The Batlord

Nobody said ****ty dad rock that was dad rock the day it was released can't take money from tasteless cretins.

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Frownland

Because of American Psycho.

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Trollheart

They're no longer news.

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Chula Vista

Or maybe because of 19 top ten singles, a bunch of really successful videos, an Academy Award nomination, 3 platinum and 2 gold albums, and 30 million in worldwide album sales?

Oh wait, I talking with "If it's popular it sucks" Frumpster.

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The Batlord

I don't know what rich fogies trying to relive the 80s when they still understood the world listen to, but the rest of the world couldn't give a **** about Huey Lewis. They are so far beyond passe that my generation and beyond have no idea they even exist. I'm a member of this site and I didn't even know about them until a couple years ago.

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Frownland

But mainly American Psycho, which drove a lot of those things.

Ftfy

What artists from my last.fm make you think that I dislike Huey Lewis and the News for any reason other than it being garbage? Childish grudges need not apply.

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Janszoon

Yeah, they were definitely popular in the 80s. That doesn't mean they're a great band though. I enjoy some of their songs because they're nostalgic for me, but they're not a band I ever go out of my way to listen to.

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Trollheart

Like a lot of bands who had hits in the 80s, Huey Lewis and the News had a brief period where they were really popular (I mean, really popular: Batty you may be too young but there was a time when you couldn't turn on a radio without hearing "If this is it", and then he had that big lawsuit with Ray Parker Jr - who I hear you say? Ghostbusters theme?) - but it was a few years and then everyone forgot about them. I don't even know what was so great about them: just for one shining moment they were "the thing", then people moved on. I suppose MTV as usual had a lot to do with it. And those two movies.

But after Sports and in a smaller way Fore! I don't think anyone seriously gave a crap, and I certainly never bought any of their albums. "If this is it", "I want a new drug", "Heart of rock and roll", "The power of love" - they've been dining out on those hit singles for decades now. Look at their releases after, say, 1986: few if any broke the top 40, and as for their albums - six since Sports and by the 90s they were no longer troubling the charts, with their latest way outside even the top 100. I know chart success is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is usually a measure of popularity, at least in general, and going from those stats, as Batty says, nobody cares about Huey Lewis any more.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

i think sports is good but that's the only record of there's I'll really bothers with tbh.

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Tristan_Geoff

Isn't that like, their only real record though?

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