First, his phased and flanged electric lead sets the otherworldly tone; then his almost-frantic acoustic strumming fleshes out the song’s nether regions. Everything seems to shimmer, the chords’ outlines as hazy as a mirage, as Sioux bellows her way through a tale as ominous (“Take them...
but was a closet songwriter. My songs were, I thought, melodically strong in parts, and a couple worked well all the way through. However, like many budding songwriters, most of my early efforts were love songs strummed on acoustic guitar, usually painful ditties in minor keys too personal...
from a nickname Cuomo’s biological father gave him. His dad wasn’t in his life much after his parents’ divorce, when he was four years old or so, and he had strong, unresolved feelings about it all. He had already used the name “Weezer” as a label from one of his cassettes of...
First, his phased and flanged electric lead sets the otherworldly tone; then his almost-frantic acoustic strumming fleshes out the song’s nether regions. Everything seems to shimmer, the chords’ outlines as hazy as a mirage, as Sioux bellows her way through a tale as ominous (“Take them...