Hey! Album

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Hey! Album
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Studio album by
Released1998
Recorded1997–1998
Genre
Length46:51
Label Marvelous Records
Elektra
Producer Jim Ebert, Butch Walker [1]
Marvelous 3 chronology
Math and Other Problems
(1997)
Hey! Album
(1998)
Ready, Sex, Go
(2000)
Alternative cover
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Original indie release cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Hey! Album is the second album by the Atlanta rock band Marvelous 3. [5] [6] 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. [1] [7]

Contents

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." [3]

AllMusic called Hey! Album "a likeable, melodic album, full of self-conscious and self-deprecating lyrics bordering on preciousness." [2]

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"

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  2. 1 2 "Hey! Album - Marvelous 3 | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
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