10 Sellout Albums That Don't Suck

10. Make Believe - Weezer

Alright look...Weezer hasn't had the smoothest of transitions getting out of the '90s. After everyone practically disowned them after Pinkerton's release, you couldn't blame Rivers Cuomo for wanting to go back to the old formulas that worked. Then again, even when he did, people still tended to have problems with Make Believe.

Even though the single Beverly Hills gets a lot of the scorn for this whole album, the back to basics approach actually is a much better fit for this era of the band than whatever the hell they were working with on Raditude just a few years later. Whereas most of the songs don't hit nearly as hard as something like My Name Is Jonas, tracks like Perfect Situation and We Are All On Drugs are still decent pop rock that capture the nervy energy that Rivers was always good at in his '90s heyday.

This might not be close to the legendary status of the Blue Album, but the actual execution makes this a perfect introduction into Weezer's sound. Since most of these songs are dead simple anyways, it brings to mind the early days of the band when they were just figuring out how to make everything work. Hell, once you hear the stuff off of this, it only goes up from here.