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| Artist = Rivers Cuomo | | Artist = Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Recorded = March 1993 | | Recorded = March 1993 | ||
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| This RC song = "Don't Worry Baby"<br>(RC# 156) | | This RC song = "Don't Worry Baby"<br>(RC# 156) | ||
| RC's next song = "Punk Rock Girl"<br>(RC# 157) | | RC's next song = "Punk Rock Girl"<br>(RC# 157) | ||
| Album = Alone II | | Album = Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Album type = demo | | Album type = demo | ||
| Previous track = "[[Come to My Pod]]<br>(10) | | Previous track = "[[Come to My Pod]]<br>(10) | ||
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'''"Don't Worry Baby"''' is the second track from ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Down_Volume_2 Shut Down Volume 2]'' by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys the Beach Boys], written by [[Brian Wilson]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Christian_(songwriter) Roger Christian]. It was covered by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[1993]] and released as the eleventh track on ''[[Alone II]]''. | '''"Don't Worry Baby"''' is the second track from ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Down_Volume_2 Shut Down Volume 2]'' by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys the Beach Boys], written by [[Brian Wilson]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Christian_(songwriter) Roger Christian]. It was covered by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[1993]] and released as the eleventh track on ''[[Alone II]]''. | ||
===Appearances=== | |||
*''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2008) | |||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
In the liner notes to ''Alone II'', Cuomo notes that recording this cover was an attempt to help form his own sound. He had previously employed a gritter singing-screaming sound for his vocals but noted that he had more of a "choir boy" sound. He used "Don't Worry Baby" as a template for honing his own sound and style - substituting the sound of the original with Weezer's familiar chugging guitars and adding a guitar solo. | In the liner notes to ''Alone II'', Cuomo notes that recording this cover was an attempt to help form his own sound. He had previously employed a gritter singing-screaming sound for his vocals but noted that he had more of a "choir boy" sound. He used "Don't Worry Baby" as a template for honing his own sound and style - substituting the sound of the original with Weezer's familiar chugging guitars and adding a guitar solo. | ||
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In the lyrics, Cuomo uses, "And makes me want to cry," instead of, "And makes me want to drive," in the original. | In the lyrics, Cuomo uses, "And makes me want to cry," instead of, "And makes me want to drive," in the original. | ||
Cuomo also recorded a cover of the Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" around this time, perhaps for similar reasons. | Cuomo also recorded a cover of the Beach Boys' "[[Surfer Girl]]" around this time, perhaps for similar reasons. | ||
==Liner notes== | ==Liner notes== | ||
{{Alone liner notes|By 1993, I had zeroed in on the kinds of melodies and chord progressions that I loved the most. One reason for this was my discovery of the Beach Boys and the Beatles' music. I had discovered The Beach Boys' ''Pet Sounds'' album in a shop called Record Surplus on Pico Boulevard near the Weezer house in West L.A. I had gone there looking for a "classic" album to buy and to be influenced by. I narrowed down the selection to ''Pet Sounds'' or the first Led Zeppelin album, without knowing much about either album or either artist, and then, for some reason, chose ''Pet Sounds''. But for that choice, my life could have turned out very differently, for Pet Sounds came to have a great influence on my writing and singing. And ''Pet Sounds'' led me to all the other Beach Boys and Beatles albums. | |||
One day in March, I sat in my bedroom, transcribed the 5-part vocal harmonies to the Beach Boys' '''"Don't Worry Baby" (Track 11)''' and then moved to the garage and recorded a quick demo of the song, Weezer style, with crunchy, down-stroked guitars. I loved the oblique motion of the main melody line moving around within the more static background melodies. And the verse melody totally knocked me out–"Well it's been building up inside of me for, oh, I don't know how long"–the wild combination of long and short notes, straight and syncopated rhythms, articulated and melismatic phrases, the big leap down a fourth and the leap up a minor 6th. This seemed to be the exact type of melody that I wanted to write and that I felt destined to write: grand, operatic, dramatic, Romantic. Soon I perceived these types of melodies emerging in my own songs, like "Buddy Holly" and "Holiday", much to my satisfaction.}} | |||
==Live performance== | ==Live performance== | ||
Cuomo performed "Don't Worry Baby" with an A Capella ensemble in Hollywood for the website Stereogum. Cuomo posted a | Cuomo performed "Don't Worry Baby" with an A Capella ensemble in Hollywood for the website Stereogum. Cuomo posted a YouTube video on [[December 4]], [[2008]] asking any interested a capella groups contact him. | ||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
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==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar | ||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
Well | Well, it's been building up inside of me | ||
For, oh, I don't know how long | For, oh, I don't know how long | ||
I don't know why | I don't know why | ||
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Oh what she does to me | Oh what she does to me | ||
When she makes love to me | When she makes love to me | ||
And she says | And she says don't worry baby | ||
Don't worry baby | Don't worry baby | ||
Don't worry baby | Don't worry baby | ||