Heart of Rock and Roll - Most Sterile Recording Ever

[TapeOpLarry]

Huey Lewis and the bad News....

The heart of rock and roll isn't beating for that crap.

[trashy]

yeah, here are my covers of said song:

http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/tra ... yahoo.com/


whilst dissecting it I became convinced that it may be the worst song ever. It's over five minutes long and it has both a sax and a harmonica solo.

[ubertar]

What cracked me up when that song came out is that it's not a rock song.

[b3groover]

The coolest thing about Huey Lewis/News is that Tower of Power's horn section backed the band. Just my opinion, of course.

Surely the coolest thing about Huey Lewis and the News is that they broke up.

Least i hope they did. Either way we don't seem to hear them much these days, so i'd still be happy with that.

They did not break up. I did video production on a corporate gig two years ago and they played the after party for all the guests. I will say this... the band is tight. And the keyboardist had a real B3 up there (in beautiful shape, too), so he has that going for him.



They were better than Kenny Rogers, who also played that gig... believe me.

Where's that puking smiley?

[jimmyjazz]

Hey, I'll cop to the ownership of MORE than one HL&tN records. I'm not proud.

Those boys could play. They were definitely "safe", but they could play.

Minor quibble: it was Huey's previous band called Clover that backed young Declan McManus on his debut album. Several of the members of Clover eventually helped form "the News". I don't think Huey is on the record, though.

[Roboburger]

instant cred for huey et al....

they were (basically) the backing band on Elvis Costello's first record. I no shittie shittie you.

I admire them more and more as I get older and fatter. I remember them being really popular, selling a gajillion records but never really hearing anything about them, like they kept their lives private some how. Or maybe they were just boring dolts that the press didn't really wanna cover. I dunno, I was 12.

Will

Not quite right.. The only HL&N and My Aim Is True common person is Sean Hopper on keyboards and BGV. Huey wasn't there, and the other backing people were from the band Clover that Huey only played harmonica and sang infrequently with. it was later that Huey got back to LA and merged him and Sean with the other band that gave us the Classic Huey Lewis & The News Jauggernaut. John McFee (guitars on MAIT) did go on to become a Doobie Brother.

God, I love how awful HL&N songs are.

[TrumpsHair]

Remember that first video of his in the 80's. The one where he was washing his face and the camera showed his face under the water? That was a pretty cool song, if I remember correctly. What was it? Oh yeah, then he got into an old Porsche, I think, and went after some babe.
...Or maybe I just dreamed the whole thing. Who were we talking about again?

[Mr. Dipity]

My brother is a hard-core stoner and while rolling joints offered a drag to HL who ignored him. The minions took my brother aside and got him coked up in the room with HL and then left him alone. An hour later one of the minions approached my brother sitting on the couch and with total seriousness and imperiousness said "Hugh will get stoned now," meaning that my brother should provide a joint.

/sigh/

I want minions to take care of my drugging for me.

[Bad Halen]

That story about "hugh will get stoned now" is the shit.

There should be a whole thread dedicated to weird/hilarious celebrity interactions.

Anyone?

[JASIII]

That story about "hugh will get stoned now" is the shit.

There should be a whole thread dedicated to weird/hilarious celebrity interactions.

Anyone?

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopi ... thread[url][/url]

[Phil Owl]

Wow - I have to learn this tune for a gig tomorrow night. Huey Lewis was slightly before my time, so I just remember rocking out to Power of Love on my neighbor's Back to the Future soundtrack and a video in a red suit.

Listening to it again years later...wow, this track is lifeless. It doesn't sound like the heart of rock and roll (despite the helpful heartbeat sample). It sounds like the inside of a gloomy LA recording studio where everybody's tired after the tour. Yikes.

Mr. Lewis isn't even singing it for real - he's emphasizing weird, random syllables.

And the song doesn't even rock. It SHOULD - but it just doesn't quite get there.

Oh well, we'll add the special sauce tomorrow night. Zing!

(and don't get me started on the lyrics - "the other one's barely bleeding"? The other what? The other heart? There are two hearts in this song? You mean like a Klingon? What the heck's going on?!)

Definitely STERILE and LIFELESS!! This song epitomises why I wanted SOOO BAD to hibernate through the 80's! With few exceptions, NEARLY EVERYTHING that came out from about 1983 on sounded sterile and preocessed! The major labels were so paranoid and uptight about having hits and trying to calculate EXACTLY what people would like that things like this were the inevitable result.


My name for them was Huey Lewis and The SNOOZE!

[llmonty]

Remember that first video of his in the 80's. The one where he was washing his face and the camera showed his face under the water? That was a pretty cool song, if I remember correctly. What was it? Oh yeah, then he got into an old Porsche, I think, and went after some babe.
...Or maybe I just dreamed the whole thing. Who were we talking about again?

i wanna new drug one that won't make me sick

[Ivon]

For boring, sterile 80s corporate rock, this Huey Luey thread is getting quite a lot of responses. Who'da thunk it?