For whatever reason, your loyal reissue reporter has been listening to a lot of Huey Lewis and The News. No, it's not a Patrick Bateman thing. It's just that The News - that pub-rock ensemble that powered a lot of mid-'80s radio - are just crazy listenable. They really bridged a gap between straight-up blues-rock and synth-driven pop, creating a style that really holds up some 25 years or so later.

It's a style that's kind of underrepresented on CD, though. Sports was expanded in 1999 with live cuts and session outtakes, and a few compilations (most recently Capitol's Greatest Hits & Videos (2006)), but all the other LPs of theirs have been released only once on CD. All of them could use a remastering and expansion, but their first two albums - their 1980 self-titled debut and 1982's Picture This - could use a revisiting on CD. Best of all, the pair of them could both fit onto a CD with a handful of bonus cuts (both of those LPs were in fact released on a single disc as an import, but wouldn't it be nice to see them get a nice treatment Stateside?).

With that in mind, hit the jump for a Reissue Theory look at Huey and The News' first two LPs. Hope you love it like you say you do!

Huey Lewis and The News, Huey Lewis and The News/Picture This

1. Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later) - 3:23
2. Don’t Make Me Do It - 2:50
3. Now Here’s You - 3:31
4. Stop Tryin’ - 4:12
5. I Want You - 2:48
6. Don’t Ever Tell Me That You Love Me - 2:53
7. Hearts - 2:51
8. Trouble in Paradise - 3:11
9. Who Cares? - 3:49
10. If You Really Love Me You’ll Let Me - 1:52
11. Change of Heart - 3:41
12. Tell Me a Little Lie - 3:42
13. Tattoo (Giving It All for Your Love) - 3:11
14. Hop You Love Me Like You Say You Do - 3:44
15. Workin’ for a Livin’ - 2:36
16. Do You Believe in Love - 3:30
17. Is It Me - 3:01
18. Whatever Happened to True Love - 3:14
19. The Only One - 4:46
20. Buzz Buzz Buzz - 2:29
21. Don’t Ever Tell Me That You Love Me (Remix) - 2:59
22. Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later) (Remix) - 3:21
23. Workin' for a Livin' (Live) - 4:00

Tracks 1-10 from Huey Lewis and The News LP - Chrysalis PV-41292, 1980
Tracks 11-20 from Picture This LP - Chrysalis FV-41340, 1982
Track 21 was the B-side to “Stuck with You” - Chrysalis VS4-43019, 1986
Track 22 was the B-side to “Hip to Be Square” - Chrysalis VS4-43065, 1986
Track 23 was the B-side to "The Heart of Rock & Roll" - Chrysalis VS4-42782, 1984