Video: Huey Lewis and The News "Pineapple Express" Jimmy Kimmel

You thought M.I.A's "Paper Planes" was the theme tune for Seth Rogan's forthcoming movie Pineapple Express, didn't you?

We've already talked about Team Apatow's recruitment of Huey Lewis to contribute to the Pineapple Express soundtrack, that the film's co-writer/star Seth Rogan was said to be hoping for a "Power Of Love" vibe . Success? Well, when we linked to the song , one commenter noted "pretty bland" while another was more kind, but basically said the same thing: the song isn't great--it's not as great as power of love, for instance (and nowhere near heart of rock n roll or i wanna new drug), but they definitely got the vibe of [...]

"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, commercial 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 humour. 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 [...]