Rivers also methodically analyzed many songs, including all of Nirvana's songs to help him with his songwriting. He writes about his songwriting process in the

Rivers also methodically analyzed many songs, including all of Nirvana's songs to help him with his songwriting. He writes about his songwriting process in the liner notes for "Alone II", an album of his home recordings. The liner notes are amazing. He goes through each song on the album and explains the back story, often mentioning what kind of methods he used to write that particular song. I dug up an old Rolling Stone article where he talks about his "Encyclopedia of Pop". They also mention him writing several hundred songs in 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20080228012507/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5933454/rivers_cuomos_encyclopedia_of_pop https://web.archive.org/web/20080228012507/http://www.rollin... The names he gives some of his methods are pretty excellent. Some examples: * Intellectually acquired emotionally volatile concept: http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Intellectually_acquired_emotionally_volatile_concept http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Intellectual... * Incipit-Melody-Guitar-Develop-Tea : http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Incipit-Melody-Guitar-Develop-Tea http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Incipit-Melo... * Arbitrary-Progression-Distortion-open-Strum-Intro-Melody-Arrange: http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Arbitrary-Progression-Distortion-open-Strum-Intro-Melody-Arrange http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Arbitrary-Pr...