You need to check the first section, The =W= Story for info about the song meanings. This section is for the confused souls digging around the net for Weezer material.

Check the official site’s discography for detailed information, but these are the best known released b-sides. The songs, unless otherwise noted, usually come from singles and imports (the list excludes live b-sides):

"Jamie” – from a DGC (Geffen) rarities compilation
“Susanne” – from the Mallrats soundtrack
“You Gave Your Love to Me Softly” – from the soundtrack to Angus.
“Mykel and Carli” – from the Hear You Me tribute
“I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams”
“Devotion” — Pinkerton era b-side
“Waiting on You”— Pinkerton era b-side as well
“Christmas Song” – from KROQ DJs Kevin & Bean’s annual Christmas album.
“Christmas Celebration” – from a Weezer two-song “EP” (with “Christmas Song”) sent to fanclub members.
“Teenage Victory Song” — a TGA era b-side
“Starlight”— also TGA era
“Sugar Booger”— another TGA era
“Oh Lisa” – from the soundtrack to the MTV show Tough Enough
“Always” – from another Kevin and Bean Christmas CD
“Brightening Day” — another Green Album b-side
“I Do” – a TGA track in the UK
“My Evaline” – an import single erroneously titled this “Sweet Adeline”
“Velouria” – from Where Is My Mind?, a tribute to the Pixies
“Living Without You” – a Maladroit import track
“Polynesia” – the instrumental introduction to The Lion and the Witch
“Keep Fishin’” – AKA “George Hartwig”, an instrumental synth version of the same song done by Pat (officially credited to The Franklin Mint)
“Worry Rock” – from A Different Shade of Green, a Green Day tribute
“You Won’t Get with Me Tonight” – a Pinkerton-era song included in the compilation Gimme Skelter by indie-label Buddyhead

*Some of the above have resurfaced in the second disc of TBA:DE as well as “Paperface”, “Lullaby for Wayne”, and “I Swear It’s True.”

The unfortunate thing about these file-sharing programs is that (esp. during the height of Napster) it allows some hacks to promote their lame garage band outfits by purposely mislabeling their songs into well-known artists (some type of online counterfeiting scheme, if you will)…

No, that’s a Sugar Ray song from the soundtrack to Scream 2. Apparently, they were fans and wrote a “Weezer-style” song. Mark McGrath jokingly sang it at show as a “tribute to the late Rivers Cuomo.”

These songs were performed live at a few Boston area shows.
"Autumn Jane" • “The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World” • “Hey M’Darlin’” • “Sheila Can Do It” • “Think About” • “Rosemary” • “Hot Tub” • “Baby” • “Stay Here” • “1000 Years” • “Fun Time” • “Little Sister” • “Wanda” (a song written for Angus but replaced by “YGYLTMS”) • “Sunshine O” (actually an untitled song; that’s just how the chorus goes)

… the shows also featured a few Weezer songs and the Homie song “American Girls.” The Words of =W= section has the lyrics to these songs.

These are the songs Weezer played live right at the beginning of their 2000 comeback. Three songs made it to TGA and Maladroit.

"Too Late to Try” • “Superstar” • “On the Edge” • “Hash Pipe” • “Ev’ry Night” • "O Girl" • “Preacher’s Son” • “Peace & Quiet” • “The Sister Song” (Your Sister) • "Slob" • “Modern Dukes” • “My Brain (Is Working Overtime)” • “Dope Nose” • “Mad Kow”

…don’t confuse “Mad Kow” with a Pavement song mislabeled as “Mad Cow Disease”. More info on that below. Also an extra bonus track was released online, an a capella rendition of "Been in the Storm.” A couple of songs that aren’t really considered part of the SS2K, but like the SS2K, are TGA demos:

“New Joint” • “Cryin’ and Lonely” • “Burning Sun” (clip only released)

These are what I like to call the "Sessions Songs". It’s a combination of ones recorded in a Washington D.C. demo session, and some recorded for a BBC radio show. They practically comprise most of Maladroit.

“High Up Above” • “Burndt Jamb” • “Listen Up” • “Saturday Night” • “December” • “American Gigolo” • “Zep Jamb” (aka “Not in Love”, “Zep Song”) • “Take Control” • “Keep Fishin’” • “Acapulco” (“Puerto Vajarta”)

… a few others like “Happy Grunge” were not released.

“Space Rock” • “Love Explosion” (aka “Do You Want Me to Stay?”) • “The Dawn” • “Your Room” • “I Wanna Know” • “Mr. Taxman” • “How Long" • “We Go Together” • “Cygnus X-1" • “Porcupine” • “Possibilities” • “Seafaring Jamb” (“My Weakness”)  • “Broken Arrows" • “Slave” • “Fall Together” • “Diamond Rings” • “Living Without You” “Change the World” • “Faith in the Light” • “Ain’t Got Much Time” • “Don’t Pick on Me” “Serendipity” (aka Serindipitous Jamb) • “Death and Destruction” • “So Low” “Sandwiches Time”

“The numbers are the order in which he wrote the songs, starting with #1, “I Want You”, written in Jan. 1, 1999.” —Karl. One song, "367" ended up having the number as the title as well.

These are the initial demos before Rick Rubin came on board. They have been scrapped.

“Yellow Camaro” (written by Brian, eventually appeared in a Space Twins album) • “Private Message” • “Mad Kow” • “Fontana” • “Modern Dukes” • “The Organ Player” • “The Victor” • “The Story Is Wrong” (written by Pat) • “Acapulco” • “Prodigy Lover” • “Running Man” • “I Don’t Want Your Lovin’” • “Mo’ Beats” • “Booby Trap" • “367” • “Little Songs” • “She Who Is Militant” • “Hey Domingo” • “Lullaby” • “Queen of Earth” • “Reason to Worry” (also by Pat) • “Sacrifice” • “Mansion of Cardboard” • “Misstep” • “Superstar” • “Everybody Wants a Chance to Feel All Alone” • “Untenable" • “Hold Me”

Just after making the initial demos for album five and during the Rick Rubin sessions, Rivers, perhaps just whimsically, made these acoustic covers of various songs, and in one period inspired by a crush, covered songs with "Annie"/ "Ann" themes.

"End of the World” (Skeeter Davis, only a clip was released)
"Annie's Song" (John Denver)
"Tomorrow" (from the Annie musical)
"Invincible" (by the aforementioned crush, aspiring diva-popstar Ann Poonkasem)
"Je Changerias D'avis ("I Will Change My Life") (Françoise Hardy )
"Without You" (Harry Nilsson)
"The Star-Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, right? My history is a little shaky.)

No, that’s Ozma. Ozma were Weezer fans who formed a band that gained some following especially in the west coast and among Weezer fans and once opened for Weezer on tour. They have since broken up.

"California” is a Rentals song, an early version of the Seven More Minutes track “Barcelona". “We Have a Technical” is also a Rentals song that Matt collaborated with Blur’s Damon Albarn for a Gary Numan tribute album.

That’s Tim “Speed” Levitch, mad genius friend of Matt Sharp’s. He was a New York City tour guide and is a filmmaker. Check out his documentary The Cruise. He also acted in Richard Linklater’s The Waking Life and School of Rock. This track is often mislabeled as Sonic Youth covering Weezer, but it’s actually Weezer. The performance, which was during a Y100 Sonic Sessions, has since been included in the Weezer DVD. During a small promo show set in a boat(!) in New York, Tim joined Weezer to reprise this version of "Undone."

Alright, Betty, you've really got to get a hobby. He's just making those lyrics up, and they're not deep. They're intentionally over-the-top and funny.

Hmm, I wasn't so sure if these were still floating about, but for a while they were. Those are actually done by a Swedish band called Ibold Train, Weezer fans presumably.

It’s a group of demos made during the early years of Weezer that comprised the songs that eventually formed the Blue Album. Some of the others were later included in the second disc of Weezer: Deluxe Edition. Actually there are two demo tapes, one called The (First) Real Demo:

“Say It Ain’t So” • “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here” • “No One Else” • “Undone (featuring the spliced-clips intro)

and the other is the Kitchen Tape demo:

“Paperface” • “Let’s Sew Our Pants Together” • “Only in Dreams” • “My Name Is Jonas” • “Thief, You’ve Taken All That Was Me”

For a short period Rivers decided to open up riverscuomo.com and created a section called Catalogue of Riffs, a meticulous listing of not only the entire catalogue of Rivers Cuomo songs but also life events, schedules, keepsakes, and even personal records.

Yes, some of these were released through the COR.

“Souvenirs, Novelties, and Party Tricks” • “Purification of Water” • “Clarinet Waltz” • “Chess” • “Just What I Needed” (Cars cover) • “I Swear It’s True” • “Comin’ Home” • “Hot Tub” (longer version of the RCB song) • “Walt Disney” • “I Need Some Touch” • “Lovers in the Snow”

That is the full version you got there, Joe. It’s part of Rivers’s rock opera concept album idea known as Songs from the Black Hole. It includes:

“Oh No, This Is Not for Me" • “Longtime Sunshine” • “Come to My Pod”

…as well as Pinkerton (and Pinkerton b-side) songs. The tracks run continuously so the beginning and endings are arbitrary. “Blast Off” is supposedly followed by “You Won’t Get With Me Tonight.”

It’s Rivers and AM Radio's Kevin Ridel's pre-Weezer prog-metal band. Kevin's site for AM Radio has released a few songs onine. Fuzz is Rivers and Pat's pre-Weezer metal band. At least one song has also been released online.

Actually, it’s just Rivers contributing a guitar solo in the song “Hurt You So Bad.” Among other dubious collaborations include Rivers co-writing goth-metal band Cold’s “Stupid Girl” and an unreleased Limp Bizkit (!) song. Rivers did a slightly more respectable collaboration with DJ Mark Ronson in a song called “I Suck.”

There are a few riggity-riggity-remixes. “Keep Fishin’” and the b-sides “Always” and “Christmas Song” have been remixed by the band. “Say It Ain’t So” and “Pink Triangle” also have remixes, albeit slight.  “Hash Pipe” has several mixes including ones by Chris Vrenna (Tweaker), Bloodhound Gang’s Jimmy Pop, and something called a Raven v. Flud remix. Finally, "We Are All on Drugs" wasn't quite remixed but the song has two versions with different lyrics in the bridge section (from "I want to confiscate your drugs/ I don't think I can get enough" to "I want to reach a higher plane/ Where things will never be the same")

Well, junior, once upon a time Weezer released the EP exclusively to independent retailers. The tracks are recorded live from a Japan World Cup Tour show in 2002 and include Scott’s instrumental introduction “Polynesia.” … and they lived happily ever after.

Uh, no, Chester, those aren’t Weezer. So many of the stuff floating around the P2P programs are mislabeled stuff. The covers Weezer actually recorded in studio and released are Green Day’s “Worry Rock”, "Velouria" by the Pixies, and the old barbershop quartet song “My Evaline.” There is also an old Rivers Cuomo/early Weezer demo cover of the Cars’ “Just What I Needed.” There are short little riffs of songs by Rush, Heart, Iron Maiden, and even a cover of “The Dukes of Hazard” theme done live onstage. And one other short kitschy/goofy cover of Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone." They also tested the Turtles' “Happy Together” onstage at the request of Spike Jonze who considered using their version for his film Adaptation. Finally, there are those recent Rivers covers mentioned earlier.

Nope, I’m fuckin’ sorry, Dolores. Here’s a sample list with the actual artists:

"Mrs. Robinson” – the Lemonheads covering Simon & Garfunkle
“Brown-eyed Girl” – that’s either Pennywise or Everclear covering Van Morrison
"Earth Angel” – the stuff floating around is probably the original Penguins song
"Hit Me Baby One More Time” – if it’s a studio version it’s Fountains of Wayne; the live version is by Travis
"Uptown Girl” – cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes covering Billy Joel
"Scooby Doo Theme” – Matthew Sweet
"Please Let Me Get What I Want” – Deftones cover of the Smiths

Um, well…uh… those are by Goat Punishment.

Not sure if it’s still prevalent but it was when Napster was huge. Some genius decided to make up strange titles with even stranger collaborations, and it spread around like a California wildfire. You should keep them though because they're actually from Pavement’s classic Slanted and Enchanted. To add to the confusion, two already mislabeled songs ended up being mislabeled again with the band Ibold Train’s demos I mentioned above. To clear all that up, here are the made up titles (left side) with the actual S&E titles (right side).

"Rig It Up” – “Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era”
“Betsy” – “Perfume-V”
“Elvis Presley” – “Two States”
“A Song About You” – “Loretta’s Scars” if not the Ibold Train demo
“Why Can’t You” – “Chesley’s Little Wrists” if not Ibold Train
“No Other Girl” (feat. Bjork) – “Fame Throwa”; the actual Pavement track doesn’t have Bjork in it either
“Somewhere” (feat. Eddie Vedder) – “No Life Singed”; Eddie ain’t in this one either
“Mad Cow Disease” – “Zurich Is Stained”
“Rainbow of Love” – “In the Mouth a Desert”
“Red Circle” – “Here”

There are four Weezer tribute albums. One is a tribute by young punk bands; another is Skunk Ape records’ Making Noise (this one has a second version with a track that features Save Ferris’s Monique Powell); and one by Dead Droid records creatively titled Rock Music that features bands such as Midtown and Dashboard Confessional. One strangely fascinating tribute album was made by Japanese bands. Despite the funny accent, it’s actually the best of the four tributes. Deftones used to cover Weeezer at almost every show, particularly “Say It Ain’t So” (they’ve also covered “El Scorcho”, “Holiday”, “TWHATALMH”, “Tired of Sex” and “In the Garage”). Also note that neither Barenaked Ladies nor Sonic Youth have covered Weezer. The mislabeled BNL song is Weezer themselves doing an acoustic “Buddy Holly” while the mislabeled Sonic Youth is also Weezer doing “Undone” with the Tim Levitch intro (see above). Other covers:

Ben Lee: “Butterfly”
Ash: “Only in Dreams”
Bloodhound Gang: “Undone” (live)
Juliana Hatfield: “Say It Ain’t So” (live)
Moog Cookbook: amusing instrumental version of “Buddy Holly”
Off the Beat: an a cappella(!)  cover of “Say It Ain’t So”
Phantom Planet: “Undone”, “El Scorcho” (live)
Ben Kweller: “Undone”
Richard Cheese: hilarious lounge covers “Buddy Holly” and “Hash Pipe”
Zed: “Starlight” appears on The Hot Chick soundtrack

… these are just the covers worth noting. There’s a ton of other garage bands and they mommas and cuzins doing covers. I found Hawaiian girls covering “Undone” (ukulele and all), a Brazilian band doing “Across the Sea”, and a drunk Mexican dude singing “Undone.”

You gotta be fuckin’ kidding me