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| Formal studio versions of "Tired of Sex", "Getchoo", "No Other One", and "Why Bother?" are included on ''[[Pinkerton]]'' as the first four tracks. "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" and "Waiting on You" may be found on "[[The Good Life]]" single and "Devotion" may be found on the "[[El Scorcho]]" single. | | Formal studio versions of "Tired of Sex", "Getchoo", "No Other One", and "Why Bother?" are included on ''[[Pinkerton]]'' as the first four tracks. "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" and "Waiting on You" may be found on "[[The Good Life]]" single and "Devotion" may be found on the "[[El Scorcho]]" single. |
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| ==Tracks and Plot==
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| ===Dude, We're Finally Landing [aka Good News!]===
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| This song takes place in Act II.[5] In this song the three main male characters, Jonas, Wuan and Dondó sing about how the ship is finally landing after 327 days in space.[5] It shows how excited and more upbeat Wuan and Dondó are and how timid and quiet Jonas is about the situation of landing. In this way the song is similar to "Blast Off!" with a nervous and pessimistic Jonas clashing with the joyous Wuan and Dondó. The song is mainly a cappella, with the three characters all singing their points of view over each other. Some acoustic guitar appears near the end of the song.
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| This song was released on Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.[8]
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| ===Now I Finally See===
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| Jonas echoes his sentiments from "She's Had a Girl" at the direction his life is taking. This interlude is currently unreleased, although the lyrics (which are reprised from "She's Had a Girl") were released to the public by Rivers Cuomo.
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| ===Getchoo [aka Gitchoo]===
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| Although "Getchoo" was scrapped on Track List 2, the song (along with a batch of other SFTBH-era songs) made it onto the Pinkerton album. Jonas presumably feels stung by Laurel who appears to have rejected him, possibly as a consequence of the events in "She's Had a Girl" and/or "Now I Finally See".
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| The 1995 Ft. Apache demo of this song features slightly different lyrics to those on the final Pinkerton version that better fit the SFTBH mold. "What I did to her, you've done to me" seems to refer to Jonas ditching Maria for Laurel, only to end up empty-handed himself.
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| ===I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams===
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| Laurel is upset about throwing away her love. She is torn between what she thinks she wants and what she thinks is right. It is unclear whether this means she has rejected Jonas, as is implied in "Getchoo" and is now doubting herself since, or if she's singing about someone else she may have left for Jonas ("I... see him every day, even though my love is a world away").
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| This song was recorded in studio and officially released as a b-side to "The Good Life" single. Rachel Haden sings lead vocals (representing Laurel for the SFTBH album) and Rivers joins in on the last verse to make the song a duet. It is not known whether this represents Jonas, as the recording was completed after the scrapping of Songs from the Black Hole. This song makes extensive use of the Electrocomp 101.
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| It is the most complete example of a Black Hole song with full male and female vocal parts and the released version is the best representation of what SFTBH would have sounded like had it not been scrapped.
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| ===No Other One===
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| Like "Getchoo", "No Other One" appears on Pinkerton. After losing his chances with Laurel, Jonas contents himself with having Maria by his side, despite his negative feelings for her. The song does not appear on Track List 2.
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| ===Devotion===
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| Developing his sentiments explored in "No Other One", Jonas realises how much he has taken Maria's devotion to him for granted while "searching for Mrs Right", and falls in love with her for it.
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| "Devotion" was dropped from the SFTBH Track List 2, but was later recorded in studio and officially released in 1996 as the b-side to the El Scorcho single.
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| ===What Is This I Find?===
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| This unreleased track remains the least-known of all Black Hole songs. The plot point explored in the song is rather oblique - Karl Koch has revealed that "This is about some package that was discovered opened.". The only known lyric from the song is Jonas asking "I wonder which of us best of friends opened and used it?".
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| The song is the finale on Track List 2.
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