“Simple Pages” by Weezer

Rivers Cuomo wrote both the words and the music of "Simple Pages", an album track on Weezer's 2001 comeback, the self-titled record better known as the Green Album. Pinkerton, their second album, had drawn mixed reviews and soft sales in 1996, the band drifted off into side projects, and it took a fan base swelling online, a slow reappraisal of Pinkerton and a return to the stage at Japan's Summer Sonic Festival to get them rehearsing and recording again.

After Pinkerton's ambitious, confessional sprawl, Cuomo went the other way: simpler songs, with the diary locked in a drawer. Ric Ocasek, who had produced the band's debut, came back to produce, and it's the only Weezer studio album with Mikey Welsh on bass; he was gone a few months after it came out. On "Simple Pages", Alan Sanderson assisted on the recording and Femio Hernandez on the mix.

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