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'''"Lover in the Snow"''' a song written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[1997]]. It is the thirteenth track from the compilation ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'', released in [[2007]]. | '''"Lover in the Snow"''' a song written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[1997]]. It is the thirteenth track from the compilation ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'', released in [[2007]]. | ||
==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
*''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' | *''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2007) | ||
*''[[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]]'' (Live Video) | *''[[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]]'' (Live Video) (2009) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===''Alone'' liner notes=== | ===''Alone'' liner notes=== | ||
{{Alone liner notes|''Songs from the Black Hole'' morphed into ''Pinkerton'', which maintained an emphasis on personal, dramatic narrative and symphonic development, along the lines of Puccini. After that album came out, I started looking for a new, more minimalistic, less personal style. | |||
One of the first things I tried was fantasy based songs--imagining a Romantic, flowery, tragic, and/or mystical setting and then describing it with words and music. That's how I wrote "Lover in the Snow", with lines like "deep in the shady glen." | |||
I was amazed that this song seemed to be just as powerful and emotional as my personal songs, even though it was all fantasy, an imagined experience that never happened.}} | |||
At the time of writing "Lover in the Snow", Cuomo was interested in pursuing a potential side-project tentatively dubbed "[[Lovely]]". Described by Cuomo as a "reaction to the reaction to ''[[Pinkerton]]''", the music of Lovely would utilize more minimalist song structures and chord progressions, in contrast to the use of numerous chords and key changes in songs such as the ''Pinkerton'' track "[[Falling for You]]". "Lover in the Snow" was first leaked onto the internet by Cuomo in [[2002]]. The song was hosted on his website, [[riverscuomo.com]], for a period of time. In [[2007]], the song was officially released (in an edited form), on the compilation ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. This edit shortens the original demo to reduce some of the repetitive segments. | At the time of writing "Lover in the Snow", Cuomo was interested in pursuing a potential side-project tentatively dubbed "[[Lovely]]". Described by Cuomo as a "reaction to the reaction to ''[[Pinkerton]]''", the music of Lovely would utilize more minimalist song structures and chord progressions, in contrast to the use of numerous chords and key changes in songs such as the ''Pinkerton'' track "[[Falling for You]]". "Lover in the Snow" was first leaked onto the internet by Cuomo in [[2002]]. The song was hosted on his website, [[riverscuomo.com]], for a period of time. In [[2007]], the song was officially released (in an edited form), on the compilation ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. This edit shortens the original demo to reduce some of the repetitive segments. | ||