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'''"Prom Night"''' (formerly titled '''"80's Prom Night"''') is a bonus track on the Japanese | '''"Prom Night"''' (formerly titled '''"80's'''{{sic}} '''Prom Night"''') is a [[List of Weezer B-sides and bonus tracks|bonus track]] on the Japanese releases of [[Weezer (The White Album)]] and a [[List of Weezer B-sides and bonus tracks|B-side]] to the fan-club single "[[The Last Days of Summer]]". | ||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
*''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]'' ( | *''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]'' (Japan) (2016) | ||
*"[[The Last Days of Summer]]" (2016) | *''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]'' (Deluxe edition; Japan) (2016) | ||
*"[[The Last Days of Summer]]" ([[Weezer Fan Club]] single; 2016) | |||
*''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]'' (2020) | |||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
{{Rivers Cuomo quote|''That was a thrill having you gun me around in your Chevelle | |||
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''You got to see them when they were weird and cool.”</ | ''You got to see them when they were weird and cool.”|blog post, [[2015]]<ref name="tumblr">Rivers Cuomo. "Weird and Cool" ''Tumblr''. 7 March 2015. http://rcuomo.tumblr.com/post/112990225550/weird-and-cool:</ref>}} | ||
According to [[Rivers Cuomo]] in a post in the [[Weezer Fan Club]] Facebook group, the song was originally written in [[2012]] following the first [[The Weezer Cruise|Weezer Cruise]] (specifically inspired by the Cruise's "80's Prom Night" party<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. ''Riverpedia''. [[Riverpedia archive - 09/02/2020#Carnival_Destiny|Riverpedia archive - 09/02/2020]]. Page archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20210731224113/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Carnival%20Destiny</ref>), the verse chords and melody were lifted from a [[2004]] demo called "[[You and Me Together]]", and the verse and bridge lyrics were written in [[2015]]. The song's lyrics appear to match a poem titled "Weird And Cool" from Cuomo's now-defunct Tumblr page.<ref name="tumblr" /> | |||
Demos of "80's Prom Night" were included in the digital compilation ''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''. | Demos of "80's Prom Night" were included in the digital compilation ''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]'', released in [[2020]]. | ||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
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Oo-oo-hoo-hoo</poem> | Oo-oo-hoo-hoo</poem> | ||
===80's Prom Night=== | |||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
Another lonely night | Another lonely night | ||
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*[[List of Weezer songs]] | *[[List of Weezer songs]] | ||
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | *[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
{{Reference list}} | |||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category: Weezer songs]][[Category: Bonus tracks]] | [[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category: Weezer songs]][[Category:Bonus tracks]] | ||
[[Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)]] | [[Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)]] | ||
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]] | [[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]] | ||
[[Category:B-sides]] | [[Category:B-sides]] | ||