Review Summary: I'm sorry - you're just too darn loud.
In July 1985, when we first met Marty Mcfly and Dr Emmett Brown, they became our favourite time travellers as they went
Back To The Future, and with that came the cult status of the Huey Lewis and the News song, ‘The Power of Love’ as we watched Marty skate board behind ute’s (pick up trucks). While Huey Lewis and The News had been around for a while before the movies, the use of their song really shot them to stardom and gave the group recognition. With the release of the album
Sports after the first
Back To The Future movie Huey Lewis and The News had hit the big time, with four hit singles spawned off the album. Though unfortunately the rise of Huey Lewis and The News was also the fall, as they failed to back up the critically acclaimed
Sports, and further releases really could not conjure up anything new for the band.
‘The Heart Of Rock & Roll’ was the song that launched the hit parade from
Sports and did so with the classic synth fills, cheesy guitar solos and very blunt vocal delivery. Though it proved a winning formula as, ‘If This Is It’, ‘Heart and Soul’ and ‘I Want a New Drug’ also sky rocketed up the charts, as the sound was new to the 80’s revellers.
Arguably the most notable release by the band was the album
Fore! - which was released at the same time as the
Back To The Future trilogy - came in at number 1 on the Billboard charts. This was accomplished by the massive hit in ‘Hip To Be Square’ which gained a monumental following, falling in at number 1 for a long time. ‘Hip To Be Square’ followed a very upbeat vibe, very smooth saxophone work, and well placed guitar riffs, while also sending a message to those people who thought of them self’s “out of touch”. Also featuring on
Fore! was of course, the massive hit
The Power of Love. The track was the epitome of catchy, and made everybody want a DeLorean. Like on
Sports Huey Lewis and the News stuck to their incredibly fool proof formula of catchy synth lines, basic guitar riffs, cheesy guitar solos and blunt in delivery vocals on
Fore!. But that was where the dream run ended for the band. Unfortunately songs like ‘Small World’ which featured on the same named album
Small World, the follow up to
Fore!, began the demise of the once untouchable band. The song writing formula proved boring and tiring and fans of the band wanted something new, and they couldn’t produce it.
As you listen through this greatest hits compilation, it becomes glaringly obvious that the bands hey-day really only came through two albums,
Sports and
Fore!. It also shows in the track listing as the majority of the hit singles from the aforementioned albums a spread quite evenly through this Greatest Hits albums, making the not quite as large singles from other albums not drag too much. If you really want a
Huey Lewis and The News Greatest Hits, just pick up
Fore! or
Sports as you head back to the past in DeLorean.
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