History Trivia / Weezer

** Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook to rapper Music/BoB's hit "Magic", but he had originally conceived of it as a Weezer song before deciding to give it away.

** Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook to rapper B.O.B.'s hit "Magic", but he had originally conceived of it as a Weezer song before deciding to give it away.

** Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made widely available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally [[note]]"Island In The Sun" BSide "Oh Lisa" is the only exception, as it's available digitally as part of a 2002 {{Wrestling/WWE}} tie-in album[[/note]]. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version and second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era. Rumor has it that no ''Green Album Deluxe'' was ever released despite the album's commercial success because the masters were destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.

** Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made widely available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version and second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era. Rumor has it that no ''Green Album Deluxe'' was ever released despite the album's commercial success because the masters were destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.

* RoleReprise: Creator/KristenBell as Anna in the “Lost in the Woods” video for ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''.

** And that's not getting into the two-disc deluxe editions of ''The Blue Album'' and ''Pinkerton'', Rivers Cuomo's three ''Alone'' home demo collections [[note]] they're usually considered part of the Weezer canon by fans because much of the material was intended for Weezer - and the third volume was only available as a CD included with his book ''The Pinkerton Diaries'' [[/note]] , an extensive amount of demos posted to the band's official website leading up to ''Maladroit'' and ''Make Believe'', etc.

** ''Make Believe'' was originally meant to be much darker & melancholic, with demos released by Rivers in the form of ''Alone IV'' backing this up, but when executives from Geffen heard these initial demos, they weren't happy with the album's direction and forced the band to scrap what they had and start over.

** ''Make Believe'' was originally meant to be much darker & melancholic, with demos released by Rivers in the form of ''Alone IX'' backing this up, but when executives from Geffen heard these initial demos, they weren't happy with the album's direction and forced the band to scrap what they had and start over.

** Music/{{Toto}} keyboardest Steve Porcaro reported that Rivers winced at the news that their "Africa" cover became so big, as well as guitarist Steve Lukather reporting that Rivers refused to discuss the song with him, indicating that he wasn't happy about how big their little joke cover became.
* CutSong: "Cardigan Disaster", a song Rivers played at some solo acoustic shows, was at one point slated to appear on ''The Black Album'' - they recorded a full band version during the sessions but left if off the album. Rumor has it this was related to the unexpected chart success of their CoverVersion of "Africa" - they wanted to release "Cardigan Disaster" as a single and remake the clip for "Undone" as its music video, which they ultimately did with "Africa" instead.

** The band initially wanted to use a collage of sampled dialogue for "Undone - The Sweater Song" playing on the theme of contrasting extremely optimistic and extremely depressed dialogue. Geffen nixed the idea at the last minute since they weren't eager to go through a long sample clearance process, and as a replacement Matt and the band's friends Karl Koch and Mykel Allan recorded the now-famous spoken-word dialogue. Geffen's rejection came after the sessions for the album were finished, so the dialogue was recorded in Los Angeles and had to be flown to New York to be added in during mixing.

* QuoteSource: DudeShesALesbian (from "Pink Triangle").

** Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made widely available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version and second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era. Rumor has it that no ''Green Album Deluxe'' was ever released because the masters were destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.

*** Rivers' social media accounts tend towards playful trolling - his Twitter account frequently copy-pastes unattributed, out of context messages his fans sent ''to'' him rather than it being him speaking for himself. Leading to things like him tweeting ecstatically about a Series/SaturdayNightLive skit about the band soon after it aired, then claiming in a later interview he didn't see the episode in question.

** Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made widely available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version and second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era.
** If you want to hear the ''Film/{{Angus}}'' version of "You Gave Your Love To Me Softly", you'll have to go out and buy the film soundtrack, as it was mysteriously taken off of streaming services, and other releases of the song use the ''Pinkerton''-era version instead.

** A group of fans missed their shot at briefly being {{ascended fanboy}}s during the ''Green Album'' sessions; the band were adding overdubs to eventual BSide "Teenage Victory Song" when Rivers decided that it needed some "gang backing vocals" - earlier in the day some fans had found the studio and gathered outside hoping to catch a glimpse of the band, so Rivers went to where they were last seen to recruit them as a choir; by this time they had apparently left.

* CreatorBacklash: Due to the initial poor reception, the band all but threw ''Pinkerton'' into CanonDiscontinuity for years, until it seemed that Rivers Cuomo was the only person left who disliked the album. He would later mellow out about it later and change his mind, even playing ''Pinkerton'' in its entirety and admitting he felt validated and happy at [[http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9590-rivers-cuomo/ seeing how the album has become so beloved.]]

** ''Make Believe'' notably had several fully finished songs cut from the album that wound up being dubbed ''The Fallen Soldiers'' by fans, including an early version of the ''Raditude'' song ''Love is the Answer'' All that was heard of them for years were several very low quality snippets played by webmaster Karl Koch on a stream, until finally the tracks leaked in demo form on ''Alone IX''

*** Rivers' social media accounts tend towards playful trolling - his Twitter account largely reposts unattributed, out of context messages his fans sent ''to'' him rather than it being him speaking for himself. Leading to things like him tweeting ecstatically about a Series/SaturdayNightLive skit about the band soon after it aired, then claiming in a later interview he didn't see the episode in question.

** Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made widely available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version or second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made widely available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version or second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Unlike with ''The Blue Album'' or ''Pinkerton'''s b-sides which were made available on their deluxe editions, ''The Green Album''-era b-sides have not been re-released outside their initial runs, not even digitally. Good luck finding a copy of the Japanese version or second edition of the UK version of "Island in the Sun" if you want everything from the era.

* ArchivePanic: The band has started releasing new albums very frequently, releasing six albums between 2001 and 2010 and then five between 2014 and 2019 (with two being released in 2019 alone). Yet ''another'' album is being released in 2020, barely a year after the ''Black Album''. It's safe to say it's getting harder and harder to keep up with the band's recording output.

* MemeAcknowledgement: In late 2017, a 15-year-old fan started the Website/{{Twitter}} account @weezerafrica and launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to get the band to cover "Africa" by Music/{{Toto}}, persistently responding to tweets from band members with requests to do the song. A positive response to one of her entreaties by Pat Wilson marked the first acknowledgment of it by the band. After a few months, they made an unannounced drop of a cover of a Toto hit, but picked "Rosanna" instead. A couple of weeks later, they did in fact release a cover of "Africa". The cover art included one of her tweets to Rivers telling him "it's about time you bless the rains down in Africa." Their version proceeded to become a huge radio hit. Then Toto responded by releasing a cover of "Hash Pipe". [[UpToEleven And then came [[CoverAlbum The Teal Album]].

* MemeAcknowledgement: In late 2017, a 15-year-old fan started the Website/{{Twitter}} account @weezerafrica and launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to get the band to cover "Africa" by Music/{{Toto}}, persistently responding to tweets from band members with requests to do the song. A positive response to one of her entreaties by Pat Wilson marked the first acknowledgment of it by the band. After a few months, they made an unannounced drop of a cover of a Toto hit, but picked "Rosanna" instead. A couple of weeks later, they did in fact release a cover of "Africa". The cover art included one of her tweets to Rivers telling him "it's about time you bless the rains down in Africa." Then Toto responded by releasing a cover of "Hash Pipe".