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Hurley
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| Studio album by Weezer | |||||
| Released | September 10, 2010 (USA) September 13, 2010 (Europe) |
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| Recorded | Zeitgeist Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Red Bull Studios, Santa Monica, CA; The Village, Los Angeles, CA; Threshold Sound & Vision, Santa Monica, CA; Hurley Studios, Costa Mesa, CA. | ||||
| Genre | Alternative | ||||
| Length | 33:52 | ||||
| Label | Epitaph Records | ||||
| Producer(s) | Rivers Cuomo & Shawn Everett | ||||
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| Metascore | 68 | ||||
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Hurley is Weezer's eighth studio album, released September 10, 2010 on Epitaph Records exclusively at PacSun stores and made available at other retail stores on September 14, 2010.
Contents
Overview
This was Weezer's first release since their split from Geffen, which took place after the release of Raditude in late 2009. It was announced by Weezer on their Facebook page on August 4, 2010. In an article announcing the album details, Rolling Stone magazine said the album "may be named after the LOST character". In an interview during the US Open of Surfing, guitarist Brian Bell confirmed that Jorge Garcia, who portrayed the character Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the television show LOST, is officially on the album's cover. The first single, "Memories", also had its radio premiere at this event.
On September 3, 2010 Karl Koch posted in his blog about an opportunity for fans to buy the album early: "Hurley will be released on 9/14, but you can hear it and get a hold of it 4 days early on Friday Sept 10 at all PacSun locations in the USA and Puerto Rico." All PacSun locations are to also have listening parties on that day as well.
After copies of Hurley leaked to the internet and surfaced on peer-to-peer sites, Weezer began streaming it in its entirety on their MySpace page.
Hurley marks Weezer's first album not to thank Mykel and Carli and the first since The Green Album not to thank Kyoko Ito.
Track listing
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Memories" | Rivers Cuomo | 3:16 | ||||||
| 2. | "Ruling Me" | Cuomo/Dan Wilson | 3:30 | ||||||
| 3. | "Trainwrecks" | Cuomo/Desmond Child | 3:21 | ||||||
| 4. | "Unspoken" | Cuomo | 3:01 | ||||||
| 5. | "Where's My Sex?" | Cuomo/Greg Wells | 3:28 | ||||||
| 6. | "Run Away" | Cuomo/Ryan Adams | 2:55 | ||||||
| 7. | "Hang On" | Cuomo/Rick Nowels | 3:33 | ||||||
| 8. | "Smart Girls" | Cuomo/Tony Kanal/Jimmy Harry | 3:11 | ||||||
| 9. | "Brave New World" | Cuomo/Linda Perry | 3:57 | ||||||
| 10. | "Time Flies" | Cuomo/Mac Davis | 3:42 | ||||||
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34:16 | ||||||||
Bonus tracks
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 11. | "All My Friends Are Insects" | Adam Deibert | 1:53 | ||||||
| 12. | "Viva la Vida" (Coldplay cover; Live) | Guy Berryman/Jonny Buckland/Will Champion/Chris Martin | 4:06 | ||||||
| 13. | "I Want To Be Something" | Cuomo | 2:56 | ||||||
| 14. | "Represent" (Rocked Out Mix) | Cuomo/Nowels | 4:13 | ||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 15. | "Unspoken" (Sam Farrar Remix) | Cuomo | 3:09 | ||||||
| 16. | "Memories" (Instrumental) | Cuomo | 3:15 | ||||||
Artwork
Jorge Garcia met Rivers Cuomo backstage at late night talk show Lopez Tonight, where Weezer and Garcia were both guests that night, on May 12, 2010 while doing press for his television show, LOST. They talked for a while, and Cuomo asked Garcia if he could get a photo taken with him. Garcia was contacted by his manager informing him of Weezer's plan to use a picture of him on the cover of their new album, and was then shown what he thought was a rough draft mock-up of the cover using the photo he took with Cuomo, (albeit blown up and cropped to showcase just Garcia’s face). This ultimately became the final artwork for Hurley.
Hurleygate
Cuomo told Spinner.com in an interview, "We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: 'Heavy Mental,' 'Smaller Than Life.' I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn't really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia - it just had this amazing vibe. We didn't want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as 'the Hurley record' even if left it without that title, so we just called it Hurley. No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face."
This account is in contrary to reports that Weezer had named the album after surf/clothing company, Hurley, which leant one of their studios for at least one session and was at one point rumored to be a financial backer of the album. The "Hurleygate" (as the meme is known by allthingsweezer) controversy was expanded when guitarist Brian Bell seemingly confirmed Hurley's financial stake in the album during an interview prior to the album's release - a statement he would later recant on the official .com message boards.
