The Waste Land
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| Album track by Weezer | ||||||||||||||
| Album | Everything Will Be Alright in the End | |||||||||||||
| Released | October 7, 2014 | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2014, The Village, Los Angeles, CA | |||||||||||||
| Length | 1:56 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Republic Records | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Ric Ocasek | |||||||||||||
| Status | Officially released | |||||||||||||
| Live debut | October 11, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico | |||||||||||||
| Last played | April 25, 2016 in West Hollywood, CA | |||||||||||||
| Stream |  Spotify |
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"The Waste Land" is the eleventh track on Everything Will Be Alright in the End. It is the first part of "The Futurescope Trilogy," the suite of songs that conclude the record.
Appearances
Overview
"The Waste Land," like "Return to Ithaka", is an instrumental. In December 2017, an early version of the song was leaked, along with the rest of the album. A clip from an in-progress version of the song was first previewed on May 28, 2014, in a teaser video.
The song's title is derived from the 1922 T.S. Eliot poem of the same name. The album's liner notes accompany the song's title only with the phrase "lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", a line from Dante's Divine Comedy, which translates to "abandon all hope, ye who enter". "The Waste Land" is grouped under the category of "The Panopticon Artist", one of EWBAITE's three explicit thematic groupings.
Several demos of "The Waste Land" were released in 2020 as part of the digital demo compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years in 2020.
Known recordings
| Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
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| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 1.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:15 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | Ecce Homo demo | |
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 2.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:15 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 3.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:07 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 3 1.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:07 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | Duplicate of The Waste Land 3.mp3 | |
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 4.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:07 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 5.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:09 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 5 2.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:09 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | Duplicate of The Waste Land 5 2.mp3 | |
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 6.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:07 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | The Waste Land | The Waste Land 9.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:09 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Weezer | Wasteland / My Mystery / Resurrection | 11 Wasteland _ My Mystery _ Resurrection_.mp3 | 2014 | The Village, Los Angeles, CA | 7:18 | Leaked online | Early studio mix |
| Weezer | The Waste Land | 2014 | The Village, Los Angeles, CA | 1:56 | Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – drums
- Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals
- Scott Shriner – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Ric Ocasek - producer
Audio
