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| This track      = "Too Many Thoughts in My Head"<br>(7)
| This track      = "Too Many Thoughts in My Head"<br>(7)
| Next track      = "[[The Prince Who Wanted Everything]]"<br>(8)
| Next track      = "[[The Prince Who Wanted Everything]]"<br>(8)
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}}{{Song lineage:Too Many Thoughts in My Head}}
"'''Too Many Thoughts in My Head'''" is the seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)|The Black Album]]''.  
"'''Too Many Thoughts in My Head'''" is the seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)|The Black Album]]''.  
===Appearances===
===Appearances===
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*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' (2020)
*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' (2020)
==Background==
==Background==
The song's bridge shares its melody with the song "[[君はサイクロン]]" ("''Cyclone''") from the [[Scott & Rivers]] album "[[ニマイメ]]" ("''Naimaime''"). According to [[Black Album bio - November 2018|an interview with Cuomo]], The chorus is also taken from a 1997 song:
"Too Many Thoughts in My Head" began as a song sketch (of the chorus) recorded by Cuomo at Cole Rehearsal Studios in [[1997]]<ref>Heisel, Scott. [[Black Album bio - November 2018]]</ref> or [[1998]]. This recording was released to fans as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone VI: The Black Room]]'' in [[2020]]. Cuomo revisited the song in October of [[2013]]. Demos from this period were released as part of the demo compilation ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' in [[2020]], and feature what would eventually become the final song's coda.
<blockquote>Oh, here’s two old bits you might interested in: “Too Many Thoughts In My Head,” that chorus is from 1997. I wrote that at Cole Rehearsals. It’s amazing it survived this long and now it’s getting used, maybe. “I’m Just Being Honest” is from one of my Japanese albums. The verse and chorus from that.</blockquote>


Demos of the song were released on the digital compilations ''[[Alone VI: The Black Room]]'' and ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' in [[2020]].
The song was revisited again in [[2018]] and was ultimately included on {{PN|Weezer}} ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)|Black Album]]'' (released in [[2019]]). The song's bridge melody is lifted from the melody of a previous Cuomo composition, "[[君はサイクロン|Kimi wa saikuron]]" ("君はサイクロン," ''You Are a Cyclone'') by [[Scott & Rivers]] (Cuomo's Japanese side-project with musician [[Scott Murphy]]). The lyrics for "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" also feature multiple phrases lifted from disparate sources. For example, "Going where the weather suits my clothes" is from the song "[[Wikipedia:Everybody's Talkin'|Everybody's Talkin']]," by [[Wikipedia:Fred Neil|Fred Neil]] (and popularlized by [[Harry Nilsson]]). The line "Boy found brains he never knew he had" is taken from the [[1994]] film ''[[Wikipedia:The Shawshank Redemption|The Shawshank Redemption]]'' (the ''Black Album'' song "[[I'm Just Being Honest]]" also borrows a line from the film). The line "I'm really tired of this [[Wikipedia:Lawrence Welk|Lawrence Welk]] shit" is spoken by actor [[Wikipedia:Kevin Spacey|Kevin Spacey]] in the [[1999]] film ''[[Wikipedia:American Beauty (1999 film)|American Beauty]].
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==Known recordings==
{{Known recordings header}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Stab in the Dark|STAB IN THE DARK - ROUGH 1 - SEPT 7.mp3|[[September 7]], ?||0:46|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Instrumental, melody resembles "Too Many Thoughts" verse melody}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts|TOO MANY THOUGHTS - ROUGH 1 - OCT 13.mp3|[[October 13]], [[2013]]||1:00|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts|TOO MANY THOUGHTS - NO VCL.mp3|October 2013(?)||1:00|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Instrumental}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]||Ideas 10-15-2013 16h33m26s.mp3|[[October 15]], [[2013]]||0:41|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Coda vocal meter}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts in My Head|Too Many Thoughts In My Head.mp3|[[2013]](?)||2:28|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts|TOO MANY THOUGHTS.mp3|?||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts in My Head|Too Many Thoughts In My Head&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3 @126 +4.mp3|[[2018]](?)||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts in My Head|too_many_thought_verse_variation_2018_10_30_9_40_3.mp3|[[October 30]], [[2018]]||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts in My Head|TooManyThoughts Matty Ref 4 LIM.mp3|[[2018]](?)||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts in My Head|TooManyThoughts Matty Ref 8 LIM.mp3|[[2018]](?)||||}}
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Too Many Thoughts in My Head|TooManyThoughts Matty Ref 9 LIM.mp3|[[2018]](?)||||}}
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==Personnel==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]]
*[[Patrick Wilson]]
*[[Brian Bell]]
*[[Scott Shriner]]
*[[Dave Sitek]] - production, engineering
*[[Lisa Boldyreva]] - assistant engineering
*[[Matty Green]] - mixing
*[[Eric Boulanger]] - mastering
==Audio==
==Audio==
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==Lyrics==
==Lyrics==
<poem>
{{Lyric box|
Stay up reading Mary Poppins
<poem>Stay up reading Mary Poppins
Overwhelmed by Netflix options
Overwhelmed by Netflix options
Boy found brains he never knew he had
Boy found brains he never knew he had
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Dumb bots with a dumb program
Dumb bots with a dumb program
I need a lover with a little more RAM
I need a lover with a little more RAM
</poem>
</poem>}}{{Lyric box|
 
===Demo (''Alone XI'')===
===Demo (Alone XI)===
<poem>
<poem>
Too many thoughts in my head now
I can’t get out of my brain
Running around in big circles
Feel like I’m going insane
Too many thoughts in my head now
Too many thoughts in my head now
I can’t get out of my brain
I can’t get out of my brain
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Feel like I’m going insane
Feel like I’m going insane


I’m good at my computer
Bunkered at my computer
Scared stiff of a pervert user
Scared stiff I'm a pervert user
My mom will print this text  
My mom will print this text  
So you better not think if you wanna have sex
So you better not think
 
If you wanna have sex
Our friends are in the bar
Our friends are in the bar
We could go but it’s so damn far
We could go but it’s so damn far
Used up and then abandoned
Used up and then abandoned
Leave it all to the next generation
Leave it all to the next generation
</poem>
 
Too many thoughts in my head now
I can’t get out of my brain
Running around in big circles
Feel like I’m going insane
 
Nothing can titillate me
Dried up like a dead battery
Throw me upon the heap
Gonna be reused but it won't be me
Can't seem to get connected
What was the name of the network?
Dumb bots with a dumb program
I need a lover with a little more RAM
 
Too many thoughts in my head now
I can’t get out of my brain
Running around in big circles
Feel like I’m going insane
</poem>}}


==See also==
==See also==
* [[List of Weezer songs]]
*[[List of Weezer songs]]
 
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category:Weezer songs]]
{{References list}}
[[Category:Weezer songs]][[Category:List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category:Songs on Weezer (The Black Album)]]
[[Category:Songs on Weezer (The Black Album)]]
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Dave Sitek]]
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Dave Sitek]]
  [[Category:Songs on Alone VI: The Black Room]]
  [[Category:Songs on Alone VI: The Black Room]]
  [[Category:Songs on Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]
  [[Category:Songs on Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]
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