Heart of Rock and Roll: The Best of Huey Lewis and the News [Import]

Huey Lewis & the News | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B0000071L0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,745 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Time Flies should've been, April 15, 2004

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jasenao (Dothan, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart of Rock and Roll: The Best of Huey Lewis and the News (Audio CD)

They say that good things come to those who wait. Well, thousands of fans waited patiently for years for a Huey Lewis & The News compilation, only to be extremely disappointed with Time Flies. I bought Time Flies as soon as I started collecting CDs, and up to now I just lived with being unsatisfied with its track listing.

God knew how much I wanted a great Huey Lewis & The News CD, so He gave me an idea recently. Instead of waiting for another American compilation to be released, find out if there's a good import of their greatest studio hits. That's how I came up on this, a UK import entitled The Heart of Rock & Roll: The Best of Huey Lewis & The News. This excellent one-disc collection has the four essential big hits that I was dying to have in my library that Time Flies left off for some unknown reason.

"Jacob's Ladder" was one of three songs to hit #1 for the band. "Walking on a Thin Line" is a vastly underrated song of the 80s, featuring one of the band's best hooks. "Perfect World" should be a major anthem song that the world knows by heart, just like Queen's "We Will Rock You" and Kool & The Gang's "Celebration." Just think about it. The next time the Yankees lose in the World Series, the opposing team's stadium could play "Perfect World," and it would fit to a tee! "Hip To Be Square" is thought by many to be the song that best symbolizes what Huey Lewis & The News are: A group that loves to make music, entertain their fans, and to have fun doing it.

And of course, you get most of the group's other biggest hits, such as the catchy classic, "Power of Love," the misunderstood "I Want A New Drug," the title track, and the song on which Huey Lewis & The News show their musicianship skills, "Heart & Soul." I say 'most' because this album doesn't quite have ALL the hits. "I Know What I Like," "Doing it All for My Baby," "It's Alright," "Couple Days Off," and "It Hit Me Like A Hammer" were left off. But those omissions aren't as damaging as the ones that were left off of Time Flies are.

If you're a big Huey Lewis & The News fan, don't waste your time and money on Time Flies. Whether you buy it here and now on Amazon or wait patiently for it on eBay, THIS is the single-disc compilation to get if you don't want to shell out the cash for the 3-disc box set.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Of all the HL+N compilations, this is THE one to get!, February 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Heart of Rock & Roll: The Best of Huey Lewis & The News (Audio CD)

There are several Huey Lewis & News compilations floating around out there but this one of the few that comes close to capturing all their essential 80's hits with a few album tracks thrown in.

First of all, the tracks listed here are incorrect for some reason. Here's the real track list: 1) Power Of Love, 2) Hip To Be Square, 3) Do You Believe In Love, 4) If This Is It, 5) Some Of My Lies Are True, 6) Workin' For A Livin' (Live), 7) Bad Is Bad, 8) I Want A New Drug, 9) The Heart Of Rock And Roll, 10) Heart And Soul, 11) Jacob's Ladder, 12) Stuck With You, 13) Trouble In Paradise, 14) Walking On A Thin Line, 15) Perfect World, 16) Small World (Part One), 17) Back In Time.

As you can see, this compilation covers almost all their 80's hits. Of the few hits that are missing, it would have been nice for them to have included "Doin' It All For My Baby" instead of one of the lesser known tracks but other than that this is a great compliation. You get everything from their first #1 hit "The Power Of Love" (IMO one of their best songs and a great track from a great movie in "Back To The Future") to the truckload of great hits off of their most successful album "Sports" (including the vastly underrated "Walking On A Thin Line") to lesser known tracks such as "Some Of My Lies Are True", "Small World (Part One)" and "Back In Time", their other "Back To The Future" song.

The "Time Flies" compilation does pick up a few missing tracks that would have been nice to have here as well (like the aformentioned "Doing It All For My Baby" and "It's Alright") but it misses several key tracks like "Hip To Be Square", "Jacob's Ladder" and "Perfect World". The only Huey Lewis compilation that might be better than this one is the Japanese "Greatest" cd but I highly recommend this one if you can't get that one.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An imperfect world..., May 18, 2003

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jerry_r (then, and now) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart of Rock and Roll: The Best of Huey Lewis and the News (Audio CD)

Like many people, I waited patiently for some time for a Huey Lewis compilation to come out, only to be disappointed by 1996's _Time Flies_. In many ways, _The Heart of Rock and Roll_ is the album that one would have wished for in its place, focusing on the group's 1980's heyday, and leaving attempted comebacks and doo-wop excursions by the wayside. Featured here are "Walking on a Thin Line", "Back in Time", "Hip to Be Square", and "Jacob's Ladder", all of which missed the cut on the American compilation. An energetic live version of "Working for a Living" is an added bonus. The sequencing is a bit odd, but the sound is good (for the most part), and the artwork recalls the era that the album covers.

All that having been said, there are a few negatives that need to be considered. (ominous pause)

1. The price tag - really, you could probably find most of their albums used for what this costs. 2. Where is "Doing it All for my Baby?" 3.(this is a big one) In what has to be one of the larger gaffes by a major label in recent history, the Canadian single version of "Heart of Rock and Roll" was used - not only does it it sound irredeemably muddy, but, during the fadeout, we are treated to the sound of someone (and it sure doesn't sound like Huey) yelling "TORONTO!!... MONTREAL!!!". In a way, it's hillarious, but really, it's infuriating, because no one wants to pay good money for a disc with such careless production work. I guess, as the man said... ain't no livin' in a perfect world. But we'll keep on dreaming....