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When I recorded this track, I had just bought a clarinet and figured out how to play a few notes. Because of my poor embouchure it sounds very much like a kazoo.|''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone liner notes|liner notes]]}} | When I recorded this track, I had just bought a clarinet and figured out how to play a few notes. Because of my poor embouchure it sounds very much like a kazoo.|''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone liner notes|liner notes]]}} | ||
"Longtime Sunshine" was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in December of [[1993]] or January of [[1994]], while visiting his mother for Christmas at her home in Connecticut. The title is borrowed from "May the Long Time Sun Shine," a section from the track " | "Longtime Sunshine" was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in December of [[1993]] or January of [[1994]], while visiting his mother for Christmas at her home in Connecticut. The title is borrowed from "May the Long Time Sun Shine," a section from the track "{{Wikipedia|A Very Cellular Song}}," written by {{Wikipedia|Mike Heron}} of psychedelic-folk group [[Wikipedia:The Incredible String Band|the Incredible String Band]] for their 1968 album ''{{Wikipedia|The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter}}''. As a standalone song, "May the Long Time Sun Shine" has became very popular among the hippie movement and even in Sikh religious services in the years since its release and has often been assumed to be a much older or more traditional composition.<ref>Wittstamm, Willem. "May the Long Time Sun Shine Upon You: Where It All Began..." ''Aquarian Times'' Feb/March 2009. https://studentsofyogibhajan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Where-it-all-began.pdf</ref> Cuomo released this demo to fans online in the early 2000s, and later on the demo compilation ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' in [[2007]]. | ||
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]]'' (itself intended as a metaphor for Cuomo's disillusionment with rock stardom). Early drafts of ''SFTBH'' featured "Longtime Sunshine" as the closing track, intended to be sung by Cuomo as the story's protagonist, [[Jonas]]. The story for the album concept, however, was never fully developed. In one [[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|early draft]], wherein the characters learn the space voyage depicted in the story was, in fact, some sort of filmed experiment, Jonas sings "Longtime Sunshine" after volunteering to remain on a doomed planet orbiting a supernova in order to allow his crewmates to escape.<ref name="pinkdiaries">Cuomo, Rivers. ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]''. [[2011]]. Self-published.</ref> Weezer worked on "Longtime Sunshine" at Electric Lady Studios in New York during early sessions for the band's second album (at this time still planned to be ''Songs from the Black Hole''). During these sessions, the band experimented with an extended coda wherein Cuomo, [[Matt Sharp]], and [[Brian Bell]] sing a medley of "Longtime Sunshine," "[[Why Bother?]]," "[[I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams]]," "[[No Other One]]," and "[[Blast Off!]]" Though this experiment was apparently discarded thereafter,<ref name="rechist8" /> it appeared on the Deluxe Edition of ''[[Pinkerton]]'' in [[2010]]. Short vocal demos for the coda, as well as a potential reprise, later appeared on the compilations ''[[Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997|Alone III]]'' in [[2011]] and [[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years|Alone IV]]'' in [[2020]]. | 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]]'' (itself intended as a metaphor for Cuomo's disillusionment with rock stardom). Early drafts of ''SFTBH'' featured "Longtime Sunshine" as the closing track, intended to be sung by Cuomo as the story's protagonist, [[Jonas]]. The story for the album concept, however, was never fully developed. In one [[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|early draft]], wherein the characters learn the space voyage depicted in the story was, in fact, some sort of filmed experiment, Jonas sings "Longtime Sunshine" after volunteering to remain on a doomed planet orbiting a supernova in order to allow his crewmates to escape.<ref name="pinkdiaries">Cuomo, Rivers. ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]''. [[2011]]. Self-published.</ref> Weezer worked on "Longtime Sunshine" at Electric Lady Studios in New York during early sessions for the band's second album (at this time still planned to be ''Songs from the Black Hole''). During these sessions, the band experimented with an extended coda wherein Cuomo, [[Matt Sharp]], and [[Brian Bell]] sing a medley of "Longtime Sunshine," "[[Why Bother?]]," "[[I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams]]," "[[No Other One]]," and "[[Blast Off!]]" Though this experiment was apparently discarded thereafter,<ref name="rechist8" /> it appeared on the Deluxe Edition of ''[[Pinkerton]]'' in [[2010]]. Short vocal demos for the coda, as well as a potential reprise, later appeared on the compilations ''[[Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997|Alone III]]'' in [[2011]] and [[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years|Alone IV]]'' in [[2020]]. | ||