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Hell yeah! Glad this finally came out!

so f***ing beautiful

there’s massive tons of demos from all eras too he released

this one from ewbaite days bangs:

Definitely. Which album do you think has the best b-sides/outtakes? I still need to listen to all of the Maladroit/Green ones I never heard. That’s a cool about them; if you only like a particular period, there are probably a ton of songs from it that you haven’t even heard yet.

Yeah, people give Weezer too much s***. Their disco is far from perfect obviously but like you said, the good outweighs the bad and they've showed many times that they still got it in them to deliver a great record. I guess it's just mostly memes and reputation that haunts them at this point lol

Even Black (which i consider to be one of their most underwhelming projects) had High as a Kite which is top tier Weezer imo

you’re right, i started to take it from granted but we are so blessed - the mala days were insane with rivers sharing the songs with fans on the message board lol and all the official b sides or other sessions songs

now we just got a patch of like over 2,500 songs? of solo demo by rivers himself, and even that is a limited patch: he is only including the songs he is abandoning from mining (meaning all the songs dropped there, excluding the ones already reworked for van weezer or ok human, he won’t be revisiting to make new songs out of) which implies there’s a bunch of material he may still keep! but also he is only putting out recordings with him alone so no collaborations (STILL WAITING ON THAT JULIAN CASABLANCAS COLLAB TEASED GODDAM) or material with other band members

and we still got like 2,500 songs from that limited selection to play with for each eras!!! add that the band demos we already knew, my god...

that’s a good question

i think of all ive visited to answer your question, pinkerton obviously holds the best contender - if from the get go you stack the b sides together there’s actually enough to make a second ce to the album of original songs that are as good if not better than the album? similar to radiohead with in rainbows and it’s bonus cd

id say make believe has lot of left out songs that if you play around you get a more solid and creative album than what make believe ended up being

and you???

black is a mixed bag because of how it ended up being compromised, they cut half way the original intended vision for it: the opposite of white, more pop and urban influenced

i love that original take
it started this way and some of these songs made it there like zombie or california snow, but then other stuff came in and watered it down i feel

i switch up the tracklist a bit with some of the features released at that time such as gucci rock’n’rolla, still wanna know, pacific coast highways in the movies or the collab with pusha t and it makes the album so much more fun and coherent but ig that vibe is not for everyone

i do like the black as it is now tho it grew on me

but yeh weezer is forever cursed by elitists, by far the most underrated and slept on band

y’all goats ain’t making a symphonic orchestra album that is composed and arranged by its singer songwriter thats for sure, but that still ain’t enough to prove ppl wrong ofc..

I guess it’s a toss-up between Pinkerton, Blue and Maladroit. Pinkerton probably has my favorite b-sides; “I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams” and “You Gave Your Love to Me Softly” are two of my favorite Weezer songs period. You could make two or three records out of the Maladroit outtakes, but Blue has all of the good old outtakes, like the ones you just posted and stuff that never made it off the Kitchen Tape like “Paperface” and “Thief, You’ve Taken All that Was Me”. Blue’s also no slouch in the b-side department, with stuff like “Mykel & Carli” and “Suzanne”. B-sides alone I’d go Pinkerton but b-sides and outtakes it might have to be Blue.

fax! i swear it’s true always been a personal fav, that song is just straight down badass

that’s funny bc they did a whole cd of blue b sides, goes to show!

@Teal_ @Goo maybe you guys would like that band? ps i don’t have anything to do with them this is absolutely out of my own will and admiration of their talents and really think they deserve a listen

my fav song is she brings me back, very pixies

I like 07 Baby a lot. Very gentle song The type of song made for listening to when you're cozy on the hammock

HAMMOCK GANG WE BACK IN THIS B****

baby is so good, can’t believe rivers abandoned that song.. it’s up there among his best stuff imo

but yeah their original stuff is really nice too

wait. that was intended to be a weezer song at one point?

yes so the songs rosemary and baby in that post were intended for a side project by rivers titled homie, a band he formed while in boston posted pinkerton when weezer was on hiatus and rivers wasn’t having it, painting his room all black

band included the guitarist of cake and adam orth who later became none other than creative director at microsoft studios lol

the project was gonna be more country ish influenced, he did some demos that has never been released for it and premiered some of the songs for it while doing some lowkey shows in boston which is how we know of them songs, thru bootlegs

which is how this fan made album got made around, including those recordings of baby and rosemary

it’s a crime as they’re some of rivers best written stuff, more mature, he might have considered it for weezer too, who really knows what homie is

they do release one song for a movie which was the last recording with matt sharp

here’s another great song from it, done by the fans who did the tribute album (the acapella intro is an original piece they came up with however, beautiful stuff)

always adored that song

however there’s good news for this song; rivers resurrected it for the next weezer album!!!! im so excited

so with that info now, looking back, it’s more than likely he tried to work rosemary and baby for weezer too if he did end up doing sheila for weezer

only in weezer you’ll find out about a side project band that never saw the light of the day that had a microsoft creative director in it

this very hammock to me @Teal_

(another abandoned song tho... 1992 demo)
one of my personal fav deep cut, give that a shot @Goo ..

i'm not crazy about this one tbh.

aaaaaaaa you’re crushing me

ig it’s acceptable as we reaching deep lore abandoned weezer stuff grounds here so there’s a reason it was left out but man, there’s a floating breezy yet mellow mood to this that speaks to me especially tht bluesy solo at the end, very un-weezer

@Teal_

you should try the b sides of the blue album, pinkerton and the white album if you want to expend more of the golden material, here’s one example of each:

ok this is a million times better the first two are stellar but the last one was mid

man i would have put the last one onto the actual album! it’s absolute classic weezer

how about this instead then:

the beach boys harmonies really shines out here

here some more of blue and pink besides if not:

this is more my style. those beautiful harmonies always hit for me california vibes! the best song you've shared with me by weezer . the suzanne song is ass and the last song is decent. i'm not crazy about their stuff but i respect what they did .

the beach boys bar on jamie tho my booyyys

FR??? there we go same man just put some falsetto harmonies and im in it

my brother!

would also like to get your thoughts on this, not sure if you’ll like it as much but it’s one of their most beach boys sounding produced song, the percussions and all the harmonies work, especially on the bridge where it really pushes it