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'''"I'll Think About You"''' is the nineteenth and final track from ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | '''"I'll Think About You"''' is the nineteenth and final track from ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | ||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
*''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2008) | *''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2008) | ||
*''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' (2020) | *''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' (2020) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"I'll Think About You" was originally written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[July 14]], [[1994]], while visiting his mother in Connecticut, and demoed around the same time. The song was revisited in [[1997]] when | {{Alone liner notes|Since late '92, through many of the difficult days of playing the clubs in L.A. with Weezer, Jennifer Chiba had been my kind-of-girlfriend. I had benefitted greatly from her care and yet I had always kept my heart hard to her, believing that if Weezer did make it, I would want to be free for the many superior options I imagined would be available to me. Now in the summer of '94, as Weezer was indeed starting to make it, Chiba said she would resist me because of my refusal to commit. But whenever Weezer came through town I called her up looking for a place to stay (because I was no longer renting an apartment) and she gave in, letting me into her heart and home. In mid-July, when Weezer came to L.A. to record some B-sides ("Mykel and Carli", "Susanne", and "My Evaline") I stayed with her. We had an argument. She wanted more commitment and I wanted continued freedom. At the end of the work period, I flew back to my mom's house in Connecticut and on July 14 wrote a song called '''"I'll Think About You" (Track 19)''' that I hoped captured the pain and conflict of my situation with Chiba. | ||
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I was glad the song had a few cynical, even sinister, lines ("You know I loved playing with you"; and "Ten girls under my shoe") undercutting the happy, sing-songy vibe of the music and I loved the high vocal melody, doubled by the organ, after the second chorus.|''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone II liner notes|liner notes]]}} | |||
"I'll Think About You" was originally written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[July 14]], [[1994]], while visiting his mother in Connecticut, and demoed around the same time. The song was revisited in [[1997]] when Cuomo considered it for his side-project, [[Homie]]. Cuomo recorded a DA-88 demo in September of that year and performed it at Homie concerts in November. During live performances, Cuomo acknowledged the song's resemblance to the theme song to ''Sesame Street''. | |||
Cuomo demoed the song in September of 1997 with [[Drew Parsons]] on bass, [[Jay Buckley]] on keyboards, and [[Fred Eltringham]] on drums. This demo was released in [[2008]] on the compilation ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. The group subsequently recorded "I'll Think About You" as part of a full Homie album, likely at Fort Apache Studios in Boston, but none of these recordings have surfaced and may be lost. | Cuomo demoed the song in September of 1997 with [[Drew Parsons]] on bass, [[Jay Buckley]] on keyboards, and [[Fred Eltringham]] on drums. This demo was released in [[2008]] on the compilation ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. The group subsequently recorded "I'll Think About You" as part of a full Homie album, likely at Fort Apache Studios in Boston, but none of these recordings have surfaced and may be lost. | ||
==Known recordings== | ==Known recordings== | ||
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{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|I'll Think About You|21 I'll Think About You.mp3|July(?) [[1994]]||2:40|''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Think About You||September [[1997]]<ref name="rechist10">[[Recording_History_-_Page_10|Weezer Recording History - Page 10]]</ref>|Boston, MA|||DA-88 demo}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Homie]]<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Rivers Cuomo]] and others</ref>|Think About You|Think About You.mp3|September [[1997]]<ref name="rechist10" />|?|2:40|<strike>''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]''</strike>|[[Homie]] rehearsal. Removed from ''Alone IV''.}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Homie]]<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Kevin Stevenson]], and others</ref>|I'll Think About You||[[November 5]], [[1997]]|[[Homie concert: 11/05/1997|The Middle East, Cambridge, MA]]|||Audience bootleg}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Homie]]<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Kevin Stevenson]], and others</ref>|I'll Think About You||[[November 21]], [[1997]]|[[Homie concert: 11/21/1997|T.T. the Bear's Place, Cambridge, MA]]|||Audience bootleg}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Homie]]<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Drew Parsons]], [[Jay Buckley]], [[Fred Eltringham]]</ref>|I'll Think About You||Winter [[1997]]/[[1998]]|?|3:01|''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''|Pro demo}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|ffaaaa|[[Homie]]<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Rivers Cuomo]] and unknown lineup (possibly also Parsons, Buckley, and Eltringham</ref>|I'll Think About You||Winter [[1997]]/[[1998]]|Fort Apache Studios(?), Boston, MA|||Homie album sessions}} | |||
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==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead vocals, guitar | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead vocals, guitar | ||
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*[[Fred Eltringham]] - drums | *[[Fred Eltringham]] - drums | ||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
<youtube>huLD7rgpkss | <youtube>huLD7rgpkss</youtube> | ||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
<poem>I've been standin' here | <poem>I've been standin' here | ||
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I’ll think about you... | I’ll think about you... | ||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | *[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
*[[Jennifer Chiba]] | *[[Jennifer Chiba]] | ||
{{References list}} | |||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | [[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
[[Category:Homie songs]] | [[Category:Homie songs]] | ||