Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” turns 27 this year, released as a single on July 13, 1995
Weezer’s "Say It Ain’t So" turns 27 this year, released as a single on July 13, 1995 from OldSchoolCool
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This is very random.
“My love is elasticaaaa”
Sophomore or junior year of college – great album.
How am I so old
I just cried to this on my way home tonight lmao
Loved this song. The slow motion hacky sack circle is the epitome of the mid 90s.
Flip on the telly, wrestle with Jimmy.
My go-to karaoke song
I remember my neighbor letting me borrow the blue album on CD. Repeat for weeks. Great memories.
Blue Album is such a solid record.
30 years later I’d rather listen to a 30 year old Weezer song than a 30 year old U2 song.
27? Say it ain’t so.
Was at the Blue Album debut show in Hollywood. Good times.
Gee I can’t wait for all the All Star posts in a couple years…
What are you talking about? This song is like ten years old……Right?
Holy fuck. I’m a dinosaur.
I remember the video for “Buddy Holly” was included on Windows 95! I think?
This videos environment takes me back immediately to college house parties.
90s forever. Americas peak.
1995 was such a big year. Gen-Xers like me were in our 20s. Even though Cobain died in 1994, grunge and alternative rock music was surging. Of course, we called everything that wasn’t pop, “alternative”. Gen-X were getting blasted in the media for being slackers and apathetic and unkempt. Then in 1995, my hometown got its own alternative rock radio station and I heard Weezer, Jane’s Addiction, Alannis Morisette, Everclear, The Toadies, etc. et beautiful cetera. From at least my perspective, 1995 was when Gen-X invaded the culture on our own terms.
Then everyone forgot about us again about 6 years later. The End.
Thank you, I needed this🙂
Didn’t the blue album come out in 1994 tho? So technically this song turns 28 this year.
Sponge “Rotting Piñata”, “jagged little pill”, the Blue Album, Mellon Collie…goddamn that was a good year.
Yeah sorry, the math is wrong. This wasn’t 27 years ago. I refuse to believe it.
I was 16 in 95. *softly weeps*
What in the actual fuck???? How am I getting old so fast????
Epic album. Shame they only made that and Pinkerton.
Alice in Chains unplugged.
The absolute despair seeing 1995 things being described as old school. Might as well start shopping for a coffin
I saw them in concert in August of 95 with That Dog opening for them. It was right before I started my senior year in high school. Imagine how good that concert was when all they played was songs from the Blue album. That’s pretty much all they had then. The set wasn’t very long but it was awesome. It was the second concert I had ever been to. I saw The Beach Boys the night before. It was an amazing weekend.
Weezer is a great live band and I have seen them seven more times since then.
The first cd I bought was weezers blue album and it slapped from start to finish, I’d later find out how rare that is for an album to be that good all the way through
27 years ago from 1995 is 1968
Pretty weird to think about
So weird to post a 2 minute clip instead of the whole song. And yes this album rules
This was at the end of an era no social media, only a select few had cell phones, most people didn’t have internet if you did it was Dial Up, arcades were still popular. People felt more genuine it was weird I can’t really describe it you had to be there. I do enjoy life now though a lot of things I don’t miss like watching MTV all day waiting for the Weezer music video, only to miss it when I went to use the bathroom. Now I can just hop on YouTube and watch it endlessly. Don’t get me started on the TV Guide Channel.
My dad was 14 👍🏻 i was not even a thought then
Me and bros used to tear this shit up on Rock Band. These kids today don’t know what true happiness is
This was one of the few albums I was able to put on and listen front to back in high school.
Oh snap. Play that DEMO-OOWOAH
I was talking to someone about how crazy music was in the last half of the 90’s the other day. Clubs of all genres were packed at least 4 nights a week. The rave scene was just winding down and trip hop was coming up from its ashes. All the 80’s hair metal was in the arenas and metal and punk festivals were going off. Deathmetal, Hardcore and Grindcore/Powerviolence were emerging from the underground punk world. Hip hop had gone full mainstream and a ton of local scenes were taking over cities through the radio. Pop music boy band/girl band stuff was going hard for the kids. Even gaming and movies were having a golden age. Then we got Columbined and 9/11’d. Politics became more than save the planet and let gays marry and turned into endless war. Phones were inserted into everyone’s ass and then Facebook appeared as MTV died and journalism went too. Shits dumb now and music is made by the same 12 producers ripping each other off hiring a rotation of singers to auto tune over a recycled beat with few exceptions. Kids don’t know the difference and haven’t lived long enough to see it because they’ve never known anything else. I think this shit bubble is bursting tho and cool shit is on the horizon as this tail end of gen z is over the other ends bullshit.
i fingered my first girlfriend to this song 😅
It’s as if this entire sub Reddit exists just to make me feel ancient. Let’s all pretend it’s only been 10 years, OK? Just ten. That’s sounds fair, right?
In high school several of my friends were in a band and every year they were the high light of the show. The choir director hated them because she wanted her choir to be the center of attention. Our senior year she tried not allowing them to be in show. “Too many bands” she said. The school protested and a petition to have them perform quickly circulated. The first signature was the principal’s. They were ultimately allowed in the show. They were the last act and were supposed to play their song and then sort of jam while all the other acts came out for the final bow. On the last night of the show, they performed their song (an original) and then segued right into say it ain’t so. Everyone knew what they had done and the place erupted. I was back stage with the school jazz band and remember the choir director wanting to cut them off but the principal stopped her and said “Let them have their fun”. It was fantastic
One of those friends passed away recently. He was an immensely talented musician. He struggled for much of his life to find a place in this world but on that night he was a true rock star. I will never hear this song again and not think about him and that night.