― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
Won said album from a radio station back in 1984 or whatever. It has mostly dissolved in the memory.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Sports was huge for me at the time. Still holds up to these ears.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
the sax work in "I Want A New Drug" is so straightforward but great, used to sing that shit constantly
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
I knew a guy who was in the "If This Is It" video
true story
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
You should make that poll. Sports is a classic (really!) That was, for a while, the ONLY cassette I owned when I drove a van with a broken antenna for a utility company and I didn't really get sick of it. My co-workers sure as hell did though.
― frogbs, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
I wanna see that poll, I wanna vote in that poll, and I want to see the results
― frogbs, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
These guys are as crucial to Back to the Future as Badilamienti is to Lynch.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
My totally conventional take is: relatively non-toxic, bland stuff. But I do really like "Heart and Soul". Which is by Mike Chapman so it all makes sense.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Chapman/Chinn I should say. You got that poll up fast.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
done and done: Huey Lewis and the News: SPORTS (a poll_
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
A ILM formatting question: As I'm in the presence of somebody who actually knows how to do this, on "New Poll" in the section "I Love Music Poll Options: Enter all options, delimited by new lines" --- what are "new lines"? Does that mean just hit the return key to put different options on different lines, or do you type some kind of lines between the options?
― Vic Perry, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
It just means "hit return"basically, if you took this post as an example, it would have 4 poll options
the third one would be blank
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
we settled this in the main thread or the poll, I think. In fact, Fore! is a charter member.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
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