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''Maladroit'' is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 14, 2002 on Geffen Records. The album is the band's first to feature bassist Scott Shriner, following the departure of former bassist Mikey Welsh in 2001. ''Maladroit'' features heavy metal riffs, uncommon to Weezer's previous releases. As of December 2007, the album has sold 605,000 copies in the United States, having reached a high of #3 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and quickly going gold. ==Background and recording== For their fourth studio album, Weezer attempted to incorporate an innovative system in which they'd release demos in MP3 format on their weezer.com website every day while in the studio working on ''Maladroit.''〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 398〕 This resulted in dozens of different versions of over thirty different songs circulating on the Internet before the album was released. The idea was to keep solid communication open with their fan base on their official message board as well as, more crucially, on unofficial message boards such as the Rivers Correspondent Board (which was closed to the public at Cuomo's request, chiefly so that members of the press could not gain access). Yet frontman Rivers Cuomo and the fans strongly disagreed on a number of creative aspects of the album. One thing they did agree on was bringing back the old summer 2000 song "Slob" for use on the album. Cuomo commented, "I never would have thought to put the song 'Slob' on the record if the fans did not request it. Scott Shriner also wanted a hidden track, 'Are You Gonna Be?,' for the album."〔 〕 Regardless of disagreements, Weezer fans are still "specially thanked" in the album's liner notes and the album title itself was suggested by a board member on the Weezer message boards who went by the screen name of Lethe.〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 405〕 The band's uploading of MP3 demos onto their website resulted in many major radio stations playing the still unreleased (and sometimes unfinished) songs on the radio for the masses to hear.〔〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 406〕 Due to a spat between Cuomo and the record label Geffen/Interscope, Weezer self funded the recordings for Maladroit and the label was unaware of the recordings at all until the radio began to play them. It is said that Cuomo was so excited for fans to hear the music he personally mailed copies of 8 out of the 13 songs on Maladroit to key radio stations and press outlets.〔Orshoski, Wes. "Geffen's Weezer on 'Maladroit'." Billboard - The International Newsweekly of Music, Video and Home Entertainment May 11 2002: 1,1, 72. ProQuest. Web. 21 July 2015 .〕 In the week it was leaked to radio stations, the lead-off single "Dope Nose" reached #25 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart without an official single having been issued. Unfortunately, the airplay resulted in a gag order being issued by Geffen Records in which they requested that Weezer return the master tapes from the ''Maladroit'' sessions and apologize to each radio station that played the song.〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 410〕〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 411〕 The band resisted, citing that they had funded all the sessions themselves and that apologizing seemed pointless.〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 413〕 The fans resisted as well, forming an online group called "Unreleased Weezer for the Masses" that rallied for the release of the album.〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 412〕 The hit songs "Dope Nose" and "Hash Pipe" (off ''The Green Album'') were both written using the same method on the same night, with Rivers Cuomo allegedly taking "a bunch of Ritalin and ... like three shots of tequila" to write the songs.〔Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 420〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maladroit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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