Getchoo
| "Getchoo" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Album track by Weezer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Album | Pinkerton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | September 24, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | September 1995 at Fort Apache | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 2:52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| RC# | 175 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| COR# | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Weezer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Released (Apache demo circulating) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Getchoo" (originally known as "Gitchoo") is the second track on Pinkerton.
Contents
Appearances
- Pinkerton
- Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition) (Tracking rough)
- Alone III: The Pinkerton Years (Demo)
- Songs from the Black Hole (Tracklist 1)
Overview
"Getchoo" was originally written by Rivers Cuomo in January of 1994, between the recording and release of The Blue Album. The song was played live while the band was touring in support of The Blue Album. Later, in 1995, Cuomo considered the song for (ultimately unfinished) "rock-opera" concept album Songs from the Black Hole. The song appeared on track lists and early drafts for that concept, before being dropped from later lists. While the Black Hole concept was eventually scrapped, "Getchoo" was worked on by the band and the album concept eventually morphed into Pinkerton, wherein "Getchoo" appears as the second track.
In 2005, the band played the song with Brian Bell on lead vocals.
An rough in-studio recording of the song appeared on the second disc of the Deluxe Edition of Pinkerton in 2010, listed as "Getchoo (Tracking Rough)".
Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – percussion
- Brian Bell – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Matt Sharp – bass guitar, backing vocals
Audio
Album release
Earlier versions
Lyrics
This is beginning to hurt
This is beginning to be serious
It used to be a game
Now it's a cryin' shame
'Cuz you don't wanna play around no more
Sometimes I push too hard
Sometimes you fall and skin your knee
I never meant to do
All that I've done to you
Please, baby, say it's not too late
To get you, uh-huh
You know this is breakin' me up
You think that I'm some kind of freak
But if you'd come back to me
Then you would surely see
That I'm just foolin' around
I can't believe
What you've done to me
What I did to them
You've done to me
