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The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Do You Believe in Love

3 votes

Heart and Soul

0 votes

I Want a New Drug

4 votes

The Heart of Rock & Roll

3 votes

If This Is It

1 votes

The Power of Love

2 votes

Stuck with You

0 votes

Hip to Be Square

0 votes

Jacob's Ladder

3 votes

Doing It All for My Baby

0 votes

Perfect World

1 votes

TransMonk Jun 15 2011 06:21 PM

I think in all of the years of doing this that these guys have had to have come up before, but...if it has, maybe minds have changed since then, so... Which one of these Huey Lewis & the News songs would you most like to be stuck with on a desert island? In other news...some of these videos are pretty hilarious. [youtube:2hpvsg7m]BzIbyDbmsyg[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]8TdaXhpjHws[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]N6uEMOeDZsA[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]M7JVlpm0eRs[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]AaTQAaJWW54[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]kOu8x1gqW3c[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]J08ZwySCoJ8[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]LB5YkmjalDg[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]Z02LHM1kROM[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]lpdZvewjwJs[/youtube:2hpvsg7m] [youtube:2hpvsg7m]WIkOVe0MF1k[/youtube:2hpvsg7m]

metirish Jun 15 2011 06:32 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Do You Believe in Love great pop song , love the melody here and the "Do you believe in love " verse... I have a soft spot of Huey , he was a friend of Phil Lynott's and featured on "Live & Dangerous" playing the harmonica, he also played on Lynott's solo albums, covered "Giving It All Up for Love" on his Picture This album.

themetfairy Jun 15 2011 06:50 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I also went with Do You Believe In Love. It was a tough choice - D-Dad and I enjoy Huey & The News and have seen them in concert a couple of times. For the most part I enjoy their songs more or less equally, but IMO DYBIL stands out from the pack a little.

cooby Jun 15 2011 07:53 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I really love this band. Hard to choose between If this Is It (the video looks stupid though) and Do You Believe in Love? I think it's gonna be Do you believe in love though. Wee ooo wee oo wee oo.

Willets Point Jun 15 2011 08:12 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I'm afraid they're just too darn loud.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 15 2011 09:07 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Willets Point wrote: I'm afraid they're just too darn loud. Reminds me: is "Back In Time" an option? I don't recall if we've done this group before. I was trying to think of them having had another single off that first album but I can't remember it. I suppose I could look it up.

seawolf17 Jun 15 2011 09:33 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

They have a startling number of excellent tunes. I'm going off grid with the a capella "It's Alright." [youtube:29w10zln]qahe5lVnY2M[/youtube:29w10zln]

Edgy MD Jun 15 2011 11:39 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Huey/News singles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Lewis ... hy#Singles It seemed like once they got a formulaic vein, they hammered at it. They had an early power pop thing exemplified by "Sooner or Later," but it wasn't working. But the nu wave beat they found on Sports was a vein of gold. When they finally shucked that for the retro-doo-wop, it was boring. Being that Huey presented himself as a winking self-aware nerd, that might've been a fun play for a track or two, but as the nu sound of the band, everything just started out as assembly line items. I went for "Jacob's Ladder." I could have also pulled a switch for "Walkin' on a Thin Line" or "Back in Time."

metsguyinmichigan Jun 16 2011 04:34 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Went with "Perfect World," but my fave News song is "Couple Days Off." Huey and the boys played here in Grand Rapids last week.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 16 2011 06:22 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I knew that the News once backed Elvis Costello but did not know that Huey Lewis was once Thin Lizzy's harmonica player. I also didn't know that DYBIL was written by producer Mutt Lange. Thanks Wikipedia! I always felt like Huey was trying too hard to be liked by everyone, doing the city-by-city shout-outs in "Heart of Rock n Roll" and total shiite like "Doin it All for My Baby" knowing that it would be a smash as awful as it was. On the other hand, props to Huey for hanging in there all those years. I liked whoever was playing guitar in "Power of Love" and "New Drug."

TransMonk Jun 16 2011 06:37 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

You can choose "Back In Time" if you want. HLATN had a lot of singles. Hard for me to narrow down to a dozen or so.

TransMonk Jun 16 2011 07:10 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I was obsessed with Huey Lewis & the News when I was eight years old. I had their first three albums on cassette and wore them out. My first real arena concert was Huey Lewis in Springfiled, IL in 1984. I have a very hard time picking my favorite of any before the Back to the Future songs. I lost touch with the band after that. Gun to my head, I pick "The Heart of Rock and Roll", but I would be happy with any off of the their first three records.

Edgy MD Jun 16 2011 07:16 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I had pretty much forgotten about this 1980 non-smash/non-breakthrough song and forgotten it was Huey to the extent that I remembered it at all. Textbook early video-era nu wave in captivity. It's got that "My Sharona" tip where the guitar solo is written on a progression that isn't from any other part of the song and almost sounds like they're segueing into the germ of a whole new song. [youtube]E-OSaKGCsug[/youtube] Little known fact: Huey Lewis can be an early sign of pregnancy. Do you find yourself staying up late watching clips from Sports on YouTube? Do you inexplicably find yourself swinging by Video Americain and coming home with Back to the Future, Short Cuts, and Duets? Talk to your Ob/Gyn. You could be expecting!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 16 2011 08:21 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I should mention that I hated "I Want a New Drug" because I thought the same territory was covered better (and only a year or so earlier) by another soul/R&B-flavored White Guy fronting a "& the" band: [youtube:37cacvvk]15mZrQ_r1KY[/youtube:37cacvvk]

metirish Jun 16 2011 08:34 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I knew that the News once backed Elvis Costello but did not know that Huey Lewis was once Thin Lizzy's harmonica player. I also didn't know that DYBIL was written by producer Mutt Lange. Thanks Wikipedia! Phil Lynott with Clover , that's Huey top left, Clover backed Elvis Costello on his debut.

A Boy Named Seo Jun 16 2011 08:53 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

TransMonk wrote: I was obsessed with Huey Lewis & the News when I was eight years old. I had their first three albums on cassette and wore them out. My first real arena concert was Huey Lewis in Springfiled, IL in 1984. I have a very hard time picking my favorite of any before the Back to the Future songs. I lost touch with the band after that. Gun to my head, I pick "The Heart of Rock and Roll", but I would be happy with any off of the their first three records. Exactly the same for me. Surprised to look at these songs and remember how much I loved the shit out of Huey Lewis & the News as a youngin. 9-year old me disagrees vehemently with JCL & thinks 'I Want a New Drug' was radical.

Rockin' Doc Jun 16 2011 08:18 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Though I was considerably more that 8 or 9 years old at the time, I still loved the "Sports" album back in the day. "Fore" was pretty good as well, but I felt like they lost their way with "Small World". I like numerous cuts of theirs, but I decided to go off the board and vote for "Walkin' On A Thin Line".

Frayed Knot Jun 16 2011 08:25 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

I saw Clover as the opening-opening act a whole buncha years ago. I believe it was Clover leading into Bob Welch leading into Dave Mason. I remember nothing about them.

dgwphotography Jun 17 2011 07:31 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

seawolf17 wrote: They have a startling number of excellent tunes. I'm going off grid with the a capella "It's Alright." [youtube]qahe5lVnY2M[/youtube] and I thought I was going to be original here. This is my favorite, too... The Mrs. and I love, love, love HLN. They have always put on a great show whenever we've seen them. These were from a show at the Oakdale Musical Theater in 1995, a few days after Jerry Garcia died. They did their usual set, two encores, and then came out and asked if we didn't mind if they just jammed some Garcia tunes... Huey Lewis by dgwphotography, on Flickr Johnny Colla by dgwphotography, on Flickr Chris Hayes by dgwphotography, on Flickr Bill Gibson by dgwphotography, on Flickr

Edgy MD Mar 06 2012 07:33 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Just found out last week that "Jacob's Ladder" --- my choice in this poll --- was actually written by a not-yet-big-shot Bruce Hornsby, along with his brother John. Perhaps explains why I find it preferable. The "Jacob's Ladder" video above is an example how Johnny Colla used to drive me crazy by over-selling his otherwise understated solos by making the most intense orgasm faces.

Edgy MD Aug 16 2012 11:53 AM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Poll needs votes!

Fman99 Aug 16 2012 10:00 PM Re: The Desert Island...Film At Eleven

Also went with "Jacob's Ladder." Seems fresher in comparison to the stuff that got played to death during my formative years.