5. Everybody Get Dangerous
6. Dreamin’
7. Thought I Knew
8. Cold Dark World
9. Automatic
10. The Angel and the One