Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Paul Loves Weezer Project - Song 11 Devotion

#Pinkerton

Leading up to the beginning of Weezer's Spring Tour, I'm going to feature PINKERTON era songs, including all 10 songs off the record, culminating on April 1st.  We have tickets to go see the Myrtle Beach House of Blues show! 

For the eleventh Weezer Song of the Day, the Pinkerton era continues with track Devotion.  This is another song from the Songs from the Black Hole project, which morphed into Pinkerton.  It is the slowest song from the era.



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Here is the Pinkerton era recorded version, which was recorded in September 1996:









Devotion  has been performed live only 3 times according to Setlist.fm.  It debuted in Milwaukee 5 days prior to me seeing Weezer in Charleston in 1997.  I saw it live on the first Weezer Cruise fifteen years later.

Devotion is a slow love song about the girl that waits for him to chase the wrong girl.  It has a great rock sound.  What would it sound like faster?  Rock.







This one is a Head Bobber (on purpose)

What do you guys think?

Weezerpedia Entry for Devotion

When will they play Devotion again?


Project Info: 
So why did I create this blog?  To document my Weezer Song Project.  Over the next year, I am going to attempt to listen to every...EVERY Weezer song recorded.  All the album tracks and b-sides will be easy, but there are some unreleased songs that may or not be accessible.  Hopefully, the search (and destroy) will be fun to follow.  At the moment, the list has 213 songs!  My list includes You Gave Your Love to me Softly, Longtime SunshineTurn Me Round, Waiting on You, and Back to the Shack.  We learned early this year that a new Weezer record is on the way and we got to hear Back to the Shack twice on the Weezer Cruise II.

So here is the master list from Karl et al. on Weezerpedia!
 I will soon publish my Google Doc Spreadsheet, which will document my progress.
Here is my Spotify playlist.
Paul Loves Weezer YOUTUBE Playlist

PLW Rater!  It's not quite Leonard Maltin, but it will work.
1 - Go get a beer...It's still a Weezer song, but it's a good time to rent a beer
2 - Head Bobber...The song causes at least moderate movement
3 - Rock it out...Banging of the head and the arm is in the air \m/
4 - Undone...No choice but to jump around

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