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*''[[Seven More Minutes]]'' (1999) | *''[[Seven More Minutes]]'' (1999) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"My Head is in the Sun" is notable for being the only released track co-written by [[Weezer]] frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]] and [[Matt Sharp]]. Sharp commented on the songwriting process in [[buddyhead.com interview with Matt Sharp - Late 1999|an interview with buddyhead.com]] in [[1999]]:<ref>"Matt Sharp of the Rentals" ''Buddyhead''. November 1999. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'': https://web.archive.org/web/20010506102527/http://www.buddyhead.com/music/rentals/</ref> | "My Head is in the Sun" is notable for being the only released track co-written by [[Weezer]] frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]] and [[Matt Sharp]]. It was the final song recorded for the album, written years earlier with many different lyrics and melodies. The song was finished in a jam session while Sharp was living at Rivers' home in Boston, Massachusetts.<ref>[[SonicNet chat with Matt Sharp - 1999]]</ref> | ||
Sharp commented on the songwriting process in [[buddyhead.com interview with Matt Sharp - Late 1999|an interview with buddyhead.com]] in [[1999]]:<ref>"Matt Sharp of the Rentals" ''Buddyhead''. November 1999. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'': https://web.archive.org/web/20010506102527/http://www.buddyhead.com/music/rentals/</ref> | |||
<blockquote>{{Interviewer|BH|How did the song "[[My Head Is in the Sun]]" with [[Rivers]] come about?}} | <blockquote>{{Interviewer|BH|How did the song "[[My Head Is in the Sun]]" with [[Rivers]] come about?}} | ||
{{Matt|I was living at his house in Boston, and he was out here trying out people to replace me. He came back for a weekend. We sat around and sang songs, played his songs and my songs, other people's songs. I had been stuck on that song for a really long time. I just couldn't figure out how to finish it up, and it had taken me like three years to write that song. It's one of the only ones that took a long time, and I had basically just given up on it all together. So I played it for him and he sort of worked on it with me. It was cool and relaxed. It was the first time we got to truly collaborate on something.}}</blockquote> | {{Matt|I was living at his house in Boston, and he was out here trying out people to replace me. He came back for a weekend. We sat around and sang songs, played his songs and my songs, other people's songs. I had been stuck on that song for a really long time. I just couldn't figure out how to finish it up, and it had taken me like three years to write that song. It's one of the only ones that took a long time, and I had basically just given up on it all together. So I played it for him and he sort of worked on it with me. It was cool and relaxed. It was the first time we got to truly collaborate on something.}}</blockquote> | ||
The song was covered by the band Aberfeldy for the compilation ''[[Friends of P - Tribute to the Rentals]]'' | The song was covered by the band Aberfeldy for the compilation ''[[Friends of P - Tribute to the Rentals]]'' | ||
==Known recordings== | ==Known recordings== | ||
{{Known recordings header}} | {{Known recordings header}} | ||