Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo just released Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo today.

Basically, this is 18 track compilation of demos by Cuomo from 1992 to like 2005. Most of the material is taken from Weezer’s early days, outtakes/demos from The Blue Album and Pinkerton; which is very good, because Pinkerton is hand’s down Weezer’s best album. Also from around this time are tracks taken from the space-themed concept album, Songs from the Black Hole, which was supposed to follow Weezer’s debut album.

Other tracks worth mentioning are a demo of “Buddy Holly” and a cover of Ice Cube’s “The Bomb”.

The compilation gets stale towards the end with newer demos; which makes sense since the last few Weezer albums aren’t really worth mentioning.

The booklet is also pretty cool, since it features various pics, lyrics and histories on the songs featured on the album.

I guess if you have the extra cash you should pick this up; but I’d probably wait until after the holidays when I hopefully get some cash coming my way.