10 Perfect Rock Songs Cut From Classic Albums

10. Mykel and Carli - Weezer

In the early days of Weezer, Rivers Cuomo wasn’t exactly known as the most heartfelt songwriter in the world. Even when he started to open himself up a little bit more on the band’s sophomore effort Pinkerton, there were more than a few Weezer fans that didn’t want to know about some of the personal problems that he was struggling with day after day. The Blue Album may have been a much more carefree album by comparison, but the band wrote one of their best songs about a tragedy that was too close to home.

Around the time that the band were touring in support of their debut, one of their shows was derailed when they found out that the two leaders of their fan club were killed in a car accident before getting to the gig. Looking to pay tribute to them, Mykel and Carli is one of the more straightforward songs that Rivers ever wrote, writing about how kind these people were to them during their early days and how they kept the band believing in themselves even when they thought things were looking grim.

Even though this was far from the oversharing we got later in a song like The Good Life, this was just the start of tremendous B-sides to come from almost every Weezer album, with some of the more maligned albums of their career still having a handful of decent cuts that somehow got left on the cutting room floor. It might not have had the best inspiration, but the raw emotion on this song almost deserves a place next to Say It Ain’t So as one of Weezer’s most heartfelt songs.