Hash Pipe

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"Hash Pipe"
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Template:Infobox song/link by Weezer
from the album Weezer (The Green Album)
B-side
  • "I Do"
  • "Starlight"
  • "Teenage Victory Song"
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LabelGeffen
[[Songwriter|SongwriterTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Rivers Cuomo
[[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Ric Ocasek
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"Hash Pipe" is a song by American rock band Weezer. Released in April 2001, it was the first single from the band's third album, Weezer (The Green Album). The song reached number two on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and charted within the top 40 in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Background

According to an interview with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, "Hash Pipe" was written on the same night as the song "Dope Nose" from the next sudio album, Maladroit. 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.[3] Also according to Cuomo, he had intended on giving this song to Ozzy Osbourne in 2000 after he approached Cuomo for song ideas, but he did not use it.[4] Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is featured on the cover of the song's CD single.[5] Since late 2001, the band has played the song live with a reworked guitar solo that no longer follows the verse melody.

Composition

With a tempo of 128 bpm, "Hash Pipe" is composed in the key of A minor.[6] 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".

Reception

The song was met with positive reviews by music critics. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose "Hash Pipe" as one of the four highlights from the album.[7] Paul Brannigan of Kerrang! awarded the single 5 stars and named it "Single of the Week".[8] 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 sticcato (sic) vocals scorched with the residual edge leftover from the alt-rock boom".[9] In 2014, ticketing company AXS rated it as the band's seventh best song.[10]

Music video

The video for the song was directed by Marcos Siega, the first of many Weezer videos that Siega would direct. In the video, Weezer is shown playing while a group of sumo wrestlers are standing in the background.[11] 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. 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. This move has become known among Weezer fans as "the impossible bend".[12] According 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.

Track listings

US 7-inch and CD single

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06
  2. "I Do" – 2:10

UK CD

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 2:51
  2. "Starlight" – 3:35
  3. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix)
  4. "Hash Pipe" (CD-ROM video)

UK 7-inch single

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 2:52
  2. "Teenage Victory Song" – 3:11

European maxi-CD single

  1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06
  2. "I Do" – 1:53
  3. "Starlight" – 3:21
  4. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix) – 3:22

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ)[19] Gold 0 
United Kingdom (BPI)[20] Silver 200,000 
United States (RIAA)[21] Platinum 1,000,000 

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States April 17, 2001 Alternative radio Geffen [22]
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  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
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Other versions

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".[24][25]

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mervis, Scott (May 30, 2011). "Weezer's nerdy power-pop never gets old". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eliscu, Jenny. "Rivers Cuomo's Encyclopedia of Pop". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved October 2, 2007.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Weezer's 'Hash Pipe' was almost an Ozzy Osbourne song". NME. May 28, 2021.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."weezer.com tunes page - page 3". Archived from the original on December 15, 2007.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Weezer "Hash Pipe" Guitar Tab". musicnotes.com. September 24, 2012.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Weezer (Green Album) – Weezer". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brannigan, Paul (June 30, 2001). "Singles". Kerrang! (859): 47. ISSN 0262-6624.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cinquemani, Sal (May 15, 2001). "Weezer: Weezer (The Green Album)". Slant Magazine. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shawn S. Lealos (November 30, 2014). "The 10 best Weezer songs - AXS". AXS. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015.
  11. ^ Luerssen D., John. Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story. ECW Press, 2004, Template:ISBN p. 335
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Impossible Bend". Weezerpedia. Archived from the original on December 23, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Weezer Chart History (Canadian Digital Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Hits Charts (Airplay) : Top 100 singles". Broadcast Data Systems. Archived from the original on July 23, 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canada Album Rock: 06/05/2001-06/11/2001" (PDF). Canadian Music Network. Archived from the original on June 15, 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2001". Jam!. Archived from the original on January 26, 2003. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Year in Music 2001: Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 52. December 29, 2001. p. 72. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2002 (Part 2)". Jam!. January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on September 6, 2004.
  19. ^ Script error: No such module "cite". Type Hash Pipe in the "Search:" field and press Enter.
  20. ^ Script error: No such module "cite". Select singles in the Formats field. Type Hash Pipe Weezer in the "Search:" field.
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  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Alternative: Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1397. April 13, 2001. p. 112.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Releases – For Week Starting July 2, 2001: Singles". Music Week. June 30, 2001. p. 23.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roffman, Michael (July 31, 2018). "Toto have never sounded younger covering Weezer's "Hash Pipe": Watch". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roffman, Michael (August 9, 2018). "Toto finally share studio version of Weezer's "Hash Pipe": Stream". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved August 14, 2018.

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