El Scorcho
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| Single by Weezer | ||
| from the album Pinkerton | ||
| Released | 1996 | |
| Format | CD, Cassette, Vinyl | |
| Recorded | September 1995 - June 1996 | |
| Length | 4:03 | |
| Label | DGC Records | |
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | |
| Producer(s) | Weezer | |
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| Weezer singles chronology | ||
| "Say It Ain't So" (1995) |
"El Scorcho" (1996) |
"The Good Life" (1996) |
| Pinkerton track listing | ||
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- The correct title of this article is el Scorcho. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
"el Scorcho" is the first single off the second album Pinkerton by Weezer, released in 1996. The music video features the band playing in an old ballroom in Los Angeles (as revealed by Weezer's Video Capture Device DVD), surrounded by light fixtures of diverse origin, flashing in time to the music.
The song was not a successful single; several radio stations refused to play the song, and the video stiffed on MTV. This is considered to be one of the causes for the initial commercial failure of the album.
The name of the song was supposed to have come from a packet of hot sauce from Del Taco, labeled "Del Scorcho". [1]
The line "listening to Cio-Cio San" is in reference to Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly, The main characters of which are an American sailor - Pinkerton - and a Japanese girl named Cio-Cio San. Additionally, the line "I'm the epitome/of public enemy" is a direct quote from Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype."
The song also references Extreme Championship Wrestling, in the lyric "watching Grunge legdrop New Jack through a press table". Interestingly, Grunge formed a tag team in the UWF with Rocco Rock known as The Public Enemy.
The song also mentions the band Green Day in the lyric "I asked you to go to the Green Day concert/You said you never heard of them." In 2005 while on the Foozer tour, Weezer often changed the lyric to "I asked you go to the Foo Fighters concert" and changed it to "the Weezer concert" in late '05.
In the live performance of this song featured on The Lion and the Witch Rivers Cuomo accidentally begins singing the third verse of "El Scorcho" during the second verse.
[edit] Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – percussion
- Brian Bell – rhythm guitar
- Matt Sharp – bass guitar
[edit] Trivia
- Good Charlotte did a cover of the song during a live performance.
[edit] External links
| Weezer |
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| Brian Bell • Rivers Cuomo • Scott Shriner • Patrick Wilson |
| Former members: Jason Cropper • Matt Sharp • Mikey Welsh |
| Discography |
| Albums: Weezer (The Blue Album) • Pinkerton • Weezer (The Green Album) • Maladroit • Make Believe |
| Extended plays and live albums: The Good Life • The Lion and the Witch • Winter Weezerland |
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