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Description: One 24x36 individual posterPrinted with an official licenseBrand new and never hung - posters are going directly from licensee/printer/manufacturers to you!Shipped in a secure cardboard tubeWe accept returns, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed :-)Weezer (commonly known as the Blue Album) is the debut studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on May 10, 1994, by DGC Records. It was produced by Ric Ocasek of the Cars. Weezer formed in Los Angeles in 1992, and initially struggled to engage audiences, who were more interested in grunge. In November, they recorded a demo, The Kitchen Tape, which brought them to the attention of DGC owner Geffen Records. Weezer selected Ocasek to produce because of his work with the Cars. Most of the album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City between August and September 1993. The group treated the guitars and bass as a single, 10-string instrument, playing in unison. Guitarist Jason Cropper was fired during recording, as the band felt he was threatening their chemistry; he was replaced by Brian Bell. Weezer was supported by the singles "Undone – The Sweater Song", "Buddy Holly", and "Say It Ain't So", whose music videos became MTV hits. The album received critical acclaim and reached number sixteen on the US Billboard 200, later being certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1995. It remains Weezer's best-selling album, having sold at least 3.3 million copies in the U.S. and over 15 million copies worldwide by 2009. Often listed by critics as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s, Rolling Stone ranked Weezer number 294 on its “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list in 2020. BackgroundWeezer was formed on February 14, 1992, in Los Angeles by singer and guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Matt Sharp, and guitarist Jason Cropper.[8] Although they performed future hits including "Undone – The Sweater Song" and "Say It Ain't So", Cuomo said they struggled to engage audiences, who wanted to see grunge bands instead.[9] In an effort to create buzz around Los Angeles, Weezer recorded a demo, The Kitchen Tape.[10] This attracted attention from major-label A&R reps looking for alternative rock bands to perform on the same bill as That Dog.[11] Weezer were signed to DGC Records on June 26, 1993, by Todd Sullivan, an A&R rep from Geffen Records. RecordingWhile preparing for the studio sessions, Weezer focused on their vocal interplay by practicing barbershop quartet-style songs, which helped Cuomo and Sharp feel more comfortable collaborating during rehearsals. Sharp, who had never sung before joining Weezer, developed his falsetto: "I had to sing an octave higher than Rivers. After a lot of practice, I started to get it down." Weezer rehearsed 15 songs in New York City in preparation for the Electric Lady Studios sessions. Four songs from this rehearsal would not be attempted for the album: "I Swear It's True", "Getting Up and Leaving" (which would both later appear on the deluxe edition of the band's second album Pinkerton), and a reprise version of "In the Garage". Another song, "Mykel and Carli", an ode to two women who ran the Weezer fanclub, was recorded. Weezer later recorded another version of "Mykel and Carli" as a B-side for the single "Undone – The Sweater Song", with the Weezer collaborator Karl Koch. Weezer considered self-producing, but were pressured by Geffen to choose a producer. They decided on Ric Ocasek, who had played with the Cars.[15] Ocasek convinced them to switch their guitar pickups from the neck to the bridge, resulting in a brighter sound.[15] Sharp and Cuomo imposed several rules on recording, banning reverb and insisting on all downstrokes on guitar.[16] According to the engineer Chris Shaw, the "overriding concept" was to treat the guitars and bass as a single, 10-string instrument, playing in unison. Weezer insisted that the guitars were mixed as loudly as those in Radiohead's 1992 song "Creep", burying some vocals.[16] During the recording, Cropper learned that his girlfriend was pregnant and began acting erratically. Koch said: "He wasn't handling it well … He always said he was fine, and then 20 minutes later he'd be up on the roof of Electric Lady screaming or something."[17] Sharp said later that "whatever it is we were setting out to do, it felt like it was gonna be much more difficult if he stayed".[18] Sharp and Cuomo felt that Cropper would likely leave Weezer eventually and so wanted to remove him before the release of their debut, as they "wanted things to be very stable for the audience".[18] According to Cropper, Cuomo told him he could not allow him to jeopardize the work and asked him to leave.[17] In 2014, Cropper said Cuomo had made the right decision. Cropper left after recording was complete, and was replaced by Brian Bell.[18][14] While Bell's vocals appear on some tracks,[19] Cuomo re-recorded all of Cropper's guitar parts.[20] Ocasek recalled: "Rivers came in and said, 'I’m firing the guitar player, and I’m going to do all his guitar parts over.' I said, 'You can’t do that!' But he did. In one take."[21] Bell is credited for playing guitar in the liner notes, while Cropper received a credit on "My Name Is Jonas" for writing the intro. ArtworkThe album artwork, photographed by American glamour photographer Peter Gowland,[23][24] features Wilson, Cuomo, Sharp, and Bell standing in front of a plain, blue background.[25] Cuomo stated that, while the band liked the photo, Sharp was not happy with the way his head looked. A Geffen art director used Adobe Photoshop to swap out the head with one from another shot.[26] The image was used prominently in the advertising of the album.[27] The cover received many comparisons to that of the Feelies' album Crazy Rhythms, which Weezer had no prior knowledge of. Instead, according to band historian Karl Koch, Cuomo was inspired by the cover of a "super-cheap truck-stop Greatest Hits of the Beach Boys" cassette, which featured the Beach Boys with striped shirts in front of a blue background. The cover has become a part of Internet culture, with it being a center of many memes, usually accompanied by the song "Buddy Holly", from the album.

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