Cherry Berry

"Cherry Berry"
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Recorded	1998
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
Status	Unreleased

"Cherry Berry" (or "Cherri Berri") is a song by Rivers Cuomo

Overview

"Cherry Berry" was written and recorded by Rivers Cuomo during demo sessions at TK Productions & Rehearsal Studios in Los Angeles in June or July of 1998. As part of the TK series of demos, "Cherry Berry" received "TKX-15" as its numerical label. In a Weezerpedia Discord Q&A session, Karl Koch describes this demo as "very rough, one track, one take".

Weezer worked on the song during full-band sessions in the summer of 1998, but a mixed-down demo does not exist. "Cherry Berry" was seemingly left behind with the rest of the 1998 songs when Weezer returned from hiatus in early 2000. However, "Cherry Berry" was considered for inclusion on The Green Album during pre-production.

According to Karl Koch, "[Cherry Berry's return was] Pat and Mikey saying "that song ruled why did we forget about it"? It's a rocker, I don't disagree it deserved fresh attention." The song did not make the cut for the Green Album.

Rivers' demo of the song was not included with the release of Alone VI: The Black Room. According to Rivers, he could not find a copy of the recording, though a copy of it does exist in Karl Koch's archives. When asked during a June 16, 2021 discussion in Riverchat if he could play the song during a hypothetical solo acoustic show, Rivers said "I could do that but it would be acoustic. Actually you've never heard the song so you don't know how strange that seems."

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	Cherri Berri		June 1998	TK Productions & Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA			Rough one take demo with no bridge.
Weezer	Cherry Berry		July—November 1998	TK Productions & Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA

See also

• TK demos
• List of Weezer songs
• Indecision and Abandoning the Past