a big part is honestly rivers voice. like i remember when his God Only Knows cover went on youtube, i would replay that s*** to infinity. its always been that i was happy to hear Rivers sing a song i hadn't heard him sing before. just that is enough to make it worth it tbh

oh it’s overwhelming for anyone who else sells that much demos? but just take it easy and especially take time to let it sink dont burnout and kill the fun over it, just go with all the albums first one by one!

i feel you on friend of a friend, i recommend the deluxe just for that song alone to anyone who brings up white album and is missing out on

those myspace posts is totally something id done has a teen and is mostly likely accurate, rivers is an open book

but yeah if you have the money that sounds great, you can skip the 80s pack maybe bc it’s mostly just kids recording like child jokes and talks, but yeah he deserves that bag he’s very generous for doing this tbh and the price for the mount of s*** you get like some packs has like 60 songs, it’s really amazing

cant wait to get your feedbacks!

here’s a sneak peak for you, his home demo recording of haunt you everyday since you left around that era - has guitar instead of the piano:

love you brother

speaking of! for the longest time it was rumored there was a rivers alone demo recording of him covering surfer girl, we been wanting it forever and it’s now available through his packs it dates to 1992:

on the subject of other's ppls sht rivers has helped out:

this is sorta a random ass trivia challenge: when i was reading this thread a few days ago, i came across this post on instagram, and i almost bought this album because i mistakenly thought it was associated with rivers

the album above ended up being the wrong album i was thinking of. what was the correct album i thought it really was??

@feelingisfirst ok not gonna post all the demos lol but your myspace comment reminds me of this love i love SO MUCH from his market, he goes into great details about this girl he met met from a band, such beautiful storytelling:

THIS IS SO THE RIVERS WE KNOW

song never got anywhere 😭😭😭😭 but the story of their hangouts did continue to inspire on and eventually did get more storytelling on opening track of pacific daydream “mexican fender” it’s about the same girl - katy goodman from the band la sera

(amazing video lol)
@PerryTheMADLADYPUS

(rivers posted this screenshot on the genuis.com page for the song lol)

😉😉😉

this still gets radio plays man haha

Frontman Scooter Ward began working on the song in 2002 and, although he liked the guitar riff, considered it too reminiscent of Weezer, whom Cold had toured with earlier and befriended. Ward subsequently asked Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo to lend a hand in the song's development for their first and only collaboration. The verse lyrics and opening/chorus guitar riff were then written by Cuomo. Originally the two singers planned to trade off vocals, but after Cuomo heard Ward's tracks, he decided to limit his own vocal contribution to the pre-chorus. The song blatantly revolves around relationship troubles with bits of tongue-in-cheek phrasing commonly found in Cuomo's writing style.

did you know he wrote a song for charli xcx too since then? ☺️

dope

wait

after the screenshot of this youtube comment was taken, KTT User Ithaka clicked "post"

Funny when Billy Cobb used the melody for that on the last track of Zerwee. Lol. Smart to kind of listen to their influences for inspiration.

I need Rivers to cover Elliot Smith

didn’t pick on that

Yeah it’s the exact same melody sped up lol

oh like it sounds similar but not a purposely homage?

it's FIRE

fun album

VAGABONDS MY UNDEFEATED GOAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@​2@/$)473!BSIWLSMWKEB BAIAAAAAAAAAKWN9-&!/+£]!{%}%|>>!\’anwhyd

muse are gonna love this s*** so much

Nah I think it was purposeful

I needa listen to Pinkerton again fr only played it once

Can’t stand most later career Muse material but I can easily see them f***ing with this. Would love to see them tour together.