To read the Winter 2016 Edition of my Weezer Song Rankings, please click here!
I listened to quite a bit of Weezer in October-November 2016 which then prompted me to update my song rankings to see how my Weezer listening habits changed over a few months (click here for the Summer edition of these rankings)
THE ALBUM RANKINGS
- Pinkerton
- The Blue Album
- Songs from the Black Hole
- The White Album
- The Green Album
- The Red Album
- Everything Will Be Alright In The End
- Make Believe
- B-Sides
- Maladroit
- Unreleased Music
- Raditude
- Death to False Metal
- Album 5 Demos
- Alone I-III
- Hurley
The White Album made a huge leap in the rankings, jumping from #8 to #4. This album really grew on me over the past few months. The songwriting on it is a great combination of the best of early Weezer and post Green Album Weezer. I find myself going back to the songs quite a bit. I’m not 100% sure of why Everything Will Be Alright In The End dropped in the rankings, as I’ve grown to love that album even more than I did before. It may be due to the fact that I think Green and Red just have some amazing songs that rank really high (for the song rankings, see below) and Everything Will Be Alright In The End did not have as many of those. However overall, that album is much more solid (in my opinion) than both Green and Red.
THE SONG RANKINGS
I made some slight tweaks to most of the song rankings, but what I really focused on was trying to hone in on what I considered to be “perfect 10” songs. Here’s my list of those perfect 10 songs:
| Crazy One | 10 | Alone (I-III) |
| Miss Sweeny | 10 | B-Sides |
| Mykel And Carli | 10 | B-Sides |
| The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World | 10 | B-Sides |
| Cleopatra | 10 | EWBAITE |
| Across The Sea | 10 | Pinkerton |
| El Scorcho | 10 | Pinkerton |
| Falling For You | 10 | Pinkerton |
| The Good Life | 10 | Pinkerton |
| Tired Of Sex | 10 | Pinkerton |
| Why Bother? | 10 | Pinkerton |
| Trippin’ Down the Freeway | 10 | Raditude |
| Longtime Sunshine | 10 | Songs from the Black Hole |
| My Name Is Jonas | 10 | The Blue Album |
| Say It Ain’t So | 10 | The Blue Album |
| Island In The Sun | 10 | The Green Album |
| The Angel and the One | 10 | The Red Album |
| The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) | 10 | The Red Album |
| L.A. Girlz | 10 | The White Album |
| Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori | 10 | The White Album |
| Baby | 10 | Unreleased |
| Mad Kow | 10 | Unreleased |
| My Brain Is Workin’ Overtime | 10 | Unreleased |
These are the Weezer songs I find myself listening to and enjoying the most. They’ve got everything I look for in a great Weezer song: melody, chords, quirky arrangement, rawness, and emotional power. Everyone’s list of their favorite Weezer songs is going to be different and it’s going to grow and change. I really look forward to seeing what some of your favorite songs are!
MY TAKEAWAYS
I’ve liked Weezer for a long time. I still continue to like Weezer quite a bit. They’ve contributed many songs to my personal soundtrack. I hope everyone has this kind of band in their lives.
JUSTIN HOENKE 