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"The Angel and the One" is a reworked version of the song "Bad Girl".  Many [[Weezer]] fans have noted that "The Angel and the One" is one of their favorite tracks on ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)|The Red Album]]''. Strangely, the song has not been played live until Weezer's [[Australasia Tour 2013|Australasian Tour]] in 2013. Drummer Patrick Wilson has stated that is his favorite song from the album as well. The song has been compared to [[Only in Dreams]], due to it's length and the way that the song builds, slowly getting louder. Almost every lyric of the song rhymes, and Cuomo claimed he wrote this song in an attempt to write a nontraditional song.
"The Angel and the One" is a reworked version of the song "Bad Girl".  Many [[Weezer]] fans have noted that "The Angel and the One" is one of their favorite tracks on ''[[Weezer (The Red Album)|The Red Album]]''. Strangely, the song has not been played live until Weezer's [[Australasia Tour 2013|Australasian Tour]] in 2013. Drummer Patrick Wilson has stated that is his favorite song from the album as well. The song has been compared to [[Only in Dreams]], due to it's length and the way that the song builds, slowly getting louder. Almost every lyric of the song rhymes, and Cuomo claimed he wrote this song in an attempt to write a nontraditional song.


According to the Red Album commentary, Cuomo originally had a song called "Bad Girl", which was a more traditional verse-chorus song. Cuomo then spent a whole day playing the song over and over reworking it into what would come to be known as "The Angel and the One".
===Liner notes===
<blockquote><span style="color:#ff0000">''Rivers:</span> That song it started out as a really standard pop song called bad girl and had a verse and a chorus and a bridge and all that stuff. And I just wasn't satisfied with it. It wasn't moving me spiritually enough. It was too normal. So one day I sat down with my acoustic guitar and I just played that song over and over on basically looping it. My fingers hurt so much, but I just kept playing it. And over the hour that I was playing it, the song slowly evolved and it smoothed over and the sections blurred into each other. And it turned into this spiritual reverie that is really just one long development with out any distinctions between sections. Every line in this rhymes and the melody just gradually gets higher and higher and the music gets louder and more powerful... There isn't any study of music in that song. It was just the desire to breakaway and not write a standard three minute pop song.''<br></blockquote>


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