Huey Lewis: Why does he exist?

his contemporary equivalent would be third eye blind.

yeah, but they're already forgotten (yeah, yeah, they have a new album, I know, anyone hear it? I thought not!) Huey managed to become a bit of a decade icon, which Stephen Jenkins (Mr.3EB) did not.

Also, Third Eye Blind didn't have a fraction of the hits Huey did, I mean Sports and Fore! are probably both over 10 million sold, and he basically had hits in the top 10 for what seemed like about 4 years nonstop....

Also, he exists because American Psycho would not have been the same without him.

Was a time I was convinced Huey Lewis existed merely for the news.
If he still exists, he isn't dead yet. Can't be more complicated than that.

Major League Baseball cares, that's who.

:-)

Japan
Location:
Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula
Geographic coordinates:
36 00 N, 138 00 E
Map references:
Asia
Area:
total: 377,835 sq km
note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
water: 3,091 sq km
land: 374,744 sq km
Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than California
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
29,751 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 NM
territorial sea: 12 NM; between 3 NM and 12 NM in the international straits - La Perouse or Soya, Tsugaru, Osumi, and Eastern and Western Channels of the Korea or Tsushima Strait
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
Climate:
varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north
Terrain:
mostly rugged and mountainous
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Hachiro-gata -4 m
highest point: Fujiyama 3,776 m
Natural resources:
negligible mineral resources, fish
Land use:
arable land: 12%
permanent crops: 1%
other: 87% (1998 est.)
Irrigated land:
26,790 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards:
many dormant and some active volcanoes; about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors) every year; tsunamis; typhoons
Environment - current issues:
air pollution from power plant emissions results in acid rain; acidification of lakes and reservoirs degrading water quality and threatening aquatic life; Japan is one of the largest consumers of fish and tropical timber, contributing to the depletion of these resources in Asia and elsewhere
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol
Geography - note:
strategic location in northeast Asia

# of non-US Baseball Players and country of origin

Dominican Republic (340)
Puerto Rico (206)
Canada (195)
Cuba (148)
Venezuela (144)
Mexico (90)
Panama (43)
Ireland (38)
England (32)
Germany (29)
Japan (23)
Australia (15)
South Korea (8)
...
Norway (3): John "Fragile" Anderson, Art "Psalm 69" Jorgens, Jimmy "Last Splash" Wiggs
...

is that enough melody and rhythm for you, hongro?

original question posted here has never been effectively answered.

I saw this video again for the first time in 30 years and realized exactly how much I dislike him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaXTcR4dtE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaXTcR4dtE

I saw this video again for the first time in 30 years and realized exactly how much I dislike him

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, March 10, 2014

why do you hate fun?

Go and listen to the Sports album. If that doesn't answer your question, then time to move on.

i still dig the songs... i just hate watching him mugging all over the camera always always always

the Lemon Demon remix of The Power of Love is freakin' incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-n3n1tmtU

I go back and reread from time to time when I'm having a bad day. It's easily one of the most endearing pieces I've ever read.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-08-03/music/a-very-special-concert/

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/huey-lewis-news-bmg-signed-1203112700/

I assume from the picture that he's been cryogenically frozen since then.

Huey's big dick energy keeps him young

xpost I thought that too and then noticed the ad for Pineapple Express behind him.

For some reason this was very disappointing to me.

Just heard “back in time” in a Korean grocery store

Okay, this '80s revivalism shit really needs to stop.

I think I can answer the original question. I was in kid in the bay area, in the 80s, and my dad grew up in San Francisco. He worked for public transit, and bay-area blue collar boomers LOVED Huey Lewis.

A bay area native, he was the antithesis of the famous San Francisco counter-culture: super hetero, non-rebellious, non-bohemian.

Although NYC's counter-culture is also world-famous, so is its hard-hat culture, of "working Joes" who see themselves as the backbone of the city, keeping everything running. However, there is (or was) a similar culture in San Francisco and around the bay, and their heroes were The Bash Brothers, Journey, and Huey Lewis.

My dad was part of the counter-culture in the 60s, dodging the draft, living on the beach and following The Grateful Dead; but in the 80s, he was driving a bus, throwing newspapers and listening to Huey Lewis and the News.

I don't care for Huey Lewis' records much, except for Heart and Soul, which is a great song with an endearing video. Walk the Moon, eat your heart out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TdaXhpjHws

7-8 years ago I got the "Sports" tape stuck in my car and the radio didn't work so I spent effectively an entire summer listening to it, his music is engrained in my soul

Same thing happened to me in 1993, except it was Rollins Band. You were lucky.

Sports is a perfectly defensible anthem, and although Fore! is a textbook example of a New Jersey I could count on him for a chugga-chugga single through 1991's "It Hit Me Like a Hammer."

https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/a-very-special-concert/Content?oid=2157069

I unironically love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CscPTI8fwA

"'I love you, Huey' was the note I read
But there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed" is fantastic.