The new edition will be available on November 1st
Weezer will celebrate three decades of their seminal full-length debut LP, Weezer aka the Blue Album, with the release of the Blue Album 30th Anniversary Edition on November 1st via Geffen/UMe. This must-have for any Weezer fan will be available in multiple configurations, including a massive Super Deluxe Edition 4 LP + 10-inch + 7-inch box set and a Deluxe 3 CD set, and digitally.
To herald the arrival of Blue Album 30th Anniversary Edition, Weezer shares the earliest known recording of “Undone – The Sweater Song (Third Practice).”
The Super Deluxe Edition box set presents the most comprehensive vision of the Blue Album ever created. It includes the classic album newly remastered from the original analog tapes. Across four 12-inch 180-gram LPs, a 10-inch EP, and a 7-inch, it consists of 50 songs in total—with 36 previously unreleased tracks (encompassing eight “Kitchen Tape Demos”), twenty-two early practices and live recordings, six BBC radio recordings – two of which have never been heard before – and four tracks from their LMU sessions. Longtime friend, collaborator, and de facto band historian Karl Koch penned new liner notes in issue #18 of the Weezine and assembled the artwork layout with a bevy of previously unreleased photos.
Plus, the box set boasts “sweater” embossed graphics complete with a pullable and retractable thread (as a nod to “Undone – The Sweater Song”), four lithographs, a poster perfect for the garage, song-themed sticker sheet, a 12-sided die, and an enamel Bokkus pin. Meanwhile, the Deluxe 3 CD set also houses four lithographs, the poster, a song-themed sticker sheet, a 12-sided die, an enamel Bokkus pin, and 28-page issue #18 of the Weezine.
There is also an Ultra Limited Edition box set, with all of the features of the Super Deluxe Edition, but that comes wrapped in an actual knit sweater and a certificate signed by each member. Only 100 of these exist and will be available for purchase on Weezer’s website.
The Blue Album will also be available in a variety of vinyl offerings including 2 LP 45 rpm half-speed mastering vinyl, 180-gram black vinyl, housed in a premium gatefold jacket wrapped in silver foil paper with bonus photos and an exclusive poster on silver foil paper, exclusively via Interscope.com; 1 LP Zoetrope Picture Disc, exclusively via Weezer.com, uDiscover Music and Sound of Vinyl; and 1 LP Ghostly Blue & Clear Color Vinyl, exclusively at indie record stores
Weezer’s celebratory Voyage to the Blue Planet North American tour also kicks off today with The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. as support.
Often revered as one of the most important debut records of all time, Weezer’s Blue Album arrived on May 10, 1994. The record has generated billions of streams worldwide and has left an indelible mark on music as a whole, cementing Weezer as one of the most beloved artists of the last three decades whose influence continues to reverberate through culture.
CD 1:
1. My Name Is Jonas
2. No One Else
3. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
4. Buddy Holly
5. Undone – The Sweater Song
6. Surf Wax America
7. Say It Ain’t So
8. In The Garage
9. Holiday
10. Only In Dreams
11. My Name Is Jonas (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
12. In The Garage (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
13. No One Else (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
14. Surf Wax America (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
15. Buddy Holly (Acoustic – Live on Greater London Radio) [Previously Unreleased]
16. Undone – The Sweater Song (Acoustic – Live on Greater London Radio) [Previously Unreleased]
CD 2:
1. Say It Ain’t So (The Kitchen Tape Demos) [Previously Unreleased]
2. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (The Kitchen Tape Demos) [Previously Unreleased]
3. Paperface (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
4. Undone – The Sweater Song (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
5. Thief, You’ve Taken All That Was Me (The Kitchen Tape Demos) [Previously Unreleased]
6. My Name Is Jonas (The Kitchen Tape Demos) [Previously Unreleased]
7. Let’s Sew Our Pants Together (The Kitchen Tape Demos) [Previously Unreleased]
8. Only In Dreams (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
9. I Can’t Forget The Way (Third Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
10. Undone – The Sweater Song (Third Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
11. The World has turned and left me here (Third Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
12. Windows Down (Garage Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
13. My Name Is Jonas (Garage Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
14. Only In Dreams (Garage Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
15. Superman (Garage Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
16. Dawn Sets Upon Us (Garage Practice) [Previously Unreleased]
17. Just What I Needed (Rehearsal Demo) [Previously Unreleased]
18. Buddy Holly (Rehearsal Demo) [Previously Unreleased]
CD 3:
1. Let’s Sew Our Pants Together (Live at 8121 Club) [Previously Unreleased]
2. Paperface (Live at 8121 Club) [Previously Unreleased]
3. Only In Dreams (Live at 8121 Club) [Previously Unreleased]
4. Conversationalist (Wax Cover/Adaptation) (Live at Coconut Teaszer) [Previously Unreleased]
5. Undone – The Sweater Song (Live at English Acid) [Previously Unreleased]
6. My Name Is Jonas (Live at English Acid) [Previously Unreleased]
7. No One Else (Live at Club Lingerie) [Previously Unreleased]
8. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (Live at Club Lingerie) [Previously Unreleased]
9. Jamie (Live at Club Lingerie) [Previously Unreleased]
10. Lullabye For Wayne (Live at Club Lingerie) [Previously Unreleased]
11. Say It Ain’t So (Live at Club Lingerie) [Previously Unreleased]
12. China Grove (Live at Club Lingerie) [Previously Unreleased]
13. Jamie (Take 6 – LMU Sessions)
14. My Name Is Jonas (LMU Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
15. Jamie (Take 5 – LMU Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
16. Lullabye for Wayne (LMU Sessions) [Previously Unreleased]
