Favorite Songs of all time

Weezer

"Undone (The Sweater Song)"

Weezer

Geffen Records, 1994

Composed by Rivers Cuomo

Once upon a time, Weezer was good.  Very good.  Proof?  Their album named Weezer, the one with the band standing in front of a blue background.  Every song on this album is good, but track five stands in my top ten favorite songs of all time.  It's called "Undone (The Sweater Song)"

F#, B, C#, B, F#, B, C#, B...

Sometimes all you need is three chords and a typical bass-snare-bass-snare drum pattern.  I've never been able to write a good song with only three.  Rivers Cuomo wrote a fucking epic.  The guitar melody remains among the best and most eccentric of all time.  The melody is perfect.  The dynamic shifts from soft to loud are perfect.  The vocal harmonizing is fun.  This is one of those songs one can't perfectly describe.  The bridge is flawless and surprisingly disorienting.  The buildup to the end with all the "woooohs" that sing the initial guitar part?  Oh my God!  Perfection.  Nobody has been able to write a song as perfect as this one in a long time.

Partie Traumatic

Well, Pitchfork sure was quick to hop off the Black Kids bandwagon

Seriously, what assholes.  If you magically change your opinion on a band, you better explain it instead of just slapping a 3.3 and a picture of two pug dogs looking sad on it.  That's not cool.  Black Kids don't deserve the Jet treatment.

The only thing I hate more than the obscene amounts of hype piled on young, inexperienced bands like Black Kids is the sudden change of opinion everyone has once they get signed and hit #5 in the UK.  This is sickening.  I haven't heard it, but I can't imagine it being too bad with songs like "Hurricane Jane" on it.  EXPLAIN, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

Pitchfork is an influential hub of music knowledge.  People's opinion feed off Pitchfork, and probably too many.  The problem is, it's almost as if Pitchfork pulled an elaborate prank by raving about their debut and trashing their new album.  With Pitchfork's influence, Black Kids' fame could vanish as quickly as it arrived.  And Pitchfork isn't giving any reasons why, either.  This is just plain wrong.  Rot in hell, Pitchfork.

Chump

My album has changed a lot.

I've gotten into Black Sabbath, which is awesome.  I'm adding a thick, sludgy guitar sound to all my songs.

A lot of my songs have changed, too.  A lot of the songs I made demos for are gone.  Only "The Monster" and "Christmas in July" (as "Yeah") remain.

I wasn't sure about rerecording "Smile Feral Child", but I believe that song is too good to leave off.

"Take Me Away" "Here Comes the Love Bug" "Nothin' Better to Do" "Yeah" "The Monster" "Taylor Morris" and "Three Minute Mile" are mostly done.  "Smile Feral Child" needs to be done, I need to write the lyrics to the middle part of "Not That Strong/ Chris Paul is God/ Faces of Death" suite and only the first part of a multi-section song is completed.  There's a few other songs I recorded, namely "Invinciblity", "75", "Perspective" and "Punk Song with Lots of Reverb" but I'm not sure about any of them.  "Invincibility" is really short and it has finished lyrics, so it could make it.

I'm mixing the album in my room, using my sound system.  I'm mixing drums and bass lower, guitar and vocals higher.  It makes for a clearer sound, and the guitar is low and dirty enough to make the sound heavy.

The album will be called "Chump" for now.  It was going to be called "Shamelessly Delightful" but my sound isn't shamelessly delightful anymore.  "Chump" fits me better because a chump is an unathletic person.

How to make your lyrics seem better than they actually are

1. If you have a bland set of lyrics, here's one trick I learned that can make a set of lyrics better.

Here is a bland set of lyrics I wrote.

Let's go caroling

sleigh bells everything

I just want to close my eyes

need no reason why

Christmas in July

I just want to close my eyes

April Seventeenth

time for Halloween

I just wanna trick or treat

dusk turns into dawn

life drags on and on

I just wanna close my eyes

Here's a cheap way to make it seem better:

Give the song a random, unrelated, title.

You can name it something controversial, like "The War In Iraq", or "Al Sharpton" or "White Guilt".  Instant speculation!

You can name it something completely random, like "Damn, Gas Prices Sure Are Expensive" or "The Monkey That Protects The Banana Horde."

You can describe the song without mentioning the lyrics, like "This Is A Song In Gb" or "This Song Involves An Acoustic Guitar, So That Means I'm Versatile".  You can also be cute and sarcastic like that.

See? You don't have to take your title from a lyric in the song.  Cool, huh?