Of all the anniversary tours countless bands have embarked on, Weezer's Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour just may be the best.

Celebrating the 30th trip around the sun of their debut LP, the Blue Album, the quartet has mindfully created an excellent setlist, invited amazing opening acts, and created a video presentation that keeps you riveted.

And of course, the songs are nostalgic, delightful, and wholesome.

Weezer are the anti-rock stars who can magically fill up seemingly any venue they want on the strength of a deep catalogue starting with their first two records.

As great as the quartet are, the fun comes from singing along to Rivers' sweet lyrics - not from some crazy stage show. That's where The Flaming Lips come in - a band who wants to trip you out, or more accurately, provide the lights and sounds for you as you trip balls.

Something Weezer themselves seem to be venturing into a tiny bit with their highly produced video background elements.

Kicking the show off is J. Mascis' Dinosaur Jr. who just might be the best guitarist in rock, and if not that, the loudest and gnarliest.

Both openers are excellent extensions of what one might imagine are the band's fondest hopes and wishes: to rock supremely, and a little oddly.

If indeed that was the goal for the 30th, consider Voyage to the Blue Planet a mission accomplished.

It's beautiful, powerful, dynamic, and fun.

Weezer's set is arranged the way others should take note of. It begins with a pair of deep cuts from another album celebrating an anniversary, 2014's Everything Will Be Alright in the End.

Those lead into four familiar numbers that get everyone singing along. And at Sunday's show in Washington DC's The Anthem, the band inserted the delightful "All My Favorite Songs" from 2021's OK Human.

After four more tunes, the band did the absolutely correct thing. They played five songs from the follow up to the Blue album, Pinkerton, depending on who you talk to, the band's greatest album ever.

After performing that little mini-set the band played the entire Blue album from beginning to end.

The video screen tell the adventure of the group in a fun and funny narrative.

It's a video game, a movie, and a rock show all in one with the best sound.

"May they never fall out of orbit," Variety wrote.

Weezer continues their tour through this month and next with stops at basketball arenas around North America.

In November they headline a long night at the baseball stadium in Phoenix alongside Sublime, Third Eye Blind, and The Violent Femmes.

Get your tickets on the Weezer website.