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| Publication = iTunes Originals | | Publication = iTunes Originals | ||
| Interviewee = [[Weezer]] | | Interviewee = [[Weezer]] | ||
| Cover = | | Cover = Itunes originals cover.jpg | ||
| Caption = | | Caption = | ||
| Date = [[January 1]], [[2010]] | | Date = [[January 1]], [[2010]] | ||
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'''Rivers:''' Weezer was super confident about who we were musically, um, when we were playing the clubs in L.A. and we, uh... the last thing we wanted was a producer to come in and tell us how to sound when we were making our first record. And, but when we got a record deal with Geffen Records, they pushed us hard, basically they said you have to have a producer on your first record. Uh, so... I thought about it for a while and I just reached a conclusion—I think maybe I'd heard on the radio, a [[Cars]] song came on, maybe just what I needed. And the guitar sound kind of reminded me of Weezer, these downstroke eighth notes on the distorted guitar. And it sounded great. And I just thought, if we need a producer, I want somebody who's actually a musician and a guy in a band, that sort of thing. Not somebody who's just, you know, working in the studio, uh, working basically for major labels, making records. So, I didn't even know Ric Ocasek was actually a producer and had made some great records before. So I told the label, they sent him our demo tape and he immediately got back to us and said, "This is amazing, I gotta do this." And he was so cool, he completely waived his fees so we didn't have to pay him anything at the time, which was good, because we didn't have any money. Uhm, and then he just did an amazing job helping us... polish up our sound but retain our sense of who we were. And that record, to this day, sounds pretty unique. | '''Rivers:''' Weezer was super confident about who we were musically, um, when we were playing the clubs in L.A. and we, uh... the last thing we wanted was a producer to come in and tell us how to sound when we were making our first record. And, but when we got a record deal with Geffen Records, they pushed us hard, basically they said you have to have a producer on your first record. Uh, so... I thought about it for a while and I just reached a conclusion—I think maybe I'd heard on the radio, a [[Cars]] song came on, maybe just what I needed. And the guitar sound kind of reminded me of Weezer, these downstroke eighth notes on the distorted guitar. And it sounded great. And I just thought, if we need a producer, I want somebody who's actually a musician and a guy in a band, that sort of thing. Not somebody who's just, you know, working in the studio, uh, working basically for major labels, making records. So, I didn't even know Ric Ocasek was actually a producer and had made some great records before. So I told the label, they sent him our demo tape and he immediately got back to us and said, "This is amazing, I gotta do this." And he was so cool, he completely waived his fees so we didn't have to pay him anything at the time, which was good, because we didn't have any money. Uhm, and then he just did an amazing job helping us... polish up our sound but retain our sense of who we were. And that record, to this day, sounds pretty unique. | ||
==This is Freaking Amazing== | ===This is Freaking Amazing=== | ||
''Commentary for "[[Undone - The Sweater Song]]". Details Cuomo and Wilson's feelings leading up to and following the release of ''The Blue Album''. | ''Commentary for "[[Undone - The Sweater Song]]". Details Cuomo and Wilson's feelings leading up to and following the release of ''The Blue Album''. | ||
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'''Rivers:''' I remember, uh, when I was writing songs for ''[[Pinkerton]]'' I was very into the idea of "I don't wanna build a demo track and write a song like that in my little home studio, what I want to do is just sit with an acoustic guitar and make sure that the song is great with just me and an acoustic... no rock guitar, no sound effects, nothing like that. Just one guy and a guitar singing his songs." And so, almost all the songs were written like that, um... so that kind of gives it a particular, unique flavor, I guess. | '''Rivers:''' I remember, uh, when I was writing songs for ''[[Pinkerton]]'' I was very into the idea of "I don't wanna build a demo track and write a song like that in my little home studio, what I want to do is just sit with an acoustic guitar and make sure that the song is great with just me and an acoustic... no rock guitar, no sound effects, nothing like that. Just one guy and a guitar singing his songs." And so, almost all the songs were written like that, um... so that kind of gives it a particular, unique flavor, I guess. | ||
===The Winter is Seemingly Endless=== | ===The Winter is Seemingly Endless=== | ||
''Commentary for "[[The Good Life]]". Details how Cuomo's surroundings affect his writing and headspace'' | ''Commentary for "[[The Good Life]]". Details how Cuomo's surroundings affect his writing and headspace.'' | ||
'''Rivers:''' I feel like my surroundings affect my headspace when I'm writing... uh, for example, ''The Blue Album'', all those songs in West L.A., just perfect, beautiful weather every single day of the year, pretty much. Um, it's very invigorating and uh... I think you can hear that joyful quality in the music. Now, ''Pinkerton'' was, most of those songs were written in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And a lot of them were written in the winter. And, the winter there is just seemingly endless, and... snowfall after snowfall, and then... mud, and... sludge, and slush, and uh... [laughs] | '''Rivers:''' I feel like my surroundings affect my headspace when I'm writing... uh, for example, ''The Blue Album'', all those songs in West L.A., just perfect, beautiful weather every single day of the year, pretty much. Um, it's very invigorating and uh... I think you can hear that joyful quality in the music. Now, ''Pinkerton'' was, most of those songs were written in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And a lot of them were written in the winter. And, the winter there is just seemingly endless, and... snowfall after snowfall, and then... mud, and... sludge, and slush, and uh... [laughs] | ||
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===I Always Try to Scrub These Songs Clean=== | ===I Always Try to Scrub These Songs Clean=== | ||
''Commentary for "[[Hash Pipe]]". Details how the lead singles for Weezer's first three albums had all been censored despite Cuomo trying to keep his music clean of any profanity.'' | |||
''Commentary for "[[Hash Pipe]]". | |||
'''Rivers:''' You know, it's funny because I always try to write clean lyrics, I don't like... whenever I've written, uh, curse words in songs or something it just doesn't sound cool to me, so I always try to scrub these songs clean. But just about every time we've put out our first single on a record, it's gotten censored, and I'm always surprised, I'm like, "Oh, that's a bad word? I didn't even know that!" "Sweater Song" had... | |||
'''Pat:''' Damn... goddamn. [laughs] | |||
'''Rivers:''' Yeah... | |||
'''Pat:''' No, you can't say goddamn. | |||
'''Rivers:''' "El Scorcho"... goddamn you half-Japanese girls got censored again. "Hash Pipe", ha, I think we wanted to change that to "Hash Browns". | |||
'''Pat:''' Yeah, with "Hash Pipe" it's strange that they chose the phrase, the two words "hash pipe" as the problem when, y'know, they listened to the parts about transsexual prostitutes that maybe had been a little more troublesome. | |||
===I Was a Scientist, This Was an Experiment=== | ===I Was a Scientist, This Was an Experiment=== | ||
''Commentary for "[[Dope Nose]]". Details Cuomo experimenting with drugs during the writing of the song.'' | |||
''Commentary for "[[Dope Nose]]".'' | |||
===A Fun and Steady Stream of Inspiration=== | ===A Fun and Steady Stream of Inspiration=== | ||
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''Commentary for "[[The Greatest Man That Ever Lived]]".'' | ''Commentary for "[[The Greatest Man That Ever Lived]]".'' | ||
===Eating Pork and Beans With Candy=== | ===Eating Pork and Beans With Candy=== | ||
''Commentary for "[[Pork and Beans]]". Details Weezer turning in a draft of ''The Red Album'' and Geffen asking for more radio-friendly single material.'' | |||
''Commentary for "[[Pork and Beans]]".'' | |||
'''Brian:''' After we did ''[[The Red Album]]'' proper, we turned it in and they felt we needed a couple more, a couple singles. And... we were really, y'know, we thought we had made a piece of art and we have to put some singles, I love both of these songs, and then... uh, Rivers pulls out this song about eating pork and beans with candy. And we actually recorded it in the room we're sitting in, right today. | |||
===I'm Starting to Get Vertigo=== | ===I'm Starting to Get Vertigo=== | ||
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''Commentary for "[[Troublemaker]]".'' | ''Commentary for "[[Troublemaker]]".'' | ||
===We Just Got to This Point=== | ===We Just Got to This Point=== | ||
''Commentary for "[[Can't Stop Partying]]". Details Cuomo's writer's block while attempting to finish the song.'' | |||
''Commentary for "[[Can't Stop Partying]]".'' | |||
'''Rivers:''' With ''[[Raditude]]'', we didn't set out to, uh, start experimenting with, with other, um, artists on our tracks. I think with "Can't Stop Partying" we just got to this point in the song, like two-thirds of the way through where, it took forever trying to figure out what was supposed to come next. Um, there was this, like this space in the song, I couldn't, I kept trying to write different things, I couldn't come up with anything. And uh, it just seemed like a cool idea to have [[Lil Wayne]] come down and do a rap, I'm such a fan of his, uh, thought he could put a cool spin on the lyrics. | |||
===We Were Just Blown Away=== | ===We Were Just Blown Away=== | ||
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