Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?

Paul Allen: They're OK.

Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.

Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?

Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?

Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.

Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?

Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

[raises axe above head]

Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul!

[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]

Patrick Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!

Huey was great last week.

feed me a stray cat.

New York, New York is everything they say, and no place I'd rather be. Where else can you do a half a million things, all at a quarter to 3?

Will Huey Lewis and the News be the next Neil Diamond or Tony Bennet type artist to be ironically marketed to hipsters? Stayed tuned to this blog to find out!

he really peaked with sports

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Tonite @ Knitting Factory
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Great Scott!
- Doc Emmett Brown

Indeed, Sports was like his "Sgt. Pepper"...

Tonight at The Charleston 9pm
The Winter Sounds
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Look at 'em! Huey dun just took a crap in his panses!

he didn't play hip to be square which was kinda disappointing...

well this is NEWS to me

Huey looks like Granpa Simpsons....

he did play pineapple express though.

Phoning it in - 1) Perform an act in a perfunctory, uncommitted fashion, as if it didn't matter; 2) Used to describe a lazy or uninspired attempt.

I hear Graham Smith does a killer version of Huey's "This is It"

It's doo wop, it is...

anyone looking for Dr Dog at Bowery? call 718 737 5015

NIN: the greatest spectacle in rocking.

While they did not play "Hip to be Square", they did play "Jacob's Ladder" off the Fore album. Nicely done, too. So were the songs done A Capella in the middle of the set, "It's Alright" and "Under the Boardwalk". One thing I've always liked about that band is their admiration of Doo-Wop. Huey still has the voice, too.

And he just might be the next Neil/Bennet type, but I've never been ashamed of digging his music. It's probably the only bit of 80s nostalgia I'll readily accept.

Anyone ever listen to Exile's "Heart and Soul" from about '81? Yes, the same Exile that did "Kiss You All Over" in the late '70s

Tickets went on sale for New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary Event - Featuring The National and Grizzly Bear,
Hosted by Stella: Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain 0

Friday, October 10, 2008 at the Hammerstein Ballroom

New York is celebrating 40 groundbreaking years with an event for our closest friends. We've enlisted The National and Grizzly Bear to perform and the night will be hosted by the comedy group Stella, a.k.a. Michael Ian Black, David Wain, and Michael Showalter. It's a party that comes around only once every forty years, so don't miss it.

Link:
http://nymag.com/nyxny/40th

Huey already is hip.

he's working out 'most every day, and watching what he eats

Huey is like the John Lennon of the 80's... The missig link between Dylan and Nirvana...

"he's working out 'most every day, and watching what he eats"

I also heard he was drinking water, washing his teeth, and a whole bunch of very interesting thing.

he's hung like bear

yeah but Diamond is actually good whereas Huey Lewis was always shit is still shit (if innocuous shit). Repeat: there was nothing remotely good about Huey Lewis (cept he being bros with Phil Lynott perhaps).

you just don't like the power ballad.

"Couples skate only!!"

BV, you left out Paramore in Central Park and Jimmy Buffett at Jones Beach!!!

Paramore is today