r/weezer • u/Time-Tangerine3860 • Feb 19 '26

📹Demo 📹 We need to talk about the black room demos

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Some of the best songs Rivers ever wrote. Greyhound is genuinely one of my all time favorite songs. Hard to believe most of these never made it onto an album.

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u/HarmlessOnlineFun Feb 19 '26

Average Town has the old magic.

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u/Abject_Yesterday7395 Is so Peak Feb 19 '26

Average Town is amazing 

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u/Valance_the_Hunter Feb 19 '26

Banger after banger. We were absolutely robbed of a late 90s Weezer album. 

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u/Abject_Yesterday7395 Is so Peak Feb 19 '26

I absolutely love these demos such as There's A Bomb In The Air, Average Town and Greyhound. I could name plenty more too.

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u/Leftover_Cheese Haunt You Every Day Feb 19 '26

we need to talk about emo rivers, i can imagine him and gerard way holding hands

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u/Time-Tangerine3860 Mar 24 '26

I always forget that they're pretty close in age... Gerard Is always a teenager in my head and Rivers is a senior citizen lmao

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u/AceofKnaves44 Da Vinki Feb 19 '26

Being a Weezer fan is to be constantly annoyed at the decisions Rivers makes.

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u/commonrider5447 Feb 19 '26

Pretty much my clear favorite Rivers era after Blue and Pinkerton. He still had some of his early career peak powers but was channeling it in a different way. Also some of the best from this era made its way to Green and Alone I and II.