OMFG fuck my previous post. this is the perfect time to whip out my guilty pleasure: Huey Lewis and the News
Not even joking, my roomate would listen to Huey Lewis "ironically" (I dont know why it was ironic) and I ended up being a huge fan. Same thing happened with Hall and Oates: The other night I did a whole stupid bit with my buddy at the bar where we'd stop our conversation to do the chorus of this:
A lot of people claim both Hall and Oates and Huey Lewis and the News as their "guilty pleasures" but I don't think there is any guilt needed. They're both great.
i claim it as a "guilty pleasure" because it's SO. DAMN. HAPPY. for some reason it feels like it's not allowed.
So, as a very young child we had those mail-order subscriptions where you could buy tapes of music through the mail. CDs hadn't quite made it out yet. Anyway, I got to select one cassette tape and Huey Lewis and the News, 'Sport' was it. First album I ever got of my own volition. I think my favorite song on that album was Walking on a Thin Line or I Want a New Drug. I was going to post a link to Walking, but here is a link to some random band on YouTube covering it instead because why not: