Just found this blog. You are doing great work, please don't stop. It is great to find someone who is truly invested into writing about music and recreating lost works as well. Seriously, I love this. Keep it up!! Thank you for your contribution to mankind by this website. The wonderful folks over at AllThingsWeezer. I think a revision may be in order to include these! Download link does not exist.
Does anyone know if it exists anywhere for download? I'm sorry to bother: I'm looking for the file but it seems expired again!
A ton of demos leaked from Rivers Cuomo's website including some from the black hole demo tape he made in No, this will get a huge upgrade, probably on the 25th anniversary of Pinkerton which is in September. I would love to hear this as well. Where do the download links normally get placed? Act I :. Blast Off! Why Bother? Come To My Pod. This Is Not For Me. Tired of Sex. Act II :. Good News! Getting Up and Leaving. Now I Finally See.
Act III :. Waiting On You. No Other One. What Is This I Find? Longtime Sunshine. My reconstruction is designed to be a full, complete album as much as possible anyways so a number of edits and crossfades were made; this is not simply a playlist of the intended songs from Songs From The Black Hole.
All recordings used were authentic Weezer or Rivers Cuomo recordings; no fan-made covers or re-imaginations were used. This reconstruction is technically a revision as I had previously created one in late upon the release of Alone III the solo Rivers Cuomo release containing the final missing pieces needed to reconstruct Songs From The Black Hole. A problem with the source material is the varying quality of recordings. Since only half of this album was even recorded properly in the studio, half of this reconstruction can only exist as solo Rivers Cuomo demo tapes.
Luckily for us, Weezer intentionally recorded the songs from Songs From The Black Hole —and Pinkerton as well—in a rough, harsh and abrasive manner, reminiscent of live recordings.
That also allows us a further alternate listening experience to that of Pinkerton which is the reason we are doing this in the firstplace, right? A second lucky break for us, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and roadie Karl Koch has given the Weezer fan community an abundance of information about this intended album. We know there were three official tracklists: two demo versions and an actual script of the opera, complete with character dialog and musical interludes, written by Cuomo.
The question is which tracklist should be used? In looking at the source material available, it seems that the elongated and often superfluous script-tracklist contains versions of the songs we simply do not have. The answer is to combine all three versions of the tracklist into one ad hoc tracklist.
Furthermore, each act features the addition of one song not originally featured on the tracklists in an effort to round each act up to 15 minutes and thus a minute total album runtime.
Lastly, some volume adjustments were made on certain songs to make this a more sonically dynamic album all around. Here we see the main protagonist Jonas embarking on a space-mission and discussing his woes to shipmates Wuan, Dondo and the android M1.
The channels of the song were switched so that the drums are predominantly panned to the left to match the previous songs. Here it is placed in the only logical position, as Jonas explains his hesitancy to be with Maria because of previous heartbreaks.
Yet it completely fits in with the themes of escapism in the opera, and when placed here, Jonas is literally leaving Maria and his newborn daughter details otherwise ambiguous. Stung by the public's initial reaction to their sophomore effort Rolling Stone even named Pinkerton the Worst Album of , the band took time off to regroup and plan their next move. Unhappy with the sluggish rate of the reassessment period, Sharp left the group to concentrate more fully on the Rentals, fueling rumors that Weezer had broken up.
But a funny thing happened during Weezer's self-imposed exile -- while their copycat offspring were falling by the wayside Nerf Herder, Nada Surf , a whole new generation of emocore enthusiasts discovered Weezer's diamond-in-the-rough sophomore effort for the first time, and their audience grew despite not having a new album in the stores.
Once Weezer's members wrapped up work on their side projects Bell with Space Twins; Wilson with the Special Goodness , the band recruited former Juliana Hatfield bassist Mikey Welsh to take the place of Sharp and began working on new material. Before they could enter the studio to record their third release, however, Weezer tested the waters by landing a spot on the edition of the Warped Tour, where they were consistently the day's highlight.
Hooking up again with the producer of their debut, Ric Ocasek, Weezer recorded what would be known as "The Green Album" an informal title given by fans, since it was actually their second self-titled release. During their tour that summer, Welsh fell ill and was replaced by Scott Shriner, also of the band Broken.
Welsh died in Chicago in October at the age of That fall and winter, the group busied itself with touring alongside bands like Tenacious D and recording their next album, Maladroit, which arrived a year after The Green Album's release.
Weezer returned to the studio in , working with Rick Rubin on their fifth full-length album. Make Believe appeared in May , prepped by the single "Beverly Hills," and eventually went platinum in multiple countries. Weezer Red Album followed in and featured a more collaborative approach, with several bandmembers contributing songwriting ideas and lead vocals to the tracks. One year later, the group returned with Raditude.
Greeted with mixed reviews, Raditude marked Weezer's last album for Universal. They jumped to the indies in , releasing Hurley on Epitaph. The new album was quickly followed by two archival releases: an expanded deluxe edition of Pinkerton and the outtakes collection Death to False Metal.
Weezer took their time returning to the studio, finally re-emerging in the autumn of with Everything Will Be Alright in the End, a record produced by Ric Ocasek and released on Republic Records. Greeted by generally good reviews, the album debuted at five on the Billboard upon its October release.
One other single, "King of the World," appeared in January , timed to arrive at the announcement of their tenth studio album. Another self-titled, color-coded this time, it was white album saw release in April. Weezer's White Album peaked on the Billboard at number four and was followed by an extensive tour with Panic!
At the Disco. Released in October , Pacific Daydream boasted a more modern sound than its predecessor and rose into the Top Four of the Billboard Alternative and Rock charts.
Months later in , the group placated social media fan demand by delivering a faithful cover of Toto's classic "Africa," but not before they first issued a cover of that band's "Rosanna. Toto returned the favor by covering "Hash Pipe" in August In , the band issued the singles "Hero" and "The End of the Game," both of which were slated to appear on their forthcoming album and return to huge, Van Halen-inspired guitars, Van Weezer.
After multiple setbacks related to the COVID pandemic disrupted the completion of Van Weezer, the band returned to material they'd first conceptualized and started work on several years earlier.
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