Rivers Cuomo hates
Pinkerton. No, like really hates it. For many
rock stars, it's par for the course to put on airs about how "regrettable" an early failure was. But you will have to remember that Rivers is
fucking insane.
His reasoning is sorta screwy, though. This is why he hates Pinkerton: there is too much emotion. He says, Pinkerton is too raw. He much prefers the Green Album, he says, because it has no emotion in it; it's pure music. Rivers Cuomo is fucking insane.
But that's not all. He hates it so much, he thinks it's a tragedy, the way Pinkerton has, after its failure, become a cult success. Thus, Weezer hardly ever, ever plays it at their recent shows - it's usual that a band should play more new stuff just having released a new album, but come on. It displeases him to no end how all these people call themselves Weezer fans because they like Pinkerton. So stop liking this album; you're hurting Rivers's feelings.