Ecce Homo
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Demo by Rivers Cuomo | |||||
Recorded | 2011 - 2014 | ||||
Genre | Alternative Rock | ||||
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Ecce Homo (Latin: "Behold the man") was the title for Rivers Cuomo's original draft of the album concept that eventually became Weezer's ninth studio album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
Overview
Rivers Cuomo began developing the concept in 2011, deriving the title from the book of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche. The album cover would have been the 1474 Antonello da Messina painting "Ecce Homo",[1] later used for the fan-club single "Everybody Needs Salvation,"[2] and purportedly would have included a fold-out star map and a picture of the Tower of Babel.[3] Several of the tracks from this collection would eventually appear on Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
A selection of demos considered for the album, alongside a Word document providing extensive info about the concept, were included as part of the digital compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years in 2020.
Synopsis
The album concept centered around the character Sebastian who, for deliberately ambiguous reasons, appears to exist throughout various eras of history and, over the course of the narrative, realizes the necessity of faith in a higher power. Some of these ideas carried over into the narrative of EWBAITE.
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Track listing
Ecce Homo 11.docx[2]
Act I:
- Semper Fidelis
- The Rules of Life
- Gravity Will Bring You Down
- Sing My Blues Away
- The British Are Coming
Act II:
Act III:
- The Waste Land
- Bless the Whole Wide World
- Everybody Needs Salvation
- A Boat on the Sea
- Anonymous
- Resurgam Fidei ("Return to Ithaka")
January-February 2012[3]
- Narcissus Blooming
- Rules of Life
- Gravity Will Bring You Down
- Sing My Blues Away
- The British Are Coming
- Semper Fi
- Ain't Got Nobody
- I Won't Flake on You
- Ivory Telephone
- Cleopatra
- The Wasteland
- Bless the Whole Wide World
- Everybody Needs Salvation
- Anonymous
- Resurgam Fidei ("Return to Ithaka")
Other considered songs:
- The Best of Me
- Don't Show Us Your Body
- Why Am I Getting So Upset?
- Pissing in the Wind
- Meet Up with Our Maker
- The Tower of Babel
- Empty Inside
- Only a Cockroach
See also
External links
References
- ↑ "File:Antonello da Messina 003.jpg" Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonello_da_Messina_003.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ecce Homo 11.docx, Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 ExceptYouDie: A Weezer Repertoire. https://sites.google.com/site/exceptyoudie/everything-will-be/ecce-homo