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-{{Featured song MP3 headline|https://open.spotify.com/track/7wMfeQ28fxxrliSXnzJhiy|All My Friends Are Insects}}
+{{Featured song MP3 headline|https://open.spotify.com/track/23Y8W5rtryzPiioTpzaiKW|Blast Off!}}
-{{Featured song artwork|Weezer Yo Gabba Gabba!.jpg|All My Friends Are Insects}}"'''All My Friends Are Insects'''" is a song performed by Weezer for ''Yo Gabba Gabba'', a children's television show. It was eventually released on the deluxe version of ''[[Hurley]]''.
+{{Featured song artwork|Rivers cuomo alone.jpg|Blast Off!}}"'''Blast Off!'''" is the eighth track off of ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. Previously leaked online, the song is one of [[Rivers Cuomo's]] most storied demos, as it was originally intended as the opening track to the unfinished rock opera ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''. The song has had a long life, from fan holy grail to eventually being given a full-band arrangement and played live.
-The song was written by ''Yo Gabba Gabba!'' composer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Deibert Adam Deibert], a former member of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aquabats The Aquabats] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeride Bikeride]. It was performed by [[Weezer]] for the episode titled "Bugs," which first aired on [[March 9]], [[2010]]. The song was later released on the show's compilation album ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba! - Music is... Awesome Volume 2]]'' on [[August 31]]. On [[September 14]], the song was released again as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of ''[[Hurley]]''.
+The melody for "Blast Off!" originates from an earlier composition by Cuomo written in May of [[1993]], titled "[[Negativland]]", about the experimental music [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativland band of the same name]. An [[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|early draft]] of ''Songs from the Black Hole'' retained some lyrical elements from "Negativland" for the song that would later be named "Blast Off!". This version consisted of a conversation between band members [[Jonas]], [[Wuan]], and [[Dondó]] following a performance at the club The Black Hole.
-{{Featured song links|All My Friends Are Insects}}
+The song was initially released to fans online by Cuomo in [[2002]]. In response to a thread on the [[Rivers Correspondence Board]] analyzing the song alongside "[[Death and Destruction]]," Rivers (posting as 'ace') mentioned "blast off is one of the greatest melodies ANYONE'S ever written. pure billy joel."[https://web.archive.org/web/20110817071209/http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/threads/rcb/03-14-victory1.html] "Blast Off!" was played live for the first time with the full band on [[August 19]], [[2011]] at [[Weezer concert: 08/19/2011 - Seattle, WA|a concert at WaMu Theater in Seattle, WA]]. It was the encore song after a "Double Memories Night", during which the band performed both the Blue album and Pinkerton in their entirety.
+{{Featured song links|Blast Off!}}
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