“All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today.” - Huey Lewis & the News, “Jacob’s Ladder”

Huey Lewis and his band of merry men are responsible for some of my least-favorite, most-generic music of the 1980s. But this one time they nailed it - in large part, I think, due to the song itself, written by Bruce Hornsby. Yeah, that Bruce Hornsby. [Oddly, this song was on the charts at the exact same time as Hornsby’s debut with his band the Range, “The Way It Is.”] There’s something about that particular line that just gets me; it’s such a simple, basic trueism, but one never stated quite so clearly in song (at least not that I know of). The rest of the song is fine, as well, but that particular line sums up so much of how I feel about life. Kudos to you, Mr. Hornsby, for writing it so simply and so well, and kudos to you, Mr. Lewis, for having the good taste (!) to record “Jacob’s Ladder.”