― 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
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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
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 (five 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 (five months ago) link