Fore!

Artist: Huey Lewis and the News
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 094632153425
EAN: 0094632153425
ASIN: B000008HPE

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Jacobs Ladder
Stuck With You
Whole Lotta Lovin'
Doing It All For My Baby
Hip To Be Square
I Know What I Like
I Never Walk Alone
Forest For The Trees
Naturally
Simple As That

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Customer Reviews:

Great CD! I have owned copies of this album since its debut in 1986........2007-01-09

This is by far one of the absolute best releases by Huey Lewis & the News. Powerful, hard-hitting, and quite emotional. Now, I bought my own copy of this CD back in the spring of 1993, and I've had it ever since. The CD I purchased here was a Christmas present for a special lady friend of mine, named Emily. And a sweet girl SHE is, I can tell you. Anyway, I also got my first ever copy of this album on cassette, back during Christmas 1986. During the summer of that year, "Stuck With You" was my then top favorite. But if you read below, you will see that I have since switched to a different and much better song. I also dedicated this song to Emily recently, and I am not referring to "Stuck With You".

Anyway, my all-time favorite song on this album is not even one of the groups hits. I am referring to "Forest For the Trees". When I first got to hear this song on Christmas Day of 1986, I was hooked!! I also enjoy pretty much the rest of the entire album, aside from "Whole Lot of Lovin'". My mom's favorite on this album is "Naturally", because it also sounds like a barber shop quartet. Emily's favorite on this CD is "Doing It All For My Baby", and it is somewhat of a favorite of mine as well. Another one of my favorites on this album is "Hip to be Square", because I have always considered myself a 'square'. And this song is somewhat of a war cry for those folks out there who are just like me. It all has to do with the way I was raised, and there's nothing wrong with that!

Anyway, for those of you who like hard-hitting, powerful rock music from the '80s era -- but without all the nonsense and profanity -- then I definitely would suggest that this album is for you. Don't get me wrong, for there are other bands out there who are just as popular as Huey Lewis & the News, if not even more popular, such as Journey and Rush -- whom I also love to this day, but Huey Lewis's band is one of the groups I began listening to early on in my teenage years. Besides, they are still pretty much "The Heart of Rock & Roll".

Anyway, folks, y'all might wanna pick this one up for your collection. Enjoy. The same goes for you, Emily, babe.

Be-FORE & after.......2006-10-12

I grew up in the 80's and this was a hip band. I originally bought this on cassette and recently looked to get it on CD. Amazon had a great price and I decided to go "Back in time". The music was as I remembered, great! I like the non-hits alot on this CD. I know radio wouldnt play them so they sit unless you are a fan. "Whole lotta lovin", "Simple as that", and "I know what I like" are just a few. I really enjoy "Naturally" which is accapella. I wish HLN would put out a CD of all accapella music. I guess you could say that "FORE'S" hits were played out in the 80's. They feel fresh again, though. GO BACK!

Huey Lewis & the News at their best.......2006-07-11

There are some very quality songs on this album, from the hit Jacob's Ladder to the a capella Naturally to Hip to be Square. The gamut is covered here. It's a more mature collection than Sports and as such it wasn't the commercial success that the aforementioned album was. That shouldn't diminish its value as to the listener. Unlike many recordings of that era, this one isn't filled with trite bubble-gum ditties or overly-dramatic anthems. It strikes a good balance. It's one of my favorite albums of the period and my all-time favorite of the band's.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?.......2006-02-21

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 consimante 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. 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.

Fore! Another hole in one for Lewis and company.......2006-02-12

It took three years for Huey Lewis and the News to come out with the followup to their multiplatinum hit album Sports, Fore! Inbetween that time, though the News made their first #1 hit with "The Power of Love" from Back To The Future, where Lewis had a cameo playing a high school music teacher holding band auditions. The tempo of Fore is mostly mid-paced compared the power-pounding rockers of Sports, plus there's more of a polish to the songs. But some songs seem like excerpts from yuppie middle-class suburban family life, so more serious social commentary here.

Take for example the acapella doowop of "Naturally," where despite hardships, things will eventually work out: "you know that love is a struggle/and only the strong survive/so it's up to me and you/to do what we've got to do to keep our love alive." And the philosophical "Simple As That" traces the life history of the working man, from working all day, paying bills, fighting the high cost of living, trying to get a loan for the house, and seeing one's children married with their own children, with a humorous aside of being left with one's wife, dog, and cat.

Fore! though yielded two more #1 hits for HL&N. In fact it would be their last two #1s. The first was "Stuck With You," three weeks on the top spot and on the adult contemporary charts, a leisure, mid-paced Beach Boys-type pop song with doowop harmonies and organ in the chorus. A catchy song about deciding to stick together despite the ups and downs and thoughts of breaking up, with some pithy reasons of being bound by the same address and phone number, it was a wise choice to be the first single from Fore!

The second was the Bruce Hornsby-penned "Jacob's Ladder," a commentary on religious hucksters, be it the man chasing the fan dancer in Birmingham per the song, or televangelists. "Hey mister I'm not in a hurry and I don't wanna be like you/All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today," sings Lewis, true to his artistic temperament. Well, given the performance of the singles, Fore! did make it better than Sports.

The #3 single and #1 mainstream rock hit "Hip To Be Square" is the most energetic song on Fore! This song about letting go of one's renegade ways, such as cutting one's hair and playing it straight, may raise eyebrows to those wanting to be different, but when he mentions working out and watching what he eats, well, when one things about it, eating and living healthy seems renegade in today's "supersize me" fast-food society, so maybe this song embraces some hip values after all. The News has football players singing backups on this song, BTW.

If "I Want A New Drug" was slowed down, it'd probably sound close to the #9 "I Know What I Like." "Doing It All For My Baby" was the fifth single and peaked at #6. A rocking piano and guitar ballad with backing from the Tower of Power horns section, this is a tribute to soulful 60's and 70's music. With the silly Frankenstein-influenced music video overplayed on MTV, it didn't take me too long to get sick of this song, but now, it's like welcoming an old friend back to the fold.

"Whole Lotta Lovin',"-no, not the Fats Domino song, but an original by Lewis, owes a nod back to 50's style Elvis or Little Richard style rock, and darned if Lewis doesn't get the genre nailed down! The best non-single here, with Huey doing a harmonica solo in the middle. Huey plays counselor here in displaying old-fashioned wisdom in the good-natured "Forest For The Trees," where things are that fuzzy gray and not black and white, and a need for sitting back and thinking things out will do a world of good: "and if you're not afraid to open your eyes, you may be pleasantly surprised things are never as bad as they seem. You just gotta learn to see the forest for the trees."

Fore is not only a successful Huey Lewis/News album with a combination of hit singles and sobering but ultimately optimistic commentary on the struggles of life in the 80's.

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