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"'''The Angel and the One'''" is the tenth track off of ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)|The Red Album]]''. It is reworked from a [[Rivers Cuomo]] song titled "'''Bad Girl'''". | "'''The Angel and the One'''" is the tenth track off of ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)|The Red Album]]''. It is reworked from a [[Rivers Cuomo]] song titled "'''[[Bad Girl]]'''". | ||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
* ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)]]'' | * ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)]]'' | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"The Angel and the One" was, according to [[Rivers Cuomo]], reworked from a song titled "Bad Girl". Said Cuomo in the album's liner notes: | "The Angel and the One" was, according to [[Rivers Cuomo]], reworked from a song titled "[[Bad Girl]]". Said Cuomo in the album's liner notes: | ||
<blockquote><span style="color:#ff0000">''Rivers:</span> That song it started out as a really standard pop song called bad girl and had a verse and a chorus and a bridge and all that stuff. And I just wasn't satisfied with it. It wasn't moving me spiritually enough. It was too normal. So one day I sat down with my acoustic guitar and I just played that song over and over on basically looping it. My fingers hurt so much, but I just kept playing it. And over the hour that I was playing it, the song slowly evolved and it smoothed over and the sections blurred into each other. And it turned into this spiritual reverie that is really just one long development with out any distinctions between sections. Every line in this rhymes and the melody just gradually gets higher and higher and the music gets louder and more powerful... There isn't any study of music in that song. It was just the desire to breakaway and not write a standard three minute pop song.''<br></blockquote> | <blockquote><span style="color:#ff0000">''Rivers:</span> That song it started out as a really standard pop song called bad girl and had a verse and a chorus and a bridge and all that stuff. And I just wasn't satisfied with it. It wasn't moving me spiritually enough. It was too normal. So one day I sat down with my acoustic guitar and I just played that song over and over on basically looping it. My fingers hurt so much, but I just kept playing it. And over the hour that I was playing it, the song slowly evolved and it smoothed over and the sections blurred into each other. And it turned into this spiritual reverie that is really just one long development with out any distinctions between sections. Every line in this rhymes and the melody just gradually gets higher and higher and the music gets louder and more powerful... There isn't any study of music in that song. It was just the desire to breakaway and not write a standard three minute pop song.''<br></blockquote> | ||
The spreadsheet ''[[The 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo]]'' originally listed "[[Bad Girl]]" as a potential inclusion on ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'', but the song did not appear on the final album. | |||
Many [[Weezer]] fans have noted that "The Angel and the One" is one of their favorite tracks on ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)|The Red Album]]''. Drummer Patrick Wilson has stated that is his favorite song from the album as well. To date, the song has only been performed once, at [[Weezer concert: 01/17/2013 - Melbourne, Australia|a show in Melbourne, Australia]] in 2013. | Many [[Weezer]] fans have noted that "The Angel and the One" is one of their favorite tracks on ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)|The Red Album]]''. Drummer Patrick Wilson has stated that is his favorite song from the album as well. To date, the song has only been performed once, at [[Weezer concert: 01/17/2013 - Melbourne, Australia|a show in Melbourne, Australia]] in 2013. | ||