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Pop/rock

Weezer: Weezer [Teal Album] (Crush Music/Atlantic)

Weezer’s fifth eponymous record is a collection of cover versions, from Black Sabbath to Toto. While it was probably great fun to record, the end result is a little underwhelming. The best covers tend to make the song their own (think Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah or Johnny Cash’s Hurt) or at least to add something different. Rivers Cuomo and his band of merry men, however, do ...