Sugar Booger

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"Sugar Booger"
Sugar Booger cover
B-side by Weezer
Album Island in the Sun (UK Retail CD #2)
Released May 15, 2001
Format CD
Recorded December 2000, Cello Studios, Los Angeles, California
Length 4:04
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
RC# 535
COR# 227
Producer(s) Ric Ocasek
Status Officially released
Island in the Sun (UK Retail CD #2) track listing
"Island in the Sun"
(1)
"Sugar Booger"
(2)
"Brightening Day"
(3)
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"a) After the Love Has Gone Away "Sugar Booger"
(RC# 535)
"Don't Let Go"
(RC# 536)

"Sugar Booger" (aka "That's the Way" and "Hammer Time") is a B-side recorded during the sessions for the Green Album and released on the UK retail CD release of "Island in the Sun."

Appearances

Overview

"Sugar Booger" was in early contention for the Green Album. The song was featured on a 2000 demo tape submitted by the band to Interscope/Geffen in hopes of receiving approval for a third album.[1] The song was one of fourteen Green sessions tracks leaked online prior to the album's release. This unmastered version of the song is, notably, shorter than the official B-side edit by 24 seconds.

Another entry in the Catalog O' Riffs (#239) is labeled simply "Sugar Booger in A@118" (presumably, the same riff in a different key and tempo). This variation remains unheard by fans.

Personnel

Lyrics

Break my spine, sugar booger
Break down and lose your sweet mind now
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Waste my time, sweetie, beauty
Bust out the hammer-time moves y'all
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Every time you turn around
I just want to hit the ground
Locked up in your little world
Makes me feel so insecure
And now

Draw that line
Maybe, baby, we could get up and get get down
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Spank my frank, funky monkey
You chilled and now you must bust out
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Every time you turn around
I just want to hit the ground
Locked up in your little world
Makes me feel so insecure
And now

Show me now

Draw that line
Maybe, baby, we could get up and get get down
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way

Known recordings

Performer(s) Title Filename Date of recording Recording location Length Appeared on Notes
Weezer That's the Way October 25, 2000[2] 6145 Rodgerton Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Weezer That's the Way October 27, 2000[2] 6145 Rodgerton Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Weezer That's the Way October 28, 2000[2] 6145 Rodgerton Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Weezer That's the Way October 29, 2000[2] 6145 Rodgerton Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Weezer That's the Way October 30, 2000[2] 6145 Rodgerton Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Weezer Sugar Booger December 22, 2000[2] S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Weezer Sugar Booger December 30, 2000February 1, 2001 Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA 4:04 "Island in the Sun" (UK retail "CD2")
Weezer Sugar Booger December 30, 2000February 1, 2001 Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA 3:40 Leaked online Unmastered
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