Trivia / Weezer (The Green Album)

• Creator Breakdown:
  • The reason for the album's Lighter and Softer sound is that the critical and commercial failure of Pinkerton combined with the deaths of friends and Weezer fan club founders Mykel and Carli emotionally devastated Rivers to the point where he shut himself away for years. When he returned to Weezer, he intentionally steered the band's sound in a more commercial and easily digestible direction to re-capture their prior commercial success.
  • This was the only Weezer album to feature Mikey Welsh. After the band wrapped up recording and the subsequent tour, Mikey would suffer a mental breakdown and be checked into a psychiatric hospital, explaining his absence from the "Island in the Sun" video. After a brief stint in the band The Kickovers, he would retire from the music industry altogether to pursue a career in art. He would die from a drug overdose about ten years later.
• Hitless Hit Album: Despite selling near two million copies in the US alone, none of the album's three singles ("Hash Pipe", "Island In The Sun", and "Photograph") charted on the Billboard Hot 100.^note The former two charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at 6 and 11, respectively.
  • Despite this, all three still performed well on the Billboard rock charts, with "Hash Pipe" peaking at an at-the-time career best #2 on the Modern Rock chart.
• What Could Have Been: The album would've been much different than what we got, originally comprising of songs the band toured around during the year 2000 nicknamed by fans the Summer Songs of 2000. However, the label rejected every single song from the setlist (with the exception of "Hash Pipe" and "Brightening Day", the former becoming Green's lead single at Rivers' insistence and the latter being released as a B-Side). Rivers would later release Summer Songs of 2000 as a free official bootleg live album and two songs from the set, "Dope Nose" and "Slob" were resurrected for Maladroit.

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