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"'''La Mancha Screwjob'''"  is the ninth track from ''[[Pacific Daydream]]''.
"'''La Mancha Screwjob'''" (formerly known as "'''Summer Night'''") is the ninth track from ''[[Pacific Daydream]]''.
==Overview==
==Overview==
{{Rivers Cuomo quote|["La Mancha Screwjob" is about someone I once worked with and] having mixed feelings about them as a collaborator, but ultimately realising we’re much better than anything I can do on my own. Owning up to the mistakes I made in that relationship and reaffirming the value I see in that relationship.|''Upset'' article, October [[2017]]<ref>Shutler, Ali. "Weezer: Only in dreams" ''Upset''. 20 October 2017. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20171025022354/https://upsetmagazine.com/features/weezer-only-in-dreams/</ref>}}
{{Rivers Cuomo quote|["La Mancha Screwjob" is about someone I once worked with and] having mixed feelings about them as a collaborator, but ultimately realising we’re much better than anything I can do on my own. Owning up to the mistakes I made in that relationship and reaffirming the value I see in that relationship.|''Upset'' article, October [[2017]]<ref>Shutler, Ali. "Weezer: Only in dreams" ''Upset''. 20 October 2017. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20171025022354/https://upsetmagazine.com/features/weezer-only-in-dreams/</ref>}}
"La Mancha Screwjob" was originally written for Weezer's 2014 album ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]'',<ref name="npr">Hilton, Robin. "How Weezer Traded Power Chords For Pop: A Conversation With Rivers Cuomo" ''NPR''. 27 October 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/10/27/560044425/how-weezer-traded-power-chords-for-pop</ref> but "didn't fit" on the album. The version on ''Pacific Daydream'' is purportedly mostly unchanged, lyrically, from the earlier iteration.<ref name="npr" /> The intro and outro to the song feature vocal screeches, likely Cuomo's voice manipulated in Pro Tools by [[Butch Walker]].<ref name="npr" />
"La Mancha Screwjob" was originally written for Weezer's 2014 album ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]'',<ref name="npr">Hilton, Robin. "How Weezer Traded Power Chords For Pop: A Conversation With Rivers Cuomo" ''NPR''. 27 October 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/10/27/560044425/how-weezer-traded-power-chords-for-pop</ref> but "didn't fit" on the album. The version on ''Pacific Daydream'' is purportedly mostly unchanged, lyrically, from the earlier iteration.<ref name="npr" /> The intro and outro to the song feature vocal screeches, likely Cuomo's voice manipulated in Pro Tools by [[Butch Walker]].<ref name="npr" />


The significance of the title "La Mancha Screwjob" is unknown. La Mancha is a region of Spain, and "La Mancha Screwjob" is the title of a 2015 episode of the podcast ''RadioLab''.<ref>"La Mancha Screwjob" ''Radiolab''. 24 February 2015. https://radiolab.org/podcast/la-mancha-screwjob</ref> The song was co-written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] and [[Josh Alexander]]. The song may have originally been titled "'''[[Summer Night]]'''", based on the song's chorus and an entry in the ASCAP Repertory credited to Cuomo and Alexander.<ref>"SUMMER NIGHT" ISWC: T9232232234 ''ASCAP Repertory''. https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/893674859</ref>
The significance of the title "La Mancha Screwjob" is unknown. La Mancha is a region of Spain, and "La Mancha Screwjob" is the title of a 2015 episode of the podcast ''RadioLab''.<ref>"La Mancha Screwjob" ''Radiolab''. 24 February 2015. https://radiolab.org/podcast/la-mancha-screwjob</ref> The song was co-written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] and [[Josh Alexander]]. The song was originally been titled "[[Summer Night]]", a filename from the ''Daydream'' sessions and an entry in the ASCAP Repertory credited to Cuomo and Alexander<ref>"SUMMER NIGHT" ISWC: T9232232234 ''ASCAP Repertory''. https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/893674859</ref> confirm this.
==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals
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==Known recordings==
==Known recordings==
{{Known recordings header}}
{{Known recordings header}}
{{Known recordings note|For songs recorded under the title "[[Summer Night]]," see that title's [[Summer Night|corresponding article]].}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Night|Summer Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2 1.m4a|[[2011]]—[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Night|Summer Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.m4a|[[2011]]—[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Night|Summer Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Night|Summer Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Night|Summer Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;7 love life.mp3 |[[2011]]—[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Weezer]]|Summer Night|SUMMER NIGHT 6.8.17.mp3|[[June 8]], [[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|La Mancha Screwjob|La Mancha Screwjob&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cleanup @98.mp3|[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|La Mancha Screwjob|La Mancha Screwjob&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cleanup @98.mp3|[[2017]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Weezer]]|La Mancha Screwjob||[[2017]]|Ruby Red Productions, Santa Monica, CA|3:28|''[[Pacific Daydream]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Weezer]]|La Mancha Screwjob||[[2017]]|Ruby Red Productions, Santa Monica, CA|3:28|''[[Pacific Daydream]]''|}}
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