Huey Lewis & The News 
The best album credited to Huey Lewis & The News is Sports which is ranked number 2,554 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 619.
Huey Lewis & The News is ranked number 1,509 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 945.
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- See also:
- Sly & The Family Stone
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Huey Lewis & The News best albums
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 09/24/2026 23:30 |  ExTeaSea | 26 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2023 10:30 | Stevo796 | 980 | 74/100 |
| ! | 03/26/2019 22:11 | NSPE | 138 | 77/100 |
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This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 18.2.
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BestEverAlbums 09/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5428): By ExTeaSeaView latest topic →
meccalecca 12/06/2013 16:27 in Best Solo Artist?Huey Lewis & The News comments
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The prototypical bar band made good story. Straight forward heartland style rock. Most of it comes across as good time party music. But if you want to listen a little deeper there is depth to the lyrics.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/28/2012 17:47 | #51371
Somewhere between the glam one-hit wonders, hair metal, new wave, and roots rockers that dominated the 80s, guys like Huey Lewis managed to carve a niche. Simple, catchy, creative pop-rock. No complaints.
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? 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, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate 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 humor. 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.
travelful 02/03/2018 16:18 | #207078
Really not bad for what they were trying to do, its just pretty average music though in the scheme of things.
It's just that typical mainstream rock/pop 80s band with a lot of good hits.
