Return of The Rentals - Track Listing

Track Listing

All songs written by Matt Sharp and performed by The Rentals.

1. "The Love I'm Searching For" - 3:36
2. "Waiting" - 3:13
3. "Friends of P." - 3:32
4. "Move On" - 4:21
5. "Please Let That Be You" - 3:34
6. "My Summer Girl" - 3:13
7. "Brilliant Boy" - 4:16
8. "Naive" - 2:20
9. "These Days" - 3:00
10. "Sweetness and Tenderness" - 4:22

"Waiting" is featured in the 1996 film Joe's Apartment.

The explanation behind the "P" in the track "Friends of P." has had multiple theories presented as to its meaning. The actual "p" in the song refers to Paulina Porizkova, the wife of Cars guitarist Ric Ocasek who produced the first Weezer album, known as The Blue Album. Paulina made a claim that no one had ever written a song about her, therefore Matt took on the task. Ric Ocasek noted that he found the subject matter of the song a bit odd. Fictitious theories suggest that the subject deals with psychics or the Psychic Friends Network. Finally, some think the "P" is for Patrick Wilson, drummer on the album and also drummer for Weezer.

"Please Let That Be You" was originally written by Sharp and Rivers Cuomo as a song called "Mrs.Young", a spiritual counterpart to Weezer's song "Jamie". On one demo, Rivers Cuomo helps Sharp, doing extra instrumentation and backup vocals. At one point, Weezer considered recording both "Jamie" with "Mrs.Young" (later written as Please Let That Be You without rivers cuomo but instead with rachel haden) as its B-side for a single, but this never happened.

In 2006, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs covered "The Love I'm Searching For" on an AOL The Interface podcast.

In March 2008, Ash covered "Please Let That Be You" for the album Friends of P. -- Tribute to The Rentals.

Tokyo Police Club did a cover of "Friends of P." that appears on their album Elephant Shell Remixes.

Girl Talk sampled "Friends of P." on his 2006 album Night Ripper.

Tera Melos' guitarist Nick Reinheart covered the track "These Days"; it was uploaded on his soundcloud.