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"'''Undone - The Sweater Song'''" is the first single from [[Weezer]].  It premiered on their self titled debut, ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)]]'' ''(The Blue Album)''.  The song was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]]. Rivers said of the song, "I took typing, Psych 101, and English 101 that semester. It was in my English class that I heard the analogy of the unraveling sweater. Dr. Eisenstein used the image to demonstrate the effectiveness of focused thesis statement in an essay. “All I have to do is hold a single thread in your sweater and it will unravel as you walk away.”
"'''Undone - The Sweater Song'''" is the first single from [[Weezer]].  It premiered on their self titled debut, ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)]]'' ''(The Blue Album)''.  The song was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]]. Rivers said of the song, "I took typing, Psych 101, and English 101 that semester. It was in my English class that I heard the analogy of the unraveling sweater. Dr. Eisenstein used the image to demonstrate the effectiveness of focused thesis statement in an essay. “All I have to do is hold a single thread in your sweater and it will unravel as you walk away.”


The original concept for the dialogue spoken in the song was to juxtapose an upbeat person and a depressed person having a conversation.  At some point during the recording of various demos of the song early in the band's existence, they decided to allow longtime friend of the band, [[Karl Koch|Karl]], to insert various sound clips into the song, creating a collage of left-and-right-speaker nonsense.  This concept was carried through the recording of ''[[The Blue Album]]'', but [[Geffen Records]] were wary of the cost of licensing the samples, and put a halt to that version.  In the eleventh hour, a spoken version of dialogue was recorded at the Amherst house, by then-bassist [[Matt Sharp]] and Karl, as well as an "intermission" set of dialogue between Karl and one of the founding members of Weezer's official fan club and early supporter of the band, [[Mykel and Carli Allan|Mykel Allan]].  The tapes were then sent overnight to New York to be 'flown in' to the final mix. This version, as heard on the finished product, resurrected the original happy/sad conversation concept.  This dialogue is frequently ad-libbed by Brian and the various bassists during concerts and other live recordings.
The song is notable for its seemingly basic chord progression which repeats through the verse and chorus of I, IV, V, IV.  However, the song does experience a key change modulation for the guitar solo after the second chorus, modulating from the key of F# Major to A Major, and thus following the same I, IV, V, IV progression. Also, the main guitar lead played over the chords of the intro and the outro contains a raised second pitch which resolves to the third. This accidental within the key gives the song an off-note and perceivably quirky feel to it.
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