Artist: Rivers Cuomo
Album: Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo
Label: Geffen
Playtime: 45:42 min
Genre: Rock
Rip date: 2007-12-18
Street date: 2007-12-18
Size: 62.63 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 185 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
http://www.myspace.com/riverscuomo
As Weezer's frontman, Rivers Cuomo has proved adept at writing jagged little
pop-rock songs. But there's plenty of evidence that Cuomo is a bit, how you
say, off-kilter — a talented space cadet prone to depression, sexual
frustration and locking himself inside the studio, the sort of guy who may
have trouble finding his pants in the morning. So you might hope this
collection — demos and home recordings from just before Weezer's inception to
the present, with no filter other than Cuomo's own brain — would show off the
weirder side you only glimpse intermittently in Weezer songs.
Not so much. The strangest Alone gets is a novelty cover of Ice Cube's "The
Bomb." There are also several experiments with overlapping harmonies, a
"Buddy Holly" demo and a synth-pop sketch called "This Is the Way." But most
songs are either Weezer-esque rockers ("Lemonade") or folky diddles with
singsong melodies that seem to be nicked from some children's song ("Chess").
Almost every cut is sort of sweet and sort of catchy, and a couple are good —
the closing "I Was Made for You" stands up well with Weezer's best songs.
But interesting the material is not: The tunes feel same-y and undercooked,
and without a band to push him along, Cuomo's sad-dude act gets old fast —
Alone is overrun with lyrics like "What's wrong with me?/I'm kinda funny/I'm
not a dummy/But I'm all alone." Given Cuomo's penchant for obsessive writing
and recording — he has, supposedly, discarded hundreds of songs, some no
doubt hewing the intricate formulas of pop success he's cracked — the fact
that there's very little here to hold your attention is a bit puzzling.
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