so old
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
It's out May 10th, apparently.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, why did they have to wait after that New Cars nonsense to do this?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJQWGA1O8s
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Reminds me ofhttp://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/crave/electric-company-silhouette.jpg
― All you have to do is combine 1 to 7 with (a) to (d) and you should ha (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
hm.
it's . . . flat.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Flat, really? I think it sounds pretty good for a band who last recorded together in 1987. I mean, it's at least as good as last year's Devo record.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought that one devo song had a lot more pep-in-its-step.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, i agree this new cars' song is "pretty good for a band who last recorded together in 1987." it's okay; just kind of flat-sounding.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounding flat is nothing I would hold against The Cars. The bridge here isn't quite flat enough. I like this more than Heartbeat City stuff.
― bendy, Friday, 18 February 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I do like the idea of the Cars sound being the Cars sound, and not just the sound of the band beholden to '80s tech. Like, this is the way they were made to sound, no matter the decade. It just so happened that lots of other new wave bands in the late '70s and '80s sounded this way, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 February 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Another new video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxqxNzlEFM4
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Definitely looking forward to this album - these tracks are sounding good enough to have a small level of excitement over, at least.
What's up with them not actually showing face in any of these new videos though? They seem to be going out of their way to not appear in the videos even when they're actually appearing in the videos.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 March 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
It is kind of weird, but maybe they're just vain and want people to remember them young (not that any of them besides Orr were ever attractive in the first place).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 March 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I wondered about that - maybe they're trying to appeal to a younger demographic that knows all the modern bands that are ripping off the Cars but don't actually know the Cars themselves and that they're old men now? Originally I was wondering if it was some shady "hey it's not really the band you remember but Elliot Easton and some sidemen of varying levels of fame" type of New Cars bullshit.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 March 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the new song! Sounds like Arcade Fire covering the Cars (though I like Arcade Fire a lot more than most people here, I think.)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
in that 'in touch with your world' live video, what's that can opener type instrument the mega nerd guy with glasses is playing?
― NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
stupendously shit editing in that video btw
― NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-listen-the-cars-first-album-in-24-years-20110503
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
After one listen, I'd give the album a "B". As far as unexpected reunion albums go, though, I'd give it an "A+".
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm gonna declare "Drag on Forever" an all-time Cars track. Sketching out the perils of longterm cohabitation with Porizkova provides Cohenesque levels of zen dissatisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nE4p5yeAHA
― bendy, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/LDXKZxaqxgQ/hqdefault.jpg
Holy Shit!
― Paul, Saturday, 29 March 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
― Paul, Saturday, 29 March 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cars-ric-ocasek-dead-at-75/amp/
― piscesx, Monday, 16 September 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
:-(
― stirmonster, Monday, 16 September 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
This guy was immense, and I hope our obits do him justice. The Cars defined New Wave in the best sense: chords and harmonies recognizable to Foreigner fans, but with music indebted to Roxy Music and Wire.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
Master of hooks, architect of one of the best guitar sounds in existence. RIP
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 September 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
gutted by this. such a genius. ugh.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 September 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
Ah shit. Truly one of the great ones.
― o. nate, Monday, 16 September 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
“Magic” isn’t supposed to make me cry goddammit
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 September 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
The way the drums hit on “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” >>>
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 September 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
Worth remembering that when they showed the clip of ‘Drive’ cut to footage of children affected by famine during the British Live Aid gig, more telephone donations came in at that point than at any other time during the show. Having seen it a few days earlier via his manager, Bowie was so shocked and touched by the clip he supposedly insisted on dropping one of his planned songs (‘Five Years’) just so they could fit it in the running order. An extraordinary thing to have played a part in.
― piscesx, Monday, 16 September 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
I've got to admit, not someone I ever thought about dying before. He seemed perpetually in his 30s. Hitting pretty hard.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 September 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
he was 75! Amazing.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
The Cars will be forever linked in my mind with the summer of 1978. I got fired from my radio job in part because I kept deviating from the playlist to include “Just What I Needed.” It sounded like the future of pop music to me.
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 September 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
I've been going through a lot of my vinyl in the last few months which included listening to the first four Cars albums. It was such a joy to hear them all again. I'm always blown away by how many hooks and ideas they crammed into every song. Incredible playing too. Some days I think Touch & Go is the best song ever made.
RIP Ric
― kitchen person, Monday, 16 September 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
I karaoke'd "Just What I Needed" to my wife on one of our first dates (and yes I know Ben sang it but Ric wrote it).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 16 September 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
Cars had a pretty obviously great sound and hooks but Ric is an underrated vocalist. Distinctive and perfect for what they were trying to do. RIP
― Vinnie, Monday, 16 September 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
Was just checking wiki, and kind of surprised how many Ben vox I thought were Ric.
RIP good sir.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 September 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
This RS piece is so goddamn good
Jon Pareles' definitive Cars profile from Rolling Stone in 1979, which Kevin Dettmar and Jonathan Lethem were smart to include in their recent American rock-writing anthology. R.I.P., Ric, whose unassailable cool was also unassailably inclusive. https://t.co/YO3qRobfjg— Michaelangelo Matos (@matoswk75) September 16, 2019
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 September 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
I got fired from my radio job in part because I kept deviating from the playlist to include “Just What I Needed.”
On the contrary, it was the playlist that was deviating from playing "Just What I Needed" over and over again
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 16 September 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
:( . That first album is perfection.
(I didn't realize he was that old btw. Born four years before Robert Plant.)
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 16 September 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
oh for fuck's sake
Candy-O was the 2nd record I ever bought
RIP
https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend
― sleeve, Monday, 16 September 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
divesting news, for me it was Hreatbeat City as it was one of the very first albums i ever owned.
― Bee OK, Monday, 16 September 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
Always been a fan but somehow had no idea he produced the 2nd Suicide album (and a lot of their other group and solo albums)
― Fetchboy, Monday, 16 September 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
Ocasek was really in the tank for Suicide. He demanded they appear on the ep of The Midnight Special The Cars hosted.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 September 2019 04:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=corytlfEB9c
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 September 2019 05:24 (four years ago) link
Rest in peace. I remember seeing Suicide play in NYC sometime in the early '90s, Ocasek trying to be inconspicuous playing ( if I recall ) bass in the background. Hecklers called out for Cars songs.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 16 September 2019 07:11 (four years ago) link
I interviewed him in 1997 when he was promoting the record for which he was working with Billy Corgan, Melissa auf der Maur, Ira Elliott: "you have to choose: reform the Cars or have hot diarrhea for a week" with no hesitation whatsoever, he chose the latter.
― veronica moser, Monday, 16 September 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
And yet he did eventually reform the the Cars, so clearly hot diarrhea for a week made a negative impression.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 September 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link