10 Incredibly Successful Tracks Their Creators Actually Hate

4. Weezer - The Entirety Of "Pinkerton"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__o6BmwtDA It's entirely possible that Weezer holds some sort of record in the music industry for having the largest number of diehard fans who only like their first two albums. Ever since the mid-90s one-two punch of "The Blue Album" and "Pinkerton," Weezer's career has seemingly been dictated by the law of diminishing returns, with most critics crowning either 2005's "Make Believe" or 2008's "Red Album" as the nadir of their studio output (2009's "Raditude" was nearly as bad, but was saved by a great lead-off single). Despite all of this though, a decade or so ago, frontman Rivers Cuomo would have told you that the beloved "Pinkerton" was the absolute slough of the band's career. Conceived while Cuomo was studying at Harvard University in the wake of a painful surgery, "Pinkerton" ended up being both Weezer's "rebellion against fame" record and an important album in the formative stages of the emo movement. However, while a cult of listeners fell in love with the album's raw sound and its angry commentary on the rock and roll lifestyle, Cuomo himself has at times regarded "Pinkerton" as a personal embarrassment. "It's a hideous record," the frontman told Entertainment Weekly in 2001. "It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won't go away." Cuomo also said at the time that he never wanted to hear the album ever again (or play the songs live), but he appears to have reneged on those claims: a "Pinkerton" deluxe reissue revived the album in 2010 and earned a perfect score on MetaCritic for its trouble.