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Following the scathing response to their previous album ''Music/{{Raditude}}'', this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning its dance-pop sound in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in videos by iconic figures on the site at the turn of the decade, namely WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange, and Music/TayZonday.
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''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album: "Memories", which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On", which features Creator/MichaelCera [[SpecialGuest on backing vocals]].
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''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard ''Billboard'' 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album: "Memories", which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On", which features Creator/MichaelCera [[SpecialGuest on backing vocals]].
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The album notably features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover (cropped from a picture of him together with Cuomo in the green room of ''Lopez Tonight'', as he and Weezer taped for the show on the same day), and was named after his famous role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively refer to it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
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The album notably features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover (cropped from a picture of him together with Cuomo in the green room of ''Lopez Tonight'', as he and Weezer taped for the show on the same day), and was named after his famous role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' ''[[RunningGag another]]'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively refer to it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
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Following the scathing response to their previous album ''Music/{{Raditude}}'', this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning its dance-pop sound in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
The album notably features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover (cropped from a picture of him together with Cuomo in the green room of ''Lopez Tonight'' as he and Weezer taped for the show on the same day), and was named after his famous role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively refer to it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
The album notably features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover (cropped from a picture of him together with Cuomo in the green room of ''Lopez Tonight'' as he and Weezer taped for the show on the same day), and was named after his famous role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively refer to it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
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Following the scathing response to their previous album ''Music/{{Raditude}}'', this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning its dance-pop sound in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in videos by iconic figures on the site at the turn of the decade, namely WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.Zonday.
The album notably features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover (cropped from a picture of him together with Cuomo in the green room of ''LopezTonight'' Tonight'', as he and Weezer taped for the show on the same day), and was named after his famous role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively refer to it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
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Following the scathing response to their previous album ''Music/{{Raditude}}'', this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning the its dance-pop sound that ''Raditude'' laid the foundation for in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
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Following the scathing response to their [[Music/{{Raditude}} previous album]], album ''Music/{{Raditude}}'', this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning the dance-pop sound that ''Raditude'' laid the foundation for in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
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''Hurley'' is the eighth studio album by Music/{{Weezer}}. It is their only release on Epitaph Records before they were signed to current label Crush Records. Following the scathing response of their [[Music/{{Raditude}} previous album]], this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning the dance pop sound that ''Raditude'' laid the foundation for in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
It features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover, who is famous for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the drama TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively know it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just straight-up call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album: "Memories" which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On" [[SpecialGuest which features Canadian actor Micheal Cera on backing vocals.]]
It features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover, who is famous for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the drama TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively know it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just straight-up call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album: "Memories" which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On" [[SpecialGuest which features Canadian actor Micheal Cera on backing vocals.]]
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''Hurley'' is the eighth studio album by Music/{{Weezer}}. Music/{{Weezer}}, released in 2010. It is their only release on Epitaph Records before they were signed to current label Crush Records. Records.
Following the scathing responseof to their [[Music/{{Raditude}} previous album]], this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning the dance pop dance-pop sound that ''Raditude'' laid the foundation for in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
It The album notably features actor Creator/JorgeGarcia on the cover, who is cover (cropped from a picture of him together with Cuomo in the green room of ''Lopez Tonight'' as he and Weezer taped for the show on the same day), and was named after his famous for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the drama TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively know refer to it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just straight-up call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album:"Memories" "Memories", which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On" On", which features Creator/MichaelCera [[SpecialGuest which features Canadian actor Micheal Cera on backing vocals.]]
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* DownerEnding: "Time Flies" is a rather somber mid-life crisis song that jaxoposes with songs like "Memories" and "Where's My Sex".
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''Hurley'' is the eighth studio album by Music/{{Weezer}}. It is their only release on Epitaph Records before they were signed to current label Crush Records. Following the scathing response of their [[Music/{{Raditude}} previous album]], this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning the dance pop sound that ''Raditude'' laid the foundation for in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
It features actor Jorge Garciea on the cover, who is famous for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the drama TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively know it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just straight-up call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album: "Memories" which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On" [[SpecialGuest which features Canadian actor Micheal Cera on backing vocals.]]
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!!Tracklist:
# "Memories" (3:16)
# "Ruling Me" (3:30)
# "Trainwrecks" (3:21)
# "Unspoken" (3:01)
# "Where's My Sex?" (3:28)
# "Run Away" (3:55)
# "Hang On" (3:33)
# "Smart Girls" (3:11)
# "Brave New World" (2:57)
# "Time Flies" (3:42)
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# "[[Series/YoGabbaGabba All My Friends Are Insects]]" (1:53)
# "[[Music/{{Coldplay}} Viva la Vida]]" (4:06)
# "I Want to Be Something" (2:56)
# "Represent" (Rocked Out mix) (4:13)
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!!Principal Members:
* Rivers Cuomo – lead vocals
* Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals
* Scott Shriner – bass, backing vocals
* Patrick Wilson – guitar, backing vocals
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!! Where's my tropes?
* AudienceParticipationSong: Memories, featuring the ''whole cast of Jackass 3D'' singing the chorus.
* BookEnds: The album opens with a song about recalling all of the wild and reckless things you've done as a kid and the ends with a song about coming to terms with getting old.
* BreakupSong: "Run Away".
* DownerEnding: "Time Flies" is a rather somber mid-life crisis song that jaxoposes with songs like "Memories" and "Where's My Sex".
* FeelingTheirAge: "Time Flies" is about Rivers realizing that he's getting old.
* GainaxEnding: The album ends with the faint chimes and ticking of clocks.
* GeekyTurnOn: "Smart Girls" is about how Rivers loves being around them.
* GenreShift: "Time Flies" is a lo-fi song in the vein of early Music/{{Ween}}.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Where's My Sex" seems to take this trope to its logical extreme if you don't realize [[SubvertedTrope it's actually about socks.]]
* SexualEuphemism: Inverted. In "Where's My Sex", "sex" is a euphemism for "socks".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Ruling Me".
* StylisticSuck: "Time Flies" deliberately sounds like it was recorded on a cassette tape that was ran over by a truck of magnets.
* SesameStreetCred: The bonus track "All My Friends Are Insects" was a song the band preformed during their appearance on the children's television show ''Yo Gabba Gabba''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Memories make me want to go back there...''[[note]][[SincerityMode Yes, this picture of Hurley Reyes is the album cover.]][[/note]]]]
''Hurley'' is the eighth studio album by Music/{{Weezer}}. It is their only release on Epitaph Records before they were signed to current label Crush Records. Following the scathing response of their [[Music/{{Raditude}} previous album]], this album backpedaled on many of the things established with that album, abandoning the dance pop sound that ''Raditude'' laid the foundation for in favor of a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. The band heavily utilized Website/YouTube to promote the album, including cameo appearances in WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/{{TheAnnoyingOrange}}, and Tay Zonday's videos.
It features actor Jorge Garciea on the cover, who is famous for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the drama TV series ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Weezer originally intended for this to be yet ''another'' self-titled album, but quickly realized that fans would retrospectively know it as ''The Hurley Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases, so they decided to just straight-up call the album ''Hurley'' instead.
''Hurley'' unfortunately remains Weezer's worst-performing album, selling even less than what ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' did at release. While the album charted at #6 on the Billboard 200, it quickly dropped off to #24 before disappearing from the charts entirely. Only two singles spawned from the album: "Memories" which was featured in the film ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass 3D]]'', and "Hang On" [[SpecialGuest which features Canadian actor Micheal Cera on backing vocals.]]
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!!Tracklist:
# "Memories" (3:16)
# "Ruling Me" (3:30)
# "Trainwrecks" (3:21)
# "Unspoken" (3:01)
# "Where's My Sex?" (3:28)
# "Run Away" (3:55)
# "Hang On" (3:33)
# "Smart Girls" (3:11)
# "Brave New World" (2:57)
# "Time Flies" (3:42)
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# "[[Series/YoGabbaGabba All My Friends Are Insects]]" (1:53)
# "[[Music/{{Coldplay}} Viva la Vida]]" (4:06)
# "I Want to Be Something" (2:56)
# "Represent" (Rocked Out mix) (4:13)
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!!Principal Members:
* Rivers Cuomo – lead vocals
* Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals
* Scott Shriner – bass, backing vocals
* Patrick Wilson – guitar, backing vocals
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!! Where's my tropes?
* AudienceParticipationSong: Memories, featuring the ''whole cast of Jackass 3D'' singing the chorus.
* BookEnds: The album opens with a song about recalling all of the wild and reckless things you've done as a kid and the ends with a song about coming to terms with getting old.
* BreakupSong: "Run Away".
* DownerEnding: "Time Flies" is a rather somber mid-life crisis song that jaxoposes with songs like "Memories" and "Where's My Sex".
* FeelingTheirAge: "Time Flies" is about Rivers realizing that he's getting old.
* GainaxEnding: The album ends with the faint chimes and ticking of clocks.
* GeekyTurnOn: "Smart Girls" is about how Rivers loves being around them.
* GenreShift: "Time Flies" is a lo-fi song in the vein of early Music/{{Ween}}.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Where's My Sex" seems to take this trope to its logical extreme if you don't realize [[SubvertedTrope it's actually about socks.]]
* SexualEuphemism: Inverted. In "Where's My Sex", "sex" is a euphemism for "socks".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Ruling Me".
* StylisticSuck: "Time Flies" deliberately sounds like it was recorded on a cassette tape that was ran over by a truck of magnets.
* SesameStreetCred: The bonus track "All My Friends Are Insects" was a song the band preformed during their appearance on the children's television show ''Yo Gabba Gabba''.
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