Hash Pipe

According to an interview with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, "Hash Pipe" was written on the same night as the song "Dope Nose" off Maladroit. The story goes that Cuomo took "a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila," paced around for a while, then wrote both songs.{{cite magazine | last = Eliscu | first = Jenny | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5933454/rivers_cuomos_encyclopedia_of_pop | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310202917/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5933454/rivers_cuomos_encyclopedia_of_pop | url-status = dead | archive-date = March 10, 2007 | title = Rivers Cuomo's Encyclopedia of Pop | magazine = Rolling Stone | access-date = 2007-10-02}}

Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is featured on the cover of the song's CD single.{{cite web | url = http://www.weezer.com/info/tunes/index03.html | title = weezer.com tunes page - page 3 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071215201959/http://www.weezer.com/info/tunes/index03.html |archive-date= 2007-12-15 |url-status= dead }} Since late 2001, the band has played the song live with a reworked guitar solo that no longer follows the verse melody.

Also according to Cuomo, he had intended on giving this song to Ozzy Osbourne in 2000 after he approached Cuomo for song ideas, but he did not use it.{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/weezers-hash-pipe-almost-ozzy-osbourne-song-2950928 | title=Weezer's 'Hash Pipe' was almost an Ozzy Osbourne song | website=NME | date=28 May 2021 }}

With a tempo of 128 bpm, "Hash Pipe" is composed in the key of A minor.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0109265|title= Weezer "Hash Pipe" Guitar Tab|website=musicnotes.com|date= 24 September 2012}} The opening line, "I can't help my feelings, I go out of my mind", is quoted from the Beatles' "You Can't Do That".

The video for the song was directed by Marcos Siega, 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, {{ISBN|1-55022-619-3}} 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 Brian Bell 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."{{cite web|title=The Impossible Bend|url=http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Impossible_Bend|website=Weezerpedia|access-date=2015-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223113323/http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Impossible_Bend|archive-date=2015-12-23|url-status=dead}}

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.

The song was met with positive reviews by music critics. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose "Hash Pipe" as one of the 4 highlights from the album.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/weezer-green-album-mw0000719526 |title=Weezer (Green Album) – Weezer |website=AllMusic |access-date=April 10, 2019 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}} Paul Brannigan of Kerrang! awarded the single 5 stars and named it "Single of the Week".{{Cite journal |last=Brannigan |first=Paul |date=June 30, 2001 |title=Singles |journal=Kerrang! |issue=859 |page=47 |issn=0262-6624}}

Slant Magazine writer Sal Cinquemani wrote that the song "is further evidence of the band's punk rock origins, with its crunchy guitar licks and sticcato (sic) vocals scorched with the residual edge leftover from the alt-rock boom".{{cite web |date=May 15, 2001 |last= Cinquemani |first= Sal |title=Weezer: Weezer (The Green Album) |url= http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/weezer-weezer-the-green-album |work=Slant Magazine |access-date= February 8, 2020 }}

In 2014, ticketing company AXS rated it as the band's seventh best song.{{cite web |date= November 30, 2014 |author= Shawn S. Lealos |title= The 10 best Weezer songs - AXS |url= https://www.axs.com/the-10-best-weezer-songs-30861 |website= AXS |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150712042726/https://www.axs.com/the-10-best-weezer-songs-30861 |url-status=dead |archive-date= 12 July 2015 }}

Radio station promo

1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06

US CD retail CD/US retail 7″ single (black vinyl)

1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06
2. "I Do" – 2:10

UK CD

1. "Hash Pipe" – 2:51
2. "Starlight" – 3:35
3. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix)
4. "Hash Pipe" (CD-ROM video)

UK 7″ single (green vinyl)

1. "Hash Pipe" – 2:52
2. "Teenage Victory Song" – 3:11

US promo remix 12″ single (black vinyl)

1. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix)
2. "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Kick Me remix)
3. "Hash Pipe" (Chris Vrenna's Under Glass remix) – 4:13

Dutch CD

1. "Hash Pipe" – 3:06
2. "I Do" – 1:53
3. "Starlight" – 3:21
4. "Hash Pipe" (Jimmy Pop remix) – 3:22

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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 "Africa".{{cite magazine|url=https://consequence.net/2018/07/toto-weezer-hash-pipe-live-watch/|title=Toto have never sounded younger covering Weezer's "Hash Pipe": Watch|last=Roffman|first=Michael|date=July 31, 2018|access-date=August 14, 2018|magazine=Consequence of Sound}}{{cite magazine|url=https://consequence.net/2018/08/toto-weezer-cover-hash-pipe-stream/|title=Toto finally share studio version of Weezer's "Hash Pipe": Stream|last=Roffman|first=Michael|date=August 9, 2018|access-date=August 14, 2018|magazine=Consequence of Sound}}

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