Alone III: The Pinkerton Years

Alone III: The Pinkerton Years
Compilation album by Rivers Cuomo
Released	December 12, 2011[1]
Recorded	1994-1997[1]
Genre	Alternative Rock, Emo
Rivers Cuomo chronology
Not Alone – Rivers Cuomo and Friends: Live at Fingerprints (2009) Alone III: The Pinkerton Years (2011)

Alone III: The Pinkerton Years is a compilation album by Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo, released on December 12, 2011.^[2] It comprises demos recorded between 1993 and 1996, when Cuomo was studying at Harvard University and writing material for the abandoned Songs from the Black Hole album and Weezer's second album, Pinkerton (1996). It is the third album in Cuomo's Alone series of demo compilations, following Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2007) and Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008).

Alone III was sold exclusively with The Pinkerton Diaries, a book collecting journals, letters, essays and music notation written by Cuomo in the same period he recorded the tracks compiled on the album.^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Rivers Cuomo.

1. "I'm So Lonely"

2. "Getchoo"

3. "Lisa"

4. "Negativland"

5. "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly"

6. "When You're Alone"

7. "Susanne"

8. "There Is No Other One"

9. "Let Me Wash at Your Sink"

10. "Waiting on You"

Suite from the Black Hole

11. "Oh No, This Is Not For Me"

12. "Tired of Sex"

13. "She's Had a Girl"

14. "What is This I Find?"

15. "Now I Finally See"

16. "Longtime Sunshine"

Fulton Avenue Suite

17. "I'm Lonely on a Saturday Night"

18. "Oh God I'm Hungry"

19. "I'm on Fire, You're a Liar"

20. "The End of My String"

21. "I Can't Break Your Heart Slow"

22. "Money Makes Me Happy"

23. "My Mind's on You"

Alone III cont'd.

24. "Defeat on the Hill"

25. "Clarinet Waltz"

26. "A Glorious Moment"

References

1. http://riverscuomo.cinderblock.com/
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZE826mPoc
3. SPIN article: "Rivers Cuomo: 'There's So Much Pain in My Voice'."

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