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Maladroit
Maladroit cover
Studio album by Weezer
Released May 14, 2002
Recorded December 2001 at Cello Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Alternative rock
Length 33:43
Label Geffen
Producer Weezer, with Chad Bamford, Rod Cervera
Professional reviews
Weezer chronology
Weezer
(2001)		 Maladroit
(2002)		 The Lion and the Witch
(2002)

Maladroit (pronounced mălə-droit', meaning either inept or an inept person) is the fourth album by Weezer. It was released on May 14, 2002 (see 2002 in music), nearly a year to the day after their previous album was released, and was the first Weezer album to stray from the 10 song per album "tradition". Maladroit features heavy metal riffs, uncommon to Weezer's previous releases. It was also the first Weezer album to include lyrics in the booklet. Maladroit is Weezer's first album with band member Scott Shriner.

As of October 2005, the album had sold 590,718 copies in the United States,[1] having reached a high of #3 on the Billboard 200 and quickly going gold. Yet its chart stay was relatively brief, making Maladroit Weezer's least successful album commercially.

The first 600,000 copies of the album are specifically numbered, and located on the back of the CD case near the lower right-hand corner.[2]

Contents

For their 4th album Weezer attempted an innovative system in which they'd release demos in MP3 format on their weezer.com website every day while in the studio working on Maladroit.[3] This resulted in dozens of different versions of over thirty different songs circulating on the Internet before the album was released.

The idea was to keep solid communication open with their fan base on their official message board as well as, more crucially, on unofficial messageboards such as the Rivers Correspondent Board (which was closed to the public at Cuomo's request, chiefly so that members of the press could not gain access). Yet front man Rivers Cuomo and the fans strongly disagreed on a number of creative things. One thing they did agree on was bringing back the old summer 2000 song "Slob" for use on the album. Cuomo commented "I never would have thought to put the song "Slob" on the record if the fans did not request it."[4] Regardless of disagreements though, Weezer fans are still "specially thanked" in the album's liner notes and the album title itself was suggested by a boardie on the Weezer message boards going by the screen name of Lethe.[5]

The band's uploading of MP3 demos onto their website resulted in many major radio stations playing the still unreleased (and sometimes unfinished) songs on the radio for the masses to hear.[5][6] In the week it was leaked to radio stations, the leadoff single "Dope Nose" reached #25 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart without an official single having been issued.

Yet the airplay resulted in a gag order being issued by Geffen Records in which they wanted Weezer to return the master tapes from the Maladroit sessions and apologize to each radio station that played the song.[7][8] The band resisted though, citing that they had funded all the sessions themselves and the apologizing bit was pointless.[9] The fans resisted as well, forming an online group called Unreleased Weezer for the Masses that rallied for the release of the album.[10]

Perhaps as a result of the strong disagreement with fans during Cuomo's time in this era, the album has some slight lyrical jabs at the fans, most notably on "American Gigolo" ("if you hate this/I can't blame you") and "Space Rock" ("you wanna cry/when you're dealing with the kids/they know it all/and they're pinning you to boards.").[11] Twenty-five unreleased songs from the Maladroit sessions can still be found on the Internet.

The hit songs "Dope Nose" and "Hash Pipe" (off The Green Album) were both written using the same method, on the same night. The story goes that Rivers took "a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila" to write the songs.[12][13]

All songs by Rivers Cuomo.

  1. "American Gigolo" – 2:42
  2. "Dope Nose" – 2:17
  3. "Keep Fishin'" – 2:52
  4. "Take Control" – 3:05
  5. "Death and Destruction" – 2:38
  6. "Slob" – 3:09
  7. "Burndt Jamb" – 2:39
  8. "Space Rock" – 1:53
  9. "Slave" – 2:53
  10. "Fall Together" – 2:02
  11. "Possibilities" – 2:00
  12. "Love Explosion" – 2:35
  13. "December" – 2:59

"Living Without You" is the lone b-side from Maladroit and as of August 2007, the most recent officially released Weezer b-side.

"Slave" was originally going to be the second single off Maladroit. In its place, "Keep Fishin'" was released.

The European version of Maladroit features "Island In The Sun" from The Green Album as a bonus track. Some of the European issues also have the b-side "Living Without You" between "December" and "Island In The Sun" on it.

During touring in 2002 bassist Scott Shriner would often play an extended bass intro that would lead into "Burndt Jamb," which can be heard on the B-side of the "We Are All on Drugs" single. During tours in 2005, Shriner would take lead vocal duties on "Dope Nose" and "Fall Together." Brian Bell would take lead vocal duties on "Keep Fishin'." The band also would occasionally play "Death & Destruction" as an instrumental.

Although some Weezer fans were averse towards the direction that the band took with this album, most professional critic reviews for the album were positive,[14] with Spin Magazine going as far as to call it the 6th best album of 2002.[15] and Rolling Stone readers voting it as the 8th best of the year[16] and in a Rolling Stone readers poll it was voted the 91st greatest album of all-time.[17]

Chart Peak position
Billboard 200 3[18]
UK Top 40 13[19]
Sweden 22[20]
Norway 4[21]
Finland 11[22]
Netherlands 95[23]

Year Song Peak positions
US Modern Rock
[24]		 US
Main-
stream Rock
[24]		 US
Bill-
board
Hot 100
[24]		 UK
Top 40
[19]		 Sweden
[25]		 Finland
[26]
2002 "Dope Nose" 8 – – – – –
2002 "Keep Fishin'" 15 – – 29 – –

All information is taken from the CD.[11]

  • Chad Bamford - Producer, Engineer
  • Brian Bell - Guitar, Vocals
  • Christopher Carroll - Engineer
  • Rod Cervera - Producer
  • Rivers Cuomo - Guitar, Vocals
  • Femio Hernández - Assistant Engineer
  • Graham Holmes - Production Coordination
  • Tom Lord-Alge - Mixing
  • Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
  • Chris McPherson - Photography
  • Craig Montgomery - House Sound
  • Darren Mora - Assistant Engineer
  • Sean Murphy - Photography
  • Francesca Restrepo - Art Direction
  • Jordan Schur - Executive Producer
  • Scott Shriner - Bass, Vocals
  • Todd Sullivan - A&R
  • Weezer - Producer
  • Patrick Wilson - Drums

  1. ^ For The Statistically Minded. Glorious Noise. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
  2. ^ Luerssen D., John. Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story. ECW Press, 2004, ISBN 1-55022-619-3 p. 432
  3. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 398
  4. ^ Odder Than Hell. Guitar World. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  5. ^ a b Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 405
  6. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 406
  7. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 410
  8. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 411
  9. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 413
  10. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 412
  11. ^ a b Maladroit booklet and liner notes
  12. ^ Eliscu, Jenny. Rivers Cuomo's Encyclopedia of Pop. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  13. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 420
  14. ^ Weezer: Maladroit (2002): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
  15. ^ Best Albums of 2002. Spin Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  16. ^ Rolling Stone Readers' Top Ten of 2002. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  17. ^ 2002 Rolling Stone Readers' 100. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  18. ^ Billboard 200. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  19. ^ a b UK album chart archives. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  20. ^ Sweden Chart Archives. swedishcharts.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  21. ^ Norway Chart Archives. norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  22. ^ Finnish Chart Archives. finnishcharts.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  23. ^ Netherlands album chart archives. dutchcharts.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  24. ^ a b c Weezer Artist Chart History. Billboard. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  25. ^ Swedish album chart archives. hitparad.se. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
  26. ^ Finland Charts. finnishcharts.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.

v • d • e
Weezer
Brian Bell · Rivers Cuomo · Scott Shriner · Patrick Wilson
Jason Cropper · Matt Sharp · Mikey Welsh
Albums Weezer (The Blue Album) · Pinkerton · Weezer (The Green Album) · Maladroit · Make Believe · Untitled
EPs The Good Life · The Lion and the Witch · Winter Weezerland
DVD Video Capture Device
Singles "Undone - The Sweater Song" · "Buddy Holly" · "Say It Ain't So" · "El Scorcho" · "The Good Life" · "Pink Triangle" · "Hash Pipe" · "Island in the Sun" · "Photograph" · "Dope Nose" · "Keep Fishin'" · "Beverly Hills" · "We Are All on Drugs" · "Perfect Situation" · "This Is Such a Pity"
Related bands The Rentals · The Special Goodness · The Relationship · Avant Garde · Homie · Karlophone · Space Twins
Related articles Discography · Karl Koch · Songs from the Black Hole · The Kitchen Tapes · Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo  · Foozer
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