Huey Lewis & The News - Greatest Hits
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Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great CD ! All the songs on it are enjoyable. I choose this CD to put in my car's CD player over and over again !Free Music Review: huey lewis
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CD arrived quickly and in excellent condition (new) as indicated in product description. very satisfied.Free Music Review: A fine album
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This is an excellent album. Every song is a favorite. I can't reccomend this album enough.Free Music Review: Huey Luis & the News Greatest Hits
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Thanks for this hard to find cd. CD in great shape.Free Music Review: Best single-disc compilation to date
Hit: 4 Stars
This compilation replaces 1996's Time Flies: The Best of Huey Lewis & the News and trumps that prior disc in every way. The prior collection only contained 16 tracks, 4 of which were "new" tracks which never really did become "hits". In addition to the 12 genuine hits on "Time Flies", "Greatest Hits" adds 9 must have hits for almost 80 minutes of as-good-as-it-gets 1980's pop.
As others have stated some, not all, of the tracks are "single" versions. While this is not a problem for the tracks from Fore! and Picture This which clock in at just about their original length, it is noticeable on the Sports tracks "Heart of Rock & Roll", which is about 1 minute shorter than the LP version, & "I Want a New Drug" which loses more than a minute. The biggest victim is "Couple Days Off" from Hard at Play which is slashed by over a minute and a half, losing much of its relentless drive and powerful drumming. Still, if you were used to hearing Huey Lewis on the radio back in the mid '80s and you're looking to recapture those days, then these "single" versions should suit your needs just fine.
I'm not hearing any audio revelations on this CD but I think the sonics are as good as it's going to get and a marked improvement over the earliest releases of the Huey Lewis catalog on CD. I think the sometimes dense and compressed sound is simply of a reflection of the recording and production techniques used to make these albums back in the '80s.
If you want to dig a bit deeper but don't want to have to spring for all the individual CDs, I also recommend the 3-disc Thirty Six All Time Greatest which is bare-bones in terms of packaging (no liner notes) but chock to the rim with just about every essential track from the first five LPs (5 of 10 tracks from the original (out of print) Huey Lewis And The News, 8 of 10 tracks from "Picture This", 6 of 9 from "Sports", 9 of 10 from "Fore!", 5 of 10 from Small World, the two singles from "Hard at Play", plus "Power of Love" from "Back to the Future"). While the "Heart of R&R" and "Want a New Drug" are sadly included in their single versions here as well, "Couple Days Off" is present in its full 5-minute version. At $30.00 it's a bit steep and you will lose "Back in Time" plus later hits "It's Alright", "But It's Alright", and "Cruisin", but "Thirty-Six All Time Greatest" may be all the Huey Lewis you ever need and includes some essential album tracks not included on "Greatest Hits".