Released May 10, 1994. Presented below: 10 factoids you need to know.
"Blue" was produced by Ric Ocasek (right), frontman for New Wave icons The Cars. He would later produce Weezer's third record, the so-called Green Album.
It was recorded at NYC's famed Electric Lady Studios between August and October of 1993. The band rehearsed 15 songs and recorded 11, of which 10 would find a home on the album.
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Released on DGC Records less than a month after the death of label mate Kurt Cobain, the album sold 90 copies in its first week. Sales for the album in the years since: 3.3 million. In recording industry parlance, that's triple platinum!
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Designed by Karl Koch from an idea by Rivers Cuomo, Weezer’s album art drew numerous comparisons to a post-punk classic, The Feelies’ “Crazy Rythms” (1980), but the similarities were coincidental.
