Rivers Cuomo On How Metallica Influenced "The Sweater Song" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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The blue album is one of the best alternative rock albums of all time.
💯Thank Matt Sharp. 😇
Absolutely. One of 3 albums that I can listen to each song without skipping any. Its a masterpiece of an album.
In no particular order - Weezer: Blue Album; Live: Throwing Copper; Nirvana: In Utero; Stone Temple Pilots: Core; Pearl Jam: 10
@John Siaz 🤣
alright
Conan actually introduced Weezer back in 94 with Undone - The Sweater Song 🧥 So this really comes full circle.
They talk about that in the full interview!
I like how Rivers still talks like a shy introvert teen
Tism
I think Metallica playing Sweater Song right after Weezer closes their set with their Enter Sandman would be fkn awesome
lets make this happen. Ball in your court @metallica
Agreed! But for real I never thought sweater song sounded like Welcome Home Sanitarium. Have to listen again back to back
@@revwillyg6450 haha for real? I noticed it immediately the first time I heard welcome home. I was like, wait, I've heard this a thousand times before...
Metallica's busy making their next album that'll come out in 2036.
The cover I didn't imagine I needed to hear. If Metallica won't do it Jim Breuer does a great James Hetfield impression.
Rivers Cuomo was the sole inspiration behind my decision to start playing guitar, I saw him in the music video for "Hash Pipe" - and thought "I look like a nerd, he looks like a nerd, but he absolutely shreds and looks so badass! I want to be like him!!!" Still playing, and I still think of Rivers every time I see a beige or green stratocaster.
Pinkerton is one of my favorite albums of all time & got me through some really tough times.
My favorite album they've done so far
Rivers is a metalhead at heart. Metalheart perhaps?
Conan makes a good point- you never hear anyone say "Hey that kinda sounds like Weezer" about any other band. Incredibly Unique- never sounds like anybody else.
Ozma
Checks out ovens
billy cobb
If time has taught us anything, it is that Lars is always cool with sharing Metallica music for free.
I was surprised he didn't sue on the spot.
ROTFL
OMFG that was 30 years ago get over it
Carsasm.
i lol'd so hard at this
Rivers is a master at writing catchy ass songs.
I wish Rivers recorded a serious folky indie CD. It has so much potential.
I love seeing the loving listening Conan has when listening to his guests on his podcast, this is true love.
Musicians talking shop! Gotta Love it!
Conan’s passions 4 music is underrated! WE as a collective should encourage him 2 pursue it more!
Thank you 4 making your podcast feel as if it’s a sit down with friends! 🌍❤️🩹
I owe this guy many thanks for making my grade school days more awesome.
I had a guitar magazine around 1995 with a Rivers interview where he was asked about writing riffs and he said I just try to keep it pretty simple like James Hetfield
there you go.
Electric Ballroom, Tempe AZ. First time I saw them live. Back when they were doing smaller shows still.
"Sanitarium" might be the perfect Metallica song to have inspired another, considering Metallica had lifted concepts for that song from 2-3 others (chiefly "Rainbow Warrior" by Bleak House and "Tom Sawyer").
Since listening to this episode, I'll never unhear the Metallica nod in "The Sweater Song."
Another thing you can't unhear is the strong Kurt Cobain vibe on their original album, especially Say It Ain't so.
True. I play them both...had never made a connection...but now the similarity is all I hear!!
I dont understand how some people have never heard this before. Its ALL I could hear when I first heard welcome home for the first time lol
One of my favorite songs from Weezer. That riff is epic, but Rivers nails a triple for me at least. Lots of hooks.
Rivers nails a triple? is that street slang?
What are you saying, is my question
The Blue Album is so iconic. What was said is absolutely true. You don't hear anything similar to Weezer's sound. Gotta give it up to Rivers.
Billy Gibbons and Moving Sidewalks did that to Jimi. the first show whee they opened for him in Texas. They didn't have enough original tunes yet to fill up a 30 minute set, so they played Purple Haze. Jimi was supposedly amused.
Weezer is one of the best acts to see live. They still are good. Cannot say that about a lot of the old acts. Highly recommend seeing them. So much fun!!
I just saw them at firefly fest and they played I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams and You Gave Your Love to Me Softly, one of their best sets out of 7 times I've seen them
I've been enjoying this Rivers Cuomo interview. Thanks.
I pieced a Strat like this when I was a a teen. Mexican sea foam blue, t-shell pick guard, hot rail pick-ups, and eBay rosewood fretboard
A Metallica/Weezer song swap album would be amazing 🎉🎉🎉
Weezer was such a huge part of my early teen years. It always makes me happy to think of those times with my friends, transitioning from very much being a child to a teen -- suddenly being 15 and going to parties and getting drunk with good friends while listening to the Blue Album.
"And how did Lars take it?"
"He pursued litigation."
I got that reference.
Kids these days will not understand the power of Napster 😄
@@atenachos6282 Exactly. I still have a CD that I made from Napster. I don't listen to it, but I gotta keep it right?
Except they stole that main riff too......
Meh
Rivers is SO reserved!..He doesn't say alot ..but what he does say is important. And.. how cool and down to earth is Conan??
So dope that you got Cuomo on here. Conan really does have friends and he doesn’t forget them!
I saw the Deftones play the Sweater Song 20 years ago. It was great. Unforgettable.
Great that a kid from CT had to move to CA to discover Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground.
The Blue Album and Pinkerton are two of my favorite albums that I have been made aware of.
Thank Matt Sharp 😇💯
Yeah, after the first two albums I lost interest. The first two records all seemed to be about the narcissism of youth.
@@jessebbedwell If you stopped listening after Matt left you're missing out.
Definitely check out the White Album, Ok Human and Everything Will Be Alright In The End, they're on par if not better than Blue and Pinkerton.
@@GtaNewsITA Yeah. Also sznz autumn is pretty good and winter is going to be especially good
Similar story - My old band got booked to open for Vanilla Ice (for some reason) years ago and I made the mistake of telling the promoter that we were closing with Ice Ice Baby. We thought that it was gonna be hilarious and the promoter agreed....then he kicked us off of the bill 😂
Funny, the main thing I hear in "The Sweater Song" is the clean chord section from Slayer's "Seasons In The Abyss."
Blink 182's "Adam's Song" is also very similar Metallica's One. If you play guitar there's almost no mistaking the similarity.
oh hey Rivers! Nice to see/hear him here.
Could you maybe also consider having Billie Joe Armstrong on? That would be really nice too
They released 3 singles from the Blue Album and could've easily subbed those for Surf Wax America, Only in Dreams, Jonus, or In the Garage and been just as successful.
Jonas is literally my absolute favorite weezer song
@@potatowater285 Agree I remember getting the blue album and not knowing anything about them other than the Undone song/video that had just started getting airtime on MTV and Alternative radio. Was blown away by Jonus. It was an absolutely perfect opener to a debut album
Only In Dreams is one of my favorite non single songs of all time
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here is great too!
@@roberthieber1 You can essentially just let the album play through.
Weezer definitely sounds like The Cars meets Nirvana but that alone is very unique
Sweater song is my favourite song from Weezer and Metallica my favourite band. Cool.
my two influencers, conan and rivers
Oh jesus 🤦♂️
@@coldvoid you have angst about that, too?
@@globdrop why do you care, "
m1l1t1am1ke" whatever that means xD
Same
@@coldvoid whatever that means? Of course you're too simple to even be able to decipher it 😆🥴
Weezer always reminded me of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys
The beach boys were a big influence for them especially on the blue album
On their broadcast debut on Conan in '94, Rivers is actually reading lyrics from a song my band gave him after Weezer's Toronto show at the Opera House the weekend before. I realize I'm super late to this comments page, but there you go...
WEEZER!!!! ❤❤❤❤ all of it all day long
Now all I hear is James singing The Sweater Song. "If you WANT to DESTROY MY SWEATAAAA"
Boa noite, um belo vídeo muito bom.
I love whenever Andy tells tha
The Blue Album is the only CD 💿 I’ve bought three times:
1. When I was in high school and bought a shitty scratched up used disc from a dipshit friend on a lark, only to discover what an absolute gem the album is.
2. I finally bought a proper new retail CD.
3. They released the Deluxe Edition 2-disc set and I had to buy that too. It’s definitely worth it.
I've owned and listened to that album on every format it was released on
I got that on stone stele, then vinyl, 8-track, cassette, cd, variable rate 320-bit mp3, then FLAC. Now its in grained in my brain.
Hey hey🍾👋👊😎🔥🔥
Pinkerton was so underrated
In the garage and say it ain't so are my fave weezer songs. Buddy Holly is another one.
I love watching him shred Yngwie Malmsteen.
1:54 Holy Schnikees! It is...
lol this is the one video with weezer facts that I don’t already know. They other podcast videos I already knew
RIVERS CUOMO?! :D i never once wondered what his name was.
Its a good one. :) he looks like a rivers cuomo.
Am I alone in thinking that Jordan Schlansky and Rivers Cuomo are somehow similar ...yet totally different?
Deftones have done the ol' "play one of weezer's songs before weezer performs after deftones at a festival" trick once or twice.
I always thought it was just the Pixies "Where is my mind?"
Hum is a good band like Weezer but a bit heavier and les fun but just came to mind. Singer sounds similar.
weezer is such a good band
Remember when the media tried to say Conan was a “trailblazer” of podcasting?
Just listened to sanitarium. Can confirm. Same riff, in a minor key. Everyone though Rivers was joking.
nice
MORE MORE MORE
I will always think of sanitarium when I hear sweater song now.
Weezer songs give me nostalgia for a life I've never lived.
Be cooler if he lifted the clean riff from Bleak House Rainbow Warrior.
what?! I always thought that was just a coincidence lol wow
This is Kurt, you cant convince me otherwise.
What do you mean by that?
Surprised Lars didn’t try to sue him.
At quick glance I thought it was Johnny Knoxville in the thumbnail
To me, Rivers has the face of Johnny Knoxville but the body of Fred Armisen.
how the heck this guy still looks young? He beat Jared Leto, Keanu Reeves and even Paul Rudd!
Hey, umm.. did you hear about the party after the show?
Aw man, it’s gonna be the best! I’m so stoked! Take it easy bro
0:16 at this point Conan didn’t realize what he just did 😉
He looks more like Johnny Knoxville than Johnny Knoxville looks like Johnny Knoxville
dude that's so weird I'm going to do a mix Metallica's my favorite band and I love Weezer too
Rivers never ages. He still looks 20, and he's what, 50?
I have never heard Rivers talk in 30 years of being a Weezer fan.
Wonder if his love of Metallica is why he bought a Boogie
Metallica/Weezer tour! 🤘🏼
The Feelies
Johnny Knoxville lookin good these days!
Hot take undone is a better riff than sanitarium. Not saying sanitarium is bad before the metallica fans come for me
GET 'IM, BOYS!
Weezer are such a great band. It's a shame they only made 2 albums.
O my God hahahahaha
TIL Conan knows about riffs
Authenticity
Studio is to dark 🌑
And Sanitarium was a rip off of Bleak House's Rainbow Warrior, in the early days they took a lot of riffs from the NWOBHM and Dave also hahahahahaha
can the question be any longer? OMG Ask it. . 30 year guy there.
Pinkerton is the best alternative rock album of all time.
I wish just for once he'd stop everything in the middle of an interview and just shout into the microphone -"Sorry, I just can't keep up the lie anymore. Yes, goddamnit, it's me! I'm Kurt Cobain. I just needed a break. I'm alive!' and then go back to the interview as usual
yes, with a lot of imagination you can see this connection. but i know what he means. i've written a few songs over the years and i have exactly the same thoughts on some of them as he does. However, only I can see that and no one else :-)
"You have such a unique sound." "So yeah, we straight stole that riff from Metallica."
When I saw Limp Bizkit with Metallica, they covered 2 Metallica songs. It was weird.
Just love Weezer ❤
Sweater song is more of a nirvana "paper cuts" bite, than metallica .
Oh that's why Metallica is greatest influence including The HU, the Mongolia folk/metal band!!
I love early Weezer, but they definitely ripped off Pavement’s sound.
I'm 1 minute in, Rivers hasn't answered the question yet. I'm guessing he's gonna say Undone (The Sweater Song) was influenced by Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
😂
Weezer also stole The Joker from the Steve Miller Band and made it into Beverly Hills