Huey Lewis

[Sandpiper]

Made some truly terrible music in the 1980s, including:

I Want a New Drug
The Heart of Rock and Roll
The Power of Love
Happy to be Stuck With You

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. I met him in passing a few months ago and he's an asshole.

[Swede]

2. I saw an interview with him.

He said something like "We were just in the right place at the right time and it just snowballed." Not to many celebrities have ever admitted that.

[hyphenate]

3. But I LIKE Huey Lewis!!!!!!

Huey Lewis and the News did pop hits. Just that: Pop hits. You can't really hate that of him. It was energetic and fun, and that was cool. Sorta like the old 50s hits on American Bandstand. Innocuous, no real message, but something that would make you happy humming for just a little while. I know the message is to make every song count, but I really think that the News was upbeat and gave back their selected audience exactly what they wanted, and that's not BAD.

[AlCzervik]

4. awful corporate rock, not that it was rock

[tonekat]

5. I think they actually play like, corporate parties now n/t

[AlCzervik]

8. They play Reno all the time, my friend always tries to get me to go

"I know it's not your thing"---no shit and no thanks.

[acmavm]

6. Only decent song was Walking on a Thin Line.

Hated his version of It's All Right. Sounded exactly like JJ Jackson's. Couldn't even tell them apart except for the very last line, something about 'cuts no ice'.

[Floogeldy]

7. I thought bashing rock singers was the purview of Limbaugh and Hannity?

I guess I was wrong.

Edit: Oh yea, and Michael Savage, too.

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[AlCzervik]

10. he's not a rock singer.

[Sandpiper]

13. Rock singers are people who offend conservatives

I don't think Huey Lewis ever offended anyone.


ROCK SINGER:




ROCK SINGER:




ROCK SINGER???????



Ummmm...no

[chaska]

9. I was in a band back then & had to play that awful shite. I still shudder.

[coloradodem2005]

11. It's pop music.

I enjoy his stuff. Though it isn't my favorite.

[njdemocrat106]

12. He's classic 80s pop/rock, that's all

BTW, the name of the last song on the list is just "Stuck with You", and it's one of my favorites by him :) .

[6000eliot]

14. But you can see his winkle

in the film 'Short Cuts." In case you want to.