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{{Infobox song | {{Infobox song 2 | ||
| | | name = Ice Butterfly | ||
| | | cover = IceButterflyCover.png | ||
| | | type = Single | ||
| | | artist = The Clique | ||
| | | album = Ice Butterfly | ||
| | | released = [[1990]] | ||
| | | format = Cassette | ||
| | | recorded = July [[1990]] at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA | ||
| | | length = 5:54 | ||
| | | label = Bartholomew's Bizzare Publications & Productions | ||
| | | writer = [[Matt Sharp]] | ||
| | | producer = [[The Clique]] and [[Gary McCagan]] | ||
| | | status = Released | ||
}} | }} | ||
"'''Ice Butterfly'''" is a song written by [[Matt Sharp]] for his short-lived musical project, [[The Clique]]. The song was released as a maxi-single cassette in [[1990]]. | "'''Ice Butterfly'''" is a song written by [[Matt Sharp]] for his short-lived musical project, [[The Clique]]. The song was released as a maxi-single cassette in [[1990]]. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[Image:Matt Sharp 1989.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sharp ca. [[1989]]]] | [[Image:Matt Sharp 1989.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sharp ca. [[1989]]]] | ||
The Clique was formed by Sharp around [[1989]] or [[1990]] | The Clique was formed by Sharp with musicians [[Hurshel Burton]] and [[Keith Harris]] around [[1989]] or [[1990]] after Sharp and Burton met at a meeting for the [[Wikipedia:Black_Rock_Coalition|Black Rock Coalition]].<ref name="vaultdive2">Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive #2. 2 August 2020. https://archive.org/details/wfc-vault-dive-2</ref><ref name="hurshel">Untold Weezer. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPefghHNYm0&t=1s The Lost Pre-Weezer GOTH BAND ?!]" ''YouTube''. 11 June 2025</ref> While Sharp was employed at a tanning salon, one of his clients was a producer who commissioned Sharp to write a song for a planned TV movie titled ''Ice Butterfly'' about the figure skaters [[Wikipedia:Randy Gardner (figure skater)|Randy Gardner]] and [[Wikipedia:Tai Babilonia|Tai Babilonia]]. | ||
{{Karl Koch quote|Matt went gung ho into the project - he had never written a song before or sung before. Borrowing funding from his mother, Matt and his 2 buddies rented a real studio and recorded the track. Soon it was learned that NBC killed the guys project, and the man stopped coming into Matt's workplace. Matt and his gang decided to turn the recording into a cassette "Maxi Single" and try to get it played on local LA college radio, etc. The project fizzled soon afterwards.|[[Weezer Recording History]]<ref name="rechist">Koch, Karl. ''Recording History,'' archived from weezer.com. [[Recording_History_-_Page_1#Matt_Sharp:_The_Clique_-_Summer.2FFall_1989|Recording History - Page 1]]</ref>}} | |||
===Packaging=== | ===Packaging=== | ||
<gallery>Image:Theclique-jcard-1.jpg | <gallery>Image:Theclique-jcard-1.jpg | ||
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|length2 = 5:32 | |length2 = 5:32 | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Personnel== | |||
*[[Matt Sharp]] — lead vocals, bass | |||
*[[Hurshel Burton]] — lead vocals, electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, cover art | |||
*[[Keith Harris]] — drums, vocals, percussion | |||
*[[Michael Behrman]] — keyboards | |||
*[[Gary McCagan]] — producer, engineer | |||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
<poem>Soft pure conscious in stability | <poem>Soft pure conscious in stability | ||
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Soft pure constant in stability | Soft pure constant in stability | ||
Integrity through the eyes of an Ice Butterfly</poem> | Integrity through the eyes of an Ice Butterfly</poem> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of Matt Sharp songs]] | *[[List of Matt Sharp songs]] | ||