You know what... fuck it... I really appreciate this album.
It's gloriously schizophrenic, in both style and quality. Half of it is some of the best latter-day Weezer I've ever heard, and the other half is absurdly bad. After a pop-trifecta like Troublemaker, Greatest Man.., and Pork and Beans - it crashes, head first, with a double-bill of trifling garbage (Heart Songs, Everybody Gets Dangerous)
And it doesn't really regain that momentum it started out with... Dreamin' is perfectly acceptable, though not exceptional... Cold Dark World is probably an in-joke that I'm not in on, because it's fucking terrible...
But, if you get the bonus tracks, you get one of the best Weezer songs in years.... Miss Sweeney.... just fucking glorious, in every regard... it's a wholly new beast that still sounds lovingly familiar.
Rock.