This edit summarily replaced the original studio versions on re-pressings of the album, and is heard on the edited "Hash Pipe" video on the DVD Video Capture Device. This edit cuts the first chorus in half (ending after "eyes wide"), and both ascending bridge sections were removed from the end of the second and third choruses. The original, full-length Green Album studio version is no longer in print, and was subsequently replaced by a shorter edit. A variation of the song that replaces the words "hash pipe" with "half-pipe" was created and appeared on a promotional CD in Europe. The title was sometimes rendered as "H*** Pipe" or edited to say "pipe pipe" on MTV. "Hash Pipe" was banned from UK airplay by Radio One due to the reference to drugs in the title (hashish). The video for the song was nominated for Best Rock Video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, and was nominated for High Times magazine's "Pot Song of the Year" in 2001. "Hash Pipe" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, #24 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #16 on Billboard's Canadian Singles Chart. Cuomo sings "kiss me" instead of "kick me" on the second line of the chorus in this version, and has continued to sometimes sing it this way when performing the song in concert. "Hash Pipe" was performed live during the summer of 2000, and is considered one of the so-called " Summer Songs of 2000." A band demo of the song appeared as part of a semi-official " SS2K" album distributed by Cuomo to fans in 2002. Examples of disputed lyrics are "eyes wide"/"ass wide"/"eye swipe"/"ass wipe" and "big cheese"/"big G's." There is some dispute among fans over the song's correct lyrics and, as no official lyric sheet has been released, they remain up for debate. The opening lyric "I can't help my feelings, I go out of my mind" appears to be a direct quote of the Beatles song " You Can't Do That" from 1964. Some fans have speculated that the riff was influenced by the song "He Shot Himself Up" by The Shods, as Cuomo is a friend of Shods frontman Kevin Stevenson, who had previously accompanied Cuomo during Homie shows in 1997, more than two years before "Hash Pipe" was written. Cuomo has stated in several interviews, at the time of the single's release, that he stole the riff from Spy Hunter, a popular arcade video game from the 80s which featured a digitized version of the Peter Gunn theme. The theme has proven to be much more enduring than the show, and has appeared in many TV shows and films, both in its original recording as well as cover versions. The guitar riff was at least partially inspired by the theme song from the television series Peter Gunn, composed by Henry Mancini. Cuomo would, ultimately, be vindicated when the song became one of the band's biggest hits. I got up in a meeting with all the executives and I was screaming." The label wanted to release " Don't Let Go" instead, but Cuomo was adamant that "Hash Pipe" be the single. "They wanted something more straight-up," said Cuomo, "Man, it was a huge fight. Rivers Cuomo, Fresh Air with Terry Gross interview, 2009 Ĭuomo told Entertainment Weekly in 2001 that the song was a "totally insane song about a homosexual transvestite prostitute," adding that the label was very reluctant to release a song like "Hash Pipe" as the album's lead single. Step four was close your eyes and imagine the song. Step three was go out in the backyard, sit down on a chair. Step two was take three shots of tequila. For example, in mid-2000, I - somehow my experiments evolved to a point where step one was take a pill of Ritalin. But sometimes these experiments were indistinguishable from how any other rock person would write a song. "For a couple of years there, well - I've always been an analytical person, but for a couple of years, I just got really analytical in keeping track of every detail of the process of writing a song and intentionally varying individual elements to see what the result would be. As a songwriting experiment, Rivers Cuomo consumed a mixture of tequila and ritalin to compose the song " Dope Nose," before repeating the same process a few nights later to write "Hash Pipe". "Hash Pipe" was the first single released from the band's long-awaited third album, Weezer, and the only one of the so-named " Summer Songs of 2000" to appear on the album (although " Dope Nose" and " Slob" would later appear on the band's fourth album, Maladroit). "Hash Pipe" (US Promo Remix 12" (Black Vinyl)) (Jimmy Pop Remix, Chris Vrenna's Kick Me Remix and Chris Vrenna's Under Glass Remix)."Hash Pipe" (UK Retail 7" (Green Vinyl))."Hash Pipe" (UK Promo CD) (Jimmy Pop Remix)."Hash Pipe" (US Retail CD/US Retail 7" (Black Vinyl)).
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