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Hasief Ardiasyah | Jakarta, Indonesia | 03/13/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I was happy back in 2002, when I heard that Weezer members other than Rivers Cuomo would be contributing songs for their fifth album. Though that plan was abandoned, Brian Bell's 'Yellow Camaro' was my favorite of the non-Rivers demos they posted on their website.



Listening to 'The End of Imagining', I think it's a shame that the more-democratic songwriting process didn't work out, because Brian certainly knows his way around a killer tune, as does Tim Maloof, the other Space Twins songwriter here. There's a lot of depth here: you'll swoon at 'Rings Of Saturn', headbang to 'Yellow Camaro', snigger at 'Nico'...it's the sort of album that hits all your pleasure-inducing buttons.



Now, I'm a major Weezer fan, but I have to admit that I've enjoyed this album more than Weezer's last two. I hope that 'Make Believe' (Weezer's upcoming fifth album) will be at least as good as 'The End of Imagining'."

Different, but not better

S. Marzioli | USA | 08/14/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"It's obvious that the boys from Weezer have all been influenced by Rivers. Matt Sharp and Patrick Wilson have all co-written songs with Rivers, and Brian penned songs in his early days that had every bit as much melodic spunk as any post-Pinkerton era Weezer tune. The problem is, Brian wanted to branch off and be different. Apparently he was unhappy with his old stuff, or perhaps he's just getting older. "Tv, Music and Candy" and "Headache" were such neat little rock songs that always seemed to stick in your brain. Even their more experimental Goddess Of Love was catchy, even with the accordian! Brian never broke new ground with Space Twins, but he certainly did make the music genre more fun and interesting.



Gone are those days. The only songs that are good on this album were ones he did in his early days. All the new tunes, with minor exception, are rather dull. Think Green Album without the sugar sweet tunes. Not even fairly good ex-Weezer tune Yellow Camaro comes off well here! I like the inclusion of experimentalism as much as the rest, but it has to add to the tune or it's worthless. To this end, I'll keep with Boy Girl Radio, and Grandaddy.



Since I've supported the boys in Weezer since 1994 with a few thousand dollars, I felt okay buying End Of Imagining used. (But to my credit, I DID buy every 7" record Brian put out, including No Show). I'll keep it, because it's an okay album (i.e. 3 stars), but you won't find me listening to it that often. If you're a Weezer completist, go for it. If you solely want Brian, then go old school and wait until he finds himself again."

Their old stuff was way better

icameasarat | Ilion, NY United States | 02/27/2004

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I learned of the Space Twins about two years ago. I downloaded all of the songs they had which most were off 7 inches and records and the songs were outstanding, sounding like a slightly psychadelic/spacy version of weezer(who im a huge fan of). I even consider some of the songs as good as weezer's best songs. Then this album came out and i listened to the soundclips on spacetwins.com and they didn't sound that good. So i went and but it used figuring I may not like it; and i don't. The first three songs i believe are the only songs they recorded before they put this together and unfortunately are the only good songs on the cd. They re-did the second track "Rings of Saturn" and ended up ruining it-its still a good song but not as good as the old. The rest of the album is just very cheesey and poppy and it sounds like a really bad weezer cd minus the grunginess. I was hoping for something sounding like their old songs-psychedelic yet weezer-ish. Any hints of space/psychedelia on this album are few and far between and when theyre heard, they very...controlled is the word i guess and also poppy(i don't the history of this album but it sounds like the music industry/ producers came and sucked the creativity out it), making this cd lighter and less experimental than a WEEZER cd. Nico is the exception but unfortunately its a minute long and a horrible song. Sorry Brian, I was hoping for more "Rust Colored Sun's", "Osaka Aquabus", and "Tv Music and Candy's". Maybe next time."