Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
#157
September 15, 1983
Huey Lewis and the News
Sports
4.75 out of 5 (I might be wrong. It might be a 5. I can't tell if the singles are great or if I was just beaten down over the years)
Highlights:
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Heart and Soul
Bad is Bad
I Want a New Drug
If This is It
You Crack Me Up
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Heart and Soul
Bad is Bad
I Want a New Drug
If This is It
You Crack Me Up
Here we go. Like Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man & David Bowie’s Let’s Dance earlier this year (and Springsteen’s Born in the USA and Michael Jackson’s Thriller earlier in the decade) Sports was a hit machine. Was it because the songs were that good or was America just starved for excellent pub rock?
When the “Heart of Rock and Roll” kicks in it’s Springsteen, the Asbury Jukes, John Cafferty, J. Geils and Bob Seger all wrapped up in an immensely catchy, toe tapping beer soaked pool-cue-as-microphone swirl that it’s impossible not to feel good.
“Heart and Soul” proved that Sweet/Knack/Blondie producers Chinn & Chapman were still cranking out classic sounds of the 70s and there should probably be some retrospective or at least plaque at the R&RHOF for them.
This is just a solid rock and roll record
When the “Heart of Rock and Roll” kicks in it’s Springsteen, the Asbury Jukes, John Cafferty, J. Geils and Bob Seger all wrapped up in an immensely catchy, toe tapping beer soaked pool-cue-as-microphone swirl that it’s impossible not to feel good.
“Heart and Soul” proved that Sweet/Knack/Blondie producers Chinn & Chapman were still cranking out classic sounds of the 70s and there should probably be some retrospective or at least plaque at the R&RHOF for them.
This is just a solid rock and roll record
Hey. Who knew that the News was Elvis Costello’s backing band on My Aim is True? No one? True story.
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