Those are some interesting points you are picking up, but after listening to it once, I don't think that this album is too bad. Since it's a cover album, of course it is not the pinnacle of their creativity. Cover albums seem to be quite in fashion right now, Arch Enemy also just released one.

About Weezer's take on Paranoid: in my opinion it is such a good song that nobody can ruin it, it even works as German Schlager:

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