Weezerpedia:Featured song October 2023: Difference between revisions

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"'''Longtime Sunshine'''" (sometimes rendered as "'''Long Time Sunshine'''") is a song written by [[Rivers Cuomo]]. It is the seventh track on ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''.

Cuomo later retrofitted "Longtime Sunshine" as a song in consideration for a planned (albeit ultimately unfinished) "rock-opera" concept album, ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''. Early drafts of ''SFTBH'' featured "Longtime Sunshine" as the closing track, intended to be sung by Cuomo as the story's protagonist, [[Jonas]]. Though ''SFTBH'' would ultimately be scrapped, [[Karl Koch]] has noted that "Longtime Sunshine" was originally meant to close ''[[Pinkerton]].'' "[[Butterfly]]" was recorded on the final day of recording at Sound City in June of [[1996]] and used instead. Cuomo revisited the song in [[1997]], recording a home demo in September of that year. During a [[Memories Tour]] [[Weezer concert: 06/07/2011 - Austin, TX|concert in Austin, Texas]] on [[June 7]], [[2011]], Weezer performed the song live for the first time, featuring a new arrangement. The song was played live a number of additional times, including on [[the Weezer Cruise]]. The song was brought back for [[Weezer concert: 02/27/2019 (a)|a performance for NPR's ''Tiny Desk'' concert series]] in [[2019]].