Another one of my favorite bands, The Cars were one of the best late 70's through mid 80's pop/rock/new wave bands. Ric Ocasek was/is a great songwriter, who wrote very catchy hooks and melodies. The Cars consisted of a good group of musicians as well. Elliot Easton is a fave guitarist of mine. The Cars were one of the few bands that made that crucial transition from the 70's into the 80's. If anything, the became even more popular with having very smart videos on MTV.
Great Cuts:
Dangerous Type
Since You're Gone
You're Just What I Needed
Let's Go
Tonight She Comes
Magic
Drive
Best Friend's Girlfriend
Good Times Roll
You Might Think
You're All I've Got Tonight
Shake It Up
Who else digs this band?

Love them!!! Have a greatest hits on vinyl that I still play. They were the first New Wave I was into. Too bad Ben Orr is now deceased, would make for a great reunion.

i was never a huge fan, but I love Heartbeat City.. great album.

My favorites are:

Let's Go
Just What I Needed
Shake It Up
Drive

Their first album was my favorite!

"You're All I've Got Tonight," the demo version. That's my favorite. I have it on a compilation called "Mass Avenue, The Boston Scene 1975-83." It's a great disc, beside the Cars it has Mission of Burma, The Lyres, and a lot more good bands that I can't think of right now. Wish I had it with me.

The Cars were oh sooooo Coooool!
Elliot Easton almost made my list of
"Guitarist that made me re-examine my playing"!
I loved his whimsical/almost comical persona!
He had a nerdish competence about him!
I have his solo album(vinyl LP) and Ric Ocasik's solo
project! I think I had Benjamin Orr's solo project also.
From what I remember "Shake It Up" was my favorite album(aside
from their mainstream success of Heartbeat City)
w "Since You're Gone" grabbing my attention! "Let's Go" from
the album, Candy "O was also nice!
GGD

GGDeVille said:

I have one of Ric's solo albums. Man, don't even get me started about "Since You're Gone". That's a song that I have been in love with the first time I heard it. Elliot's solo on that is fucking COLDBLOODED!!! The tone, his feel, the way he stops all of a sudden and then starts up again! Man, that is a MAJESTIC solo!

blackguitaristz said:

BG
now you done it !!! Just came in from the work, saw your post, and went to the
garage to find my albums yeah as in vinyl and wax! I found Elliot Easton's
album!!! It still has the protective plastic cover and price(2 for $5)!!
I remember his album and Kazumi Watanabe's Mobo II at the same time!!!
That takes me back! Only problem...I don't have a turntable any more!!!
Oh well!!!
GGD

Favorite Cars Album:

Panorama

Favorite Cars tunes:
Gimme Some Slack
Down Boys
Think It Over
Candy-O
It's All I Can Do
Good Times Roll
Bye Bye Love
Moving In Stereo
Let's Go
Dangerous Type
Since You're Gone
I'm Not The One
You Might Think
Drive
Magic

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

I LOOOOOVVVE The Cars!!!!!

rachel3 said:

I didn't even know he had passed on. I'm sorry to hear that. Id hoped maybe VH1's 'Bands Reunited' would try to get The Cars back together sometime.

I love The Cars too
Some of my favorites are :
Let's Go
Bye Bye Love
Best Friends Girlfriend
Good Times Roll
Shake it up
Your Just What I Needed
Dangerous Type

Maybe the first New Wave band?

I love The Cars

Genius arrangements, not everything is gold but the good is amazing.
I agree with all song lists here

I love The Cars!

(of course there is the Ric Ocasek/Bad Brains connection too)

in honor of this thread, i picked up Gregory Orr's solo CD "The Lace" - which includes STay the Night, his only solo Top 40 hit. Pretty interesting mid-80's stuff.... I loved his voice on "DRIVE". I wonder if The Lace is out of print.... I found it in a used shop for $5.00. Anybody know?

blackguitaristz said:

Since You're Gone is also my cut. The Cars is one of my favorite groups. I really used to dig Ric Ocasek's fashion sense and his connection w/Andy Warhol.

Love The Cars! They made some of the best, most catchy pop/new wave tunes of the 70s and 80s. You're Just What I Needed is, to me, their best track. Superb!

Lets Go and
You Might Think

Great band... I liked their videos also.

I always found it odd that my favorite Cars' track is Drive as it's not fronted by Ric, but I love Ric, and I love The Cars. I really like the two tracks Ric produced on No Doubt's Rock Steady album.

Meloh9 said:

No, sir, they were not.


I only like a few Cars songs, really. But they're one of the few bands of that era that I never really got into.

"Let's Go" would probably be my favorite.

Moiaussi=>I'm not the one, Heartbeat City, Drive of course, Since You're Gone..

my favorite The Cars song is "touch and go".

I have to show myself in this thread because the Cars were just there all around me during my teen-induced state. I grew out of them -- they seemed kind of light -- but in retrospect, their songs hold up very well. And they sure do carry me back.

JonSnow said:

Wow! I would love to get a hold of that. Didn't even know that he had solo album out. I always thought that he should have. I also dig his voice on Drive. I will look 4 it. Thanx 4 hipping me to it.

From grade school through high school, The Cars were always with me. From my first serious makeout sessions, there was "You're Just What I Needed" to a little more progression (wet jeans love), there was "Let's Go". My favorite Cars song "Since You're Gone" was in the background definately when the sex came. "Drive" was there during the breaking up and making up again. Man, I can feel the pain and the knot in my chest and stomach from those days when it was still pure. The Cars to me were a majestic band. Their feel on some songs were grandoise."Dangerous Type" "Tonight, She Comes" "Drive" and "Since You're Gone" are all haunting and whimsical at the same time. And I love that combination to death.


"Hey, don't waste all that film there. Cuz, I was..scared of..to death."

Jimi Hendrix

NWF said:

everybody knows that the cars were one of the bands that influenced new wave "sir"

Meloh9 said:

But they certainly were not the first.