Album Info

Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

Rock - 2007

For Weezer fans, hearing its main man and songwriter working through ideas in his home studio, flexing his experimental nature... more

Tracklist

1

Ooh

0:47 min
2

The World We Love So Much

3:39 min
3

Lemonade

2:31 min
4

The Bomb

1:17 min
5

Buddy Holly

2:59 min
6

Chess

2:25 min
7

Longtime Sunshine

3:15 min
8

Blast Off!

1:57 min
9

Who You Callin' Bitch?

0:45 min
10

Wanda (You're My Only Love)

3:37 min
11

Dude We're Finally Landing

0:55 min
12

Superfriend

3:29 min
13

Lover In the Snow

3:16 min
14

Crazy One

3:13 min
15

This Is the Way

4:15 min
16

Little Diane

2:40 min
17

I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar

0:35 min
18

I Was Made for You

4:02 min

About Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

For Weezer fans, hearing its main man and songwriter working through ideas in his home studio, flexing his experimental nature to better understand his own creative process, is both a fascinating and sometimes frustrating experience. After all, the creative process is filled with trial and error and while an early version of “Buddy Holly” shows just how well-formed his ideas sometimes come to him, some of the songs feel fragmentary or like ideas that aren’t likely to go much further (the 45 seconds of “Who You Callin’ Bitch?” or the 35 seconds of taped nonsense on the non-song “I Wish You Had An Axe Guitar”). But this is also often where the fun resides. “Wanda (You’re My Only Love)” uses some cheap sounding keyboards to support its sublime melody, while the less-than-a-minute “Dude We’re Finally Landing” features charming vocal harmonies that lack nothing despite the song’s incompleteness. “Superfriend” and “I Was Made for You” don’t need grander productions, since the drums and guitars are sufficient to support Cuomo’s aching vocals and counterpoint effects.