Just got through watching American Psycho and found this to be the source of Josh Bradford’s rant about Huey Lewis and the News. Patrick Bateman (i.e. Christian Bale) gives a lecture about the band to an asshole yuppie before he clobbers him with an axe:
"Their early work was a little too New Wave for my
taste. But then Sports came out in 1983, 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 gives the songs a big boost.
He’s been compared to ELvis Costello but I think
Huey has a more bitingly cynical sense of humor.
In 1987 Huey released this, Fore!, their most
accomplished album. I think I heir undisputed masterpiece is “HiP To Be Square,” a song so catchy that 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 a personal statement about the band itself."
Great fricken flick…