As you may be aware, River Cuomo of Weezer has been gradually composing a song through the medium of YouTube by requesting fans to reply to his video with hooks, riffs & licks.

It's currently at stage 14, 'Let's revise the bridge lyrics', and has come along a fair bit. Here's the almost-finished song, Turnin' Up The Radio:



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For some of the steps along the way click here and here.

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Weezer new album is gonna be called............ Weezer. They're calling this third Weezer as the "Red Album" (so the sequence goes blue , green , red), according to a RollingStone.com report.
Weezer the red album will feature production from Rick Rubin, "Jacknife" Lee, and frontman/songwriter Rivers Cuomo. The RollingStone.com report also names "Pork and Beans" as the first single from the "Red Album".

Steps 3b and 4 of Rivers sawngwriting contest in the read more

Let's Write a Sawng (Step 3b)


Let's Write a Sawng (Step 4)

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Let's Write a Sawng (Step 1 and Step 2)


(step 3 in the read more)

Let's Write a Sawng (Step 3: Chords)

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kinda reminds me of the Wonder years well at the start

Rivers Cuomo: "Lover in the Snow"
Lover In The Snow


from Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.

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music video off Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo see how the wild man of rock spends his day

Rivers Cuomo - Blast Off

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Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo came out last week and i was able to get my grubby mits on a copy.What had my juices flowing was that some of the track on the cd where lost tracks from Songs from the Black Hole, Songs from the Black Hole is an unreleased, unfinished Weezer album. A space themed rock opera/musical, it was originally envisioned as the follow-up album to The Blue Album, but over the course of recording, the album's concept was discarded and the album was transformed into Pinkerton. Its story arc follows: a five-person (plus one mechanoid) crew of a spaceship on an important mission, our noble protagonist Jonas is given a meaty role while crewmates Wuan and Dondo are one-dimensional avatars for womanizing and partying.

Blast Off!

The leadoff track for Songs from the Black Hole is a dramatic rock song with a high-reaching melody and shifting dynamics. The lyrics are a conversation between the main character Jonas and his shipmates Wuan and Dondo. Jonas is excited yet reserved about the prospect of doing what he thinks is his dream job. Wuan and Dondo are much more upbeat about the experience. In the middle of the song M1 (the mechanoid) interjects via vocoder to remind them of the task at hand. In the last verse we find that a female character has entered the scene and that Jonas had a ‘relationship’ with her back at Star Corps Academy

Who You Callin’ Bitch?

Jonas and Maria continue the conversation started in Blast Off!

Superfriend

The song is a conversation between Jonas and (presumably) Laurel. In it, Jonas chides himself for giving into the seduction of Maria, even though he does not love her. Laurel urges Jonas to grow up and be better than that. Jonas finds himself smitten with Laurel, but she can see through his act and tells him to get real.

if all this is a bit weird remember these were written with the help of painkillers as Cuomo healed from leg surgery.

the album in general is good, has weak and strong moments, but the real thing for me was to be able to hear some tracks off Songs from the Black Hole. That said is also has Cuomo doing an Ice Cube cover (The Bomb), and most of the tracks were recored before 1996.

well, i leave you with the demo version of Buddy Holly off Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.

Buddy Holly

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