Editing Weezer (Green Album) (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{Music ratings
| MC = 73/100<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/weezer-2001/weezer |title=Reviews for Weezer [2001] by Weezer |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=September 10, 2007 |archive-date=October 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002034221/http://www.metacritic.com/music/weezer-2001/weezer |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/weezer-green-album-mw0000719526 |title=Weezer [Green Album] – Weezer |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=November 24, 2007 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322203939/https://www.allmusic.com/album/weezer-green-album-mw0000719526 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Drowned in Sound]]''
| rev2score = 9/10<ref>{{cite web |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2574/reviews/1072 |title=Album Review: Weezer – The Green Album |work=[[Drowned in Sound]] |date=May 14, 2001 |access-date=August 16, 2012 |last=Bezer |first=Terry |archive-date=April 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410133535/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2574/reviews/1072 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = B+<ref name="ew">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2001/05/18/weezer-green-album |title=Weezer (The Green Album) |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=May 18, 2001 |access-date=May 3, 2012 |last=Serpick |first=Evan |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111062714/https://ew.com/article/2001/05/18/weezer-green-album/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''
| rev4score = 4/5<ref name="hc">{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/music/article/A-taste-for-the-Green-2908907.php |title=A taste for the 'Green' |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |date=June 17, 2001 |access-date=April 24, 2017 |last=Chonin |first=Neva |archive-date=April 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425025350/http://www.chron.com/music/article/A-taste-for-the-Green-2908907.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The New Zealand Herald]]''
| rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="nz">{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=198897 |title=Weezer: Weezer |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=July 7, 2001 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |last=Bailie |first=Russell |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111062714/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/iweezer-iweezer/IQECUPR7RUPVOG37OIDWDNRXRA/?c_id=6&objectid=198897 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6score = 5/10<ref name="nme">{{cite journal |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/weezer/5107 |title=Weezer : The Green Album |journal=[[NME]] |date=May 24, 2001 |access-date=August 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065454/http://www.nme.com/reviews/weezer/5107 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |last=Dempster |first=Sarah |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev7score = 4.0/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8611-weezer-green-album/ |title=Weezer: Weezer (Green Album) |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=May 14, 2001 |access-date=December 10, 2007 |last=Owen |first=Spencer |archive-date=March 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318124401/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8611-weezer-green-album/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev8score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Weezer: Weezer |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=179 |date=August 2001 |page=142}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="rs">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/weezer-2001-20010514 |title=Geek Love, Undying |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=870 |date=June 7, 2001 |page=110 |access-date=February 15, 2017 |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080714124335/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/weezer/albums/album/103502/review/6068112/weezer_2001 |archive-date=July 14, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Slant Magazine]]''
| rev10score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="slant">{{cite web |url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/weezer-weezer-the-green-album |title=Weezer: Weezer (The Green Album) |work=[[Slant Magazine]] |date=May 15, 2001 |access-date=November 24, 2007 |last=Cinquemani |first=Sal |archive-date=August 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815091700/http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/weezer-weezer-the-green-album |url-status=live }}</ref>
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''Weezer'' received generally favorable reviews. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an [[Weighted mean|average]] score of 73 out of 100.<ref name="Metacritic" /> Reviewing the album for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Rob Sheffield]] wrote that the band had made "a totally crunk geek-punk record, buzzing through ten excellent tunes in less than half an hour with zero filler".<ref name="rs" /> [[AllMusic]] senior writer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] wrote that while ''Weezer'' is essentially "just [[pop punk|punk-pop]], delivered without much dynamic range but with a whole lot of hooks", "nobody else" excels at the style as successfully as Weezer does on the album, which he felt ranked among the best rock records of 2001.<ref name="allmusic" /> ''Rolling Stone'' described the ''Green Album'' as the "anti-''Pinkerton''", with album art and "squeaky-clean" production that recalled Weezer's debut.<ref name=":22">{{Cite magazine|last=Braun|first=Laura Marie|date=September 23, 2016|title=How Weezer's 'Pinkerton' Went From Embarrassing to Essential|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-weezers-pinkerton-went-from-embarrassing-to-essential-w441144|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=New York City|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|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 was compared to the 1999 film ''[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace]]'' by Rob Mitchum of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', who stated "Both sci-fi epic and alt-rock record were long-awaited events that had even the most jaded hipster hopping around like a small child with a full bladder."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mitchum |first1=Rob |title=Maladroit |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8613-maladroit/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=May 12, 2022 |date=May 27, 2002 |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111062732/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8613-maladroit/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Neva Chonin of the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' called it "a sublime selection of [[power pop|power-pop]] songs with enough lyrical ballast to keep them from floating away on their own euphoria".<ref name="hc" /> ''[[PopMatters]]'' critic Jason Thompson credited the band for their decision to have Ric Ocasek return as producer,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/weezer-st-2496117571.html |title=Weezer: Weezer ("The Green Album") |work=[[PopMatters]] |date=May 14, 2001 |access-date=December 10, 2007 |last=Thompson |first=Jason |archive-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817194749/https://www.popmatters.com/weezer-st-2496117571.html |url-status=live }}</ref> as did ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s Evan Serpick, who viewed the album as "a return to their winning formula of sugary power pop and smart-assed rants".<ref name="ew" /> Russell Bailie of ''[[The New Zealand Herald]]'' remarked that "the self-conscious nerd-factor of old seems largely and happily absent" on an album that "sounds like a revitalisation with a hint of maturity".<ref name="nz" />

Writing in ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', [[Stephen Thompson (journalist)|Stephen Thompson]] found that ''Weezer'' "feels a bit repetitive and perfunctory the first time through", but "nonetheless finds Weezer sounding revitalized in every way."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/weezer-weezer-the-green-album-1798192670 |title=Weezer: Weezer (The Green Album) |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=May 15, 2001 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |last=Thompson |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Thompson (journalist) |archive-date=March 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302094747/https://music.avclub.com/weezer-weezer-the-green-album-1798192670 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Slant Magazine]]''{{'}}s Sal Cinquemani described it as "fillerless" and without "much to complain about", despite the lack of songs that "hit the spot" like the singles from Weezer's debut.<ref name="slant" /> ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' critic Spencer Owen was more critical, finding the album "average from beginning to end" and lacking in the "sense of dynamics and intricacy that ''Pinkerton'' – and especially their debut – held in spades".<ref name="pitchfork" /> Sarah Dempster from ''[[NME]]'' was similarly disappointed: "The most irritating aspect of the ''Green Album'' is... the maddening itch of wasted opportunity."<ref name="nme" />

''Weezer'' placed at number 21 on ''[[The Village Voice]]''{{'}}s year-end [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll for 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres01.php |title=The 2001 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=February 12, 2002 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227103827/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres01.php |url-status=live }}</ref> The album ranked at number 3 in ''[[Drowned in Sound]]''{{'}}s list of the best albums of 2001,<ref name="Drowned In Sound">{{cite web |url=http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/2910-dis-album-of-the-year-you-must-be-joking-the-best-of-2001 |title=DiS Album of the year? you must be joking! – The Best of 2001 |work=[[Drowned in Sound]] |date=January 15, 2002 |access-date=November 3, 2012 |last=Appleby |first=Ollie |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106113930/http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/2910-dis-album-of-the-year-you-must-be-joking-the-best-of-2001 |url-status=dead }}</ref> while ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' named it the year's ninth best album.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXGw14ml_M4C&pg=PA76 |title=Albums of the Year |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=18 |issue=1 |date=January 2002 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |pages=76–77 |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111062733/https://books.google.com/books?id=wXGw14ml_M4C&pg=PA76 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' and ''Rolling Stone'' both listed it as one of the best albums of the year.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Best 50 Albums of 2001 |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=185 |date=December 2001 |pages=60–65}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=439 |title=The Best of the Rest |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=March 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020221191159/http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=439 |archive-date=February 21, 2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s Laura Marie Braun wrote in 2016 that the success of ''Weezer'' helped give Rivers Cuomo an "ego boost" after the initial lukewarm critical reception to ''Pinkerton'', which in turn helped him reconcile his own conflicted feelings about that album.<ref name=":2" />