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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: "Buddy Holly" was released as a single on September 7, 1994, which would have been Music/BuddyHolly's 58th birthday.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Rivers Cuomo mentions actual relatives in "My Name is Jonas" (as mentioned above) and "Say it Ain't So" (Jimmy is the alternate name of Leaves, Stephen is their stepfather and the "Dear Daddy" verse is aimed at their birth father, who became a Pentecostal Christian later in life).
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Rivers Cuomo mentions actual relatives in "My Name is Jonas" (as mentioned above) and "Say it Ain't So" (Jimmy is the alternate name of Leaves, Stephen is their stepfather and the "Dear Daddy" verse is aimed at their birth father, who became a Pentecostal Christian minister later in life).
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* BlackSheepHit: While it's still embraced by the band and its fans, "Buddy Holly" is notably the album's lightest song both lyrically and musically. Cuomo didn't even want to record the song at first, until [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]] talked him into it.
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* BlackSheepHit: While it's still embraced by the band and its fans, "Buddy Holly" is notably the album's lightest song both lyrically and musically. Cuomo didn't even want to record the song at first, until [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]] talked him into it. Then they worried that people would perceive them as a novelty act based on it (like what happened to Music/KingMissile after "Detachable Penis"). But it's now considered a SignatureSong by both the fans and the band.
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* SleeperHit: The band and the album seemingly came out of nowhere in 1994. Weezer had no indie releases to their credit, and had almost no following on the L.A. music scene (they typically played to audiences of around 10 people at club shows, and most of them were friends). There was even speculation that DGC Records had put them together as sort of a manufactured {{Grunge}} version of Music/TheMonkees to fill the gap after [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain's]] death (DGC A&R rep Todd Sullivan had actually signed them after hearing a demo). The album slowly picked up sales: in its first week it sold just 90 copies nationwide. The breakout of "Undone" on MTV a few months later finally launched them into stardom.
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* SleeperHit: The band and the album seemingly came out of nowhere in 1994. Weezer had no indie releases to their credit, and had almost no following on the L.A. music scene (they typically played to audiences of around 10 people at club shows, and most of them were friends). [[note]]In one of their earliest shows they played after Dogstar, the vehicle for Creator/KeanuReeves and his short-lived bid for rock stardom. The club was packed for Dogstar, then only five people stuck around for Weezer[[/note]] There was even speculation that DGC Records had put them together as sort of a manufactured {{Grunge}} version of Music/TheMonkees to fill the gap void after [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain's]] death (DGC A&R rep Todd Sullivan had actually signed them after hearing a demo). The album slowly picked up sales: in its first week it sold just 90 copies nationwide. The breakout of "Undone" on MTV a few months later finally launched them into stardom.
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* SleeperHit: The band and the album seemingly came out of nowhere in 1994. Weezer had no indie releases to their credit, and had almost no following on the L.A. music scene (they typically played to audiences of around 10 people at club shows, and most of them were friends). There was even speculation that DGC Records had put them together as sort of a manufactured {{Grunge}} version of Music/TheMonkees to fill the gap after [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain's]] death (DGC A&R rep Todd Sullivan had actually signed them after hearing a demo). The album slowly picked up sales: in its first week it sold just 90 copies nationwide. The breakout of "Undone" on MTV a few months later finally launched them into stardom.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Rivers Cuomo mentions actual relatives in "My Name is Jonas" (as mentioned above) and "Say it Ain't So" (Jimmy is the alternate name of Leaves and Stephen is their stepfather).
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Rivers Cuomo mentions actual relatives in "My Name is Jonas" (as mentioned above) and "Say it Ain't So" (Jimmy is the alternate name of Leaves and Leaves, Stephen is their stepfather).
stepfather and the "Dear Daddy" verse is aimed at their birth father, who became a Pentecostal Christian later in life).
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* ThrowItIn: In the "Buddy Holly" video, "Kenosha, Wisconsin's own Weezer!" was an ad-lib by Al Molinaro, giving a ShoutOut to his hometown (and Kenosha being down the road from Milwaukee dovetailed nicely with the whole ''Series/HappyDays'' theme). But it didn't stop some CommonKnowledge issues from developing, with people wrongly believing that Weezer really was from Kenosha.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Rivers revealed years after the album's release that Matt Sharp had had his face photoshopped on the cover, and replaced with a photo from a previous session, since he didn't like the way it looked.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Rivers revealed years after the album's release that Matt Sharp had had his face photoshopped on the cover, and replaced with a photo from a previous session, since he didn't like the way it looked.looked.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Rivers Cuomo mentions actual relatives in "My Name is Jonas" (as mentioned above) and "Say it Ain't So" (Jimmy is the alternate name of Leaves and Stephen is their stepfather).
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Rivers Cuomo mentions actual relatives in "My Name is Jonas" (as mentioned above) and "Say it Ain't So" (Jimmy is the alternate name of Leaves and Stephen is their stepfather).
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* BlackSheepHit: While it's still embraced by the band and its fans, "Buddy Holly" is notably the album's lightest song both lyrically and musically.
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* BlackSheepHit: While it's still embraced by the band and its fans, "Buddy Holly" is notably the album's lightest song both lyrically and musically. Cuomo didn't even want to record the song at first, until [[Music/TheCars Ric Ocasek]] talked him into it.
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* BlackSheepHit: While it's still embraced by the band and its fans, "Buddy Holly" is notably the album's lightest song both lyrically and musically.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "My Name Is Jonas" is mostly about Cuomo's brother, Leaves, who faced heavy insurance fines after a car accident.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Rivers revealed years after the album's release that Matt Sharp had had his face photoshopped on the cover, and replaced with a photo from a previous session, since he didn't like the way it looked.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Rivers revealed years after the album's release that Matt Sharp had had his face photoshopped on the cover, and replaced with a photo from a previous session, since he didn't like the way it looked.
