"Toto have never sounded younger covering Weezer's "Hash Pipe": Watch". Archived from the original on September 6, 2004.
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^ "Weezer Performing Free Toronto Show".^ "Weezer Chart History (Canadian Digital Songs)".Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Lealos, AXS Contributor (November 30, 2014). ^ Poniewozik, James Nugent, Benjamin (3 June 2001).Released in 2001, it was the first single off the band's third album Weezer ( The Green Album ), and the only one of the Summer Songs of 2000 songs to make it onto the album, although 'Dope Nose' and 'Slob' were released on Maladroit. Rock band Toto started covering the song live in 2018, before releasing it as a digital single, in response to Weezer's well-received version of their own hit song " Africa". ' Hash Pipe ' is a song by American rock band Weezer. Year-end charts 2001 year-end chart performance for "Hash Pipe"Ģ002 year-end chart performance for "Hash Pipe" US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard) "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Under Glass remix) – 4:13Ĭharts Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for "Hash Pipe"."Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Kick Me remix).
US CD retail CD/US retail 7″ single (black vinyl) In 2014, ticketing company AXS rated it as the band's seventh best song. Slant Magazine writer Sal Cinquemani wrote that the song "is further evidence of the band's punk rock origins, with its crunchy guitar licks and staccato vocals scorched with the residual edge leftover from the alt-rock boom". This move has become known among Weezer fans as "the impossible bend." Īccording to the mini book that accompanies the Video Capture Device DVD, Siega was asked to avoid referring to the lyrics of the song for the video, due to its themes of homosexual prostitution and drug references.ĪllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose "Hash Pipe" as one of the 4 highlights from the album. During the final chorus, guitarist Brian Bell performs a move in which he bends backwards, taking the guitar with him, then thrusts his legs in the way he's bending. As the song progresses, the wrestlers are shown wrestling and during the guitar solo, the wrestlers play the band members' instruments as the members watch from the background. In the video, Weezer is shown playing while a group of sumo wrestlers are standing in the background. The video for the song was directed by Marcos Siega, the first of many Weezer videos that Siega would direct. The opening line, "I can't help my feelings, I go out of my mind", is quoted from The Beatles' " You Can't Do That".
With a tempo of 128 bpm, "Hash Pipe" is composed in the key of A minor. The song is about a transsexual prostitute. Since late 2001, the band has played the song live with a reworked guitar solo that no longer follows the verse melody. Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is featured on the cover of the song's CD single. The story goes that Cuomo took "a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila," paced around for a while, then wrote both songs. Hash Pipe Lyrics (Uh) I cant help my feelings, Ill go out of my mind These players come to get me cause theyd like my behind tricks are for kids Oh, come. Hurry boys and girls, it’s waiting there for you.According to an interview with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, "Hash Pipe" was written on the same night as the song "Dope Nose" off Maladroit. The group initially took a run at Toto’s hit “Rosanna,” eventually blessing the fan’s wish with a proper “Africa” cover.Īnd now, this bit of cover-to-cover excitement.Ĭheck out Toto’s take on “Hash Pipe” in the video below. Weezer surprised and delighted fans with their take on “Africa” in May, after a months-long Twitter campaign launched by a persistent fan going by the handle who began the quest in December. The band tore into the churning paean to substance use at The Centre in Vancouver, Canada on Monday, during the inaugural date of the group’s 40 Trips Around the Sun 40th anniversary tour. Following Weezer’s release of their cover of Toto’s 1982 hit “Africa,” Toto returned the favor - or returned fire, depending on how you see it - this week, revealing their take on Rivers Cuomo and company’s 2001 chestnut “Hash Pipe.”Īlso Read: Silicon Valley Gets the Elon Musk Anthem it Desperately Needed From Ex-Weezer Bassist (Audio)
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