No One Else

"No One Else" is the second track on The Blue Album.
===Appearances===
* Weezer (The Blue Album) (1994)
* "Say It Ain't So" (UK retail single) (Live acoustic) (1995)
* Weezer's third demo (1992)
* Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years (2020)
*Weezer (The Blue Album) (30th Anniversary Deluxe) (2024)
==Overview==
Rivers Cuomo wrote "No One Else" about a former girlfriend named Petra.Weezer (The Blue Album) liner notes. 2004. Photo"No One Else" Riverpedia. 22 September 2020. Archived by Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20210722123508/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/No%20One%20Else The song is first known to have been demoed to 8-track by Cuomo in August of 1992.Weezer Recording History - Page 3 It was attempted by Weezer the same month during the sessions for Weezer's second demo (The "Kitchen Tape"), but remained unfinished. The song was first played live on September 15, 1992 at a show at Coconut Teaszer in Los Angeles. In describing the show, Karl Koch noted that the song "started to steer the band in a previously invisible direction." "No One Else" is notable for being the only track on The Blue Album played in standard tuning; all other tracks were recorded a half-step down. The intro to "No One Else" is repurposed from an earlier Weezer demo, "Paperface.":File:Mrn-discord-paperfacelineage.png
"No One Else" is often considered a fan favorite. Todd Sullivan listed it as one of the songs that caused him to take notice of Weezer. During a number of live shows in the summer of 2000, Weezer modified "No One Else" and "Buddy Holly" by adding an extended instrumental introduction. The band kept the introduction for "Buddy Holly" as a part of the performance until 2005, but dropped the introduction to "No One Else" after only a few shows.
===Notable versions===
A live, acoustic rendition of the song was recorded by the band on April 1, 1995 at Cat's Paw Studios for Atlanta radio station WNNX. This recording was made available as a b-side to the single release of "Say It Ain't So", and was later made available as part of the compilation Dusty Gems & Raw Nuggets, initially released as part of the deluxe edition of The Blue Album. Additional notable live renditions include a studio recording for the show BBC Evening Sessions at the BBC Radio 1 Studios in London, as well as a live performance for the French radio series The Black Sessions recorded on February 21, 1995.
The full-band demo of "No One Else", recorded for the band's third demo, was shared by fans in the late 90's, before a copy was procured and ripped in higher quality by a fan in the early 2000s.
The original 8-track demo of "No One Else", recorded solo by Cuomo, was first made available to fans on November 7, 2020, when the song was among hundreds leaked through the then-unfinished demo storefront on riverscuomo.com. Cuomo made the song available for one-time purchase a few days later upon the launch of the storefront on November 11, whereupon an anonymous user purchased it. The song was made available for purchase to all later that month, on November 22, when it was made available as part of the digital compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years.
==Audio==
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==Lyrics==
My girl's got a big mouth
With which she blabbers a lot
She laughs at most everything
Whether it's funny or not
And if you see her
Tell her it's over now
I want a girl who will laugh for no one else
When I'm away she puts her makeup on the shelf
When I'm away she never leaves the house
I want a girl who laughs for no one else
My girl's got eyeballs
In the back of her head
She looks around and around
You know it makes me sad to see her like that
Please don't believe her
She says that for anyone
And if you see her tell her it's a hey, hey hey hey!
I want a girl who will laugh for no one else
When I'm away she puts her makeup on the shelf
When I'm away she never leaves the house
I want a girl who laughs for no one else
And if you see her tell her it's over now
And if you see her tell her it's over now
And if you watch her go (And if you watch her go)
Watch her, watch her, watch her, watch her!
I want a girl who will laugh for no one else
When I'm away she puts her makeup on the shelf
When I'm away she never leaves the house
I want a girl who laughs for no one else, no one else
Yeah!
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Bluejap1995japbooklet6.jpg|Blue Album Japanese cd release, 1995
File:Bluedeluxejapbooklet6.jpg|Blue Album Japanese cd release, 2004
==Known recordings==
==See also==
* Weezer (The Blue Album)
*List of Weezer songs
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
==External Links==
*Teenage Victory Songs entry for "No One Else"
==References==
Category: Weezer songsCategory:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo listCategory:Featured songCategory:Songs on Weezer (The Blue Album)Category:Weezer songs produced by Ric OcasekCategory:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Songs on Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years