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Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
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Description
"...a compilation album by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. The album features home demos that Cuomo has recorded from 1992-2007. Rivers Cuomo has long been known by fans to have recorded a great deal of unreleased material, nearly 800 songs in his lifetime.[6] This material was recorded with Weezer, earlier bands, and self-recorded demos.[7] Of these songs, despite the large amount of unreleased material that has been made available by Cuomo on the internet, large chunks of his work remain unheard by fans. These include certain demos for The Blue Album,[8][9][10] various songs from the scrapped Songs from the Black Hole project,[11] over a hundred songs he composed and demoed throughout 1999[12][13][14] (songs which he has described as ranging from "drone-y Romantic," "abrasive dissonance" and "riffy pop-rock"[15]) and well over a hundred songs that didn't make the cut for Make Believe.[16][17]
The idea for the demo collection was made 10 years ago, when Cuomo had brought up the idea to his record company. However, they discouraged him from the idea because they didn't want to "dilute the Weezer name" by putting out less polished material.[18] It wasn't until 10 years later that Cuomo pushed harder for the collection and it gained enough support for a release. There were also some legal issues between Cuomo and Geffen about releasing the album: "(Legal issues were) a big part of it because the record company owns all of my demos under Weezer's contract, and my argument was that they aren't Weezer recordings; they're not part of the Weezer record deal, this is my own stuff, I should own this. So we had to negotiate for a long time to reach an agreement as to the legal ownership of the records but we agreed enough that we were able to move forward and put it out".
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Track Titles
[edit] Track listing
The final tracklist was revealed on November 16, 2007.[29]
1. "Ooh" – 0:47
2. "The World We Love So Much" (Gregg Alexander cover) – 3:40
3. "Lemonade" – (co-written with Patrick Wilson) 2:31
4. "The Bomb" (Ice Cube cover) – 1:18
5. "Buddy Holly" – 3:01
6. "Chess" – 2:26
7. "Longtime Sunshine" – 3:15
8. "Blast Off!" – 1:57
9. "Who You Callin' Bitch?" – 0:46
10. "Wanda (You’re My Only Love)" – 3:38
11. "Dude We're Finally Landing" – 0:56
12. "Superfriend" – 3:30
13. "Lover In The Snow" – 3:16
14. "Crazy One" – 3:14
15. "This Is The Way" – 4:17
16. "Little Diane" (Dion cover) – 2:41
17. "I Wish You Had An Axe Guitar" – 0:36
18. "I Was Made For You" – 4:02
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Liner Notes
ALL INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM THE LINER NOTES:
* TRACKS 1-6 WERE RECORDED BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE BAND'S DEBUT ALBUM, WEEZER (THE BLUE ALBUM).
* TRACKS 7-9, 11-12 WERE DEMOS FOR SONGS FROM THE BLACK HOLE, RECORDED IN 1994 AND 1995.
* TRACK 10 WAS RECORDED IN 1995, ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR THE MOVIE ANGUS. THE SONG WAS REJECTED BY THE FILM'S PRODUCERS. WEEZER'S "YOU GAVE YOUR LOVE TO ME SOFTLY" WAS CHOSEN INSTEAD.
* TRACKS 13-14 WERE RECORDED IN 1997 ("LOVER IN THE SNOW") AND 1998 ("CRAZY ONE") DURING WEEZER'S HIATUS BETWEEN PINKERTON AND WEEZER (THE GREEN ALBUM).
* TRACK 15 WAS CONSIDERED FOR WEEZER'S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM, BUT WAS ULTIMATELY LEFT OFF OF THE ALBUM.
* TRACK 16 WAS RECORDED IN 2003 WITH MEMBERS OF SLOAN.
* TRACK 17 IS A RECORDING OF RIVERS CUOMO AND HIS FRIENDS TALKING ABOUT HIS FAVORITE BAND KISS IN SUMMER 1984.
* TRACK 18 WAS WRITTEN FOR MAKE BELIEVE.
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