Hey! Album Explained

Hey! Album
Type:Album
Artist:Marvelous 3
Cover:heyalbum.jpg
Released:1998
Recorded:1997–1998
Length:46:51
Label:Marvelous Records
Elektra
Producer:Jim Ebert, Butch Walker
Prev Title:Math and Other Problems
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:Ready, Sex, Go
Next Year:2000

Hey! Album is the second album by the Atlanta rock band Marvelous 3.[1] [2] It was released by the band's Marvelous Records in 1998. Elektra Records picked it up for an early 1999 release, for which the band rerecorded about 40 percent of the album.[3] [4]

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times wrote that the band "concocts an often fetching blend of glam-tinged power-pop and Elvis Costello-style gibes."

AllMusic called Hey! Album "a likeable, melodic album, full of self-conscious and self-deprecating lyrics bordering on preciousness."

Track listing

All songs written by Butch Walker.

Official studio release

  1. "You're So Yesterday" - 3:56
  2. "Freak of the Week" - 3:20
  3. "Until You See" - 4:20
  4. "Write it on Your Hand" - 3:23
  5. "Let Me Go" - 3:21
  6. "Every Monday" - 3:06
  7. "Indie Queen" - 4:52
  8. "#27" - 2:51
  9. "Mrs. Jackson" - 3:33
  10. "Over Your Head" - 3:40
  11. "Vampires in Love" - 4:01
  12. "Lemonade" - 6:42

Original independent release

  1. "You're So Yesterday"
  2. "Freak of the Week"
  3. "Until You See"
  4. "Let Me Go"
  5. "Every Monday"
  6. "Indie Queen"
  7. "Lemonade"
  8. "#27"
  9. "Just Wanna Go Home"
  10. "Over Your Head"
  11. "Mrs. Jackson"
  12. "Fastboat"
  13. "Cold As Hell"

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marvelous 3 Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
  2. Web site: Where Ya Been? Marvelous 3 Now Down To One, SWV End 10 Years Of Resting Their Voices. https://web.archive.org/web/20140824024347/http://www.mtv.com/news/1534522/where-ya-been-marvelous-3-now-down-to-one-swv-end-10-years-of-resting-their-voices/. dead. August 24, 2014. Gil. Kaufman. MTV News.
  3. Flick . Larry . Big 'week' boosts Hi-Fi/Elektra's Marvelous 3 . Billboard . Jan 23, 1999 . 111 . 4 . 1, 103.
  4. News: Sculley . Alan . THE '70S PLUS THE '80S EQUALS THE MARVELOUS 3 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 18 Mar 1999 . Get Out . 25.