The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) by Weezer, from Weezer (Interscope)
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As outrageous and grandiose as its title suggests, a mini-popera races from rage-rap to choral music to high-voiced glam to emo-punk to power pop to a soliloquy. "I was born to give and give and give," Rivers Cuomo sings, wryly pompous, maybe.
One Week of Danger by the Virgins, from The Virgins (Atlantic)
Well is there something that we like about them, yes? Tomorrow's It Band rocks with jagged post-punk verve, asking only for a short-term fling and "her legs, her body and her cash." Strokes-y.
The Fifth Wheel by Jonathan Byrd, from The Law and the Lonesome (Waterbug)
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Busted rhymes with disgusted on a marvellously lonesome cowboy song tailor-fit for someone like Norah Jones. On second thought, the sad Tar Heel Byrd sings it swell himself, thank you very much.
Emergency 911 by Sloan, from Parallel Play (Murder)
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Police is pronounced "PO-lice" on punked-up fun that has a lean Sloan disturbed by alarmists and loving the "Cavern Club" setting on its amplifiers.
