Huey Lewis back on themes

By Michael Roffman on March 4th, 2008

I’m pretty sure every reader here could sing a lyric or two from either one of the Back to the Future songs. “Power of Love” and “Back in Time” are both classics now, thanks to the punchy 80’s new wave of Huey Lewis & The News. It’s been awhile, but pretty soon, Huey-enthusiasts will have a new tune to hum, thanks to the upcoming Judd Apatow produced comedy, The Pineapple Express.

The chorus lyrics are: “We got trouble, we got to get out of here. I’ve got you, you’ve got me. We are as high as we can be. That’s all right. How did we get into this mess? Pineapple Express!”

About the song, [Director] David [Gordon Green] says:

“Huey Lewis just finished our theme song for us. It is called Pineapple Express, cleverly. Our only input was, we told him we wanted it to sound like his 80s work that we loved so much. And we wanted to have the plot in it. And we wanted to have him say the title as many times as he could. There is a lot of alto sax. It is kind of like that “other” “Back to the Future” Huey Lewis song. Not “Power of Love” but “Back in Time”. Yeah.”

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I think it’s pretty safe to say that everyone will be looking forward to this song, not to mention the film, especially if last year was any indication (e.g. Superbad and Knocked Up’s blockbuster success). There’s some Huey action for you, after the jump…