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-{{Featured song MP3  headline Youtube|https://youtu.be/AhfciBFFeMw|Cygnus X-1}}
+{{Featured song MP3  headline Youtube|https://youtu.be/22g4xh2o23w|Silent Night}}
-{{Featured song artwork|Karlscorner-20020304-d.jpg|Cygnus X-1}} "'''Cygnus X-1'''" (originally known as "'''Smiths Jamb'''") is an instrumental [[Weezer]] demo in early consideration for the album that would eventually become ''[[Maladroit]]''.
+{{Featured song artwork|How The Stole Christmas.jpg|Silent Night}} "'''Silent Night'''" is a classic Christmas carol composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Joseph Mohr. The song was covered by [[The Rentals]] in [[1995]] for the [[KROQ]] holiday compilation ''[[How the ----- Stole Christmas|How The _____ Stole Christmas]]''. It was then re-released by the band in [[2001]] as part of their fan-club compilation ''[[Excellent Stocking Stuffer]]''.
-The song was originally written, according to the [[Catalog O' Riffs]], in early October of [[2001]]. It is first known to have been recorded during the [[Cello Demos|sessions at Cello Studios]] in early November of that year, though it was not finished at that time. The song was later recorded at [[Glenn Sound Demos|Glenn Sound Studios]] on [[November 14]] for the radio station 107.7 The End, along with the songs "[[Slave]]" and "[[Space Rock]]". The songs were never aired, and the band subsequently released them as free MP3s on their [[weezer.com|official website]].
+The cover is an instrumental based around a lead synthesizer melody. It features [[Jim Richards]] on synth, [[Matt Sharp]] on drums, and a voice-over advertisement for ''[[Return of the Rentals]]'' by [[Rod Cervera]].
-The basis for the song's title has never been commented on, but [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1 Cygnus X-1] is also the name of a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus discovered in 1964, and the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole. It is also the title of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1_(song_series) two-part song] by the band [[Rush]] from their 1977 album ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Kings A Farewell to Kings]''.
+[[Weezer]] would later cover the song in [[2008]] for the holiday EP ''[[Christmas with Weezer]]''.
-{{Featured song links|Cygnus X-1}}
+{{Featured song links|Silent Night}}
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