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There are certainly worse ways to kill a half-hour. In under thirty minutes, Rivers Cuomo and company deliver ten nearly flawless pop gems without missing a beat. The first (and best) single, "Hashpipe", is the most intriguing top 40 hit in five years – it’s just too bad it never reached the top forty. Forget the obvious drug references, this song is chock full of strange perversions and sexual innuendo, all laced with a hard-chugging rhythm that delivers more attitude per beat than ten copies of Hustler magazine.
Considering the album’s brevity, it still seems overstuffed with ‘hit’ songs – short, concise constructs with pop hooks that are big enough to yank all five members of ‘N Sync right off of the stage (if I could only be so lucky). "Don’t Let Go" is good enough to provide musical breaks during the Winter Olympics coverage, sounding like a new, updated (and improved) version of Cheap Trick. Elsewhere, songs like "Island In the Sun" and "O Girlfriend" suggest a mindmeld of the Monkees and the Cars, with the geek factor turned up high and melodic reverie cranked even higher. While other artists think nothing of wasting seventy minutes of your time on a trip to nowhere, Weezer can take you there and back in twenty-eight minutes; perfect evidence of the axiom that less really is more.
Grade: 
 
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