- alternative rock, rock, emo, power pop
- 35 min
- 10 tracks
- Geffen
Pinkerton is the second studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on September 24, 1996, by DGC Records. The guitarist and vocalist Rivers Cuomo wrote most of Pinkerton while studying at Harvard University, after abandoning plans for a rock opera, Songs from the Black Hole. It was the last Weezer album to feature the bassist Matt Sharp, who left in 1998.
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Character
Character-led, spare, contemporary and intimate.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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Metacritic 100/100
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork7.5/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Select3/5
- Spin7/10
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- American Songwriter4.5/5 ★
- Consequence of Sound5/5 ★
- Kerrang!5/5
- PopMatters10/10
- Record Collector5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Tired of Sex3:02
- 2Getchoo2:53
- 3No Other One3:02
- 4Why Bother?2:08
- 5Across the Sea4:54
- 6The Good Life4:17
- 7El Scorcho4:03
- 8Pink Triangle3:59
- 9Falling for You3:48
- 10Butterfly2:53
10 tracks, 35 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Weezer
- Label
- Geffen
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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