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rivers cuomo in drag for the cancelled pink triangle single + one bonus

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[FEB 2026] Songsterr Tab for Rivers Cuomo's "My Brain Is Working Overtime" (Alone II Version) has been completed and uploaded, as per user request!

"My Brain Is Working Overtime" is the sixth track from Rivers Cuomo's demo collection, Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008). The Weezerpedia page for this song notes that Rivers has revisited and revised this demo numerous times, with different versions of the song appearing on SS2K (2001) and three other "Alone" albums. The composition of the Alone II version falls in line with Rivers' other demos from this era, with a simple drumbeat and eighth note power chords remaining mostly constant through the whole song, though it stands out for having a piano that also plays eighth note chords the entire time. I also noticed that the tuning for this track seems to be halfway between normal and a half-step down (i.e., a quarter step down?). I know "Jacked Up" from The White Album (2016) also did the same thing, and I'm not sure why. It kinda makes it weird to tab out since everything sounds slightly out of tune no matter what tuning you put the song in.

In any case, as a last detail of note, the backing vocals transition from each verse to each chorus by saying "Pick it up y'all, pick it up". However, the third chorus leads directly into the fourth chorus with no verse inbetween, and the backing vocals were seemingly just copy-pasted and cut-off at that point, so the fourth chorus begins with the backing vocals just going "up!" and nothing else, which I think is funny.

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[DEC 2025] Songsterr Tab for Rivers Cuomo's "I Want to Take You Home Tonight" has been updated, as per user request!

(This track had an existing tab from Songsterr user "pawcussion"; improvements have been made to the vocals and instrumentation, and the notation now has normal time and tempo, since the original tab had half-time in double tempo.)

"I Want to Take You Home Tonight" is a track from Rivers' demo collection, Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008), and features a relatively simple power-chord driven composition.

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[NOVEMBER 2024] Songsterr Tab for Rivers Cuomo's "Walt Disney" has been completed and uploaded, as per user request!

"Walt Disney" is the 15th track from Rivers Cuomo's 2008 compilation album Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. The song's backstory—as detailed on its Weezerpedia page—is quite somber, having been written after the period of emotional detachment and creative deprivation that Rivers had experienced while touring for the promotion of the Blue Album in 1994. Lyrically, Rivers describes this period by comparing his "frozen" emotional state to the rumored frozen state of the late Walt Disney. The complex emotional tone of the song is also accomplished through his use of jazz chord progressions, which convey more complicated emotions than the simple happy/sad dichotomy that normal major and minor chords create.

Due to the fact that this track was a demo recorded at Rivers' home, it's lower audio quality and lack of isolated instrumental tracks made it quite a challenge to tab out, so I had to rely on splitting the stereo audio into separate mono tracks, which I then panned individually to both ears so I could more clearly hear what each instrument was playing. The result was still muddy but nonetheless helped make the instruments—especially the guitars—more audible.