― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
I remember seeing a Behind the Music show about them, and they all talked about their love for classic R&B. And they showed a grainy videotape of one of their early shows, but the soundtrack played some twaddle from their first album (maybe even later, I forget). The band on videotape was jumping around like a bunch of pilled-up maniacs. I wanted to hear what they were playing - it clearly wasn't the song on the soundtrack. The juxtaposition left me thinking, "Geez, they LOOK like a great band - I wonder how badly these guys mellowed/sold out when they started recording?"
Did anyone here ever see Huey Lewis and the News in their pre-record-contract days? What were they like?
― Rick Massimo, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
You should see more movies....
also, I thought it was cute and fun.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Betcha he refers to it as "Baby Huey"!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd still rather listen to 10 Hall & Oates songs than 1 Huey Lewis & The News though ...
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
_Sports_ is a stone-cold classic album all the way around. Also "Back To The Future"!!!!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry),
HI DERE otm!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"If This Is It" gives me a lot of emotions.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
They are playing in my town pretty soon and I have considered thinking about maybe seeing how much the tickets cost. Maybe.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"If This Is It," "Walkin' on a Thin Line," and "Jacob's Ladder" are pretty great.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
always liked "do you believe in love." (mutt lange!)
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
'power of love' is epic imo
― omar little, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
who are these people tbh
― Do you love me now? (surm), Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
do you believe in love, sports, power of love
― will, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
From I Love Vinyl What's On Your Turntable Now thread (where I just posted a picture of Picture This from '82):
that's the one w/ "Do You Believe in Love"? great song
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:42 PM (38 minutes ago)
"Workin' For A Livin'" and "Only One" (total hard-popping Lynott/ Boomtown Rats-style boys-on-the-street reminscence rock) are even better. And lots of Side One reminds me that Huey + News were marketed as a new wave powerpop band at first, and Huey's old band Clover backed up *My Aim Is True* -- very audible early Joe Jackson influence.
― xhuxk, Sunday, May 30, 2010 9:19 PM (2 minutes ago)
Really need to find a cheap copy of the debut LP one of these days (1980, didn't chart at all - and they look very Boomtown Rats on the cover of that one, iirc.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 31 May 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no pleats?
― kumar the bavarian, Monday, 31 May 2010 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
That's the one with the most nihlistic news song of them all, Who Cares.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 31 May 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i like their new wave-y first album, esp. "Some of My Lies Are True". and almost all those big hits are great.― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:45 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
am i still the only person around here that fucks real heavy with early News?
― Christina NAGLera (some dude), Monday, 31 May 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
all this time, i thought that picture this was their first record. of course, i knew about clover (and the elvis costello connection).
picture this sounds pretty new wavey to my ears, anyway.
― Aspergers Makes My Pee Smell Funny (Eisbaer), Monday, 31 May 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― omar little, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:52 (10 months ago)
― Cunga, Monday, 31 May 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
would ppl vote in a Sports poll
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
I think I may have imprinted on "Bad Is Bad" when I was young
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Only if the poll allows us to vote once for each track.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ gets it
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
That's some quality music writing right there.
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
can't believe I didn't post the factoid about CA Governor Gavin "when he was mayor of SF and a toady to corporate interests, we all compared him to Patrick Bateman, because the hair ffs" Newsom hanging with Huey Lewis at a wedding to this thread.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
'But the News' chart-topping sound has never been considered particularly hip -- until now.'
I wish someone had alerted me when this happened.
― Liberals are insane in the mimbrain!!! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
Another guest musician, Bruce Hornsby, brings zydeco-style accordion riffs to "Old Antone's," a party tune straight from New Orleans' French Quarter sung by Lewis in fractured Franglais.
nb in this video huey lewis is only 39 years old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYZBEaBVsU
― adam, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
He came out 39 when he was born
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
LOL, was gonna say
― Liberals are insane in the mimbrain!!! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
I hope their fans were able to keep up with the boundary-pushing foray into exotic global rhythms evidenced on that track.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
It's Hip To Be Ska
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
My brother works at Universal and they do shows for their Mardi Gras festival. He performed one year, and my brother was assigned to help escort them to the stage, then watched the show.
Tickets to these things come with your Universal ticket so not everybody at the show gives a fuck
He apparently was belligerent throughout the show, complaining that the crowd was too quiet and that they needed to be more excited
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Small World; a New Jersey surely?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
I don't think so -- it definitely wasn't bigger than (or, for that matter, nearly as big as) the albums that preceded it. Didn't even make the top 10 in the US.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Fore! was the NJ.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
we settled this in the main thread or the poll, I think. In fact, Fore! is a charter member.
I'm trouble finding any other sources that describe any aspect of their music as 'funky' (as this article does twice).
Did you mean: "huey lewis" funny
― Liberals are insane in the mimbrain!!! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Funky in the “winkerbean” sense
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
Lol
― Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 August 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
hey remember when we all saw huey's funky winkerbean in short cuts
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 August 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
it hit me like a hammer!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 August 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Good profile:
Without warning, the beloved pop star lost his ability to hear amplified music. Now, from his remote Montana ranch, he's on a search for answers. https://t.co/DcR4E8VGX7— Esquire (@esquire) February 7, 2020
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 9 February 2020 06:53 (four years ago) link
That was great, thanks.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 February 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
these kinda slap tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCUL5fEpoNshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfBvZEyTYdIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQlZZFqiS8
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 February 2020 10:44 (four years ago) link
there's a line in one of his songs I can't stop thinking about
"I like the sound of breaking glass/And if you don't believe me, why did ya ask?"
WHAT DO YOU MEAN "why did ya ask??" it's your song!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link
His hearing loss seems to be in the news today. Not in the news, only on social media, is that a high school friend of mine found his wallet in the middle of the street in NYC and returned it to him.
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 August 2023 12:14 (eight months ago) link
'what's your wallet look like, Mr Lewis''it's hip and be square'
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 August 2023 13:09 (eight months ago) link
A+
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 6 August 2023 13:38 (eight months ago) link
More like something about Times Square
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 August 2023 16:38 (eight months ago) link
They both were on their way to Broadway shows
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 August 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
this is pretty funky, a tad little feat maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ndpjH2D_Q
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 August 2023 21:26 (eight months ago) link
love seeing pedal steel in non-country contexts
What the what
https://www.theatermania.com/news/huey-lewis-musical-the-heart-of-rock-and-roll-announces-broadway-run_1719505/
With chart-topping songs such as “Hip to Be Square,” “Do You Believe in Love,” “Workin’ for a Livin’,” and “The Power of Love,” the musical follows a former rock singer who has traded in his guitar for a stable job in corporate America. He’s on the verge of closing the ultimate business deal and winning the girl of his dreams (who’s also the CEO’s daughter) — that is, if he doesn’t jeopardize everything by reuniting with his band for another shot at rock-and-roll glory.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 22:13 (five months ago) link
Stephen Lynch is already calling his agent
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:13 (five months ago) link
Found out about that when a high school classmate of mine found a wallet in the theater district, figured out it was his and returned it to him.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 November 2023 00:19 (five months ago) link
I’m not surprised about the Broadway musical. If Billy Joel has enough big songs to carry a show like this then so does Huey.
― o. nate, Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:23 (five months ago) link