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| This RC song = "The Bomb"<br>(RC# ?) | | This RC song = "The Bomb"<br>(RC# ?) | ||
| RC's next song = "[[?]]"<br>(RC# ?) | | RC's next song = "[[?]]"<br>(RC# ?) | ||
| Album type = demo | | Album type = demo | ||
| Previous track = "[[Lemonade]]<br>(3) | | Previous track = "[[Lemonade]]<br>(3) | ||
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| Next track = "[[Buddy Holly]]"<br>(5) | | Next track = "[[Buddy Holly]]"<br>(5) | ||
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'''"The Bomb"''' is the fourth track | '''"The Bomb"''' is a song by American rapper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube Ice Cube], from his [[1990]] album ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmeriKKKa%27s_Most_Wanted AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted]''. [[Rivers Cuomo]] recorded a cover of the song in the fall of [[1992]]. Cuomo's cover appeared as the fourth track on ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | ||
===Appearances=== | |||
*''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2007) | |||
==Overview== | |||
Cuomo's cover omits several of Ice Cube's original verses and adds a guitar solo. | |||
===Liner notes=== | |||
{{Alone liner notes|As much as I had loved rap music and funk in recent years, it seemed like Weezer's sound was evolving in quite the opposite direction, towards uber-white non-funkiness. In fact, any attempt by any white musician to play anything remotely "black" or funky struck Matt and me, with out new ultra-refined sensibility, as "bad style." We cringed with embarrassment and disgust whenever we saw a white person trying to rap or be funky in earnest. ''White people shouldn't try to be funky'' was the underlying belief. | |||
But I loved rap music. And so I recorded this cover of one of Ice Cube's songs. | |||
I really had no idea how to sing it. I couldn't take my rap voice seriously so I kind of gave it a Beastie Boys scream and hid behind a wall of distortion. | |||
I believed that nothing could come of musical explorations like this but it was still really fun to do.}} | |||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of | *[[List of cover 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:Cover songs]] | [[Category:Cover songs]] | ||