The Legends Of Music on Instagram: "Weezer performing “El Scorcho” Live at the 1996 Bizarre Festival Pinkerton isn’t a cult classic because it’s misunderstood. It’s a cult classic because it told the truth in a genre that survives on performance and pretending. In the mid-’90s, rock was drowning in posturing, grunge hangovers, alt-rock cool, ironic detachment. Everyone was trying to find themselves. Pinkerton was the record where Rivers Cuomo turned inward and showed you something most artists w