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{{Quote|They'd record a song nine times and it would be completely different each time. And then they'd have me edit them together...They would sit down with a list and show me all these edit points they wanted to make. And I would edit the tape together into one complete take, and then they'd decide whether they liked that or not. And if not, then they'd do nine more takes, and keep going like this until they were done.|[[Dave Fridmann]]|engineer on ''Pinkerton'', from an interview with ''The Future Heart''<ref name="thefutureheart">"Making of Pinkerton: Dave Fridmann Details Working On Weezer’s Cult Classic" ''The Future Heart''. 22 July 2011. https://thefutureheart.com/2011/07/22/pinkerton/</ref>}} | {{Quote|They'd record a song nine times and it would be completely different each time. And then they'd have me edit them together...They would sit down with a list and show me all these edit points they wanted to make. And I would edit the tape together into one complete take, and then they'd decide whether they liked that or not. And if not, then they'd do nine more takes, and keep going like this until they were done.|[[Dave Fridmann]]|engineer on ''Pinkerton'', from an interview with ''The Future Heart''<ref name="thefutureheart">"Making of Pinkerton: Dave Fridmann Details Working On Weezer’s Cult Classic" ''The Future Heart''. 22 July 2011. https://thefutureheart.com/2011/07/22/pinkerton/</ref>}} | ||
In August 1995, just a few days before Cuomo was set to travel to study at Harvard University, the band gathered to record at Electric Lady Studios in New York City,<ref name="pinklinernotes">''Pinkerton'' (Deluxe Edition) liner notes</ref> the same studio where they recorded their debut. Said guitarist Brian Bell, "We're going for the deeper, darker, more experimental stuff,' but assured fans, 'but we'll always be the Weezer you know and love."<ref>Tobak, Vikki. "[[Detroit News | In August 1995, just a few days before Cuomo was set to travel to study at Harvard University, the band gathered to record at Electric Lady Studios in New York City,<ref name="pinklinernotes">''Pinkerton'' (Deluxe Edition) liner notes</ref> the same studio where they recorded their debut. Said guitarist Brian Bell, "We're going for the deeper, darker, more experimental stuff,' but assured fans, 'but we'll always be the Weezer you know and love."<ref>Tobak, Vikki. "[[Detroit News article - August 10, 1995|Nerd-chic? Weezer trashes the labels and just plain rocks]]" ''Detroit News''. 10 August 1995</ref> The band worked on "[[Tired of Sex]]," "[[No Other One]]," "[[Getchoo]]," "[[Why Bother?]]," "[[Waiting on You]]," "[[Devotion]]," "[[You Gave Your Love to Me Softly]]," "[[Blast Off!]]," "[[You Won't Get with Me Tonight]]," and "[[Longtime Sunshine]]." Although the band was still, at this point, following the ''Songs from the Black Hole'' blueprint, none of the three latter songs—those written with ''SFTBH'' in mind—made it past this stage of recording.<ref name="pinklinernotes" /> The song "You Won't Get with Me Tonight" was famously axed after, as [[Karl Koch]] recalled in the liner notes to the 2003 ''[[Buddyhead Presents: Gimme Skelter|Gimme Skelter]]'' compilation, he explained to Cuomo that it reminded him of another song ("[[Wikipedia:I Shot the Sheriff|I Shot the Sheriff]]" by Bob Marley).<ref>[[Weezerpedia Discord Q&A with Karl Koch - April 2022]]</ref> The band also attempted to record a coda to conclude the song "Longtime Sunshine," wherein Cuomo, [[Matt Sharp]], and Bell sang a medley of "Longtime Sunshine," "Why Bother?," "[[I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams]]," "No Other One," and "Blast Off!" | ||
{{Rivers Cuomo quote|[It] was a big change in the way we worked. I decided not to make any demos and instead just to write the basic melodies and chord changes without orchestrating everyone's parts at all. So we went into the studio without really knowing what was going to happen. And it gave everyone a lot more room to be creative and spontaneous on their instruments.|[[Addicted to Noise interview with Rivers Cuomo - 1996|Addicted to Noise interview with Rivers Cuomo - 1996]]<ref name="addicted1">Kleinedler, Clare and Goldberg, Michael "[http://web.archive.org/web/20020111224530/http://www.addict.com/issues/2.12/html/hifi/Cover_Story/Weezer-QA/index.html Weezer Revealed: The Rivers Cuomo Interview]" ''Addicted to Noise''. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. 1996</ref>}} | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|[It] was a big change in the way we worked. I decided not to make any demos and instead just to write the basic melodies and chord changes without orchestrating everyone's parts at all. So we went into the studio without really knowing what was going to happen. And it gave everyone a lot more room to be creative and spontaneous on their instruments.|[[Addicted to Noise interview with Rivers Cuomo - 1996|Addicted to Noise interview with Rivers Cuomo - 1996]]<ref name="addicted1">Kleinedler, Clare and Goldberg, Michael "[http://web.archive.org/web/20020111224530/http://www.addict.com/issues/2.12/html/hifi/Cover_Story/Weezer-QA/index.html Weezer Revealed: The Rivers Cuomo Interview]" ''Addicted to Noise''. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. 1996</ref>}} | ||