Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big fat Weezer freak, so you can imagine my excitement this morning to discover that none other than Weezer’s lead singer slash songwriting genius (excusing those last two albums) Rivers Cuomo has been posting some solo mp3s up on MySpace. The songs are all covers (weird choices too: John Denver, Annie the Musical, whoever the hell Ann Poonkasem is), recorded in super stripped down lo-fi mode. The Annie cover is my immediate favorite for the ridiculous New Order octave bassline, painfully over-the-top vocal delivery notwithstanding. This is not the sound of Weezer’s first two albums, but it’s more interesting/quirky to these ears than the last two.