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''Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo'' is a compilation album by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, released on December 18, 2007. It is available as a digital release, CD release and 12" vinyl (released on January 8, 2008). The album features home demos that Cuomo has recorded from 1992-2007. "The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo" leaked online on December 12, 2007. When released, it opened with sales of 14,000, and debuted at #163 on the Billboard Top 200.〔 〕 The album also topped the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. The album had sold 43,000 copies as of December 2008.〔()〕 It was followed by ''Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo'' (2008) and ''Alone III: The Pinkerton Years'' (2011). == Background == Rivers Cuomo has long been known by fans to have recorded a great deal of unreleased material, nearly 800 songs in his lifetime. This material was recorded with Weezer, earlier bands, and self-recorded demos. Despite the large amount of unreleased material that has been made available by Cuomo on the internet, large chunks of his work remain unheard by fans. These include certain demos for ''The Blue Album'', various songs from the scrapped ''Songs from the Black Hole'' project, over a hundred songs he composed and demoed throughout 1999 (songs which he has described as ranging from "drone-y Romantic," "abrasive dissonance" and "riffy pop-rock"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rivers Cuomo Fan Interview 2006 )〕) and well over a hundred songs that didn't make the cut for ''Make Believe''. Cuomo brought up the idea for the compilation album to his record company in 1998. However, they discouraged him from the idea because they didn't want to "dilute the Weezer name" by putting out less polished material. It was not until 10 years later that Cuomo pushed harder for the collection and it gained enough support for a release. There were some legal issues between Cuomo and Geffen about releasing the album: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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