Make Believe

While hipster bands did blow and rediscovered 1982, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo pulled all-nighters at Harvard and crafted Make Believe. But like a metalhead mathlete taunted during assemblies, Weezer’s Rick Rubin–produced fifth record gets even with the cool kids, rocking their socks off with big guitars and bigger pop hooks. (OK, and a ballad or two.) Dorks of the world, unite!