Weezer - Van Weezer (May 7, 2021) Album • Page 42

How much do they cost lol? I've historically struggled a bit to connect with his odds and ends and I'm hesitant to pay for them even if there are some diamonds in the rough

 

Figured it out. You have to enter the url riverscuomo.com/demos it’s $9.

It’s crazy what a better album EWBAITE could’ve been.

 

that URL still doesn't do it for me, AM I DUMB

 

https://riverscuomo.com/demos

Try that.

 

Steve tell me if there's anything I need to hear lol

 

I don't know why, but this is redirecting me to Mr. Rivers' Neighborhood no matter what I do

 

I'm going through everything REALLLLYY slowly, am only in the 1990 stuff, so I am still pre-weezer haha

 

It's on soulseek.

 

I figured it out, you need to start an account on the site first

 

The weezer subreddit thread on this batch of songs is worth skimming through. People talking about what parts of some songs ended up elsewhere, etc

Rivers just dropped Alone IV: The EWBAITE Years on his personal website : weezer

 

the original "Anonymous" is fucking incredible lmao

 

Guys this fucking insane hahaha I love rivers so much

like the website is so bad but he just made it himself so of course it is ?

and 3 hours of demos my god

 

I admire Rivers so much, giving us this even after people leaked 500 demos from him is amazing. and reading the liner notes for Ecce Homo that come with the download, it's clear he's just absolutely bursting with brilliant ideas but they don't make it onto his albums in the right ways enough

also "Ballad of the Briny" is a goddamn BOP

 

Quick side note that is a step aside from the Alone IV demos.

I am currently listening to the batch of songs called Yeastmaster, from Rivers pre-Weezer. It's very demo-y lofi stuff, but there's some really fun tracks in here. You get a lot of his more metal tendencies, paired with his younger voice, it's endearing. A lot of crap to sift through but there's at least 5 or so gems that give a cool look into his pre-Weezer stuff

 

Bought and downloaded it, his organization is so funny. A folder called Alone IV with nothing in it, 144 loosies that I guess make up "Alone IV" all together, but half of them are tagged as Ecce Homo and the rest simply as EWBAITE. And then there's the crazy word doc for Ecce Homo that is going to take a lot to digest haha

 

"Bless the Whole Wide World" legit could have been a hit single for them and instead it's some throwaway only diehards will ever hear. incredible

 

Only a Cockroach is Beginning of the End.

 

So out of these, what are we considering to be Ecce Homo? From the tagging it looks like...

1. The Waste Land
4. Gravity
4. The British Are Coming
4. The Tower of Babel
6. Empty Inside
6. The Whole World
7. Anonymous
8. Meet Up With Our Maker
8. The Rules Of Life
9. Cleopatra

...which, yes, makes no sense.

 

Gravity Will Bring You Down is insane

Lots of bangers in here

 

List of unreleased albums and assets - Weezerpedia

 

This version was created before Rivers released anything though, so maybe it's just a guess at this point?

 

the chorus on "Only a Cockroach" is so much better than the one they used for "Beginning of the End" damn

 

everyone's (rightly) losing their minds over "Rules of Life" but man "Tower of Babel" could be even better?

 

Snagged it. Can't imagine many other artists I would struggle to do that for lol

 

He keeps adding to the dropbox. I love Rivers