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"'''My Name Is Jonas'''" is the first track from Weezer's self-titled debut album. | "'''My Name Is Jonas'''" is the first track from Weezer's self-titled debut album. | ||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
* [[Weezer (The Blue Album)]] | * [[Weezer (The Blue Album)]] | ||
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*[[List of Official Bootlegs|Several Official Bootlegs]] (Live Version) | *[[List of Official Bootlegs|Several Official Bootlegs]] (Live Version) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Written by [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson]] and [[Jason Cropper]], "My Name Is Jonas" is one of only a handful of early Weezer tracks with a co-writing credit. Notably, Cropper came up with the song's fingerpicked intro, which gave him his only songwriting credit on a Weezer song. The song was written during the [[The 50 Song Project|50 song project]], and is one of the earliest collaborations between Cuomo and Wilson. Wilson came up with the instrumentation parts and let Cuomo write the lyrics, melodies and solo. | Written by [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson]] and [[Jason Cropper]], "My Name Is Jonas" is one of only a handful of early Weezer tracks with a co-writing credit. Notably, Cropper came up with the song's fingerpicked intro, which gave him his only songwriting credit on a Weezer song. The song was written during the [[The 50 Song Project|50 song project]], and is one of the earliest collaborations between Cuomo and Wilson. Wilson came up with the instrumentation parts and let Cuomo write the lyrics, melodies and solo. | ||
"My Name is Jonas" was inspired by Cuomo's brother, [[Leaves Cuomo]]. Says Rivers, "'Jonas' explains how The Plan is reaming us all, especially my brother." | "My Name is Jonas" was inspired by Cuomo's brother, [[Leaves Cuomo]]. Says Rivers, "'Jonas' explains how The Plan is reaming us all, especially my brother." | ||
At one point, the song was erroneously named by [[Geffen Records]] as the ''Blue Album's'' third single. Before "[[Say It Ain't So]]" was officially chosen as a single by consensus among the band, Todd Sullivan, and the label, Geffen had printed up limited runs of a "My Name is Jonas" one-track promo CD, and distributed them, primarily in Canada. These CDs are among some of the rarer Weezer collectibles. | At one point, the song was erroneously named by [[Geffen Records]] as the ''Blue Album's'' third single. Before "[[Say It Ain't So]]" was officially chosen as a single by consensus among the band, Todd Sullivan, and the label, Geffen had printed up limited runs of a "My Name is Jonas" one-track promo CD, and distributed them, primarily in Canada. These CDs are among some of the rarer Weezer collectibles. | ||
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"My Name is Jonas" was featured as a playable master track on the rhythm video game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Guitar_Hero_III:_Legends_of_Rock Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock]. It was also made available as a downloadable song for the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Band Rock Band]'' game series, in addition to ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocksmith_2014 Rocksmith 2014]''. | "My Name is Jonas" was featured as a playable master track on the rhythm video game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Guitar_Hero_III:_Legends_of_Rock Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock]. It was also made available as a downloadable song for the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Band Rock Band]'' game series, in addition to ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocksmith_2014 Rocksmith 2014]''. | ||
==Songwriting | ==Songwriting process== | ||
In [[2019]], Jason Cropper recalled the songwriting process in an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment [https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/only-in-dreams-meet-the-founding-member-who-became-the-pete-best-of-weezer-164724591.html] | In [[2019]], Jason Cropper recalled the songwriting process in an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment [https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/only-in-dreams-meet-the-founding-member-who-became-the-pete-best-of-weezer-164724591.html] | ||
{{Jason Cropper quote|I got home from work [at the Italian restaurant], and I remember I was still wearing my cook's outfit. I picked up the guitar and played that first part of what became the intro to ‘My Name Is Jonas,’ and Pat [Wilson] said, ‘Stop. Just do that. Just don't keep going to different chords, just do those three notes, those three chords!’ And he puts the mic in front of the guitar, and I do it. And then he's like, ‘OK, give me the guitar.’ Then he took it and wrote the rest of the music, I believe, and then gave it to Rivers, who wrote all the words and all the melody and finished the song. That was typical of the creative process. It was like I maybe got to just throw a penny's worth of information into what became a full dollar bill.}} | {{Jason Cropper quote|I got home from work [at the Italian restaurant], and I remember I was still wearing my cook's outfit. I picked up the guitar and played that first part of what became the intro to ‘My Name Is Jonas,’ and Pat [Wilson] said, ‘Stop. Just do that. Just don't keep going to different chords, just do those three notes, those three chords!’ And he puts the mic in front of the guitar, and I do it. And then he's like, ‘OK, give me the guitar.’ Then he took it and wrote the rest of the music, I believe, and then gave it to Rivers, who wrote all the words and all the melody and finished the song. That was typical of the creative process. It was like I maybe got to just throw a penny's worth of information into what became a full dollar bill.}} | ||