By Gilbert Gutierrez III
Daily Titan Staff Writer

As fall approaches, Weezer releases their highly-anticipated album Raditude, which once again gives us hope from their feel good rhythm.

Rivers Cuomo and the band shakes up the music scene yet again for their fans and delivers a knockout punch with production of the band’s seventh album.

The four-man band originated from Los Angeles in 1992. Since then, they’ve been melting our hearts and deafening our ears with excellent rock music.

The album leads off with “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To,” the first single that has blown up car-radio systems all over southern California. An excellent choice to start off with, if I do say so myself.

A new and yet trendy collaboration of rock and R&B that was pleasant to the ears was track four: “Can’t Stop Partying.” Rivers didn’t get to work with Timbaland as he hoped in his previous hit song “Pork and Beans,” but he did get a little help from Jermaine Dupri producing the song and Lil’ Wayne’s unforgettable rap, (“It’s Weezer and it’s Weezy. Upside-down MTV”). Definitely a song that knows it’s way to the top of the charts.

It may have been a little too risky for the band to include the Middle Eastern culture that influenced “Love is the Answer”, but I can see why Cuomo made the decision (“Love is the answer, makes no difference what you have heard. Love is the answer, you have got to trust in the world.”) to release this expression of warmth and compassion for people to pass along to each other. No matter what race or ethnic background one may come from.

“Let It All Hang Out” gives the listener incentive to take a break from all their troubles and release some tension with friends. You can’t waste your time sitting alone in the corner all day long worried about what’s lingering in the dark corners of pain and sorrow.

Do not forget about “Put Me Back Together” and “I Don’t Want to Let You Go,” some very heart-warming tracks that will make your significant other fall in love with you all over again if you choose to dedicate this song to them.

Although the album contains only ten songs, most of them have the potential to reach top-ten on a radio play-list near you.

A couple of new add-ons for your mp3 player should be “Can’t Stop Partying,” “Put Me Back Together” and “Trippin’ Down the Freeway”.