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词条 The Good Life (Weezer song)
释义

  1. Content

  2. Music video

  3. Release

  4. Track listing

  5. Personnel

  6. Chart positions

  7. References

  8. External links

{{short description|Song by Weezer}}{{Infobox song
| name = The Good Life
| cover = Weezer the good life single.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Weezer
| album = Pinkerton
| B-side =
  • "Waiting on You"
  • "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams"

| released = October 29, 1996
| format = {{hlist|CD|cassette|vinyl}}
| recorded = September 1995{{snd}}June 1996
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =Alternative rock, power pop, emo
| length = 4:17
| label = DGC
| writer = Rivers Cuomo
| producer = Weezer
| prev_title = El Scorcho
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Pink Triangle
| next_year = 1997
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Australian release of The Good Life EP
| type = ep
| cover = The Good Life Oz Ep.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption =
}}
}}{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[1]
}}

"The Good Life" is a song by American rock band Weezer, released on October 29, 1996 as the second single from their second studio album, Pinkerton (1996), as well as an EP in Australia. "The Good Life" was rush-released by the record company to try to save the commercially failing album, but was not successful.

Content

In 1996, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo underwent a corrective operation for his leg and was in a leg brace. The brace was debilitatingly painful[2] and inspired the lyrics to the title song. The inside picture in the CD's booklet is an X-ray of Rivers' leg brace.

The B-sides include "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" (featuring Rachel Haden of That Dog on vocals), a song once intended for Weezer's unreleased album Songs from the Black Hole.[3] The live songs were taken from a set played by the band at Shorecrest High School near Seattle. The school had won a contest and got Weezer to play during lunch in 1997.[4] A very young Daniel Brummel of Ozma can be seen in the upper right side of the EP's cover.[5]

Music video

The song's music video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, features a pizza delivery girl (played by Mary Lynn Rajskub) on her route, highlighting the monotony of her job. The music video is noted for its use of simultaneous camera angles appearing on screen as a fractured full image in a technique[6] jokingly described by Weezer bassist Scott Shriner on the band's March 2004 DVD Video Capture Device as being "so innovative, I've never seen it since." Blink-182's video for their November 2004 single "Always" used a similar technique. The video's directors would go on to cast Mary Lynn Rajskub as Pageant Assistant Pam in their first feature-length motion picture Little Miss Sunshine.

Release

"The Good Life" single and EP was released in the spring of 1997 at the behest of the band's label DGC. Pinkerton had not received the same response that the group's first eponymous album did, and the single/EP was issued in an attempt to score a hit, but was not successful.[4][7] The single version was remixed with a more prominent bass track and panned vocals, and was included on the deluxe edition of Pinkerton.

Track listing

Europe and Japan CD single
  1. "The Good Life" – 4:19
  2. "Waiting on You" – 4:13
  3. "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" – 2:39
Australia EP
  1. "The Good Life" – 4:19
  2. "Waiting on You" – 4:13
  3. "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" – 2:39
  4. "The Good Life" (Live Acoustic) – 4:40
  5. "Pink Triangle" (Live Acoustic) – 4:26

Personnel

  • Brian Bell – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Rivers Cuomo – lead vocals, lead guitar, piano, glockenspiel
  • Matt Sharp – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Patrick Wilson – drums, percussion

Chart positions

Chart (1997)Peak
Position
Australia (ARIA)[8]88
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)32

References

1. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r469471|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513079|title=River's End|accessdate=2008-08-20 |publisher=The Harvard Crimson}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://classic.weezer.com/info/recording/WeezRecHist8.htm|title=Weezer Recording History page 8|publisher=Weezer.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315200339/http://classic.weezer.com/info/recording/WeezRecHist8.htm|archivedate=March 15, 2012|deadurl=unfit|accessdate=July 11, 2014}}
4. ^Luerssen D., John. Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story. ECW Press, 2004, {{ISBN|1-55022-619-3}} p. 222
5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.weezer.com/info/tunes/index02.html|title=Pinkerton era releases (1996-1999)|accessdate=2007-09-05 |publisher=Weezer.com}}
6. ^Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 221
7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.weezer.com/info/tunes/index02.html|title=Pinkerton era releases (1996-1999)|accessdate=2007-09-21 |publisher=Weezer.com}}
8. ^{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}

External links

  • {{Discogs master|276933|The Good Life}}
  • Lyrics for "The Good Life"
  • {{youtube|gkroIXktjgE|"The Good Life" Official music video}}
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6 : Weezer songs|1996 singles|1996 songs|Songs written by Rivers Cuomo|Music videos directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris|DGC Records singles

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