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*''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' (2020) | *''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' (2020) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
{{Rivers Cuomo quote|Summer of '93, the very last day of making ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]'', our producer [[Ric Ocasek]] came into the studio with his wife, Paulina. Paulina brought a beautiful young lady with her. And so I hung out with her for the rest of the night. We'd walk around New York City, I'd listen to the rough mixes of ''The Blue Album''. That Christmas, when I came back to see my mom, this girl visited me for a day. We had a great time, I was like, "She's the one! This is so cool!" Just like that, you make ''The Blue Album'', you turn it in, you get a sweet girlfriend. Next day I woke up thinking "I'm really looking forward to talking to her again." She never called. Next day, she didn't call. [...] Day by day it went on like that. Every day my loneliness and my love grew exponentially. We got to day nineteen—loneliness at 10<sup>19</sup>, one with nineteen zeros after it—puffy eyes, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. What'd I do? I sat down at my mom's piano and I wrote this song.|Weezer [[Weezer concert: 08/30/2023|concert]], [[August 30]], [[2023]]<ref>Bootleg: Weezer 2023-08-30 - Arizona Federal Theatre, Phoenix, AZ https://archive.org/details/14-only-in-dreams</ref>}} | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|Summer of '93, the very last day of making ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]'', our producer [[Ric Ocasek]] came into the studio with his wife, Paulina. Paulina brought a beautiful young lady with her. And so I hung out with her for the rest of the night. We'd walk around New York City, I'd listen to the rough mixes of ''The Blue Album''. That Christmas, when I came back to see my mom, this girl visited me for a day. We had a great time, I was like, "She's the one! This is so cool!" Just like that, you make ''The Blue Album'', you turn it in, you get a sweet girlfriend. Next day I woke up thinking "I'm really looking forward to talking to her again." She never called. Next day, she didn't call. [...] Day by day it went on like that. Every day my loneliness and my love grew exponentially. We got to day nineteen—loneliness at 10<sup>19</sup>, one with nineteen zeros after it—puffy eyes, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. What'd I do? I sat down at my mom's piano and I wrote this song.|Weezer [[Weezer concert: 08/30/2023|concert]], [[August 30]], [[2023]]<ref>Bootleg: Weezer 2023-08-30 - Arizona Federal Theatre, Phoenix, AZ https://archive.org/details/14-only-in-dreams/12+Waiting+On+You.flac</ref>}} | ||
"Waiting For You" was originally written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] and demoed on his mother's piano in the summer of [[1993]], shortly after recording Weezer's [[Weezer (The Blue Album)|debut album]]. Cuomo recorded a full 8-track demo the following January. During the writing of the ultimately-scrapped concept album, ''[[Songs From the Black Hole]]'', Cuomo retrofitted the song to be sung from the perspective of one of the musical's female characters, [[Maria]], who becomes pregnant with the child of the main character, [[Jonas]]. After the ''Songs from the Black Hole'' concept was scrapped, the song (with its original lyrics) was recorded by Weezer in the studio and released as a [[List of Weezer B-sides and bonus tracks|B-side]] for the European CD single release of "[[The Good Life]]" (also released as an EP in Australia) in [[1996]], as well as the Deluxe Edition of ''[[Pinkerton]]'' in [[2010]]. | "Waiting For You" was originally written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] and demoed on his mother's piano in the summer of [[1993]], shortly after recording Weezer's [[Weezer (The Blue Album)|debut album]]. Cuomo recorded a full 8-track demo the following January. During the writing of the ultimately-scrapped concept album, ''[[Songs From the Black Hole]]'', Cuomo retrofitted the song to be sung from the perspective of one of the musical's female characters, [[Maria]], who becomes pregnant with the child of the main character, [[Jonas]]. After the ''Songs from the Black Hole'' concept was scrapped, the song (with its original lyrics) was recorded by Weezer in the studio and released as a [[List of Weezer B-sides and bonus tracks|B-side]] for the European CD single release of "[[The Good Life]]" (also released as an EP in Australia) in [[1996]], as well as the Deluxe Edition of ''[[Pinkerton]]'' in [[2010]]. | ||