Sea Opera

The so-called "Sea Opera" refers to an album concept speculated to have been in development by Rivers Cuomo around 2010. In fact, no such "sea opera" ever existed.

Overview

Rivers Cuomo uploaded several videos in January of 2011 of himself working on songs in the studio with producer Shawn Everett. Among the videos were snippets of the following songs:

• "Rock and Roll Cockroach" - A song about a fictional band called "The Roaches". The concept of the fictional band eventually morphed into The Astronauts from Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The song itself was later reworked into the Van Weezer track "Beginning of the End".
• "Ballad of the Briny" - A song about a sailor named Mortimer Collins falling in love with a woman, only to find her having sex with the ship's captain. Collins then throws himself overboard, hallucinating as he drowns. The song was later reworked into the Van Weezer track “Blue Dream”.
• "Rest in Peace" - A song later reworked into the White Album track "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori".

For several years thereafter, fans speculated that Cuomo was planning a "sea opera" concept album, due to "Ballad of the Briny" bearing narrative resemblance to Cuomo's previous album concept, Songs from the Black Hole. In 2020, however, Cuomo confirmed on a Riverpedia entry that there was no "Sea Opera".

Videos

• new demo for weezer
• 2011-01-05a
• 2011-01-07
• 2011-01-18 ("Ballad of the Briny" clip)
• 2011-01-18RRC ("Rock and Roll Cockroach" clip)
• Bye

See also

• Ecce Homo

External links

• "Sea opera" clips on Internet Archive