Your Awesome Sunday Vegetarian of Awesomeicity this evening is Rivers Cuomo, frontman of Weezer, the band that told us, “If it’s too loud, turn it down.”  Sage advice, friends.  Weezer, now, by my count, has released three self-titled albums, which is only semi-confusing.  The best video (possibly ever) came off of the first one, which is known as the Blue Album.  You know it, you love it: it’s “Buddy Holly.”

The next record is called Pinkerton, and it took a while for people to find its genius.  In it, Cuomo is a lot rawer, a lot angrier, and, really, a lot awesomer.  There are so many good songs off this album, and though my favorite is “Falling for You,” I think we’ll show you the video for “El Scorcho,” because it’s one of the catchier songs, oh, ever.

Following Pinkerton, Weezer went back to the self-titled records to make the Green Album, which also was a return to more straight-ahead rock, sans emotion.  The opening track on that album is “Photograph,” which I think is a pretty strong example of the whole album.

The Green Album was a pretty big hit, and was followed up by Maladroit, which I’m relatively sure not a whole lot of people got into.  But, BUT, the song “Keep Fishin’” on that record has a music video that stars the Muppets.  I don’t know what else you want in life.

I think that’s probably a good enough introduction to a band you probably already know a lot about.  But, I think you probably got your money’s worth on the “Buddy Holly” and “Keep Fishin’” videos.  Anyhow, as always, takepart and get your free vegetarian starter kit.