Which songs do you wish they‘d re-record?

There are Weezer songs that are genuinely great, but unfortunately the final recording just didn’t do them justice. You can often tell because there are leaked demos out there that feel much closer to the direction the song should have gone in.

So, which songs would you like to see Weezer re-record?

For me, it would be the entire Van Weezer album. I really don’t understand how the execution of such a cool idea went so wrong. They wanted to make an ’80s rock album, but they produced it like a pop record. The whole thing needed much bigger, more aggressive guitars, and the drums could have leaned much harder into that ’80s sound as well. As it is, the album just feels strangely powerless, even though the songs themselves are often pretty good. And of course, someone should have been the voice of reason and kept “Crazy Train” away from “Blue Dream.”

Another obvious one for me is “Can’t Stop Partying.” The acoustic version has a completely different vibe from the version they ultimately released, and I actually think it works much better.

I also really like “Haunt You Every Day” in the version made by the YouTube user AlmostWeezer, which has a sound that’s much more reminiscent of Pinkerton.

Other than that, there are quite a few songs like Pacific Sunset, I Was Made For You or Since You Came Around that could have been put to much better use than as a bridge in a throwaway song.