Pink Triangle (song)

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“Pink Triangle”
“Pink Triangle” cover
Single by Weezer
from the album Pinkerton
Released 1996
Format CD
Recorded September 1995 - June 1996
Length 3:58
Label DGC Records
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
Producer Weezer
Weezer singles chronology
"The Good Life"
(1995)
"Pink Triangle"
(1996)
"Hash Pipe"
(2001)
Pinkerton track listing
  1. "Tired of Sex"
  2. "Getchoo"
  3. "No Other One"
  4. "Why Bother?"
  5. "Across the Sea"
  6. "The Good Life"
  7. "El Scorcho"
  8. "Pink Triangle"
  9. "Falling For You"
  10. "Butterfly"

"Pink Triangle" was the third single off the second album Pinkerton by Weezer. It was released to radio on May 20th, 1997 in a last ditch effort to boost sales for the album. The song was remixed by Tom Lord-Alge, adding a reworked guitar solo, a synth track and overdubbed vocals.

The song describes a man who falls in love and wants to get married, but soon discovers the object of his devotion is a lesbian.[1]

A promo single was sent to radio stations that also contained an acoustic version of the song recorded at Shorecrest High School in Seattle, Washington.

The song only picked up a scarce amount of airplay, never charted and was deemed not successful enough to warrant a video. It is the band's least successful single.[2][3]

In 2004, the band released their first DVD Video Capture Device, which features a video of the Shorecrest performance as well as a video cut by Weezer.com webmaster and longtime friend of the band Karl Koch that features footage shot by Jennifer Wilson, wife of Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson.

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Radio Station Promo CD

  1. Pink Triangle (Remix) - 4:02
  2. Pink Triangle (Live Acoustic) - 4:18

Live acoustic track is the same as on The Good Life OZ EP

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Luerssen D., John. Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story. ECW Press, 2004, ISBN 1-55022-619-3 p. 196
  2. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 232
  3. ^ Luerssen D., John, 2004 p. 235

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