Hello Hurricane

is Switchfoot's seventh studio album and was released November 10th, 2009.

Track listing

 * 1) "Needle and Haystack Life"
 * 2) "Mess of Me"
 * 3) "Your Love Is a Song"
 * 4) "The Sound (John M. Perkins Blues)"
 * 5) "Eough to Let Me Go"
 * 6) "Free"
 * 7) "Hello Hurricane"
 * 8) "Always"
 * 9) "Bullet Soul"
 * 10) "Yet"
 * 11) "Sing It Out"
 * 12) "Red Eyes"
 * 13) Mess Of Me (Acoustic) (Deluxe Edition track)
 * 14) Always (Alternate Piano Version) (Deluxe Edition track)
 * 15) Stitches (Originally from "Eastern Hymns" EP) (Deluxe Edition track)

Hello Hurricane album preview quotes

 * Originally from the Switchfoot website.


 * Day 1 - Needle and Haystack Life
 * "There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" - Einstein


 * Day 2 - Mess of Me
 * "He not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan


 * Day 3 - Your Love Is A Song
 * "I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance." - Friedrich Nietzsche


 * Day 4 - The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)
 * "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott


 * Day 5 - Enough To Let Me Go
 * "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung


 * Day 6 - Free
 * "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard


 * Day 7 - Hello Hurricane
 * "The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people." - Cornel West


 * Day 8 - Always
 * "Everything alive must die, Every building built to the sky will fall, Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie" - Jeff Tweedy


 * Day 9 - Bullet Soul
 * "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." - Jack Kerouac


 * Day 10 - Yet
 * "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken." - C.S. Lewis


 * Day 11 - Sing It Out
 * "there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep" -...


 * Day 12 - Red Eyes
 * "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough...The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." - Mother...

Foot Facts

 * "The Sound (John M. Perkins Blues)" is a song that briefly references John M. Perkins, an American civil rights activist, in the lyric "John Perkins said it right/Love is the final fight."
 * "Red Eyes" was considered for inclusion in Switchfoot's previous studio album, Oh! Gravity.
 * The album cover art and packaging was designed by photographer Andy Barron, who frequently photographs Switchfoot and tours with the band.  The photo was taken in Atlantic City, NJ.