{"id":793535,"date":"2019-03-01T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=801896"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:10:46","slug":"weezer-the-roots-fallon-play-a-has-take-on-me-with-classroom-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/weezer-the-roots-fallon-play-a-has-take-on-me-with-classroom-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Weezer, the Roots, Fallon Play A-ha\u2019s \u2018Take on Me\u2019 With Classroom Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weezer<\/a> recruited the Roots<\/a> and Jimmy Fallon<\/a> for a \u201cclassroom instruments\u201d version of A-ha\u2019s \u201cTake on Me\u201d on Thursday\u2019s Tonight Show<\/a><\/em>. The group went suitably retro for the occasion, with Fallon and Rivers Cuomo sporting New Wave\/synth-pop haircuts and neon jackets with sharp shoulder pads and rolled-up sleeves.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ramshackle, 13-member crew performed the chart-topping 1984 single with the show\u2019s usual arrangement of shaker, wood block, toy xylophone, tambourine, bongos, ukulele, floor tom and melodica. Cuomo belted out the song\u2019s signature, octave-leaping lead vocal, with the others chiming in on the staccato chorus backing vocal. The editing crew even contributed to the Eighties flair, alluding to the original song\u2019s partly animated video<\/a> with sporadic bursts of black-and-white.<\/span><\/p>\n

The song choice wasn\u2019t totally random: Weezer<\/span>\u2014who teamed with Fallon earlier in the week for a barbershop-styled take on their hit \u201cBuddy Holly\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u2014<\/span>recorded a version of \u201cTake on Me\u201d<\/a> as part of their recently issued, self-titled covers LP<\/a> (better known as \u201cThe Teal Album\u201d). The band released their 13th album of original material, the Dave Sitek-produced Weezer<\/em> (\u201cThe Black Album\u201d)<\/a> on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group will promote their recent records on a co-headlining North American tour that launches March 8th in Louisville, Kentucky and wraps April 12th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Weezer have other stand-alone and festival dates booked throughout the spring and summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weezer recruited the Roots and Jimmy Fallon for a \u201cclassroom instruments\u201d version of A-ha\u2019s \u201cTake on Me\u201d on Thursday\u2019s Tonight Show. The group went suitably retro for the occasion, with Fallon and Rivers Cuomo sporting New Wave\/synth-pop haircuts and neon jackets with sharp shoulder pads and rolled-up sleeves. The ramshackle, 13-member crew performed the chart-topping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 20:53:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}