Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Home demos at their best offer a glimmer of hope to what a song could become as a finished product. On the other hand they can be the vague meanderings of a musician's bad ideas. Every once in a while one of those musicians feels like unloading their homemade tapes on the record buying public.
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is just such a musician – unleashing the coulda-been songs he recorded alone in his bedroom. Many of them should have stayed there.
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is just such a musician – unleashing the coulda-been songs he recorded alone in his bedroom. Many of them should have stayed there.
Read my full review at antiMusic.
As a teenager in the late 1990s, Weezer's debut album was a must have and is still one of my favorite records. I have been progressively less interested in them with every passing record though. I didn't even bother to grab the last one. Here is to the hope that their next record, tentatively scheduled to be released this year, is something special.
1 comments:
I agree with the progress of their records. BUt I do have to say Weezer was my first concert! It was in a tiny, smoky bar in Phoenix and 5-6 years later I went to their concert in Dallas in a huge arena and their performance was more entertaining than the first.
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