Pinkerton is the second studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on September 24, 1996, by DGC Records. To better capture their live sound, the band self-produced Pinkerton, creating a darker, more abrasive album than their 1994 debut Weezer. The lyrics express loneliness and disillusionment with the rock lifestyle, and reference Japanese culture. Pinkerton produced the singles "El Scorcho" and "The Good Life". It debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200, failing to match sales of Weezer's debut, and received mixed reviews; Rolling Stone readers voted it the third-worst album of 1996. For subsequent albums, Weezer returned to more traditional pop songwriting and less personal lyrics. In subsequent years, Pinkerton was reassessed; several publications named it one of the best albums of the 1990s, and it was certified platinum in 2016.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1869:

Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%281869%29

1890:

Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_Manifesto

1941:

Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the Mogilev Conference began, marking an increase in violence against Jews and other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogilev_Conference

1993:

Norodom Sihanouk became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

a whole nother: (US, informal) An intensified form of another: an entirely different; a whole other. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_whole_nother

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.   --F. Scott Fitzgerald https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald