Weezer Covers State Farm Song

Most people likely have no idea that the State Farm jingle is actually just part of an entire song.

It was written long ago by a young Barry Manilow; yes the same creepy lounge singer you're thinking of.

Manilow wrote advertising jingles prior to becoming a successful recording artist. He also wrote the Band-Aid jingle.

Anyway, Weezer got their "Memories" tour from a while back sponsored by State Farm and conversely agreed to record this tune at a later date.

It's interesting because despite being about as commercial a song as there can be, it's as vintage-sounding a Weezer recording as has been released in the last ten years.

As drummer Pat Wilson said on the All Things Weezer message boards this week,

It's kind of good because =w= sounds good when we play in a room together at the same time with Rivers on gtr and me on drums. That took us about 45 minutes vs 12+ months for Raditude. This is why I'm in semi facepalm constantly!

Interestingly candid, but far from shocking observations on the dysfunctional nature of this band.

It's Easy

Well, we've once again essentially let the blog die. It happens periodically, especially in the summer months as the weather is conducive to general tomfoolery of the outdoor variety.

We're coming up on wedding week so Brian is fairly swamped. That also means that we'll have strange coverage from abroad on the event. Should be quite interesting.

As a stopgap proving that I continue to breathe, I give you an acoustic Weezer jam from some old AOL Sessions.

This is a Brian Bell penned song called, "It's Easy". It's a cool little jam complete with drums from an oddly baret-clad Rivers Cuomo and drummer Pat Wilson has a nice little extended solo on guitar.

Brian Bell takes lead guitar and lead vocals while bassist Scott Sharp supplies some smooth background vocals along with Cuomo.

Enjoy this and sit tight. This week should have some truly unusual coverage of all kinds of things. No hollow promises this time. Honest.

Song Of The Day: It's Easy

We've been very sports-centric as of late and I've been hearing grumblings from the masses. In respect to your wishes, I bring you a song from Weezer.

This was one of the tunes written for their 2008 release, Weezer, known as the Red Album. It was written by guitarist Brian Bell as one of the first songs to feature a lead vocalist other than Rivers Cuomo.

This is a nice little acoustic rendition done for AOL. It features Rivers on drums in a beret, nice vocals by Bell, cool harmonies by bassist Scott Shriner and a nifty little guitar solo by drummer Pat Wilson.

The Special Goodness

Today's song comes from Weezer drummer Pat Wilson's side project The Special Goodness. The band's name comes from the feeling Wilson gets when he's making music.

The band features Wilson on guitar and lead vocals and former Offspring and current Angel's & Airwaves drummer Atom Williard. Several Weezer members (former bassist Mikey Welsh and current bassist Scott Shriner) have played with the group live or on albums.

This song, "Life Goes By" is from the 2004 release Land, Air, Sea.

The band hasn't released any more albums, but may do something in the future. Pat Wilson has written many songs in recent years, though some of them are now being used as Weezer songs. Touring of Weezer and recording albums (they're rumored to be in the mixing phase of their latest full length release) has also limited action for The Special Goodness.

This video is directed by weezer.com webmaster Karl Koch.