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Title: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Zemoth on 20 Dec 2007, 06:17: Rivers is one of the only reasons I still have hope in the music industry, but thats just the horrible fanboy inside me talking.
It seems though that this album seems a little half baked compared to lets say, The Pixies demo compilations.
I love every second of this album but there is this bitter feeling somewhere.

Am I wrong? Other thoughts on the album? etc.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: valley_parade on 20 Dec 2007, 06:29: Superfriend's on it, right?

*heads off to find a torrent*
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Zemoth on 20 Dec 2007, 08:07: http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce
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Trackers for the 85.2Mb one

Hell yes superfriends
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Johnny C on 20 Dec 2007, 08:10: A friend of mine picked this up, I think.

The early demos I'm excited for, the recent ones not so much. The last record was so incredibly awful.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: valley_parade on 20 Dec 2007, 08:18: But the A5 demos were so, so good.

Anyway. Digging this right now. I totally forgot about "Longtime Sunshine", such a good song.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Thrillho on 20 Dec 2007, 09:59: The demos for Album 5 shat all over the actual album, though I do like it a lot.

I need to buy this tomorrow.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Christophe on 20 Dec 2007, 14:12: nooooooo :(

I refuse to entertain a Weezer relapse, I refuse to revisit my ATNW days...

That being said, Blast Off has always kicked ass. Who knows, I might idly download this some day.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Joseph on 20 Dec 2007, 22:00: I love this compilation. If it could count as an album, it'd be one of my favourites of the year. Plenty of fantastic songs, even the newer ones. As has been said, the A5 demos were great, so I really believe the band has somethings still going for them, and I'm looking forward to the album that they're putting together for next year.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: valley_parade on 24 Dec 2007, 06:53: Quote from: tommydski on 20 Dec 2007, 15:18
As has already been said, those Album 5 demos from a couple of years previously were some truly great songs. They would have made a really interesting double album.

What the fuck happened?

Rivers went back to Harvard to finish up his degree between the A5 demos and the actual album.

I'm blaming Harvard.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: yossarian07 on 24 Dec 2007, 15:18: Quote from: valley_parade on 24 Dec 2007, 06:53
Quote from: tommydski on 20 Dec 2007, 15:18
As has already been said, those Album 5 demos from a couple of years previously were some truly great songs. They would have made a really interesting double album.

What the fuck happened?

Rivers went back to Harvard to finish up his degree between the A5 demos and the actual album.

I'm blaming Harvard.
Hah. Who goes to harvard and becomes a professional musician? I've got a friend who refuses to listen to Weezer just because of that.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Thrillho on 24 Dec 2007, 17:31: Uh, your friend is a dick.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: yossarian07 on 24 Dec 2007, 21:07: I just downloaded it. I'm digging "Lover in the Snow"
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Kai on 25 Dec 2007, 09:12: Quote from: DynamiteKid on 24 Dec 2007, 17:31
Uh, your friend is a dick.

Seconded

Somebody YSI this.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: valley_parade on 26 Dec 2007, 08:13: Uploading as we speak, Kai.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: ScrambledGregs on 28 Dec 2007, 16:58: Does anyone else get the feeling that this release is a desperate stab at indie cred/old Weezer fan cred after a good three albums of populist crap?? I mean, in retrospect, the Green Album isn't completely terrible, but it is kind of the beginning of the end, right??
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Joseph on 28 Dec 2007, 17:37: I couldn't care less about whether it's a stab at "cred" or not. I only care that it's a collection of really great songs. I'm happy enough with that.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 01:03: It's not really a cred-grab. These songs have all been floating around for years and Cuomo was in whole or in part responsible for that. It's more a way to collect them all.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: valley_parade on 29 Dec 2007, 07:03: Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 28 Dec 2007, 16:58
Does anyone else get the feeling that this release is a desperate stab at indie cred/old Weezer fan cred after a good three albums of populist crap?? I mean, in retrospect, the Green Album isn't completely terrible, but it is kind of the beginning of the end, right??

I actually like Maladroit more than I do the Green Album.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: ScrambledGregs on 29 Dec 2007, 08:03: Well, I guess I was wrong again.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 11:44: There's a definite difference between the gleeful embrace of populist rock music embodied by the first record and the callous shallow garbage on Make Believe though.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 22:48: Well yeah, for you to be able to verify that statement you'd have to sit through Make Believe once.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: valley_parade on 30 Dec 2007, 07:04: I did that once.

I was really bored.
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: pentaen on 27 Nov 2008, 13:43: i sure hope nobody puts up a media fire link, and i really hope nobody puts up a mediafire link to the follow up album too.....
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Patrick on 27 Nov 2008, 15:39: MAN YOU ARE SUCH A FUCKER TOMMY
Title: Re: Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Post by: Thrillho on 28 Nov 2008, 05:19: Note to self: Bum a review copy of this.