Hmmm...I don't think it's "Drive My Car" :) "Twist & Shout?" (Altho that's more accurately an Isley Brothers song.)
Personally, I like The Cars' first 3 LPs ('specially the overlooked Panorama) and very little after that. And my favourite tracks are the weird ones that rarely get airplay, like "Down Boys" and "I'm In Touch With Your World".
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
This thread shouldn't even exist.
― cdwill, Monday, 15 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Anywho, my favorite Cars track has always been "Since You're Gone." All in all, though, classic.
― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Shit, I never realized that! And you can bet that the "I Will" one was lifted from some Carl Perkins record, too!
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Ric Ocasek is managed by Elliot Roberts, but his office would confirm only that Ocasek will release another solo album in September and that he would not be part of any Cars tour if it happened. Further inquiries were referred to Kovac.
Now, this is where the story gets really interesting. Since Ocasek won't do the tour, Easton and Hawkes have apparently recruited an old friend to step into his shoes.
Todd Rundgren is reportedly set to sing most of the lead vocals previously handled by Ocasek and Orr. Anyone familiar with Rundgren's talents as a musical chameleon would easily understand how the Runt could make it work.
Though I'd rather have The Cars be Rundgren's backing band.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
http://dreamvalley-mlp.com/cars/graphics/davidrum.jpg
http://www.creemmagazine.com/ProfilesImages/Cars_1979_02.jpg
― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link
the cars=the bluieprint for just about any 'retro 80's band' today see also- the killers, et all.
― eedd, Friday, 14 October 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
SHAME SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
But Ric Ocasek was releasing better solo singles at the time.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 15 October 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― strom (strom), Saturday, 15 October 2005 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 15 October 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 15 October 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 15 October 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
DRIVE = fucking amazing. anyone who thinks otherwise is flat out insane.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
What is that song about, anyway?
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
I love synth gunk but "Drive" is too gunky.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
meant "heartbeat city era", sorry
― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Cars-Why-Cant-I-Have-You/master/69679
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
That's Rundgren singing, right?
― bendy, Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
No, that's Ocasek.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 October 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
...His voice...
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
man it's truly weird to hear Ocasek sing Seals and Croft shit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr1tiAmOJqo
― veronica moser, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Mustache is even weirder.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
Paulina remembers and reflects:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/paulina-porizkova-ric-ocasek-894349/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 October 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
It's somewhat improbable, but I was aware of the Dead Kennedys before The Cars and when I first saw Ocasek I thought he looked a lot like East Bay Ray.
Ray himself posted a fun note on his Instagram: "RIP Ric Ocasek. Back in the day, I walked into E.U. Wurlitzer Music in Boston and low and behold there he was. We both did a double take, we look like like brothers, and we had a lovely chat"
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 October 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Thanks, that’s a good story. That Paulina peace is incredible from beginning to end. This part is charming: Our oldest, Jonathan, was in preschool, and his teacher came up to me after school and said, “We had a meeting in the morning, and we were all talking about what everyone’s parents did. They said, ‘My father’s a doctor’ and things like that.” Jonathan’s answer was, “My dad goes into the basement and my mom sits in the trailer.”
― Three Borads and the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 October 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah great piece. Would love to hear the recent Ocasek tracks that she was so excited about
― Vinnie, Saturday, 5 October 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
Paulina's out.
Bye bye, love.
Late Cars’ singer Ric Ocasek cut his estranged, supermodel wife out of his will, claiming that she “abandoned” him, the now-public document reveals.
“I have made no provision for my wife Paulina Porizkova (“Paulina”) as we are in the process of divorcing,” the new-wave icon wrote in his last wishes.
“Even if I should die before our divorce is final … Paulina is not entitled to any elective share … because she has abandoned me.”
Porizkova was the one who found her estranged rocker husband’s body in September, while bringing him coffee as he recovered from a recent surgery in his Gramercy Park townhouse.
The money, as usual, fascinates me:
A filing listed with Ocasek’s will show that his assets include $5 million in “copyrights” — but just $100,000 in “tangible personal property” and $15,000 in cash.
The document doesn’t break down what constitutes the “copyrights” assets.
While $5.115 million may seem on the low-end for a rock-legend such as Ocasek, a Trusts and Estates lawyer who examined the document told The Post the Cars’ frontman likely had money stashed away in other trusts.
Like many high-profile deceased stars, Ocasek could have stored away “many millions of dollars worth of assets.”
“That’s the reason people use trusts: to protect their privacy,” the lawyer noted.
I've long speculated this guy was worth, like, $20 million on royalties and sales alone. It's not like he blew it on big houses, drugs, or sports cars.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
Weren't they selling his Gramercy home for like $13 million?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 November 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
To echo the guy quoted in the article, the couple probably would have had their jointly owned property in a Trust.
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQq91RgZJyw
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:54 (four months ago) link
Yeah, the probate inventory shows the probate estate. Anything he put in trust during his life would not appear on that inventory.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 November 2023 23:06 (four months ago) link
And by the way, stone fuckin' classic, at least through Shake it Up.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 November 2023 23:07 (four months ago) link