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I don't think it's quite accurate to describe this as an unfinished album, necessarily, based on Karl's description.

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-'''''The Black Album''''' is the working title for an unmastered, and possibly unfinished, album by Weezer, recorded in late 2001 at [[Steak House Demos|Steak House]] and [[Cello Demos|Cello Studios]].  The title is a self-parody of the band's own color-themed albums, as well as similarly-titled famous records by Metallica and Prince.  As of November 10, a supposed final tracklisting was selected, but for reasons unknown, the entire project was abandoned.  The exact track listing for the album is unknown, but it is very likely to be very similar to the twelve-song in-progress version compiled on November 3.  Most of the songs would be re-recorded during the ''[[Maladroit]]'' sessions.
+'''''The Black Album''''' is the name jokingly given to an unmastered set of demos recorded by [[Weezer]], recorded between [[October 21]] and [[November 10]], [[2001]] at [[Steak House Demos|Steakhouse Studios]] and [[Cello Demos|Cello Studios]] for the band's planned fourth album (that would eventually become the [[2002]] album ''[[Maladroit]]''). As described by [[Karl Koch]] in the [[Recording History - Page 13|Recording History]]:
+<blockquote>''Interspersed with a bunch of shows and other business, a new set of album-preparing demos was recorded, starting at the Steakhouse studio, and concluding at Cello Studios. (Cello details below). As can be seen, a lot of work was done, which resulted in what was tenatively called weezers next album at the time. Indeed the final product was jokingly referred to as "The Black Album" on the rough cd's, a reference to Weezers 'color' albums and Metallica's and Princes "Black Albums" (Jay-Z's wasnt out yet). The final mixes do stand together as a 12 song album quite nicely, but work continued into 2002, eventually arriving at the bands 4th album [[Maladroit]]''.</blockquote>
+Most of the songs would be attempted again during the sessions for ''[[Maladroit]]''.
 ==Track Listing (as of 11-3-01)==