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Huey Lewis: Best Song (1 Viewer)

Huey Lewis

  • Do You Believe In Love

    Votes: 12 10.8%

  • Hip To Be Square

    Votes: 4 3.6%

  • I Want A New Drug

    Votes: 12 10.8%

  • Heart And Soul

    Votes: 18 16.2%

  • The Power Of Love

    Votes: 16 14.4%

  • Walking On A Thin Line

    Votes: 11 9.9%

  • If This Is it

    Votes: 8 7.2%

  • Stuck With You

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • Jacob's Ladder

    Votes: 5 4.5%

  • Doing It All For My Baby

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Working For A Living

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • The Heart Of Rock And Roll

    Votes: 12 10.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 7.2%
  • Total voters
    111
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Tough call.. Ended up going with Working For A Living..

Stuck with you is a classic..

We thought about breaking up
But now we know it's much too late.. 

I am happy to be stuck with you :lol:  

 
Doug B said:
There were Huey Lewis and The News albums released  in 2010 and 2020.  Not sure how much of the 80s lineup was still around for those — gotta check.
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HL & the News were a six-piece lineup throughout the 80s & 90s with no changes in membership. After a hiatus. in 2000 they hired a new bassist and lead guitarist.

So for their 2020 album, four of the original band were still together — Lewis on vox plus their drummer, keyboardist, and rhythm guitarist.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Went with Jacob's Ladder just barely over Walking On A Thin Line and Hip To Be Square.

It really is a good list of hits.
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Listen closely to the lyrics of Walking On a Thin Line.

Had 2 uncles in the Vietnam war.  One was killed, the other came home a mess and is still screwed up.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Went with Jacob's Ladder just barely over Walking On A Thin Line and Hip To Be Square.

It really is a good list of hits.
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Went with Walking on a thin line over Jacobs Ladder but there are probably 6 songs that I like pretty much equally.   I have liked HL since that Sports album came out in the 80s.  It wasn’t really heavy enough for me but it was fun rock and roll and I still throw on that album occasionally.   

Loving these music threads.  

 
About 2 years ago when was scrolling through music while at the beach, looking for a good soundtrack for the day. Huey Lewis song comes on, so i pulled up the album, then the essentials playlist. I grew up in the 80s, loved the songs and videos, but looking back I didn’t realize how dominant that string of albums was. So many strong tracks. What a run!

oh, and it’s Walking in a Thin Line for me. Today. Ask me tomorrow, i could pick any other song with full confidence.

 
One of our local radio stations replays Casey Kasum's Top 40s on the weekends and I enjoy tuning in when I'm out running errands.  Fun to relive those times and hear old songs I'd forgotten about.  

One of those songs I'd forgotten about was Jacob's Ladder, which Kasum teed up with a great backstory about Huey Lewis.  What a prolific star of the 80s - he had so many damn hits that a great song like Jacob's Ladder kinda gets lost in all his more celebrated tracks.  

Good thread.  Not sure how to vote.  

 
Heart and Soul 

Huey was a punk rocker that figured out it was never going to pay the bills. I'm glad he did. The songs on Sports brings me back to a younger time. 

 
Wait, he had more than one hit song? Back then I thought it was a single tune on the charts for about 5 years. Not a lot of variance according to my unsophisticated ear.

I believe Jacob's Ladder was written by Bruce Hornsby. 

Thanks for the trip, OP.

 
Walking On A Thin Line for me.

First song of Side B on the Sports cassette. And at age 9, age 10, I wore that side out constantly. Your "fake MTV fans" only knew the songs from Side A, but us real Huey Lewis fans, listened to the deeper lyrics on Side B. I remember thinking that the Vietnam War was so long ago and it was weird for a young band to have a song about it. Didn't have the math skills and Wikipedia knowledge to know that Lewis was a grown man during most of the conflict.

 
General Malaise said:
One of our local radio stations replays Casey Kasum's Top 40s on the weekends and I enjoy tuning in when I'm out running errands.  Fun to relive those times and hear old songs I'd forgotten about.  

One of those songs I'd forgotten about was Jacob's Ladder, which Kasum teed up with a great backstory about Huey Lewis.  What a prolific star of the 80s - he had so many damn hits that a great song like Jacob's Ladder kinda gets lost in all his more celebrated tracks.  

Good thread.  Not sure how to vote.  
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That song was written by Bruce Hornsby.

 
General Malaise said:
One of our local radio stations replays Casey Kasum's Top 40s on the weekends and I enjoy tuning in when I'm out running errands.  Fun to relive those times and hear old songs I'd forgotten about.  

One of those songs I'd forgotten about was Jacob's Ladder, which Kasum teed up with a great backstory about Huey Lewis.  What a prolific star of the 80s - he had so many damn hits that a great song like Jacob's Ladder kinda gets lost in all his more celebrated tracks.  

Good thread.  Not sure how to vote.  
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Vote with your heart.  

 
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Doug B said:
TIL that “Heart and Soul” was a cover. Instrumentation on the original was solid, but the tune really benefited from Lewis’ gravelly vocals.
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You may also enjoy learning that "Do You Believe In Love" was also a cover.
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One of the few bands that could knock it out of the park with their own records or doing covers. "Four Chords & Several Years Ago" is in the conversation of one of their best albums, among an album catalogue of homeruns.

 
Rattle and Hum said:
Wait, he had more than one hit song?
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Go ahead and be glib, but he had 5 consecutive albums in a 10 year span that all certified either Gold, Platinum, or Multi-platinum. If you use "Top 10" as the definition of a hit song, he (and the band) had 12, including 3 that reached #1 (plus another with "Cruisin'", Huey's duet with Gwyneth Paltrow; in addition to original albums and cover albums, movie soundtracks were also in his wheelhouse.) 

I've been a fan since the early 80's as a 9yo just getting into "music" when I got an Emerson radio/cassette player for Christmas in 1983 and used a fake name to get 8 cassettes for a penny from Columbia House (2 being "Picture This" and "Sports".)

Been to see them in concert multiple times and in 2015 my wife saw they were going to be nearby at a mid-size/2500-seat venue and was going to surprise me with tickets for my birthday. She found out when the tickets went on sale and figured she would grab some tickets sometime that week. No rush, they're just a cheesy 80's one-hit wonder band with a bunch of old dudes. She checked for tickets the day after the on-sale date and they were sold out and she couldn't believe it. Never underestimate Huey Lewis and the News!!  :lol:

 
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Pretty interesting for a band that has been playing for over 40 years, have had very few lineup changes. Went down a Google rabbit hole last night on Chris Hayes, the lead guitarist from 1979-2001, who just walked away, with no bad feelings. Just wanted to be a family guy. Plays small jazz/fusion sessions at local SF breweries and stuff like that. Sounds like a nice life and a good story.

 
I think my personal favorite is Jacob's Ladder but that may just be because I've heard Power of Love so many times that it's a little played out but Power of Love is probably the right answer.  Great song and just took off to the stratosphere with Back to the Future and I think it also benefits from the association in my head.

 
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Top 5 Huey Lewis Hits that I loathe/despise/would like to never hear again.

1.  Hip to be Square

2.  Stuck with You

3.  If this is it

4.  Doing It all for my baby

5.  Working for a Living

 
Top 5 Huey Lewis Bangers/All Time Classics...turn that #### up

1.  Heart and Soul

2.  I Want a New Drug

3.  Walking on a Thin Line

4.  Do You Believe in Love

5.  Jacob's Ladder

 
zamboni said:
That is Mutt on vocals. He was definitely better behind the controls though. And for his choice in spouses.
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Oh ... I never knew he performed lead vocals on anything. Interesting. He's all right ... not being Huey Lewis is no shame.

EDIT: Just learned, too, that Lewis did the lyrical revisions for "Do You Believe in Love", not Lange.

 
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