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After touring for their debut album wrapped up in August 1995, the band took a seven-day break. Just a few days before Rivers Cuomo was set to travel to study at Harvard University, the band gathered for two weeks of recording at Electric Lady Studios, the same studio where they recorded their debut. Guitarist Brian Bell commented "We're going for the deeper, darker, more experimental stuff,' but assured fans, 'but we'll always be the Weezer you know and love." In these very early sessions, the band would attempt to record a "special coda" of several overlapping songs. It would be from these sessions that Songs from the Black Hole would come to fruition. The songs "[[Why Bother?]]," "[[Getchoo]]," "[[No Other One]]," and "[[Tired of Sex]]" would be tracked. | After touring for their debut album wrapped up in August 1995, the band took a seven-day break. Just a few days before Rivers Cuomo was set to travel to study at Harvard University, the band gathered for two weeks of recording at Electric Lady Studios, the same studio where they recorded their debut. Guitarist Brian Bell commented "We're going for the deeper, darker, more experimental stuff,' but assured fans, 'but we'll always be the Weezer you know and love." In these very early sessions, the band would attempt to record a "special coda" of several overlapping songs. It would be from these sessions that Songs from the Black Hole would come to fruition. The songs "[[Why Bother?]]," "[[Getchoo]]," "[[No Other One]]," and "[[Tired of Sex]]" would be tracked. | ||
For the album, the band decided against hiring a producer. Cuomo felt it was "the best way for us to sound like ourselves is to record on our own." The intention of the band was to make a raw record, which would better resemble the band's live sound. The main goal was to achieve a big drum sound and abrasive guitar sounds. This was accomplished by connecting multiple distortion pedals. At just under thirty-five minutes, ''Pinkerton'' was according to Cuomo, "short by design." In recording the album over four respective sessions, the band would usually spend two days on rehearsals and then head into the studio to record the tracks. To give the album a live feel, members of the band would record the vocals in tandem around three microphones. | For the album, the band decided against hiring a producer. Cuomo felt it was "the best way for us to sound like ourselves is to record on our own." The intention of the band was to make a raw record, which would better resemble the band's live sound. The main goal was to achieve a big drum sound and abrasive guitar sounds. This was accomplished by connecting multiple distortion pedals. At just under thirty-five minutes, ''Pinkerton'' was according to Cuomo, "short by design." In recording the album over four respective sessions, the band would usually spend two days on rehearsals and then head into the studio to record the tracks. To give the album a live feel, members of the band would record the vocals in tandem around three microphones. According to [[Brian Bell]], the band used so much tremolo picking during the recording process that they began to refer to it as "butterfly picking."<ref>[[:File:Brian Bell Instagram Falling for You caption - 08-25-22.png]]</ref> | ||
While Cuomo was at Harvard, his busy schedule left his fellow band members with copious amounts of free time. Cuomo himself, while at Harvard, would focus his attention on textbooks about music theory. Various members of the band used this time to work on their respective side-projects. [[Matt Sharp]] would work to promote his side-band [[The Rentals]]' debut album, while [[Patrick Wilson]] and [[Brian Bell]] worked on material for their side-bands [[The Special Goodness]] and [[Space Twins]], respectively. The band regrouped in January 1996, during Cuomo's winter break, for a two-week recording session at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, with an intent on wrapping up the songs they had previously worked on at Electric Lady Studios from last August. As well as recording new songs, "[[El Scorcho]]", and "[[Pink Triangle]]", before the band went their separate ways, once again, while Cuomo returned to Harvard. The other members of the band went back to work on their various projects. | While Cuomo was at Harvard, his busy schedule left his fellow band members with copious amounts of free time. Cuomo himself, while at Harvard, would focus his attention on textbooks about music theory. Various members of the band used this time to work on their respective side-projects. [[Matt Sharp]] would work to promote his side-band [[The Rentals]]' debut album, while [[Patrick Wilson]] and [[Brian Bell]] worked on material for their side-bands [[The Special Goodness]] and [[Space Twins]], respectively. The band regrouped in January 1996, during Cuomo's winter break, for a two-week recording session at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, with an intent on wrapping up the songs they had previously worked on at Electric Lady Studios from last August. As well as recording new songs, "[[El Scorcho]]", and "[[Pink Triangle]]", before the band went their separate ways, once again, while Cuomo returned to Harvard. The other members of the band went back to work on their various projects. | ||