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| Name = Ecce Homo | | Name = Ecce Homo | ||
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[Rivers Cuomo]] began developing the concept in [[2011]], deriving the title from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(book) book of the same name] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche]. The album cover would have been the 1474 Antonello da Messina painting "Ecce Homo",<ref>"File:Antonello da Messina 003.jpg" ''Wikimedia Commons''. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonello_da_Messina_003.jpg</ref> later used for the fan-club single "[[Everybody Needs Salvation]],"<ref name="eccehomo11">Ecce Homo 11.docx, ''[[Alone XII: The EWBAITE Years]]''</ref> and purportedly would have included a fold-out star map and a picture of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel Tower of Babel].<ref name="except">ExceptYouDie: A Weezer Repertoire. https://sites.google.com/site/exceptyoudie/everything-will-be/ecce-homo</ref> Several of the tracks from this collection would eventually appear on ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. | [[Rivers Cuomo]] began developing the concept in [[2011]], deriving the title from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(book) book of the same name] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche]. The album cover would have been the 1474 Antonello da Messina painting "Ecce Homo",<ref>"File:Antonello da Messina 003.jpg" ''Wikimedia Commons''. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonello_da_Messina_003.jpg</ref> later used for the fan-club single "[[Everybody Needs Salvation]],"<ref name="eccehomo11">Ecce Homo 11.docx, ''[[Alone XII: The EWBAITE Years]]''</ref> and purportedly would have included a fold-out star map and a picture of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel Tower of Babel].<ref name="except">ExceptYouDie: A Weezer Repertoire. https://sites.google.com/site/exceptyoudie/everything-will-be/ecce-homo</ref> Several of the tracks from this collection would eventually appear on ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. | ||
A selection of demos considered for the album, alongside a Word document providing extensive info about the concept, were included as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' in [[2020]]. | |||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
The album concept centered around the character [[Sebastian]] who, for deliberately ambiguous reasons, appears to exist throughout various eras of history and, over the course of the narrative, realizes the necessity of faith in a higher power. Some of these ideas carried over into the narrative of ''EWBAITE''. | The album concept centered around the character [[Sebastian]] who, for deliberately ambiguous reasons, appears to exist throughout various eras of history and, over the course of the narrative, realizes the necessity of faith in a higher power. Some of these ideas carried over into the narrative of ''EWBAITE''. | ||