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| Type    = demo
| Type    = demo
| Artist  = Rivers Cuomo
| Artist  = Rivers Cuomo
| Album    = Alone II
| Album    = Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
| Released = [[November 25]], [[2008]]
| Released = [[November 25]], [[2008]]
| Recorded = 1997
| Recorded = 1997
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| This RC song    = "I'll Think About You"<br>(RC# 179)
| This RC song    = "I'll Think About You"<br>(RC# 179)
| RC's next song  = "[[No Other One]]"<br>(RC# 180)
| RC's next song  = "[[No Other One]]"<br>(RC# 180)
| Album          = Alone II
| Album type      = demo
| Album type      = demo
| Previous track  = "[[Cold and Damp]]<br>(18)
| Previous track  = "[[Cold and Damp]]<br>(18)
| This track      = "I'll Think About You"<br>(19)
| This track      = "I'll Think About You"<br>(19)
}}
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'''"I'll Think About You"''' is a track from "''[[Alone II]]''".
'''"I'll Think About You"''' is the nineteenth and final track from ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''.
 
===Appearances===
*''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2008)
*<strike>''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]''</strike> (2020)
==Overview==
==Overview==
"I'll Think About You" was written in 1994 and demoed by Rivers around the same time, but remained dormant until 1997 when Rivers considered it for the [[Homie]] project.
"I'll Think About You" was originally written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[July 14]], [[1994]], while visiting his mother in Connecticut, and demoed around the same time. The song was revisited in [[1997]] when Rivers considered it for the side-project [[Homie]]. Cuomo recorded a DA-88 demo in September of that year and performed it at Homie concerts in November. During live performances, Cuomo acknowledged the song's resemblance to the theme song to ''Sesame Street''.
 
A live version of this song performed by [[Homie]] is a commonly-traded MP3 among fans. On this bootleg, Rivers says, "it sounds kinda like the theme to ''Sesame Street''," before the song is played. On [[Troublemaker Tour| Troublemaker Tour 2008]], portions of the main melody were played as an outro to the song "[[Keep Fishin']]".
 
The version featured on ''Alone II'' is an actual Homie recording and not Rivers' original [[1994]] demo. This version, however, is believed not to be from the Homie album sessions.


Cuomo demoed the song in September of 1997 with [[Drew Parsons]] on bass, [[Jay Buckley]] on keyboards, and [[Fred Eltringham]] on drums. This demo was released in [[2008]] on the compilation ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. The group subsequently recorded "I'll Think About You" as part of a full Homie album, likely at Fort Apache Studios in Boston, but none of these recordings have surfaced and may be lost.
==Liner notes==
==Liner notes==
  Since late '92, through many of the difficult days of playing the clubs in L.A. with Weezer, Jennifer Chiba had been my kind-of-girlfriend. I had benefitted greatly from her care and yet I had always kept my heart hard to her, believing that if Weezer did make it, I would want to be free for the many superior options I imagined would be available to me. Now in the summer of '94, as Weezer was indeed starting to make it, Chiba said she would resist me because of my refusal to commit. But whenever Weezer came through town I called her up looking for a place to stay (because I was no longer renting an apartment) and she gave in, letting me into her heart and home. In mid-July, when Weezer came to L.A. to record some B-sides ("Mykel and Carli", "Susanne", and "My Evaline") I stayed with her. We had an argument. She wanted more commitment and I wanted continued freedom. At the end of the work period, I flew back to my mom's house in Connecticut and on July 14 wrote a song called '''"I'll Think About You" (Track 19)''' that I hoped captured the pain and conflict of my situation with Chiba.
  Since late '92, through many of the difficult days of playing the clubs in L.A. with Weezer, Jennifer Chiba had been my kind-of-girlfriend. I had benefitted greatly from her care and yet I had always kept my heart hard to her, believing that if Weezer did make it, I would want to be free for the many superior options I imagined would be available to me. Now in the summer of '94, as Weezer was indeed starting to make it, Chiba said she would resist me because of my refusal to commit. But whenever Weezer came through town I called her up looking for a place to stay (because I was no longer renting an apartment) and she gave in, letting me into her heart and home. In mid-July, when Weezer came to L.A. to record some B-sides ("Mykel and Carli", "Susanne", and "My Evaline") I stayed with her. We had an argument. She wanted more commitment and I wanted continued freedom. At the end of the work period, I flew back to my mom's house in Connecticut and on July 14 wrote a song called '''"I'll Think About You" (Track 19)''' that I hoped captured the pain and conflict of my situation with Chiba.


  I was glad the song had a few cynical, even sinister, lines ("You know I loved playing with you"; and "Ten girls under my shoe") undercutting the happy, sing-songy vibe of the music and I loved the high vocal melody, doubled by the organ, after the second chorus.
  I was glad the song had a few cynical, even sinister, lines ("You know I loved playing with you"; and "Ten girls under my shoe") undercutting the happy, sing-songy vibe of the music and I loved the high vocal melody, doubled by the organ, after the second chorus.
==Known recordings==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em; font-size:.9em;
!Performer(s)
!Title
!Filename
!Date of recording
!Recording location
!Length
!Appeared on
!Notes
|-
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Rivers Cuomo]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|I'll Think About You
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|<samp>21 I'll Think About You.MP3</samp>
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|July(?) [[1994]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|2:40
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|''[[Don Slacks]]''<br>''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
|-
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[Rivers Cuomo]]
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Think About You
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|September [[1997]]
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Boston, MA
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|DA-88 demo.
|-
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Rivers Cuomo]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|Think About You
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|<samp>Think About You.mp3</samp>
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|September [[1997]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|?
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|2:40
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|<strike>''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]''</strike>
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Homie]] rehearsal. Removed from ''Alone IV''.
|-
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Homie]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|I'll Think About You
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[November 4]], [[1997]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Homie concert: 11/04/1997|The Middle East, Cambridge, MA]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|Audience bootleg
|-
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Homie]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|I'll Think About You
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[November 4]], [[1997]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Homie concert: 11/21/1997|T.T. the Bear's Place, Cambridge, MA]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|Audience bootleg
|-
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[Homie]] (Cuomo, Buckley, Parsons, Eltringham)
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|I'll Think About You
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|Winter [[1997]]/[[1998]]
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|?
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|3:01
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|Pro demo.
|-
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[Homie]]
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|I'll Think About You
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Winter [[1997]]/[[1998]]
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Fort Apache Studios(?), Boston, MA
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|
| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Homie album sessions.
|-
|}


==Audio==
==Audio==
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==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead vocals, guitar
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead vocals, guitar
*Drew Parsons - bass guitar
*[[Drew Parsons]] - bass guitar
*Jay Buckley - keyboards
*[[Jay Buckley]] - keyboards
*Fred Eltringham - drums
*[[Fred Eltringham]] - drums


==Lyrics==
==Lyrics==
<poem>I've been standin' here
<poem>I've been standin' here
For a long, long time
For a long, long time
Thinkin' about the fight we had
Thinkin' 'bout the fight we had, oh
Oh oh
 
Now maybe we're all through
Now maybe we're all through
Or we've just begun
Or we've just begun
But there's just one thing I need to say
But there's just one thing I need to say, hey hey
Hey hey


Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
Everything I do
And everything I do
No matter whose I am,
No matter whose I am,
I'll think about you
I'll think about you
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It may have been a game
It may have been a game
It might have hurt a lot
It might have hurt a lot
But no one put you in that ring
But no one put you in that ring, oh
Uh huh
And so we kissed goodbye
 
So we kiss goodbye
You know I love you true
You know I love you true
You know I love playin' with you
You know I love playin' with you, oh


Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
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No matter whose I am,
No matter whose I am,
I’ll think about you
I’ll think about you
Oh! oh! oh!
 
I’ll think about you...
I’ll think about you...
</poem>
</poem>
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
*[[Jennifer Chiba]]
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category:Homie songs]]
[[Category:Homie songs]]
[[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]]
[[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]]
[[Category:Songs on Alone II]]
[[Category:Songs on Alone II]][[Category:Songs on Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]
[[Category:Self-produced Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category:Self-produced Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category:Alone series]]
[[Category:Alone series]]
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