Defend the indefensible: Huey Lewis and the News

You should see more movies....

also, I thought it was cute and fun.

Betcha he refers to it as "Baby Huey"!

I'd still rather listen to 10 Hall & Oates songs than 1 Huey Lewis & The News though ...

_Sports_ is a stone-cold classic album all the way around. Also "Back To The Future"!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry),

HI DERE otm!

"If This Is It" gives me a lot of emotions.

They are playing in my town pretty soon and I have considered thinking about maybe seeing how much the tickets cost. Maybe.

"If This Is It," "Walkin' on a Thin Line," and "Jacob's Ladder" are pretty great.

always liked "do you believe in love." (mutt lange!)

'power of love' is epic imo

who are these people tbh

do you believe in love, sports, power of love

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.)

no pleats?

That's the one with the most nihlistic news song of them all, Who Cares.

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?

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.

'power of love' is epic imo

― omar little, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:52 (10 months ago)

would ppl vote in a Sports poll

I think I may have imprinted on "Bad Is Bad" when I was young

Only if the poll allows us to vote once for each track.

^^^ gets it

Won said album from a radio station back in 1984 or whatever. It has mostly dissolved in the memory.

Sports was huge for me at the time. Still holds up to these ears.

the sax work in "I Want A New Drug" is so straightforward but great, used to sing that shit constantly

I knew a guy who was in the "If This Is It" video

true story

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.

I wanna see that poll, I wanna vote in that poll, and I want to see the results

These guys are as crucial to Back to the Future as Badilamienti is to Lynch.

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.

Chapman/Chinn I should say. You got that poll up fast.

done and done: Huey Lewis and the News: SPORTS (a poll_

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?

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

and all you assholes would probably vote for it

thanks for the info!

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e3662085fb/american-psycho-with-huey-lewis-and-weird-al

Huey's appearance on WTF is actually pretty good, and clued me in to the fact that the first thing he and The News ever recorded was done as a joke that a record label actually ended up liking. I bring you Exodisco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vut4dxua9wo

hey remember when we all saw huey's funky winkerbean in short cuts

it hit me like a hammer!

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

That was great, thanks.

these kinda slap tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCUL5fEpoNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfBvZEyTYdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQlZZFqiS8

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!!

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.

'what's your wallet look like, Mr Lewis'
'it's hip and be square'

A+

More like something about Times Square

They both were on their way to Broadway shows

this is pretty funky, a tad little feat maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ndpjH2D_Q

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.

Stephen Lynch is already calling his agent

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.

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.