music by Rivers Cuomo Found a more true and unique identity. Some of this already had a limited release in Alone, III. - Rivers Cuomo, from the riverscuomo.com storefront
Self-release via dropbox for 9 Dollar on riverscuomo.com
This Release Contains the following Demo Compilations:
Miscellaneous (Not in a Collection/Compilation): Files that aren't ordered or aren't connected to any of the Collections.
This Includes the following Tracks: Alone IV Preview - Introduction to the bundle Butterfly (Live) - Live Version of the same song from Pinkerton It Holds Me Together - Alternate rip of It Holds Me Together from Alone V Suite from The Black Hole (Oh No, This Is Not for Me, Tired of Sex, She's Had a Girl, What Is This I Find?, Now I Finally See, Longtime Sunshine (reprise)) Clarinet Waltz - Version 1 Clarinet Waltz - Version 2 Clarinet Waltz - Version 3
Monterey Jack: Monterey Jack is a cassette compilation by Rivers Cuomo, featuring demos recorded from 1992 through 1993. The cassette's existence became known when a photo of it was featured in the liner notes for Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. Songs from the compilation were listed on the demo storefront on riverscuomo.com in 2020. A majority of the demo was released as part of the digital compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years on November 22, 2020, with some songs later released on Patrick & Rivers on December 9, 2020. NOTE: Tracks 8, 14, 23, and 25 are unconfirmed.
Don Slacks: Don Slacks is a cassette compilation by Rivers Cuomo, featuring demos recorded from 1993 through 1994. The cassette's existence became known when a photo of it was featured in the liner notes for Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. Songs from the compilation were listed on the demo storefront on riverscuomo.com in 2020, and were subsequently included on the compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years. Note: Tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 13, and 19 are presently unknown.
10 Songs from the Valley: 10 Songs from the Valley is a compilation of short demos recorded by Rivers Cuomo, dated April 22, 1994. Most of the songs from this collection were initially released as a suite of songs designated the Fulton Avenue Suite on the compilation CD Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997 in 2011. The full set of these unedited songs were re-released as part of the digital compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years in 2020.
Parson Brown: Parson Brown is a demo compilation by Rivers Cuomo, featuring demos recorded from 1994 through 1995. The tape's existence became known when the songs were leaked in the riverscuomo.com demo leak. Songs from the compilation were listed on the demo storefront on riverscuomo.com in 2020. A majority of the demo was released as part of the digital compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years on November 22, 2020. NOTE: Tracks 3 and 5 are unconfirmed
1995: With the only Track being Lisa.
1996 live acoustic: From a Live show with the only Track being Butterfly.
1997 Spanky McNally: A small Compilation of Homie Tracks.
Demos--Previous Versions: Contains 2 Version of Havard Blues, but the 2nd one is practically identical. It only contains several minutes of silence.
Ideas--Used: Contains only one Track The Ivory Telephone
Songs from the Black Hole: SFTBH is an unreleased, unfinished Weezer album concept. A space-themed rock opera/musical about singer Rivers Cuomo's apprehension about rock-and-roll stardom, SFTBH was originally envisioned as the follow-up album to Weezer's eponymous debut album but, over the course of songwriting and demoing, the concept was discarded, and the project instead evolved into the album Pinkerton.
Unknown Album: How the Titel Suggest and Unkown Album. A Glorious Moment is a spoken word recording from April 15, 1995, the day after Rivers' leg surgery to correct a congenital leg-length discrepancy. Black Hole mini-suite is a small collection of SFTBH Tracks.
Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997: Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997 is a compilation album by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. It is the third entry in the Alone Series following 2007's Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo and 2008's Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. It was included as a CD insert included with the (now out-of-print) book The Pinkerton Diaries, and was re-released in 2020 on the demo storefront on riverscuomo.com as part of a bundle with Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years.