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| Last album  = ''[[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]]''<br />(2009)
| Last album  = ''[[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]]''<br />(2009)
| This album  = ''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997''<br />(2011)
| This album  = ''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997''<br />(2011)
| Next album  = ''[[Alone IV: Before Weezer]]<br>(2020)
| Next album  = ''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]<br>(2020)
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'''''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997''''' is a compilation album by [[Weezer]] frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]].  It is the third entry in the [[Alone Series]] following [[2007]]'s ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' and [[2008]]'s ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. It was included as a CD insert included with the (now out-of-print) book ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]'', and was re-released in 2020 along with the the ''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' bundle on Cuomo's website, [[riverscuomo.com]].
'''''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997''''' is a compilation album by [[Weezer]] frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]].  It is the third entry in the [[Alone Series]] following [[2007]]'s ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' and [[2008]]'s ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. It was included as a CD insert included with the (now out-of-print) book ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]'', and was re-released in [[2020]] on the [[riverscuomo.com demos|demo storefront]] on [[riverscuomo.com]] as part of a bundle with ''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]''.
==Overview==
==Overview==
The title "''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years''" was announced in an [[August 19]], [[2010]] post by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on the [[weezer.com]] forums.  On the release date of ''[[Hurley]]'', during the 98.7 radio event "Breakfast With Weezer", Cuomo stated that ''Alone III'' would come out in December 2010 and would contain the rest of the unreleased ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''. He later posted on his Facebook account that it had been greenlit and would, hopefully, be released in January 2011. During a "[[Nerd Night]]" in September 2011, [[Sarah C. Kim]] stated that the album should be released in November.  The album was finally released [[December 12]], 2011.
The title "''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years''" was announced in an [[August 19]], [[2010]] post by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on the [[weezer.com]] forums.  On the release date of ''[[Hurley]]'', during the 98.7 radio event "Breakfast With Weezer", Cuomo stated that ''Alone III'' would come out in December 2010 and would contain the rest of the unreleased ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''. He later posted on his Facebook account that it had been greenlit and would, hopefully, be released in January 2011. During a "[[Nerd Night]]" in September 2011, [[Sarah C. Kim]] stated that the album should be released in November.  The album was finally released [[December 12]], 2011.
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