{"id":2992,"date":"2010-10-06T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:03:41","slug":"i-m-coming-around-to-huey-lewis-and-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-m-coming-around-to-huey-lewis-and-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS FLASH:  Huey Lewis &amp; the News Didn&#8217;t Suck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOJOSiek8WI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I know some of you will pick up what I&#8217;m about to lay down here: <em>Huey Lewis didn&#8217;t suck.<\/em> In fact, I&#8217;d say he was, on the whole, quite good for American popular music, in the same savior-of-AM-radio kind of way that Hall &amp; Oates were.  Not sure his hits were <em>quite<\/em> on the same level, but &#8212; come on &#8212; does &#8220;Heart &amp; Soul&#8221; suck?  How about &#8220;This Is It&#8221;?  Of course they don&#8217;t suck!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kA8iLIhzJpw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>In fact, I&#8217;d go further to say that HL&amp;tN had a run of pretty darn good singles, many of which did a good job breathing life &#8212; perhaps not stylistically &#8220;new&#8221; life, but real life &#8212; into some pretty moldy American music forms.  Dude played songs like &#8220;This Is It&#8221; straight &#8212; and that&#8217;s why the song doesn&#8217;t suck.  Compare to &#8220;Uptown Girl,&#8221; a similar kind of retro-vibed track by Billy Joel.  In Joel&#8217;s hands, this kind of faux-&#8217;50s number really grates. But when Huey gets his hands on the stuff, he doesn&#8217;t play-act; he just sings.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, I guess I&#8217;ve entered a phase where some formerly overplayed pop music is starting to come around for me.  I&#8217;ve come to realize that the reasons why we like songs eventually surpass the reasons why we grew sick of them &#8212; and Huey Lewis made some of that kind of music.  I&#8217;m still not sure I&#8217;m ready to download <em>Sports<\/em>, or whatever that &#8217;80s Everyman album of his was called &#8212; but I was sure happy to hear &#8220;Heart &amp; Soul&#8221; coming through the speakers at the cheese store today.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the simple pleasures of life.  Here&#8217;s to Huey Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know some of you will pick up what I&#8217;m about to lay down here: Huey Lewis didn&#8217;t suck. In fact, I&#8217;d say he was, on the whole, quite good for American popular music, in the same savior-of-AM-radio kind of way that Hall &amp; Oates were. Not sure his hits were quite on the same <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-m-coming-around-to-huey-lewis-and-the-news\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[332,337,336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}