Weezer - The Real Demo 

people complaining about a snare on a literal demo tape

As brilliant as these early demos are, it really shows how important Ric Ocasek was to creating the signature Weezer sound with his production work on Blue.

I wonder what their first album would have sounded like if they had been signed earlier. Probably sound a lot more grungey

wow rivers lead guitar work really shines here. You can't deny a hella good guitarists for power rock

Say it ain't so had so much groove in this version ! I dig it

0:00 No one else 3:09 The world has turned and left me here 7:38 Say it ain't so 11:49 Undone (The sweater song) 16:48 Bonus track 17:24 Surf wax America

“I TOLD YOU, NOT TO TOUCH ME!!” Haha great demo here, love weezer. Undone and Say it Ain’t So are two out of a million of my favorite weezer songs.

Surf Wax America has always been one of my favorite songs on the Blue album, but hearing it this way, with the breakdown in the middle & the overactive drums, it rocks even more. 🤘🏼

Everyone’s trashing on the snare tone and I’m over here trying to get that tone on an electronic drum set 😂

wish they had stuff like this on Spotify

I love how it starts off with the similar intro to tired of sex

Love the photo of the band with switched instruments cuz Brian already does guitar and vocals 😂

Damnit, I love the halftime break in Surf Wax America, I wish they worked that in on the album version

"Fucking snare sounds like garbage"

Never heard that bonus medley. Cool beans.

Tennis ball can/gatorade bottle snare and all, these demos are still sometimes more pleasurable to listen to than the album cuts. I love Ric Ocasek and think he had a huge influence on what they became, and what the Blue album became, but they were so much less refined before recording for that album with his production behind it. They always had a lot of emotion, but the demos just have that much more. Ocasek (in my mind) made them like a '90 version of The Cars in some ways for a minute... They evolved heavily into Pinkerton, but the effect on the Blue album he had is a double-edged sword to me. I wish they would work some sort of re-release for RSD or an anniversary with a set of the different Blue demos combined. One other thing i want to say... I found it incredibly odd that when the Deluxe version of this was released (what feels like ages ago now), the only song that seemed to be omitted was "Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me". The full version of that song, in my opinion, is one of Weezer's best songs and my personal favorite. I wish the rest of that crunchy demo (that also features the gatorade bottle snare...), I think the only other rendition of it, would leak in full. I also hope they release it officially one day, along with pre-Ocasek Blue demos. (Even if you listen to Buddy Holly before and after... he turned it into a power-pop song and dumbed down the best parts on the demo for the studio release. They just felt much more untamed on the demo and so many little fills and bits that were removed would have fit in great on the final album.)

They should’ve kept 16:48 for the outro of undone.

I had the same "late night with CONAN O'BRIEN" TEE SHIRT that Pat is seen wearing while seated on the bed 🛏️ during "the sweater song" I'm not sure if you could purchase them in the rainbow room store, but I know you'd get them as swag for inconvenience and audience participation etc I E I got my shirt for standing in the back of the studio until the next commercial break whilst they were filming a segment where the masturbating bear 🐻 was seen sitting in my seat. So 😎 cool!

what is your problem with the snare? sounds PERFECT to me

blue maggie walking shoes (braxton county jamboree)

I ❤ =w=

the snare is... interesting

Crazy hearing Jason on here. I cant help but wonder how the backing vocals would have sounded woth him on there. Brian sounds so perfect for the blue album that I'd think it would be hard to beat.

The snare is good, it just doesn't fit. i think if we weren't to use the blue snare, the snare from post-SFTBH songs, like Tired of Sex, or Pink Triangle, would fit. The Green Album snare would also fit

squashball snare haha

I wish he'd kept his long hair 😭

I've never heard this thanks. Immediately I'm like "is this sponge? The verve pipe? Summercamp? Better than Ezra? Ever clear??" Hahaha yes. It IS VERY obvious how ric ocasek was instrumental to creating the weezer sound... And funny how they pulled a nirvana (in utero after nevermind as compared to pinkerton after blue) too trying to rebel I'd assume... Against the crisp production... Or unless it's just that was the best weezer could do because didn't they mostly produce pinkerton themselves? Please nuts, correct me if I'm wrong. But yeah I like my two cents

Was Ric involved in this demo? If not, he wasn't as essential to the Blue Album's sound as i thought. Sounds like he mostly stayed out of the way.

st anger snare

say what you want about the snare but NOT on the world has turned. that demo is better than the blue version imo.

Proof that the sound of the snare can really affect the overall song. Not in a good way here

the real demo fans when the fake demo releases

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What I have not listened the surf wax America demo and I played the song like it for add on purposes 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

So prefer the real almost out of tune sounding acoustic guitar 🎸 on the world has turned and left me here than wat was used on the album.... Tho the drums on 🥁 that particular track sound So weird I almost thought it was a drum machine. Trivia, soul ... Uh no. Not soul coughing. And ... Soul asylum... No wait. That wasn't them either... Let me start again Trivia! Collective souls single "shine" uses a drum machine. Really I didn't think anythingnof it and I don't think anyone realized at the time.chdvk it out. Anyway yeah on the world has turned and left me here, here, the snare sounds so weird and the hi hat "shhhcchh shhhcchh shhhcchh shhhcchh" sounds so artificial (tape? 📼 Or maybe EQ? ??) That I honestly thought it was a drum machine too at first

I could get a better snare sound at age 12 with a 73 tascam and a trashcan. 😛

I don't really understand all the comments giving Ric Ocasek so much credit for Weezers sound. These demos are very similar to the finished versions, most of the difference is the recording quality of a early 90s home demo vs a pro studio. Of course Ric helped, but the recording of Jamie from early '93 isn't a million miles away from the Blue Album