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'''"Average Person"''' is an unreleased | '''"Average Person"''' (or "'''The Average Person'''") is an unreleased [[Weezer]] song originally recorded in contention for ''[[Make Believe]]'', one of what [[Karl Koch]] would later dub the "[[The Fallen Soldiers|Fallen Soldiers]]". {{PN|Rivers Cuomo}} demo of this song was released in November of [[2020]] as a part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''. | ||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
*''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]'' | *''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]'' | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Average Person" is first known to have been demoed by Rivers Cuomo in July of [[2004]] at S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios during pre-production on ''Make Believe'', days before entering Grandmaster Recorders to record the album. The sessions lasted from [[July 22]] to [[October 22]], 2004, and was one of 12 songs that Cuomo instinctively felt were right for the album and asked the band to concentrate on. Until early [[2005]], the song was designated to be the opening track.<ref>''Amazon.com'' March 25, 2005. Screenshot. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Amazon_screenshot_(1).jpg</ref> Ultimately the song was excluded from the final track list and remains unreleased. It is not known to have a [[Catalog O' Riffs]] number. Cuomo listed it among "[[The 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo]]" in [[2008]]. | |||
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| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Rivers Cuomo]] | |||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|The Average Person | |||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|<samp>12 The Average Person.mp3</samp> | |||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[July 20]], [[2004]] | |||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios | |||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|2:53 | |||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]] | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[Weezer]] | |||
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Average Person | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[September 25]], [[2004]] | |||
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Grandmaster Recorders Ltd., Los Angeles, CA | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rough mix | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[Weezer]] | |||
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Average Person | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[October 5]], [[2004]] | |||
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Grandmaster Recorders Ltd., Los Angeles, CA | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"| | |||
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rough mix | |||
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==Personnel== | |||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals | |||
*[[Patrick Wilson]] – percussion | |||
*[[Brian Bell]] – guitar, backing vocals | |||
*[[Scott Shriner]] – bass guitar | |||
*[[Rick Rubin]] - producer | |||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
What if you took all the faces of everybody | What if you took all the faces of everybody | ||
Everywhere in the world? | |||
And mixed them up in a great big supercomputer? | And mixed them up in a great big supercomputer? | ||
What would the person look like? | What would the person look like? | ||
What color hair would he have? What kinda nose? | What color hair would he have? What kinda nose? | ||
What color eyes? How manly? How feminine? | What color eyes? How manly? | ||
How feminine? | |||
It's the average person | It's the average person | ||
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If I see that face some day | If I see that face some day | ||
I'll say "How do you do? | I'll say "How do you do? | ||
My name is Hank the | My name is Hank the plumber | ||
And I'm part of a mix of you" | And I'm part of a mix of you" | ||
It's the average person | It's the average person | ||
That I would like to see | That I would like to see | ||
It's the average person | |||
Piques my curiosity | Piques my curiosity | ||
It's the average person | It's the average person | ||
I would like to see | |||
Average person | Average person | ||
Piques my curiosity | Piques my curiosity | ||
Average person | Average person | ||
I would like to see | I would like to see | ||
Average person | Average person | ||
Piques my curiosity | Piques my curiosity</poem> | ||
</poem> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of | *[[List of Weezer songs]] | ||
[[Category:Unreleased Weezer songs]] | *[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
[[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]] | ==References== | ||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | <references /> | ||
[[Category:Songs on Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]] | [[Category:Unreleased Weezer songs]][[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]][[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category:Songs on Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]][[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category:Weezer songs]] | ||