Black Hole of Calcutta Black Hole of Calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison or dungeon in Fort William where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war for three days on 20 June 1756. John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the East India Company, said that, after the fall of Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped that many people died from suffocation and heat exhaustion, and that 143 of 164 prisoners of war imprisoned there died. Fort
Songs from the Black Hole were "goofy, off-the-cuff, and charming". "Pinkerton" was a critical and commercial failure; with its darker themes and rawer production, it alienated fans and was voted the worst record of 1996 by "Rolling Stone" readers. The failure disappointed Cuomo, who returned to a power pop sound for Weezer's third album. Over time, however, "Pinkerton"'s critical standing grew and it influenced bands such as Jimmy Eat World, Motion City Soundtrack, and Dashboard Confessional. In 2017, "Stereogum" writer Pranav Trewn speculated about how Weezer releasing "Songs from the Black Hole" instead might have influenced music: "It’s perhaps the greatest 'what if?' in modern