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Featured article: Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo (Latin: "Behold the man") was the title for Rivers Cuomo's original draft of the album concept that eventually became Weezer's ninth studio album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End.

Cuomo began developing the concept in 2011, deriving the title from the book of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche. The album concept centered around the character Sebastian who, for deliberately ambiguous reasons, appears to exist throughout various eras of history and, over the course of the narrative, realizes the necessity of faith in a higher power. Some of these ideas carried over into the narrative of Everything Will Be Alright in the End.

A selection of demos considered for the album, alongside a Word document providing extensive info about the concept, were included as part of the digital compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years in 2020.

Several of the tracks from this draft would eventually appear on Everything Will Be Alright in the End.

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Featured song: "Everybody Needs Salvation"

"Everybody Needs Salvation" is a single by Weezer, released exclusively to the members of the Weezer Fan Club.

Rivers Cuomo wrote "Everybody Needs Salvation" at some point between 2011 and 2014, in contention for the album that would become Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The song was listed as part of Act III on a track list of an early draft of EWBAITE (then dubbed Ecce Homo). Though it did not appear on the final album, a portion of the bridge lyrics appear in the EWBAITE liner notes after the lyrics for "The British Are Coming." The song was instead recorded as a Weezer Fan Club-exclusive single in February of 2015 for release in April of that year.

The cover art is a painting by Antonello da Messina called Ecce Homo, painted in 1475. The symbol on the shoulder of Christ is the Om in Devanagari.

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On this day... October 12

1994 - Weezer opens for Live in Detroit, MI at the State Theater.
1996 - Weezer performs in Sydney, Australia on the Pinkerton Tour.

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Featured quote: Scott Shriner on Weezer's legacy post-Everything Will Be Alright in the End, October 2014.

I don't really believe in coincidences; things really work out for a reason, and some of 'em might seem questionable. [My son] challenged me and my wife in a way we needed to be challenged, and we grew from that. So I relate that to the band as well, and our challenges and the difficulties and the good and the bad and all that. Weezer's becoming the absolutely perfect band that it's supposed to be. I'm so proud of Weezer. Nobody's perfect, but we're on our path to destiny, and our legacy is being completed.

- Scott Shriner, Alternative Press article - October 2014

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