![]() ![]() ![]() All things being equal, it's nice to have the popularity.” I don't think we're a pop band, but whatever. I think people still see us as a pop band. I mean, it probably hurt our credibility a little bit. “In terms of breaking your band and popularity, MTV was huge. Lewis acknowledges the importance of the cable channel decades later. The popularity of Sports and the News themselves was further solidified by the quirky and imaginative videos for the singles that got played on MTV. And so in that sense, it kind of worked.” And so one of the reasons that the album is disparate is that we just did what came to us, what spoke to me. First of all, nobody produced their own records back in 1982. A normal producer wouldn't have done that. The musical and lyrical diversity of Sports also extended to its other songs on the record such as the doo-wop/blues of “Bad Is Bad” the anthemic “Walking on a Thin Line,” which tackled the plight of returning war veterans the New Wave-ish rockers “Finally Found a Home” and “You Crack Me Up” and a rockabilly-styled cover of Hank Williams’ “Honky Tonk Blues.” “The diversity is kind of interesting,” says Lewis. And it made all the difference in the world. “When we went back to cut “I Want a New Drug,” and I was convinced that we had to use the machines, I took the machines up again. Upon revisiting the track later prior to Sports’ release, Lewis wasn’t satisfied with what he heard. The band originally recorded “I Want a New Drug” using a Linn drum machine and sequenced bass, which didn’t make the rhythm section of Gibson and Cipollina happy, so the band re-recorded it sans the technology. Come on over.’ And he came over and he played the riff and I sang it into a little Sony Walkman. And then finally Chris Hayes called me up one day and he said, ‘I got it.’ I said ‘What?’ ‘“I Want a New Drug.” I got it. And I wrote a little thing with Mario that didn't work. “So now I tried a couple of different things. So I had the lyric, and I didn't have a song yet. When I stopped at his house, he opened the door and I said, ‘Do you have a pencil and paper I can borrow for a minute?’ And he said, ‘Yeah.’ And I just wrote pretty much the whole song all the way down. ![]() I drove to his house, and on the way I had this song-it just came to me. “I had a long night and I woke up and hung over. The idea for that song came to Lewis after he woke up on the day he was scheduled to see his attorney. Next screens, you will be directed to still enter your own shipping information forīilling and account purposes, but the order will still ship to your recipient.The aforementioned hard-hitting rocker “I Want a New Drug” followed “Heart and Soul” as the next single. Note (that will be included in their box) and we’ll take care of the rest. Want to send this order as a gift? Enter their shipping information, plus an optional ![]() Please consider updating your browser to enjoy an optimal experience. Our website may not look and function quite right in it. Want to stay in the loop about our exclusive reissues, Records of the Month, and other vinyl deals via email? $ Ĭreate a free VMP account to save this product to your wishlist. Records of the MonthVMP Store ExclusivesPre-OrdersReady to ShipVinyl Me, Partonīest SellersBundlesAnthology$30 & UnderRepresses Use hashtag #vmpanthology006 to share your experience and connect with other VMP Anthology members. The Glorious Inconsistency of the Grateful DeadĪ Guide to the Essential Live Grateful Dead Songs This is a useful episode if you're wondering how to maximize the free Nugs.Net trial you got as part of purchasing this box set! In this bonus episode to this season of VMP Anthology, Andrew talks with the founder of Nugs.Net about his history as a Dead Head, and how his website full of incredible live shows came to be. He learns why there might be three tiers of Dead releases, and why the European tour of 1972 might have been one of the Dead's peaks. In this episode, Andrew covers your Episode 2 records, Live / Dead and Europe '72, talking to David Lemieux and Dead Head Eric Renner Brown along the way. ![]()
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