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 "'''Chess'''" is the sixth track from ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''.
-== Overview ==
+==Liner notes==
-In the liner notes of ''Alone'', [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] claims that this was the first song written after a bout with writer's block, when he was finally able to shake expectations of himself. He went with the first thing he could come up with and strummed a D chord, which led him to write the rest of the song.
+ In 1992, I had written about half the songs that would end up on ''The Blue Album'', including "the Sweater Song" and "Say It Ain't So". It was clear that we were going to get a record deal and make a record. But then the songs stopped coming. I felt more and more pressure to write the rest of the record, to write top notch Weezer-style songs. Finally, I shook off all expectations, from both myself and from everyone else, and let myself write whatever came naturally upon strumming a D major chord over and over on an acoustic guitar. The result was "Chess". I knew it wouldn't work for Weezer, but it at least got me creating again and having fun. Within two months, I wrote the rest of the songs for ''The Blue Album''.
+ The "Sex and drugs and Rock and Roll" line I got from a song I happened to hear one night out on the town in which the singer says "sex and drugs and rock and roll" over and over with a British accent. I thought it was kind of weird so I wanted to use it. [I just looked it up online and learned that the song is by Ian Dury.]
 == Personnel ==
 * [[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar