Huey Lewis Soars To New Heights

Well, Huey Lewis’ title-track contribution to the Seth Rogen/James Franco stoner comedy Pineapple Express has made its way to the Internet, and like much of the output from that arm of Hollywood, the good idea at its core (“hey, let’s have Huey Lewis write a sequel to ‘The Power Of Love’ with pot jokes!”) gets stretched out and beaten so thin that even the memories of liking its early bits go up in smoke. Pros: Like all Huey/News tracks, it does have the requisite sax solo; Lewis still sounds like Lewis. Cons: The saxophone solo and the smoking-up solo probably weren’t both necessary; the song on a whole sounds somewhat wan, almost as if it’s been beaten down by studio notes dictating what lyrical jokes should be punched up and the exact length of the whole “smoke it if you got it” bit. It’s streaming at the soundtrack distributor’s MySpace page. (Warning: Click quickly after the song’s finished, or you might be subjected to Mike Myers singing Steve Miller.) After the jump, a clip of the song that Rogen and Franco should have probably used in the first place.

Lakeshore Records [MySpace; HT The Playlist / Stereogum] Huey Lewis & The News – I Want A New Drug [YouTube]