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Rivers Cuomo details how he first offered the hard-riffing anthem to Ozzy – and explains how new track Blue Dream developed its uncanny similarity to Crazy Train

Imagine Ozzy singing about players liking his behind.

Weezer song “Hash Pipe” to the Prince of Darkness. “Once, I think it was in 2000, [Ozzy] asked if I had any songs for him, and I just happened to have written ‘Hash Pipe,'” Cuomo recalls. “I sent it to him, but he didn’t end up using it. In another reality, it might be interesting to hear him singing that song.” Instead, Cuomo and Weezer ended up recording the riff-heavy, lyrically-counfounding tune for their 2001 effort, The Green Album. Interestingly, now 20 years later, Osbourne has a writing credit on Weezer’s newest album, Van Weezer. The tr...

Weezer song “Hash Pipe” to the Prince of Darkness. “Once, I think it was in 2000, [Ozzy] asked if I had any songs for him, and I just happened to have written ‘Hash Pipe,'” Cuomo recalls. “I sent it to him, but he didn’t end up using it. In another reality, it might be interesting to hear him singing that song.” Instead, Cuomo and Weezer ended up recording the riff-heavy, lyrically-counfounding tune for their 2001 effort, The Green Album. Interestingly, now 20 years later, Osbourne has a writing credit on Weezer’s newest album, Van Weezer. The tr...

Rock n’ Roll Homage or Rock n’ Roll Parody? A Review of Weezer’s Van Weezer via Crush Music By Harry Geeves on 40% 40 Underwhelming The latest in a slew of eclectic releases from the California cult favourite group, this hair metal pastiche unfortunately misses the mark. 4 The inside joke of Weezer’s recent output is quickly running out of steam. Barely 3 months after releasing one of their best records to date in the wonderful OK Human, the band have backslid with yet another attempt to diversify their catalogue. Van Weezer (yes, that is the actual name) is Riv...