{"id":481289,"date":"2019-01-24T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783837"},"modified":"2019-01-24T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:21:29","slug":"flashback-weezer-cover-radioheads-paranoid-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-weezer-cover-radioheads-paranoid-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Weezer Cover Radiohead\u2019s \u2018Paranoid Android\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rivers-cuomo-weezer-2011-radiohead.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A little after midnight last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/weezer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weezer\" data-tag=\"weezer\">Weezer<\/a> shocked their fans by dropping a new album of cover songs. Since they\u2019ve basically ran out of colors at this point, they\u2019re calling this one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/weezer-africa-covers-lp-the-teal-album-783780\/\"><em>The Teal Album<\/em>.<\/a> It begins with their shock comeback hit \u201cAfrica\u201d and then gets into Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBillie Jean,\u201d Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cParanoid,\u201d Ben E. King\u2019s \u201cStand By Me\u201d and even TLC\u2019s \u201cNo Scrubs\u201d in addition to many others.<\/p>\n<p>The album is especially surprising since they\u2019re going to release <em>The Black Album<\/em> on March 1st, which is produced by TV on the Radio\u2019s Dave Sitek. \u201cIt\u2019s so cool, man,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rivers-cuomo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rivers-cuomo\" data-tag=\"rivers-cuomo\">Rivers Cuomo<\/a> recently told <em>Rolling Stone.<\/em> \u201cDave is close to our age, but he\u2019s from the completely other side of the alternative Nineties. His point of reference is more Beck and the Beastie Boys, which is so different from where I was coming from with the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins side of alt-rock. I\u2019m stoked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The past few Weezer albums haven\u2019t generated much mainstream attention, but things feel different now in the aftermath of \u201cAfrica.\u201d The Toto cover \u2014 which they recorded on a lark after getting egged on by Twitter \u2014 became their biggest hit since \u201cPerfect Situation\u201d in 2005. It even got them airplay on Top 40 radio, which has basically ignored them completely ever since \u201cBeverly Hills\u201d fell off the charts. They\u2019re riding the momentum into another tour with the Pixies this year where they\u2019ll play Madison Square Garden for the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/radiohead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_radiohead\" data-tag=\"radiohead\">Radiohead<\/a> have worked a popular cover song into their live show. Over the years, they\u2019ve tackled \u201cMorning Glory\u201d by Oasis, \u201cShould I Stay or Should I Go\u201d by the Clash, Pumped Up Kicks by \u201cFoster the People\u201d and \u201cTime\u201d by Pink Floyd. Here\u2019s a video of them doing Radiohead\u2019s \u201cParanoid Android\u201d in 2011. It was a regular part of their live show back then, but they couldn\u2019t possibly have imagined that, seven years later, they\u2019d take a song by a band on the opposite end of the critical respect spectrum and ride it to yet another huge comeback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/weezer-cover-radiohead-paranoid-android-783837\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little after midnight last night, Weezer shocked their fans by dropping a new album of cover songs. Since they\u2019ve basically ran out of colors at this point, they\u2019re calling this one The Teal Album. It begins with their shock comeback hit \u201cAfrica\u201d and then gets into Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBillie Jean,\u201d Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cParanoid,\u201d Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:28:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}