Editing Weezer (Green Album) (section)

== Packaging ==
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| quote="I set out to design the package exactly how I would want it, and it just turns out that it's very similar to the first album. I'm the same person as I was then, pretty much. I have the same taste so I don't see why it should be different."<ref name="page 326" />
| source = — Rivers Cuomo discussing the artwork of ''Weezer''.
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Art direction was handled by Chris Bilheimer with photography from Marina Chavez and [[Karl Koch (Weezer assistant)|Karl Koch]].<ref name="booklet">{{cite AV media notes| title = Weezer| others= Weezer| year = 2001| type = liner| publisher = [[Geffen Records]]}}</ref> It is similar to the cover art of Weezer's debut album.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-weezers-pinkerton-went-from-embarrassing-to-essential-w441144|title=How Weezer's 'Pinkerton' Went From Embarrassing to Essential|last=Braun|first=Laura Marie|date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=Rolling Stone|access-date=December 29, 2016|archive-date=December 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230000711/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-weezers-pinkerton-went-from-embarrassing-to-essential-w441144|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The album cover was shot between band practices and featured Welsh, Cuomo, Bell and Wilson standing left to right in front of a plain, lime-green backdrop in a manner similar to the band's debut album. This was done as a tribute to [[Ric Ocasek]], who had also produced their first album,<ref name="page 326">[[#luerssen|Luerssen (2004)]], p. 326.</ref> and also to symbolize the band's back-to-basics approach they took while recording the album.<ref name="page 326" /> This approach is alluded to in a quote in the [[liner notes]] of the album: "Torniamo all'antico e sarà un progresso",<ref name="booklet" /><ref name="harv">{{cite news | last =Field | first =Thalia | url =http://www.theharvardcrimson.com/article/2002/2/22/the-grass-is-always-greener-for/ | title =The Grass Is Always Greener For Rivers Cuomo | newspaper =[[Harvard Crimson]] | access-date =February 12, 2008 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110717002801/http://www.theharvardcrimson.com/article/2002/2/22/the-grass-is-always-greener-for/ | archive-date =July 17, 2011 | url-status =dead }}</ref><ref name="page 343">[[#luerssen|Luerssen (2004)]], p. 343.</ref> from Italian opera composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]] that means "Let us return to old times and that will be progress."<ref name="Torniamo">{{cite web  | last = Songfacts staff  | title = Hash Pipe by Weezer Songfacts  | publisher = Songfacts  | url = http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1405  | access-date = September 19, 2010  | archive-date = June 14, 2011  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110614004628/http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1405  | url-status = live  }}</ref>

The picture inside of the [[CD]] booklet is a photo of Weezer playing live, featuring (in the lower right hand corner) an overlay of the silhouettes of [[Mike Nelson (character)|Mike Nelson]], [[Tom Servo]] and [[Crow T. Robot]] from the television show ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. (Hence the liner note citation "MST3K silhouette appears courtesy of [[Best Brains]], Inc.")<ref name="booklet" />

This was Weezer's first album to feature a transparent CD tray. Under the CD tray of the album, the word "No" can be found on the back of the spine.<ref name="bookletline">{{cite AV media notes| title= Weezer| others= Weezer| year = 2001| type = tray insert| publisher = [[Geffen Records]]}}</ref> Some fans speculate that this is a response to the inside tray of [[Radiohead]]'s album ''[[OK Computer]]'' which contains the text "I like you. I like you. You are a wonderful person. I'm full of enthusiasm. I'm going places. I'll be happy to help you. I am an important person, would you like to come home with me?"<ref name="bookletok">{{cite AV media notes| title = OK Computer| title-link= OK Computer| others= Radiohead| year = 1997| type = tray insert| publisher= [[Parlophone]]}}</ref> Weezer's explanation was vague, with webmaster Karl Koch stating "No means no."<ref name="FAQ">{{cite web | last = Koch | first = Karl | url = http://weezer.com/contact/#greenalbum | title = Frequently Asked Questions |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414224900/http://www.weezer.com/contact/ |archive-date=April 14, 2008 | publisher =Weezer.com | access-date = December 17, 2007}}</ref>

The album contains the dedication "In loving memory of Mykel and Carli." Mykel and Carli Allan were sisters devoted to developing fan clubs for up-and-coming bands.<ref name="central">{{cite web | url=http://www.tprice.net/disco/weezer/green.html|title=Weezer Discography – Weezer (Green)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929002444/http://www.tprice.net/disco/weezer/green.html|archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=October 29, 2007 |publisher=Music Discography Central}}</ref>  The sisters had been influential in starting and developing Weezer's official fan club in the 1990s and, along with their younger sister Trysta, died in a car crash in 1997.<ref name="MykelCarli">{{cite web| last =Steininger| first =Alex| url =http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/15r27.html| title =HEAR YOU ME! A Tribute To Mykel and Carli| publisher =In Music We Trust| access-date =January 7, 2011| archive-date =March 8, 2012| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120308091700/http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/15r27.html| url-status =live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.vastrecords.com/mandc.html | title = A pictoral tribute to the Allan Sisters | publisher = Vast Records | access-date = January 7, 2011 | archive-date = January 26, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110126235443/http://www.vastrecords.com/mandc.html | url-status = live }}</ref>