After Weezer recorded the Blue Album, they went on tour and pumped a lot of cooch. So much cooch in fact, that Rivers immediately switched from navel-gazing neurotic worry wart who pines after girls to navel-gazing drama queen who gets girls but still pines for true love. It was during this time that he hunkered down and recorded literally the best album in the world.

Well, not exactly hunkered down. First thing he did with all that sweet cash was he had an operation to have his freakishly truncated leg surgically extended to match his other one (which was apparently like 2 inches longer). This required him getting a giant iron crank put where his knee is, and literally winding it a little bit every day for a year, so that his leg is extended like a millimeter, then grows/heals around the crank, only to have to wind the crank again/re-extend the leg the next day. Smiley-time this ain't.

:'(

Plus Rivers was loping around Harvard with a cane as a grad student with a giant Unabomber beard, secretly hoping girls would want to do him, and having to deal with the fact that nobody even recognized him because of his giant Unabomber beard. Once all this added up, it was sieved through Rivers' Edge, and he wrote the greatest rock album of the last 20 years. To wit!

Butterfly: is the girl a butterfly or a bitch? Are you a dog or a robin? Make up your mind!

Weird time signatures!

The classic "WHOOO'OOOAAAA" is wailed like 3 times in every song!

Across The Sea: No less than 4 key changes in the bridge!

3x Radical jams:

TIRED OF SEX

WAITING ON YOU

PINK TRIANGLE (Live at Shorecrest High School)

*super happy funtime bonuses:
1) does anyone want to read a Harvard essay by Rivers about internet dating, Friendster, a Letters to Penthouse style dry-humping story, and contains the sentence “How does that feel, baby?” I said, fondling her elbow? I tried reading it but couldn't get beyond page 6.

2) friend request him, so he can turn you down. Apparently he's buddy-buddy with self-admitted chronic masturbator/comic artist Joe Matt!