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"Hash Pipe" is a song by American
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. Released in 2001, it was the first single off the band's third album ''
Weezer Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums, backing vocals), Scott Shriner (bass guitar, keyboards, backing v ...
'' (''The Green Album''), and the only one of the Summer Songs of 2000 songs to make it onto the album, although "
Dope Nose "Dope Nose" is a song by American rock band Weezer. It is the first single off the band's fourth album, ''Maladroit''. It was officially released in March 2002, though it had been performed live and in the studio during the band's 2000 summer tour ...
" and "Slob" were released on ''
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Background

According to an interview with Weezer frontman
Rivers Cuomo Rivers Cuomo ( ; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Cuomo was raised in a number of Buddhist communities in the Northeast U.S. until the age of 10, wh ...
, "Hash Pipe" was written on the same night as the song "Dope Nose" off ''Maladroit''. The story goes that Cuomo took "a bunch of
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and had like three shots of
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," paced around for a while, then wrote both songs. Weezer drummer
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is featured on the cover of the song's CD single. Since late 2001, the band has played the song live with a reworked guitar solo that no longer follows the verse melody. The song is about a transsexual prostitute.


Composition

With a tempo of 128 bpm, "Hash Pipe" is composed in the key of
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. The opening line, "I can't help my feelings, I go out of my mind", is quoted from
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Music video

The video for the song was directed by
Marcos Siega Marcos Siega (born June 8, 1969, in New York City) is a film, television, commercial and music video director. He has also worked as a producer, a musician and an artist. In the late 1980s, he helped to form the New York-based punk band Bad Trip, ...
, 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.Luerssen D., John. ''Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story''. ECW Press, 2004, p. 335 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
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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." 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.


Reception

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chose "Hash Pipe" as one of the 4 highlights from the album. Paul Brannigan of ''
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'' awarded the single 5 stars and named it "Single of the Week". ''
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'' 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". In 2014, ticketing company AXS rated it as the band's seventh best song.


Track listings

Radio station promo # "Hash Pipe" – 3:06 US CD retail CD/US retail 7″ single (black vinyl) # "Hash Pipe" – 3:06 # "I Do" – 2:10 UK retail CD # "Hash Pipe" – 2:51 # "Starlight" – 3:35 # "Hash Pipe" (
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remix) # "Hash Pipe" (
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video) UK retail 7″ single (green vinyl) # "Hash Pipe" – 2:52 # "Teenage Victory Song" – 3:11 US promo remix 12″ single (black vinyl) # "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix) # "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Kick Me remix) # "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Under Glass remix) – 4:13 Dutch retail CD # "Hash Pipe" – 3:06 # "I Do" – 1:53 # "Starlight" – 3:21 # "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix) – 3:22


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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 "
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External links

* {{authority control Weezer songs 2001 songs 2001 singles Songs written by Rivers Cuomo Song recordings produced by Ric Ocasek Music videos directed by Marcos Siega Geffen Records singles LGBT-related songs Songs about cannabis Songs about prostitutes