Rank Huey Lewis and the News’ Hit Songs (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Blue Sky]

For those of you old enough to remember the decade of the 1980s, Huey Lewis and the News’ songs were played incessantly on FM radio.. Now that we have a little distance from that era and are able to look back, here are my ‘ratings’:



Like:

Power of Love
Heart and Soul
Do You Believe in Love
If This Is It



Okay:

Heart of Rock n Roll
I Want A New Drug
Doing It All for my Baby



Cant Stand:

Hip to Be Square
Happy to be Stuck with You
Jacob’s Ladder


What say you?

 

[gavinj]

On a scale from terrible to bad, I rate them all ‘yes’

 

[literature]

really think If This Is It is the best one

 

[antipop]

You wouldn’t happen to be wearing a raincoat?

 

[Zaphod]

Top 3: Do You Believe in Love, If This Is It, and the Power of Love

Honorable Mention: Back in Time (just because Back to the Future)

 

[Charlie Brizzown]

1. Stuck with you
2. If this is it

then the rest of the songs are ranked the same for me.

 

[Bill]

I have no problem with their songs. I like most of their songs from their 'Sports' album. I even gave a chuckle at 'Bad is Bad'.

I think that the music video era did a lot to get people into their stuff because they looked like a happy, upstanding bunch of guys in every one of their music videos.
But like most music, you just have to be in the right mood when listening to their songs. And the fact that the radio stations were force feeding us Huey Lewis songs made that hard to do sometimes.

I used to make some continuous play audio cassettes for parties and such back then, and I always sprinkled in a few of their songs because a lot of what they produced simply represented 'good times'. And as background music, no one ever had a problem with that. I found most of their stuff to be in the 'Good to Okay' range of music listen-ability.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Only a sociopath would do that

 

[rob22278]

This thread makes me think of Christian Bale and American Psycho.

 

[BigSlick]

I went to download Sports or Fore in Spotify, suggestions profile be damned, and I had a visceral reaction which prevented my adding them. I think that Huey Lewis was so ever present on both FM radio (KSMB) and a fledgling MTV when I was a kid, that my brain sort of responds with a "No, I'm fine, thanks" when I go to listen.

 

[Zack Lee]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I went to download Sports or Fore in Spotify, suggestions profile be damned, and I had a visceral reaction which prevented my adding them. I think that Huey Lewis was so ever present on both FM radio (KSMB) and a fledgling MTV when I was a kid, that my brain sort of responds with a "No, I'm fine, thanks" when I go to listen.

Similar to most of post-Genesis Phil Collins
So ubiquitous that it became musical wallpaper

 

[superchuck500]

Quality - Not Annoying to Listen to:

Power of Love
Do You Believe in Love
Heart and Soul

Decent - Okay to listen to once a year:

Heart of Rock and Roll
If This Is It
Walking on a Thin Line
New Drug (only because it reminds me of Ghostbusters)
Jacob's Ladder

No Thanks:

Stuck with You
Hip to Be Square

 

[superchuck500]

Yeah, for the most part.

But HL&tN were wildly successful. More than 30 million albums sold, 12 top 10 singles, three #1s. Creedence never had a number 1.

 

[Zack Lee]

New Drug

some songs, you can never actually hear them correct again once you have heard a parody. "One that goes quack quack!"