Songs from the Black Hole

Songs from the Black Hole
Studio album by Weezer
Released	Not released
Recorded	December 1994 - June 1996
Genre	Alternative rock, power pop
Label	Geffen Records
Producer	Weezer

Songs from the Black Hole is an unfinished, unreleased album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, once intended to follow their 1994 self-titled debut album. It was to be a science fiction rock opera that expressed songwriter Rivers Cuomo's mixed feelings about rock and roll success. Its six characters were to be voiced by Cuomo, guitarist Brian Bell and bassist Matt Sharp of Weezer, Rachel Haden of That Dog and the Rentals, Joan Wasser of the Dambuilders, and Weezer collaborator Karl Koch.

Cuomo recorded demos for Songs from the Black Hole over Christmas 1994, and Weezer worked on the album in recording sessions over the following year. At the end of 1995, Cuomo enrolled at Harvard University, where his songwriting became darker and more confessional. Feeling the Black Hole concept was "too whimsical", he abandoned it and Weezer's second album became Pinkerton (1996), featuring songs once intended for Songs from the Black Hole and new songs written at Harvard.

Two Songs from the Black Hole tracks, "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" (with Haden on vocals) and "Devotion", were released as B-sides for the Pinkerton singles "El Scorcho" and "The Good Life" respectively. Many of Cuomo's demos were eventually released across the compilation albums Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2007), Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008) and Alone III: The Pinkerton Years (2011), and on the 2010 "deluxe" reissue of Pinkerton. Lyrics and sheet music were included with The Pinkerton Diaries, a book collecting Cuomo's writings from the era. In 2007, Rolling Stone included Songs from the Black Hole on its list of music's lost "mythical masterpieces".

...
Wikipedia