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[[Rivers Cuomo]] began envisioning Weezer's sophomore album as having more of a new-wave sound, utilizing Moog synthesizers, before the band even recorded their [[Weezer (The Blue Album)|eponymous ''Blue Album'']] in [[1993]]. Cuomo even envisioned "[[Buddy Holly]]" as being on their second album, before [[Ric Ocasek]] encouraged the band to include it on ''Blue''.<ref>''"Weezer - The Blue Album LIVE |Spotify THIRTY - The 30th Anniversary", Spotify, https://youtu.be/P_vI3FV1H4U''</ref> "[[I Swear It's True]]," the last song Cuomo wrote before recording ''Blue'', was another such song in consideration.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020814224416/http://www.riverscuomo.com:80/music.html</ref> | [[Rivers Cuomo]] began envisioning Weezer's sophomore album as having more of a new-wave sound, utilizing Moog synthesizers, before the band even recorded their [[Weezer (The Blue Album)|eponymous ''Blue Album'']] in [[1993]]. Cuomo even envisioned "[[Buddy Holly]]" as being on their second album, before [[Ric Ocasek]] encouraged the band to include it on ''Blue''.<ref>''"Weezer - The Blue Album LIVE |Spotify THIRTY - The 30th Anniversary", Spotify, https://youtu.be/P_vI3FV1H4U''</ref> "[[I Swear It's True]]," the last song Cuomo wrote before recording ''Blue'', was another such song in consideration.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020814224416/http://www.riverscuomo.com:80/music.html</ref> | ||
The song "[[Tired of Sex]]" was written in late 1993,<ref name="cor">[http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html Catalog O' Riffs]</ref><ref name="rcbtos">[https://web.archive.org/web/20141108041053/http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/threads/rcb/06-13-tiredofsex1.html "tired of sex home d e m o"] ''Rivers Correspondence Board'', 2002. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''</ref> inspired by Cuomo's frequent, casual, sexual encounters. The song "[[Getchoo]]" was written the following January,<ref name="cor"/> even appearing in concert set lists during Weezer's tour in support of the ''The Blue Album''. | |||
As early as June of 1994, Cuomo began conceptualizing a narrative (inspired by his own relationships) in which a young man must choose between two women.<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> Later that fall, disillusioned and lonely from the lifestyle of constant touring, Cuomo began developing the concept as a space-themed rock opera/musical, inspired by works he had been listening to while touring, such as ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', ''Les Miserables'', ''Aida'', and ''[[Madama Butterfly]]''. "I loved how these works married music and drama," Cuomo recalled in [[2008]], "how the different characters would sing to each other instead of talk and how the story unfolded through song. I realized that musical-drama could be the larger scale composition I wanted to write for Weezer's second record: a new-wave influenced rock musical in which I could explore my feelings about relationships, stardom, and my life in Weezer."<ref>''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone II liner notes|liner notes]]</ref> Cuomo would dub this project ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]'' (hereafter ''SFTBH''), and began drafting the project in November of 1994.<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> | |||
{{Main|Songs from the Black Hole}} | |||
In February of 1995, during Weezer's tour of Europe, bassist {{PN|Matt Sharp}} father suffered a stroke, requiring Sharp to fly back to the United States, leaving the rest of Weezer in Hamburg, Germany for a week. Cuomo used this time to rent out a studio to record new ''SFTBH'' demos. | |||
On [[April 14]], [[1995]], Cuomo underwent surgery to correct a congenital femoral deficiency in his right leg. Though his legs were of equal length at birth,<ref name="ilizarov">"[https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Ilizarov%20Procedure Ilizarov Procedure]" ''[[Riverpedia]]''</ref> his right femur had grown two inches shorter in length by the time he was fully grown.<ref name="ilizarov" /> The surgery involved breaking his femur and fitting it with a metal brace (called an {{Wikipedia|Ilizarov apparatus}}). Said Cuomo, "Each day I would turn some screws on the rods so that they would extend and increase the space in the break in my bone. After 6 months, the bone was supposed to be totally filled in and they would take off the metal frame. Two months in I was back out on the road with Weezer, stumbling around with a cane."<ref name="ilizarov" /> Cuomo required an additional surgery in January of [[1996]].<ref name="ilizarov" /> | |||
In September of 1995, Cuomo moved into a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend [[Harvard|Harvard University]]. | |||
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