126. "Beverly Hills" by Weezer {#10; 4/05} [iTunes? Yes] {Youtube: Beverly Hills.}
Here's a group that has one of my five favorite non-Cognitive Triad albums of all time. And they only have one song in the entire HondoJoe Top 200. And it's not from the album that I love so much.
Sound familiar?
Much in the same way that "Makin' Some Noise" is my favorite Tom Petty song, even though it's not on the excellent "Full Moon Fever" album, "Beverly Hills" is my favorite Weezer song, even though it's not on their incredible debut album "Weezer" (The "Blue" album.)
That debut album is chock full of great songs. "In the Garage" and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" in particular were in the first draft of the HondoJoe Top 200 before they got bumped for more ELO and Billy Joel.
"Beverly Hills" is a fun, rocking song. There's something about the rhythm of this song that just really catches me. (I always want to jump up at that third beat.) And the lyrics apply, too:
"The thing is, I don't stand a chance. It's something that you're born into, and I just don't belong."
COMING UP NEXT: A treatise on homosexuality in Southeastern Idaho in the late 1970s. (With costumes.)
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