“Memories” by Weezer

"Memories" kicks off Hurley, Weezer's 2010 album, and it came out first as the record's lead single, floated online to promote the comedy film Jackass 3D. That tie-in runs deep: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Dave England, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey and April Margera all turn up on the backing vocals, and Pontius even plays extra guitar.

Rivers Cuomo wrote it alone and produced it with Shawn Everett, who also recorded and mixed it, and it's hook-heavy alt-rock that one critic heard as a throwback to the days when Weezer sounded like a fresh, slightly baffled answer to grunge. The Super 8 video, which premiered on Jersey Shore, puts the band in and around an empty pool while skaters carve past, shot at the locations of the skate film The Search for Animal Chin and cut with scenes from Jackass 3D. After Dunn's death, it became the most searched-for video on YouTube.

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