Weezer
Mid-90s alt-rock crunch. Clean verse, overdriven chorus with a Mesa or Marshall. One of the best beginner rock songs.
The Blue Album’s documented ingredients were Ocasek’s borrowed Gibson and Fender guitars into a vintage Mesa/Boogie Mark I, recorded without drive pedals. The clean neck-pickup verse and P-90 chorus below are representative assignments because exact song-specific guitar and knob records have not surfaced. Source: Guitar.com’s Blue Album gear guide (2023) and Premier Guitar’s Rivers Cuomo interview (2023).
