The Cars - C or D/S&D

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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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

> 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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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

Keith C (lync0), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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

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, 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...

bendy, Thursday, 14 October 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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 (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

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 (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

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

one month passes...

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


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