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| Origin = New York | | Origin = New York | ||
| Active = | | Active = 1990 | ||
| Labels = | | Labels = Bartholomew's Bizzare Publishing | ||
| URL = | | URL = | ||
| Current members = | | Current members = | ||
| Former members = [[Matt Sharp]] <br> [[ | | Former members = [[Matt Sharp]] <br> [[Hurshel Burton]]<br>[[Keith Harris]] | ||
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'''The Clique''' was a short-lived band formed by [[Matt Sharp]]. | '''The Clique''' was a short-lived band formed by [[Matt Sharp]]. | ||
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The Clique was formed by [[Matt Sharp]] when a man claiming to be an NBC executive told Sharp about a television movie project called ''Ice Butterfly: The Nancy Kerrigan Story''. The executive commissioned Sharp to make the theme for movie. Sharp, who had never written a song before, formed the Clique with two friends he had met through the [[Wikipedia:Black_Rock_Coalition|Black Rock Coalition]].<ref name="The Cliques">Koch, Karl. ''Recording History,'' archived from weezer.com. [[Recording_History_-_Page_1#Matt_Sharp:_The_Clique_-_Summer.2FFall_1989|Recording History - Page 1]]</ref> Sharp borrowed money from his mother and recorded the song "[[Ice Butterfly]]" (described by [[Karl Koch]] as "A somewhat pretentious Cure/Joy Division style recording") at Paramount Studios in Hollywood in July of [[1990]].<ref>Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive #2. 2 August 2020. https://youtu.be/ZKnRhSaDXMs?t=3123</ref> After the movie project fell through, Sharp produced a maxi-single of the song in an attempt to get it played by local radio stations, to little avail. The band was thereafter dissolved. | The Clique was formed by [[Matt Sharp]] when a man claiming to be an NBC executive told Sharp about a television movie project called ''Ice Butterfly: The Nancy Kerrigan Story''. The executive commissioned Sharp to make the theme for movie. Sharp, who had never written a song before, formed the Clique with two friends he had met through the [[Wikipedia:Black_Rock_Coalition|Black Rock Coalition]].<ref name="The Cliques">Koch, Karl. ''Recording History,'' archived from weezer.com. [[Recording_History_-_Page_1#Matt_Sharp:_The_Clique_-_Summer.2FFall_1989|Recording History - Page 1]]</ref> Sharp borrowed money from his mother and recorded the song "[[Ice Butterfly]]" (described by [[Karl Koch]] as "A somewhat pretentious Cure/Joy Division style recording") at Paramount Studios in Hollywood in July of [[1990]].<ref>Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive #2. 2 August 2020. https://youtu.be/ZKnRhSaDXMs?t=3123</ref> After the movie project fell through, Sharp produced a maxi-single of the song in an attempt to get it played by local radio stations, to little avail. The band was thereafter dissolved. | ||
==Members== | ==Members== | ||
*[[Matt Sharp]] | *[[Matt Sharp]] — lead vocals, bass | ||
*[[ | *[[Hurshel Burton]] — lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar | ||
* | *[[Keith Harris]] — drums, vocals, percussion | ||
==Discography== | ==Discography== | ||
===Singles=== | ===Singles=== | ||
* ''[[Ice Butterfly]]'' ( | * ''[[Ice Butterfly]]'' (1990) | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[List of Matt Sharp songs]] | *[[List of Matt Sharp songs]] | ||