The Cars - C or D/S&D

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just heard "Drive" on the radio, utter classic. The singles run these guys had from '78 - '87 is probably among the ten greatest chart runs in pop history. Did they falter once?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I like the first one a lot (one of my all-time best $1 CD bin finds) - need to get the second.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

if anyone has the debut and does not have the follow-up, candy-o..

SHAME SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

[Roy Thomas Baker interview]

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

The singles run these guys had from '78 - '87 is probably among the ten greatest chart runs in pop history. Did they falter once?

For the sake of argument:

Gimme Some Slack / Don't Go to Pieces (Elektra 47101; January 5, 1981)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

"You Are The Girl" was their only single that i thought was really bad. To use a way overused idiom, they ran out of gas!

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I like "You Are The Girl," actually. Better than "Hello Again."

But Ric Ocasek was releasing better solo singles at the time.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

"Gimme Some Slack" isn't bad. It strikes me as an attempt by Ocasek and Co. to do "Emotional Rescue" vintage Stones -- something like "She's So Cold." Of course, "Panorama" hit the racks just two months after "Emotional Rescue," so I suspect that the similiarity is more coincidental.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 15 October 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

So very classic! "Just What I Needed" = perfect song.

― strom (strom), Saturday, 15 October 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

"Touch and Go" deserved to chart a lot higher than #39...

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 15 October 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

I am rather surprised by the Panoramalove, as I got it for $3 a few mths ago and was mighty disappointed. It was the sound of an AOR band imitating 154-era Wire.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 15 October 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

I didn't hear "Panorama" until a couple of years ago, but many of its songs have emerged as my favorites. I remember that one poster (dave q, I think) made some good points on a thread once about the autobiographical aspects of "Misfit Kid" and "Down Boys."

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 15 October 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I can't say I have any real firsthand knowledge with Cars ALBUMS, but I heard the title track of "Candy-O" recently and just loved it. I've always loved the way Benjamin Orr's voice sounds.

Actually though - I did have Heartbeat City a long time ago. I forgot about that.

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

> I've always loved the way Benjamin Orr's voice sounds.

Me too. And there aren't many vocalists who could have delivered such perfectly-judged performances to a pair of songs as stylistically diverse as Just What I Needed and Drive. Props to Ocasek too, for having humility enough to hand over his two finest compositions to another guy to sing.

― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, Orr sang "Just What I Needed"? Now how come I never picked up on that before...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

I like Orr's solo hit, "Stay The Night" - a "Drive" manque.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Orr also sing "Let's Go"?

― Keith C (lync0), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Yup. He sang "Moving in Stereo," "Just What I Needed," "Let's Go," "Candy-O," "You're All I've Got Tonight," "It's All I Can Do," among others.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

That Milkwood album is so weird. I keep listening to it and wondering how it's possible that you can't hear one single atom of similarity between it and anything the Cars ever did.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:15 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

DRIVE = fucking amazing. anyone who thinks otherwise is flat out insane.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:33 (fifteen years ago)

What is that song about, anyway?

― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah I think "Drive" is my favorite song of theirs (fwiw I only know the singles).

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

I think it might be even better if it was in Japanese and sung in that really overwrought style like the guy from Hyde sings in.

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

I love synth gunk but "Drive" is too gunky.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

buddy of mine once told me about a Cars non-album b-side, maybe from heartbeat city, that was awesome. i've googled around and got nothin'...by any chance does anybody know the title of what i'm talkin' about?

― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

meant "heartbeat city era", sorry

― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

xxxpost it's about who's going to drive you home. tonight.

because it won't be the dude singing the song, and he's sad about that, but maybe dodged a bullet too, because baby's a handful. or at least he's trying to convince himself of that. maybe she's headed for a crash, or maybe he just hopes she is. depends on who left whom, and that's unresolved in the lyric.

/songmeanings

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:28 (fifteen years ago)

Loved it when we saw the photos of dead Ethiopian babies accompanying this track at Live Aid.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)

― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:18 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

Discogs lists a bunch of singles, there is a remix version and a dub version of "Hello Again" and one track I don't know (not on LP, but there are other B-sides w/older material) called "Breakaway" on the B-side of "Why Can't I Have You"

― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/Cars-Why-Cant-I-Have-You/master/69679

― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:42 (fifteen years ago)

They just posted a clip of a new song "Blue Tip" on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=445115559565&comments&ref=mf

It's not bad, methinks.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)

I'm enjoying the new one, as well. Not surprising--I really liked "Nexterday," and that was only five years ago.

― Fitzcarraldo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 10:03 (fifteen years ago)

That's Rundgren singing, right?

― bendy, Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:07 (fifteen years ago)

No, that's Ocasek.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 October 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)

Hunh! Hi voice doesn't sound the same, even if the melody and delivery recognizably him. It is good.

― bendy, Thursday, 14 October 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

...His voice...

― bendy, Thursday, 14 October 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

i don't know much about The Cars, was Ric Ocasek the usual singer? or was it the Drive guy? i wonder what Ric O made of 'the other guy' singing the big radio smash?

― piscesx, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

Ocasek and Orr traded off pretty regularly, and each had a number of hits under their belts (Orr sang "Just What I Needed" as well, fwiw). I don't think the lack of variety will really weigh down this reunion too much, because there were many times when you couldn't tell for sure who actually was singing a particular song.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

this is pretty dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGkuiC9hM4

― hypnosis is the reason some Jewish people backed him → (will), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

Synth-pop pioneers or a dollar store Talking Heads? YOU make the call!

are they one thing they aren't or another thing they aren't? you make the call!

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

How amazing that Rik Ocasek got married to the girl in the DRIVE video.

Other brilliant thing about The Cars: at Nirvana's last ever gig, they started with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvefPgXlgg

:'(

― piscesx, Saturday, 16 October 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Just posted another clip of a new one, "Sad Song": http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=473649429565&oid=189146859928&comments

They're 2-for-2 now, and I'm actually looking forward to this album.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

wow, that's a cool Nirvana video. Totally unexpected, and damn, I miss Kurt Cobain's voice.

― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Another new clip of a song named "Free": http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=489559699565&oid=189146859928&comments

That's 3-for-3.

Also, here's the album cover I guess?

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/180546_10150109654249929_189146859928_6032173_2167932_n.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 06:08 (fifteen years ago)

so old

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 07:31 (fifteen years ago)

It's out May 10th, apparently.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 23:34 (fifteen years ago)

Man, why did they have to wait after that New Cars nonsense to do this?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJQWGA1O8s

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

Reminds me of
http://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 (fifteen years ago)

hm.

it's . . . flat.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

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yeah it's really sad, they could have been even better than they were

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Thursday, 26 February 2026 23:39 (three months ago)

btw the Greg Hawkes solo album is totally great, if anyone itt has not heard it

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Thursday, 26 February 2026 23:41 (three months ago)

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