Return of the Rentals
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| Return Of The Rentals | ||
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| Studio album by The Rentals | ||
| Released | October 24, 1995 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Label | Warner | |
| Producer(s) | Tom Grimley, Matt Sharp | |
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| The Rentals chronology | ||
| Return Of The Rentals (1995) |
Seven More Minutes (1999) |
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Return of the Rentals is the debut album of the rock band The Rentals, and was released on October 24, 1995.
[edit] Track listing
- "The Love I'm Searching For"
- "Waiting"
- "Friends Of P."
- "Move On"
- "Please Let That Be You"
- "My Summer Girl"
- "Brilliant Boy"
- "Naive"
- "These Days"
- "Sweetness And Tenderness"
"Friends Of P." and "Waiting" were released as singles.
[edit] Miscellanea
- "Brilliant Boy" features the lyrics "Virginia backyard/Suburban life/Don't wake the parents/On Potomac tonight" and "Goodbye Virginia/With your lousy style." Rentals frontman Matt Sharp was raised in Arlington, Virginia.
- Cherielynn Westrich did a majority of the songwriting work on "My Summer Girl," yet she is given no co-writing credit in the album's liner notes.
- Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson drums on this record.
- "Please Let That Be You" is a reworking of an early Weezer demo titled "Mrs. Young."
- In 2006, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs covered "The Love I'm Searching For" on an AOL The Interface podcast [1].
- "Friends of P" is referencing Paulina Porizkova, wife of Ric Ocasek who produced the first Weezer album, The Blue Album.
