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"Around the World" is an instrumental derived from the [[Daniel Brummel and the Contraband]] song "[[If I Only Had Some Courage]]". The spoken audio at the beginning of the song is from a foreign-language radio station that one of the band member's amps picked up during the recording of the album.<ref>Email correspondence with Daniel Brummel, 2020.
"Around the World" is an instrumental derived from the [[Daniel Brummel and the Contraband]] song "[[If I Only Had Some Courage]]". The spoken audio at the beginning of the song is from a foreign-language radio station that one of the band member's amps picked up during the recording of the album.<ref>Email correspondence with Daniel Brummel, 2020.
https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:DBNEWSSTATIC.png</ref> [[Daniel Brummel|Brummel]] said of the song's title:
https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:DBNEWSSTATIC.png</ref> [[Daniel Brummel|Brummel]] said of the song's title:
<blockquote>The sequential chord progression in the B section proceeds around the diatonic harmony by bass motion in fifths — a “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths circle of fifths]” type progression. When I first showed it to Ryen, when we hit that section, he said “around the world!” which I connected via wordplay to the Jules Verne novel, in the same playful sense of “one-upmanship” that gave us “Rock and Roll Part Three.”<ref>Email correspondence with Daniel Brummel, 2021. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Daniel_Brummel_Around_the_World.PNG</ref></blockquote>
{{Daniel Brummel Quote|The sequential chord progression in the B section proceeds around the diatonic harmony by bass motion in fifths — a “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths circle of fifths]” type progression. When I first showed it to Ryen, when we hit that section, he said “around the world!” which I connected via wordplay to the Jules Verne novel, in the same playful sense of “one-upmanship” that gave us “Rock and Roll Part Three.”<ref>Email correspondence with Daniel Brummel, 2021. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Daniel_Brummel_Around_the_World.PNG</ref>}}
 
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