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Staff Lists: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/2/ 10. Weezer "Say It Ain't So" [DGC; 1994] It's been obscured by misheard lyrics, Rock Band histrionics, and Rivers Cuomo's guileless run as a pop mercenary, but "Say It Ain't So"-- lunging riffs and all-- is an intimate piece of songwriting. There's the specificity and shorthand in the lyrics ("Somebody's Heine is crowdin' my icebox"), and the shaded references to a father (and stepfather) addicted to alcohol.