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-[[Image:Weezer-raditude-cover.jpg|right|150px|Raditude]]
+[[Image:Weezer sftbh cover.jpg|right|150px|Weezer - Songs from the Black Hole]]
-'''''[[Raditude]]''''' is the seventh studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[November 3]], [[2009]]. The title of the album was suggested by [[Rainn Wilson]], while the cover photo was the winner of a National Geographic reader-submitted photo contest.  Some of the songs on the album are collaborations with other professional songwriters.
+'''''Songs from the Black Hole''''' (or '''''SFTBH''''') is an unreleased, unfinished [[Weezer]] album.  This space themed rock opera/musical was originally envisioned as the follow-up album to ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]'', but during the course of songwriting/demoing, the  concept was discarded, and the project evolved into the album ''[[Pinkerton]]''.  Several of the ''SFTBH'' songs ended up on ''Pinkerton'' or as single b-sides, some of which were slightly altered lyrically or sonically. ''SFTBH'' was, in the words of songwriter [[Rivers Cuomo]] was, "supposed to be a whole album of songs transed together," meaning a seamless flow from one song to the next (previous examples of this technique include the closing medley of [[The Beatles]]' ''Abbey Road'' and various Pink Floyd albums including ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', ''The Wall'', and ''Wish You Were Here'').
-According to [[Karl's Corner - 05/26/2009]] the first recording sessions for ''Raditude'' began in November 2008, a week after the [[Troublemaker Tour]] concluded, and lasted until January 2009. They were produced by [[Jacknife Lee]] in Malibu, Santa Monica, and West L.A. Lee had previously handled production duties on the songs "[[Troublemaker]]" and "[[Pork and Beans]]" on ''[[The Red Album]]''. The songs from these sessions were mixed in New York in March 2009 with [[Rich Costey]].
+In a [[2007]] ''Rolling Stone'' magazine 'Rock & Roll Daily' feature the album was called one of rock music's "mythical lost masterpieces."  In an April 2007 issue of the Australian weekly print mag "Zoo", the album was named number seven in their "Top Ten Never Released Albums" list.
-However, the band had written some more songs that they were keen to record for ''Album Seven''. These songs were recorded in the summer of 2009 with [[Butch Walker]].
-<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Raditude|full article]] | [http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weezerpedia:Featured_article&action=edit edit]</span>
+The characters of the story were to be [[Jonas]] (voiced by [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers]]), [[Laurel]] (voiced by [[Rachel Haden]] of [[that dog.]]), [[Maria]] (voiced by [[Joan Wasser]] of the Dambuilders), [[Wuan]] & [[Dondo]] (voiced by [[Brian Bell]] and [[Matt Sharp]], respectively), and a robot called [[M1]] (voiced by [[Karl Koch]] via the use of a vocoder). At the time, Wasser was unaware of Rivers' intention of having her play a role on the album.
+In the words of Rivers, taken from an interview in the [[November 15]], 2007 issue of Rolling Stone, "There's this crew - three guys and two girls and a mechanoid - that are on this mission in space to rescue somebody, or something. The whole thing was really an analog for taking off, going out on the road and up the charts with a rock band, which is what was happening to me at the time I was writing this and feeling like I was lost in space."
+<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Songs from the Black Hole|full article]] | [http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weezerpedia:Featured_article&action=edit edit]</span>
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