If I Had My Way

"If I Had My Way"
Demo by the Special Goodness
from the album The Special Goodness' unreleased 2005 album
Recorded	April 2005
Studio	The Steakhouse Studio
Songwriter(s)	Patrick Wilson
Producer(s)	Joe Barresi
Status	unreleased
This song is part of the "If I Had My Way" lineage of songs "Let's Go to the Mall" (1994) "If I Had My Way" (2005)

"If I Had My Way" is an unreleased song by the Special Goodness, originally slated for inclusion on their abandoned 2005 album. The song was recorded in April 2005, but was discarded after Patrick Wilson cancelled the album's release near the end of its development. The song has not been heard by fans.

Overview

"If I Had My Way" is a reworking of the 1994 Suburban Advantage demo "Let's Go to the Mall". Karl Koch recalled the changes between the tracks:

i think the verses were shortened a bit, or some of them,. it gets to the choruses "sooner" in my memory. overall less wordy, more rock. and the "carnival" part i think is changed to something else. or maybe its a guitar solo

—Karl Koch, Weezerpedia Discord server message

The song was recorded in April 2005 at the Steakhouse Studio in Los Angeles, California, then mixed and mastered by Joe Barresi alongside the other tentative album tracks. In January 2006, Wilson formally cancelled the album's release, abandoning the mostly complete songs that were recorded the previous year. "If I Had My Way" was not recorded for the next Special Goodness album, Natural, and remains unreleased.

See also

• The Suburban Advantage EP
• List of Patrick Wilson songs