lunes, 27 de enero de 2025

Information Society "Repetition (USA, Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM Single & Video, Tommy Boy, TB 928)"

"Repetition" is a 1989 ballad and single by Information Society. The song peaked at number 76 in the Billboard Hot 100.

The music video, shot in black and white, shows the band between building ruins and old things, that complete the sad line of the lyrics.

Tracks
7" Single
  1. "Repetition (Edit)" 4:00
  2. "Something in the Air" 4:53
12" Single
  1. "Repetition" (LP Version) 4:32
  2. "Something in the Air" (Extended Club Edit) 6:24
  3. "Something in the Air" (Dub) 6:24
CD Single
  1. "Repetition" (Edit) 4:00
  2. "Repetition" (LP Version) 4:32
Note on sleeve and labels: “It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.”




Information Society "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (USA, Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single & Video, Tommy Boy, TB 911)"

"What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" is a song by American synth-pop band Information Society that was released as a single in 1988. The "Pure Energy" subtitle derives from a sample of Leonard Nimoy's voice from the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy". There are also samples of DeForest Kelley (the character Dr. McCoy) in the song's introduction, saying, "it's worked so far, but we're not out yet." and Richard Tatro's (The Android Norman) voices from the episode "I, Mudd". John Leland of Spin magazine called it a "pretty potent dance record".

In 2009, VH1 ran a countdown of the 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the '80s. Information Society's "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" placed at number 74 on the countdown.

The song was a big hit in the US, spending 25 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three in October 1988. The single was certified gold by the RIAA on January 18, 1989, selling 500,000 copies.

The song was featured in the feature films Loverboy and American Psycho. A remixed version was included in American Psycho's soundtrack.

In 1989, Pittsburgh radio station WYDD-FM played this song non-stop in a loop for 25½ hours—focusing on a repeat of the "Pure Energy" sample from Leonard Nimoy as Star Trek's Mr. Spock. The marketing stunt caused listeners to call emergency services, concerned that some calamity had befallen the DJs and other station employees. Bob Hank, general manager at the time, told reporters he was only trying to draw attention to the station's switch in format and new call letters WNRJ (N-R-J = "energy"). "We were just trying to draw a little bit of attention," Hank said. "We never dreamed it would go this far."

The song started out as a 10-minute instrumental jam, when Information Society was trying to record their first album. Tommy Boy Records grew frustrated that the band was spending so much money in the studio but had nothing to show for it, and pressured them to make a hit. Paul Robb came up with a chorus he said was partly inspired by "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel, as well as Duran Duran. After the chorus, he wrote verses with Kurt Harland.

Robb emulated minimalist New Wave artists such as Gary Numan and Devo by trying to write lyrics that "said as little as possible". He said the verses were "just sort of a random collection of emotional impressions. ... But when you look back at it now, it's a clear narrative about the difficulty that people have communicating with each other. At the time, we weren't writing it with that in mind, but it's so clear when you just read through the lyrics. It's a very simple and very clear-cut story."

Track listings
1988
7": Tommy Boy * London / 886 420-7 (Netherlands)
  1. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Pure Energy Radio Edit) – 3:35
  2. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Club Radio Edit) – 3:15
12": Tommy Boy / TB 911 (US)
  1. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Club Mix) – 8:00
  2. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (The 54 Mix) – 5:12
  3. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Percappella) – 4:09
  4. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Pure Energy Mix) – 4:33
  5. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (What's on Your Dub Mix) – 6:22
  • tracks 1–3 remixed by "Little" Louie Vega, Roman Ricardo
  • track four is the album version.
  • also available on MC (TBC 911)
  • also available on CD (TBCD 911)
12": London / LONX 211 (UK)
  1. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Club Mix) – 8:00
  2. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Pure Energy Mix) – 4:33
  3. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (What's on Your Dub Mix) – 6:22
  • also available on CD (LONCD 211)
1998
12": Cleopatra Records CLP 0327

Side A
  1. "What's on Your Mind" (Girl Eats Boy Mix)
  2. "What's on Your Mind" (Remixed by David J of Love & Rockets)
Side B
  1. "What's on Your Mind" (Remixed by Christian B./Daren Kramer for CKB Production)
  2. "What's on Your Mind" (Remixed by Judson Leach and Exhibition)
  • All of these remixes would make a second appearance on the remix album InSoc Recombinant.
2001
CD single: Tommy Boy silver label
  1. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Pure Energy 2001 Edit) – 3:48
  2. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Boris & Beck Exit Edit) – 3:58
  3. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Junior's Blue Zone Club Mix) – 9:08
  4. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Boris & Beck Exit Mix) – 8:46
  5. "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (Sugarpussy Psychic Funk Mix) – 6:38
Recorded at Platinum Island, NYC
Mastered at Frankford-Wayne, NYC





Information Society "Walking Away (USA, Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single & Video, Tommy Boy, TB 919)"

Information Society (also known as InSoc) is an American electronic band from Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, initially active from 1982 to 1997, primarily consisting of Kurt Harland Larson, Paul Robb, and James Cassidy; the latter two reconvened the band in 2006, initially with Christopher Anton as lead vocalist, then with Harland rejoining them as lead vocalist by 2008.

"Walking Away" is a 1988 song by American synth-pop group, Information Society. Released as a single in late 1988, the song peaked at No. 9 in the United States in February 1989, No. 5 in the Hot Dance Club Play chart and No. 15 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Walking Away" is the second single from the band's eponymous album. The music video was directed by Mark Pellington.

The song contains samples of William Shatner as James T. Kirk saying "It is useless to resist us" from the Star Trek episode, "Mirror, Mirror", and James Doohan as Scotty saying "Let's Go See!" from the Star Trek episode, "Wolf in the Fold".

Singer Paul Robb said,
"Walking Away" was a song where I sat down and said, "I want to write a song that's kind of like "What's on Your Mind," but it's going to be directed to some former members of our band who had sort of quit the band at an importune moment. As a matter of fact, they both quit right before we made it big with "Running." So if you listen to the lyrics of "Walking Away," it's basically just someone complaining about people who left. That's because that's exactly what it is. It's a very transparent song - there's no deep meanings in that one.
Track listings:

EP
  1. "Walking Away" (S.M.D. Mix) – 7:09
  2. "Walking Away" (House Dub) – 6:09
  3. "Walking Away" (Radio Version) – 3:59
12" single
  1. "Walking Away" (Space Age Mix) 6:36
  2. "Space Age Dub" 7:57
  3. "Make It funkier" (Boot It Up Vocal) 2:56
  4. "Walking Away" (S.M.D. mix) 7:09
  5. "Walking Away" (House Dub) 6:09
  6. "Walking Away" (Radio Version) 3:59
CD single
  1. "Walking Away" (Radio Version) 3:58
  2. "Walking Away" (LP Version) 5:01
  3. "Walking Away" (Space Age Mix) 6:36
  4. "Walking Away" (S.M.D. mix) 7:08
A pressing variation exists with silhouette figures inverted




In Reach "Waterline (USA, Star Song, SSD8232)"

In Reach were a Christian Rock/AOR band, formed in 1984. Their debut album "Waterline" was released in 1992.

Tracklist:
  1. Waterline
  2. Faded Love
  3. My Heart
  4. The Other Fall Of Cambrai
  5. God You Are
  6. River
  7. Giving Me Reasons
  8. In The Between
  9. Manner Of Man
  10. Not So Easy
Recording information:
Recorded At – Triad Studios
Mastered At – Georgetown Masters
Mixed At – Klub Key's
Executive producer – Dez Dickerson
Mastered By – Denny Purcell
Mixed By – Charles Mesrole (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8, 9), Chris Fuhrman (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10), David Zaffiro (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8, 9)
Produced & Engineered – Charles Mesrole & David Zaffiro
Photography – Karen Moskowitz








Ian Anderson "Homo Erraticus (UK, Kscope, kscope292)"

Homo Erraticus is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock musician Ian Anderson, who is also the frontman of Jethro Tull. Released on 14 April 2014, Homo Erraticus is a concept album, loosely connected to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick (1972) and Anderson's Thick as a Brick 2 (2012), since it again credits the lyrics to the fictional character Gerald Bostock.

The album was released in four formats: as a double vinyl, a single CD, a CD + DVD collection, and an Amazon.com exclusive box set edition, containing the album on CD as well as three bonus discs.

Anderson and his band embarked on a promotional tour of the album, in which they performed the entire album for the first half of each show, and the best of Jethro Tull for the second half.

Homo Erraticus is a progressive rock album which, according to Anderson, blends folk and medieval as well as heavy metal music styles. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the album "as close to 1970s progressive rock as is possible in 2014".

The phrase Homo Erraticus is Latin for "wandering man", and the concept for the album builds tangentially upon the fictional narrative of Ian Anderson's recurring character Gerald Bostock, a literary child prodigy. Details of the album's fictional story are provided, but also slightly contradicted, by two official sources: the Jethro Tull website and the album's own promotional website.

The general backstory underlying the album is that, in the year 2014, poet Gerald Bostock, now in his early fifties, has recently discovered in his town's bookstore a "dusty, unpublished manuscript, written by local amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt, (1873 -1928)" which is entitled either "Homo Britanicus Erraticus" or "Homo erraticus (The St Cleve Chronicles)". Anderson claims that the album's lyrics are Bostock's resulting interpretation of Parritt's "illustrated document [which] summarises key historical elements of early civilisation in Britain and seems to prophesy future scenarios too". Apparently, two years before his death, Parritt began suddenly recalling visions of past-life experiences, attributed either to the fact that "Parritt had a traumatic fall from his horse" or "Parritt suffered from a recurrence of malaria, contracted during his Army days in India". In either case:
[Parritt] awoke with the overwhelming conviction of having enjoyed past lives as historical characters: a pre-history nomadic neolithic settler, an Iron Age blacksmith, a Saxon invader, a Christian monk, a Seventeenth Century grammar school boy, turnpike innkeeper, one of Brunel’s railroad engineers, and even Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. This befuddled, delusional obsession extends to his prophecy of future events and his fantasy imaginings of lives yet to come.... Bostock has returned once again to lyric writing, basing his new effort on the Parritt papers and I [Anderson] have had the fun and frolics of setting all to music of Folk-Rock-Metal stylings.
The three and a half stars of AllMusic was positive, stating 'the contours of the compositions... recall classic Tull, so Homo Erraticus winds up satisfying'.

Track listing
All songs credited to Ian Anderson and Gerald Bostock. The album is divided into three sections – "Chronicles", "Prophecies" and "Revelations".

Part One: Chronicles
  1. "Doggerland (7000 BCE)" 4:20
  2. "Heavy Metals (750 BCE – 43 CE)" 1:29
  3. "Enter the Uninvited (43 CE – 410 CE – 1960!)" 4:12
  4. "Puer Ferox Adventus (313 – 600 CE)" 7:11
  5. "Meliora Sequamur (1100s)" 3:32
  6. "The Turnpike Inn (1750)" 3:08
  7. "The Engineer (1847)" 3:12
  8. "The Pax Britannica (1815 – 1914)" 3:05
Part Two: Prophecies
  1. "Tripudium Ad Bellum (1914 – 1939)" 2:48
  2. "After These Wars (1950s)" 4:28
  3. "New Blood, Old Veins (1960s)" 2:31
Part Three: Revelations
  1. "In for a Pound (2013)" 0:36
  2. "The Browning of the Green (2014)" 4:05
  3. "Per Errationes Ad Astra (2024)" 1:33
  4. "Cold Dead Reckoning (2044)" 5:28
Issued with a 24-page-booklet including lyrics and a 4-page-sheet of advertisement.

Recording information:
Michael Downs – recording engineer
Jakko Jakszyk – mixing, mastering
Carl Glover – artwork, design, photography
Producer – Ian Anderson




















The Human League "Don't You Want Me (Single & Video)"

"Don't You Want Me" is a song by British synth-pop group the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album, Dare (1981). The band's best known and most commercially successful song, it was the best selling UK single of 1981, that year's Christmas number one, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK Singles Chart history. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where it stayed for three weeks.

In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the US. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. And in 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it as one of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".

The lyrics were inspired after the Human League lead singer Philip Oakey read a photo-story in a teen-girl's magazine. Though the song had been conceived and recorded in the studio as a male solo, Oakey was inspired by the 1976 film A Star Is Born and decided to turn the song into a conflicting duet with one of the band's two teenage female vocalists. Susan Ann Sulley was then asked to take on the role. Until then, she and the other female vocalist, Joanne Catherall, had only been assigned backing vocals; Sulley says she was chosen only through "luck of the draw".

Musicians Jo Callis and Philip Adrian Wright created a synthesizer score to accompany the lyrics that was much harsher than the version that was actually released. Initial versions of the song were recorded but Virgin Records-appointed producer Martin Rushent was unhappy with them. He and Callis remixed the track, giving it a softer, and in Oakey's opinion, "poppy" sound. Oakey hated the new version and thought it would be the weakest track on Dare, resulting in one of his infamous rows with Rushent. Oakey disliked it so much that it was relegated to the last track on side two of the album.

Before the release of the 1981 album Dare, three of its tracks—"The Sound of the Crowd", "Love Action (I Believe in Love)", and "Open Your Heart"—had already been released as successful singles. With a hit album and three hit singles in a row, Virgin's chief executive Simon Draper decided to release one more single from the album before the end of 1981. His choice, "Don't You Want Me", instantly caused a row with Oakey, who did not want another single to be released because he was convinced that "the public were now sick of hearing" the band and the choice of the "poor quality filler track" would almost certainly be a disaster, wrecking the group's new-found popularity. The band felt the track was "our sort of Des O'Connor song". Virgin were adamant that a fourth single would be released and Oakey finally agreed on the condition that a large colour poster accompany the 7" single, because he felt fans would "feel ripped off" by the "substandard" single alone.

The Human League often added cryptic references to their productions and the record sleeve of "Don't You Want Me" featured the suffix of "100". This was a reference to The 100 Club, a restaurant/bar in Sheffield.

In a contemporary review, Record World praised its "throbbing synthesized beat and sharp hook."

Today, the song is widely considered a classic of its era. In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for AllMusic, described the song as "a devastating chronicle of a frayed romance wrapped in the greatest pop hooks and production of its year." Fellow new wave musician Graham Parker praised the song, saying, "I just love that catchy chorus." Oakey still describes it as overrated, but acknowledges his initial dismissal was misguided and claims pride in the track. Oakey has also pointed out another misconception: that it is not a love song, but "a nasty song about sexual power politics."

"Don't You Want Me" was released in the UK on 27 November 1981. The B-side was "Seconds", another track lifted straight from the Dare album. As with previous singles, a 12" version was also issued featuring the original version of "Don't You Want Me" and "Seconds" on the A-side and an "extended dance mix" lasting seven and a half minutes on the B-side. This mix is also featured on the Love and Dancing album that was released under the name of the League Unlimited Orchestra in 1982.

To the amazement of the band (and especially Oakey), the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number nine and rose to number one the following week, remaining there over the Christmas period for five weeks. It ultimately became the biggest-selling single to be released in 1981, and the fifth biggest-selling single of the entire decade. Its success was repeated six months later in the US, with "Don't You Want Me" peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. Billboard magazine ranked it as the sixth-biggest hit of 1982. The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) the same year for sales of a million copies.

After the band scored a number of hits for Warner's East West label, the song was remixed and issued by Virgin as a CD, cassette and 12-inch single on 16 October 1995. This version featured new remixes by Hooj Choons' Red Jerry and German Eurodance duo Snap!, and would peak at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. The release coincided with the issue of the group's second Greatest Hits compilation album shortly afterwards (which featured the Snap! 7 inch remix).

As of November 2012, "Don't You Want Me" was the 23rd best-selling single in the UK, with 1.55 million copies sold. On 23 March 2014, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 19 thanks to a social media campaign by fans of Aberdeen Football Club. In 2017 it was reported to be the 43rd most successful single in UK chart history with sales and streams combined.

In 2021, Viacom International Studios put into production a music chart programme called The 80s Greatest Hits 1980-1989 for Channel 5 and asked the Official Charts Company (OCC) to provide the countdowns for the series, based on the best-selling singles for each year. When the 1981 episode was broadcast (now under the title of Britain's Favourite 80's Songs) "Don't You Want Me" was placed at number one, with the OCC now confirming it was the official best-selling song of 1981 with an estimated 1.15 million sales (previously the title had gone to "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, which now has been put in second place with 1.05 million sales).

In 1981, record company Virgin were becoming aware that the music video was evolving into an important marketing tool, with MTV being launched that year. Virgin commissioned a promotional video for "Don't You Want Me".

The video for the song was filmed near Slough, Berkshire, during November 1981. The video's theme is the filming and editing of a murder-mystery film, featuring the band members as characters and production staff. Because it is a "making-of" video, both crew and camera apparatus appear throughout.

The video was said by Susan Ann Sulley to be "a take on The French Lieutenant’s Woman, which was a film about making a film". But director Steve Barron said he was influenced by the 1973 François Truffaut film Day for Night and had 'wanted to go one step further and try and make a film within a film within a film".

The video was conceived and directed by the Irish filmmaker Steve Barron, and has at its core the interaction between a successful actress (also an assistant editor) played by Susan Ann Sulley walking out on "film director" Philip Oakey on a film set.

In a 1995 interview, Catherall mentioned that the car Jo Callis was driving had to be pushed into shot as he could not drive at the time, to which Sulley added "he still can't!"

The video was released in December 1981.

Track listing

1981 release
7-inch vinyl (Virgin VS466)
  1. "Don't You Want Me" – 3:57
  2. "Seconds" – 4:59
12-inch vinyl (Virgin VS466-12)
  1. "Don't You Want Me" – 3:57
  2. "Seconds" – 4:59
  3. "Don't You Want Me (dance mix)" – 7:30
1995 release
CD (Virgin VSCDT1557)
  1. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry 7" Remix)" - 3:43
  2. "Don't You Want Me (Snap! 7" Remix)" - 3:58
  3. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry 12" Remix)" - 6:11
  4. "Don't You Want Me (Snap! 12" Extended Remix)" - 6:14
  5. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry Dub Mix)" - 7:01
  6. "Don't You Want Me (Original Version)" - 3:57
12-inch vinyl (Virgin VST1557)
  1. "Don't You Want Me (Snap! 12" Extended Remix)" - 6:12
  2. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry 12" Remix)" - 6:09
Cassette (Virgin VSC 1557)
  1. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry 7" Remix)" - 3:43
  2. "Don't You Want Me (Snap! 7" Remix)" - 3:58
  3. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry 12" Remix)" - 6:11
  4. "Don't You Want Me (Original Version)" - 3:57
℗ 1981 Virgin Records Ltd.



sábado, 4 de enero de 2025

Huey Lewis And The News "Weather (Gatefold Cardboard Sleeve, USA, BMG, 538543642)"

Weather is the tenth studio album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released on February 14, 2020, by New Hulex under license to BMG Rights Management.

The album consists of songs recorded before Lewis' 2018 hearing loss from Ménière's disease. Seven tracks had been completed before work on the album was indefinitely halted, and the band eventually decided to release the record as is.

Huey Lewis and the News had not released an album in nearly ten years and had not recorded an album of new material since 2001's Plan B. Plans for a new album had been circulating since 2012 when Lewis announced a new song they wrote called "While We're Young." "But now we need nine more," Lewis explained. While touring in the mid-2010s, the addition of a song titled "Her Love Is Killing Me" had been included in the band's setlist. By the end of 2017, Huey Lewis and the News had recorded a handful of songs for a new album, and it was anticipated that it would be released sometime in 2018.

However, in January 2018, when Huey Lewis was diagnosed with Ménière's disease, the band cancelled all future shows and placed the album on hold. A year later, it was announced the band had signed with BMG to release the new album.

"Her Love Is Killin' Me" (originally titled "Your Love Is Killing Me") was released as the first single in September 2019. In December 2019, "While We're Young" was made available to download and stream along with the announcement of the album's title and release date of February 14, 2020.

Track listing
  1. "While We're Young" Johnny Colla/Huey Lewis/John Pierce   3:45
  2. "Her Love Is Killin' Me" Colla/Chris Hayes/Lewis   3:41
  3. "I Am There for You" Colla/Lewis  4:13
  4. "Hurry Back Baby"    Bill Gibson/Lewis   3:55
  5. "Remind Me Why I Love You Again" Colla/Gibson/Hayes/Lewis   3:20
  6. "Pretty Girls Everywhere" Eugene Church/Thomas Williams   3:23
  7. "One of the Boys" Colla/James Harrah/Lewis    3:48
Total length: 26:01

Gatefold card-sleeve. Made in USA.

Recording information:
Producer – Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla









Huey Lewis And The News "Soulsville (USA, W.O.W. Records, None)"

Soulsville is the ninth studio album from Huey Lewis and the News and the band's first since Plan B in 2001. The album was released on October 18, 2010, in the United Kingdom and Europe and November 2, 2010, in the United States. The album, a tribute to the artists and music of Stax Records, was the brainchild of the band's manager, Bob Brown. As lead singer Huey Lewis explained, "the public isn't clamoring for new Huey Lewis & the News material". Brown and the band decided "it would be cooler to go into the [Stax] catalog a little deeper and find songs that people hadn't heard and capture them faithfully". This album features new guitarists Stef Burns and Bill Hinds and baritone saxophonist Johnnie Bamont, replacing Chris Hayes and the late Ron Stallings.

Huey Lewis and the News recorded Soulsville at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, in early 2010. One of the original Stax co-engineers, Jim Gaines, who also engineered the band's best-selling albums, Sports and Fore!, produced the album with the band.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes, "what makes the album successful is that Huey Lewis & the News don't choose the obvious tunes", citing that their love for the music is infectious and the album "winds up like a bunch of old friends having fun revisiting their favorite tunes." Rick Moore of American Songwriter also praises the selection of "songs that are a little more obscure", calling it "a solid collection of 14 tunes from the Stax/Volt heyday" and a nice homage by the News. J. Matthew Cobb of SoulTracks thinks the song selections are a perfect fit for Lewis's voice and show how rich and vast the Stax catalog is, calling the album "one of the most aesthetically sound cover albums of 2010". Jason Heller of The A.V. Club completely disagrees by claiming Soulsville doesn't have soul and only a few of the songs rise "above the level of really good karaoke." He rips Lewis' renditions of Solomon Burke's (who died shortly before the album was released) "Got to Get You Off My Mind" and "Cry to Me", describing it as "a pathetic epitaph for the late King of Rock & Soul."

Track listing
  1. "Don't Fight It" Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett 2:57
  2. "Got to Get You Off My Mind" Dolores Burke, Solomon Burke, J.B. Moore 2:50
  3. "Free" Alana Davis, Ed Tuton 3:53
  4. "Respect Yourself" (duet with Dorothy Combs Morrison) Luther Ingram, Mack Rice 3:41
  5. "Cry to Me" Bert Russell 2:59
  6. "Just One More Day" Cropper, Otis Redding, McEvoy Robinson 3:25
  7. "Never Found a Girl" Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell, Booker T. Jones 2:53
  8. "Soulsville" Isaac Hayes 3:37
  9. "Little Sally Walker" Rufus Thomas 2:11
  10. "I Want To (Do Everything for You)" Joe Tex 3:13
  11. "Just the One (I've Been Looking For)" Cropper, Floyd, Isbell 2:55
  12. "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You" Jerry Akines, Johnnie Bellmon, Reginald Turner, Victor Drayton 2:51
  13. "Never Like This Before" Hayes, Jones, David Porter 2:57
  14. "Grab This Thing" Cropper, Isbell 3:14
Released in a recycled cardboard gatefold sleeve

Recording information:
Recorded and Mixed at: Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Additional Recording: Way Out West Recording, San Rafael, California and Morningside Studios, San Anselmo, California
Mastering: L. Nix Mastering

The album cover was designed by Memphis folk artist Lamar Sorrento. It presents a caricature of a Memphis street corner, complete with musicians, rib joints, and WDIA, the country's first black radio station.









Huey Lewis And The News "Greatest Hits & Videos (CD+DVD, USA, Capitol Records, 09463-63380-2-6)"

Greatest Hits & Videos is a greatest hits album by Huey Lewis and the News, released on May 23, 2006. It contains the band's most popular songs and music videos. The compilation is a follow-up to the band's previous greatest hits compilation, Time Flies... The Best of Huey Lewis & the News from the previous decade.

A version without the DVD was released as Greatest Hits with different cover artwork.

Track listing
CD
  1. "The Heart of Rock & Roll" (Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis)
  2. "I Want a New Drug" (Chris Hayes, Lewis)
  3. "The Power of Love" (from the Back to the Future soundtrack) (Hayes, Lewis, Colla)
  4. "Jacob's Ladder" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby)
  5. "Stuck with You" (Hayes, Lewis)
  6. "Doing It All for My Baby" (Mike Duke, Phil Cody)
  7. "If This Is It" (Colla, Lewis)
  8. "Do You Believe in Love" (Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
  9. "Heart and Soul" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn)
  10. "Back in Time" (from the Back to the Future soundtrack) (Colla, Hayes, Sean Hopper, Lewis)
  11. "Perfect World" (Alex Call)
  12. "I Know What I Like" (Hayes, Lewis)
  13. "Trouble in Paradise" (from the We Are the World album - live in San Francisco 2/21/85) (Colla, Bill Gibson, Hayes, Hopper, Lewis, Mario Cipollina)
  14. "It's Alright" (from the Curtis Mayfield tribute album People Get Ready) (Mayfield)
  15. "Cruisin'" (Huey Lewis duet with Gwyneth Paltrow, from the Duets soundtrack) (Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin)
  16. "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do" (Duke)
  17. "Small World" (featuring Stan Getz) (Hayes, Lewis)
  18. "But It's Alright" (J.J. Jackson, Pierre Tubbs)
  19. "Hip to Be Square" (Gibson, Hopper, Lewis)
  20. "Couple Days Off" (Hayes, Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer)
  21. "Workin' for a Livin'" (Hayes, Lewis)
DVD
  1. "Do You Believe in Love" (previously unreleased)
  2. "Heart and Soul"
  3. "I Want a New Drug"
  4. "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
  5. "If This Is It"
  6. "Bad Is Bad"
  7. "The Power of Love"
  8. "Stuck with You"
  9. "Doing It All for My Baby" (original long version)
  10. "Workin' for a Livin'" (live at the Country Club, Reseda, CA, 4/29/82)