Follow the Leader: A Running Gag in Rivers Cuomo's Twitter feed is his making comments implying that Weezer just constantly copies other bands (especially Nirvana).Make Believe was originally meant to be much darker & melancholic, with demos released by Rivers in the form of Alone IX backing this up, but when executives from Geffen heard these initial demos, they weren't happy with the album's direction and forced the band to scrap what they had and start over.Geffen's rejection came after the sessions for the album were finished, so the dialogue was recorded in Los Angeles and had to be flown to New York to be added in during mixing. Geffen nixed the idea at the last minute since they weren't eager to go through a long sample clearance process, and as a replacement Matt and the band's friends, Karl Koch and Mykel Allan recorded the now-famous spoken-word dialogue.
The band initially wanted to use a collage of sampled dialogue for "Undone - The Sweater Song" playing on the theme of contrasting extremely optimistic and extremely depressed dialogue.When Green came around the label also said no since their self-produced Pinkerton had tanked commercially and critically, so they once again brought in Ocasek. The band wanted to produce Blue themselves, but Geffen Records pushed them to get an outside producer, so they settled for Ric Ocasek.Executive Meddling: "Beverly Hills" started as a fairly straight and optimistic song about how the singer genuinely wishes he could join that society but got mutated into something much more bitter and sarcastic-sounding.Everything Will Be Alright in the End had a good supply of cut songs showcased within Alone XI, though the most notable may be Rules of Life, which had undergone several incarnations of different lyrics played at both live shows before ultimately being cut.
All that was heard of them for years were several very low quality snippets played by webmaster Karl Koch on a stream, until finally the tracks were released in demo form on Alone IX Make Believe notably had several fully finished songs cut from the album that wound up being dubbed The Fallen Soldiers by fans, including an early version of the Raditude song Love is the Answer.Even after the Songs From The Black Hole concept album was abandoned, "Longtime Sunshine", one of the songs intended for that album, was still in consideration for the last song on Pinkerton - Rivers wrote "Butterfly" later in the sessions and that became the closing track instead.Rumor has it this was related to the unexpected chart success of their Cover Version of "Africa" - they wanted to release "Cardigan Disaster" as a single and remake the clip for "Undone" as its music video, which they ultimately did with "Africa" instead.
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