Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
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| Compilation album by Rivers Cuomo | ||||
| Released | November 25, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 1992-2008 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, lo-fi | |||
| Length | 58:49 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.0/10) |
| Rolling Stone |  |
Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo is a compilation album by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. It is a sequel to Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. On July 24, 2008 on riverscuomo.com, an entire list entitled "The 4 and 5 star demos of river como" [sic] was posted, with certain songs designated as songs that either appeared on Alone, Buddyhead's Gimme Skelter compilation, or Alone II. Soon after the list was posted, the site was redirected back to Cuomo's MySpace.
On October 15, 2008, the album was made available for pre-order on Amazon.com and its release date was revealed as November 25, 2008, with http://www.interpunk.com reporting it will contain "a 3 song mini suite from the highly sought after Songs from the Black Hole and a cover of the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" and posting the cover artwork. The artwork was confirmed by Pitchfork Media on October 27, 2008.
Alone II debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart with opening week sales of 6,000. It was followed by Alone III: The Pinkerton Years (2011).
Rivers Cuomo has recorded a great deal of unreleased material, nearly 800 songs. This material was recorded with Weezer, earlier bands, and self-recorded demos. Of these songs, despite the large amount of unreleased material that has been made available by Cuomo on the internet, large chunks of his work remain unheard by fans. These include certain demos for The Blue Album, various songs from the scrapped Songs from the Black Hole project, over a hundred songs he composed and demoed throughout 1999 (songs which he has described as ranging from "drone-y romantic," "abrasive dissonance" and "riffy pop-rock") and over a hundred songs that didn't make the cut for Make Believe.
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