6 beers plus $25 plus nothing equals 31 things. Dez must be doing pretty alright if he has 31 things. Rivers Cuomo only has 2 things and he's like a millionaire.
Just heard an interview Rivers gave to Rick Rubin where he said that he wanted to write a song on drugs. So he took a bunch of Ritalin and drank three shots of tequila and wrote that song really fast then took a long nap.
He literally has a spreadsheet of neat phrases categorized by rhythm and syllable count so that he can word salad a song together. I love Weezer songs, but the lyrics have no meaning beyond what the listener brings with them.
Here's the Song Exploder episode for anyone interested. The other episodes are also always really interesting even when I don't know the band or song they break down.
So, when I first saw your comment I was pretty sure I'd heard this on a podcast, and yep, it was the episode from your edit! I'd have to listen again to see if Rivers got specific about when he started with the spreadsheet system, but I don't think it's something he's always been doing.
But back when I listened to the episode, finding out about the spreadsheet made a ton of sense, because I'd low-key suspected Weezer lyrics to be jumbles of random ideas… though I don't get that feeling from the first two albums, at least.
My first CD I bought and played it over and over. Just seeing the album cover brought me back. I just realized how much more insignificant album covers are nowadays!
That's kinda their schtick. It's not really my thing, but some metalheads rally get into the tone/noise worship. Personally, any music that is hard to tell apart from a diesel generator is not really my thing, but to each their own.
I guess that is kinda the point I was trying to make...lots of the stuff I like sounds like a pure cacophony.... But there's still order to the chaos even if it's consistently chaos....
I love this song. There is a lot of history behind it and it's always fun talking to people when this randomly comes on and I'm with someone. The craziest part is how almost nobody ever knows who it is until I tell them.
Moroder was a huge influence on Daft Punk, and growing up in the late 80s and early 90s I never understood why I liked some 70s or 80s songs so much or why some had such replayability, turns out moroder was behind many of them: neverending story, top gun, Scarface...
Yeah, that's where I learned of the connection, dug back through moroder and so much of random movie soundtrack and songs that I inexplicably liked made sense.
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