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And also contains one of the best "Kiss Off and Die" lyrics of ALL TIME: "You think you're so illustrious, you call yourself intense" delivered to utter perfection by Benjamin Orr... it's my favorite Cars song of all time! :)
The Cars are the greatest band ever! Easton is the greatest guitarist of all time. Period. Orr was the best male vocalist ever, with maybe the exception of Elvis. Ocasek was the best songwriter ever. Hawkes is actually a world renowned ukulele player and his use of keyboards is second to none. My favorite 5 Cars songs (in order) are: 1) All Mixed Up 2)Candy O 3) Everything You Say 4) Bye Bye Love 5) You Might Think
The Cars produced one of my favourite songs of all time. I believe it can stand alone as one of the greatest rock recordings ever. And it's not on your list... the song is 'It's All I Can Do'. My understanding is it may not have been popular amongst the bandmates, but damn it's a beauty. The perfect example of how each member contributes to complete The Cars package. Ben's vocals are emotive with longing, the guitar string effect building the tension, the big drums hitting your chest and keeping the beat, the keyboards sweep with such beauty and power, and Elliott drops the most proficient and creative sweeping solo he may have ever recorded... right into the pocket, backing vocals are on point, and almost forgot to mention the brilliance of the fade out at the end of the song. The call and response of the guitar, from one ear to the other. Brilliant! So good. Certainly on a level up high on their very own. The Cars are a treasure.
When the Cars came out, it was like nothing I had ever heard before! I am more partial to the 1st 2 albums that came out! I couldn’t get enough!! I had the albums and the 8 tracks of them. Album for my stereo and 8 tracks for my car. So many memories of teenage and college years. One of my most favorite bands of all time. Got to see them in concert in the 90’s at the Richmond Colliseum I Richmond Va. Every single song they sung in concert and on their albums was a hit to me!! Not one bad song in the bunch!!!
@@starrywizdom Thank you, I feel so blessed, I celebrated the anniversary of my page & RUclips channel with sharing a rare footage of live concert from 1978 and more and was so touched as I had close to 300 notifications. I have such a lovely community of like minded fans of Benjamin and The Cars :) Warmest regards from a hot summer day in Tasmania, Tia :)
I find it VERY frustrating when guys talk about greatest guitar players of all time and NEVER mention Elliot. I play guitar, and I can figure out licks and solo's by Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Vai, and Satch fairly easily...but, when it comes to learning Easton's licks and his solo's...I have a LOT of trouble getting it right. He's a fantastic and an extremely under rated player!
@@terryguire1321 Yep , that it's indeed :) When I created my Facebook page dedicated to Benjamin Orr and The Cars I knew there was only one name for this page and also for the channel. I was lucky no one had used this before :D I am working on a website as well, warm regards from Tasmania, where we are having ORRsome orangy skies ;) Tia ⚡ 😇 🎸🎼
Got that right. Some of his stuff is so wild i can't figure it out. Was thinking to buy one of those tab books off Amazon but i have my doubts that they are going to help. Tonight She Comes is my all time favorite solo to play everytime i pick up a guitar with a floyd rose
Ok, NOW you’ve got my attention! The Cars are absolutely one of THE MOST underrated bands ever! The hooks were off the chain! The precision drumming of David Robinson; the genius behind the keyboards & synthesizers of Greg Hawks; the cool guitar riffs from Elliott Easton; the smooth, yet cool vocals of Benjamin Orr; and the quirkiness of Ric Ocasek! LOVED THAT BAND! My 5’er: 5) “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” 4) “Since You’re Gone” 3) “Bye Bye Love” 2) “Moving In Stereo” 1) “Let’s Go”
These guys got me through my high school years. I was a HUGE Cars fan. Saw them 6 times at Madison Square Garden. "There'll never be another group like The Cars " is an understatement for sure...
There's something in the energy of The Cars that no other band has ever managed to pull off, corky, hopefull, sarcastic at times, naive, mature, I don't know, I love them anyway hahaha. There'll never be a band like them ever again. My top 5: * Magic. * Tonight She Comes. * My best friend's girl. * You Might Think. * Just What I Needed.
Hey I'm a huge The Cars fan, so don't everyone freak out, but I'm going with my top 5 overlooked. 5: I'm In Touch With Your World 4: Gimme Some Slack 3: Leave Or Stay 2: Why Can't I Have You? 1: Touch And Go
"Why can't I have you", to me is totally underrated. I'm an amateur guitar player and always liked it even though it was one of theirs that had no guitar solo, and Elliot was a big influence on me also. His solos fit their songs perfectly. Very catchy hooks.
The Cars were my first "favorite band". They showed up right when I was looking for my musical identity and they fit perfectly. So many great songs-- I loved the hits. I loved the B-sides. I loved the deep cuts that no one else got into. I could never compile a 5er I'd be happy with, but I can list a bunch of perhaps underrated or widely-unknown songs from them: "Panorama" from the album of the same name-- Despite some "not so great" production on this album, a lot of the songs on Panorama are killer. I love the energy of the album opener. And the video is Beastie Boys "Sabotage" before it was a thing. "I'm In Touch With Your World" from the first album-- Maybe not unknown, but I think under-appreciated. No samplers back then-- this song is total studio fun-housing, with timpani, foley sounds, and that weird whistle that goes "ffffwwweEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!" "A Dream Away" from Shake it Up-- A trance-like drone song that always transports me back to being awake way too early in the morning, walking around outside in the pre-dawn mist. "It's Not The Night" from Heartbeat City-- Really liked this song and wasn't sure why it didn't get more airplay (was it even released as a single?). The live performance of it from their Houston show is really great. Notable for the fact that it's one of the few Cars songs that features Ben and Ric trading vocal duties during the song. "Think It Over" from Shake it Up-- It's got one of those signature "weird Cars sounds" going, which I love. The song itself is totally catchy, if a bit repetitive. I never really noticed that aspect until I got older. I just grooved on the... groove. My answer to the question of "What is your favorite Cars song?" will always be "The entire 2nd side of the first album, in order, uninterrupted. As God intended."
I am certain fans already know this, but for those who do not, John Lennon was quoted as saying Touch & Go was a current favorite of his before his assassination in '80. And that he liked The Cars. That's a pretty decent, fair-dinkum vote of approval!
2:13 - Back in the day, when I was first discovering music that wasn't on the little local radio station, I went out and used my first ever paycheck to buy: *Cars - The Cars *The Wall - Pink Floyd
STORY TIME! I top-5 them (kind of) at the bottom of this. Let's Go was the first song by The Cars that I ever heard. I remember where I was. Back seat of a Plymouth Arrow with my cousin, with my aunt and uncle driving us from Denver to California in the summer of 1979. My uncle had recorded a bunch of songs to cassettes from KAZY ("The Rock of Colorado" was their slogan) and Let's Go was on it. I must have heard it a dozen times on that trip, and oh did I love it. It's been my all-time favorite ever since. And The Cars have always been my favorite band. They were just... different... from all the WXYZ/CKLW/Dick Purtan top 40 radio stuff my parents favored at that time, different from everything else I had ever heard. I went out looking for that song when I got back to Detroit from that summer trip to CO & CA, and I was 12 and testing my mom's patience as I pawed through the record bins. I ended up with the first album on vinyl instead of Candy-O, which I did not find that day. THAT 2ND SIDE! And that was after a first side that was as hooky and awesome as anything I had ever experienced. I had discovered my first rock band that was all my own, in terms of how I learned of them myself and discovered their sound without the influence of parents or the light musical peer pressure of my friends. I still play the 2nd side of the first album in that order whenever I am jonesing for some Cars. I think it was some time before I found Candy-O since I was so happy with The Cars debut album. What a hard band to top five. Too many awesome songs. But #1 is always "Let's Go" for me if for no other reason than the visceral memories it brings back for me. Really their first three albums were for me music perfection. I liked Shake It Up less than those, but then Heartbeat City was top of game again. Never got into Door To Door at the time it came out, but it grew on me in later years. I don't hate their "Move Like This" album, but without Ben, it just was off for me. I play it now and again, but I have always favored Ben's singing by far over Ric's. Ric's quirky vocals (always been my description, too) are just as important to their sound for me - no knock on his singing. But BEN. My top 5. With an asterisk for that whole 2nd side of the first album. All Mixed Up (5d? this one had to grow on me for a few years. Who can figure out early teenage music tastes though.) Moving In Stereo (5c?) Bye Bye Love (5b?) 5) You're All I've Got Tonight (but really, the whole 2nd side of "The Cars" is one long continuous play, as it was intended) 4) Dangerous Type 3) Candy-O 2) It's Not The Night 1) Let's Go
New Wave was colorful. How can something sound colorful. Well, the people who dressed up like "new wave" dressed "colorful." They had guts, because the vast majority of music lovers weren't following. And we know how intolerant young people can be. I knew a girl with a lunchbox purse. She wore hats too. They had pins stuck in their lapels. Late seventies this was
The Cars have been on constant play for me during the pandemic. When I don't want to do something around the house, I put my ear buds on, find my Cars spotify list, and go to it.They were one of the best bands out of 80's, truly fantastic musicians.
When i was fourteen years old my friend bought Just What I Needed on blue car picture disc...we played it in his bedroom that night and where both blown away... 42 years on it is still one of my favourite songs ever...
Touch and Go is great because of the odd time signature with the drums and bass locking in, not to mention one of the greatest Elliot Easton guitar solos on the planet! There's too many great ones to make a top 5, seriously. All Mixed Up, It's All I Can Do, I'm Not the One, the list just goes on forever.
1980 saw them at Long Beach Arena, Motels opened for them, was 14, bought a scalped ticket for 20 bucks. The Cars were like? New wave and Rock had a baby, And the Cars were born.Still a fan.
@@carolebarker2195 either Just What I Needed or Moving In Stereo/All Mixed Up. Always viewed the latter as one song. They used to play them live together. Wish it was one song for the purpose of playlists.
@@riskydigitsta1794 I love their earlier songs best too. Did you see them play live? They never toured here in the uk. They did Rock Goes to College here, but I think that was a one-off.
@@carolebarker2195 haha wasn’t alive I’m afraid. Would love to if Ben and Ric were still around. I actually assumed they were English when I first heard them. Most great new wave and others are.
The Cars always take me back to some of my fondest memories growing up as a teenager in the 80’s. When just driving with your friends, no where to go was more than enough. Loved them then and love them even more today, 45 years later…
"Drive" is the greatest song of the 1980's. It is the song that most captures the sentiment of an era, the sentiment of the transition from analogue to digital, with all its implications. And we felt it as kids, even then.
The first live band I ever saw was The Cars...1984, Heartbeat City tour. I was 13 years old... I can still remember the stage setup, the televisions attached to mechanical arms waving up and down. The Forum in Southern California...man it was so good.
absolutely a huge part of the soundtrack of my high school life, entering HS in 1980 you couldn't go anywhere without hearing someone's boombox blaring the Cars!!
The Cars are the one band that can get me into a positive mood no matter who or what pisses me off. You just can't be pissed when you crank up songs like "Dangerous Type" or "Good Times Roll" with a a follow up dose of "Moving in Stereo" and "Let's Go" to forget that I was ever angry.
The best compliment I can give The Cars is that after listening to them awhile I decided to make a mixtape of theirs and it ended up being two discs. Too many good songs to do a top five but I'd like to highlight a few favorites; Don't Go to Pieces, Don't Cha Stop, Cruiser, Touch and Go, Down Boys, Gimme Some Slack. R.I.P. Rick Ocasek and R.I.P. Benjamin Orr
What I like about The Cars are the dueling lead vocals & harmonies. Elliot Easton is an ace 🎸 player. My favorite album of theirs " Panorama " is vastly underated. Give Roy Thomas Baker credit , his Production was amazing on their early albums. Brilliant band.
He also produced Bridge of Spies by TPau which propelled them to a US number 4 hit with Heart and Soul and then success in Britain and the rest of Europe after the song was used in a Pepe jeans commercial in America. Home country success in reverse to the usual order of things.
Panorama is an acquired taste. I didn't like it first time I heard it. It was what I call a "experimental sound" album. Every band has one. Panorama was this album. I listened to it in the 90's. Almost thirty years later I gave it another chance. It's great!
I was heart broken and floored last summer when Rick passed away suddenly. He was my favorite in the late 70’s early 80’s The Cars❤️ I still remember You might,Think Magic, Drive, Hello again from MTV. Shake it up Let’s Go Just what I needed My best friends girl .....earlier on I was hooked so glad they made the Rock hall before he passed ❤️
Agreed their debut is one of the best debuts ever. Benjamin Orr's solo the lace is really a great album still listen to it all the time, just like the rest of the cars albums.
Ty. So much. I am from Boston, couldn't believe how long it took them to get into RRHofF. Heartbeat City '84 Forever!!!!! First band to win an MTV Video Award
My late Uncle Mike introduced me to The Cars in probably 1980/81. I would look through his album collection, flipping through his massive collection. When he would come home, he'd play music. I remember he always played The Cars. Thank you Uncle Mike for introducing me to this great band! My 5'er 5- Dangerous Type (very underrated song) 4- It's All I Can Do 3- Let's Go 2- My Best Friends Girlfriend 1- Drive
They was a clever #powerpop with New (back then) sounds from polyphonic synthesizers like Prophet-5. For me sound like a mixture between #Roxymusic, #Starbuck and #Television .
The first two Cars albums will always be summer perennial classics played as long as we're here! I enjoyed other Cars songs after that but the first two will always shine bright!
"Candy O" and "It's All I Can Do" saved my life in 1979. "Dangerous Type" is the 3rd. of my 5er. Magic is #4. Since You're Gone is #5. I could always tell the difference between Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr's voices.
My fav 5 , which is very hard , at 5 Candy O , no4 Double life , no3 Shake it up ,no2 Drive ,no1 Just what I needed , have all their albums , the first 4 , where my have to have albums , put on Candy -O and i go right back to my teens , All hail The Cars ,
The Cars is one of my very favorite bands of all time forever. I was gutted when Ben and then Ric died. Their music got me through some seriously uncertain times in my life. They were the joy and the color of life right when I needed them. So many of Ric’s songs are embedded in my ears and heart for good. And his and (especially) Ben’s vocals are as familiar to me as the sound of my own breathing. And the other guys as well, David’s great drumming and outstanding graphic sense for the band, as an aesthetically-sensed person, I just love it. Elliott is one of rock’s most underrated guitarists, I particularly adore his “a dozen licks in one” guitar solo in my #1 favorite song of theirs, ‘Tonight She Comes’, and then there’s the band’s musical secret weapon, Greg Hawkes, from his atmospheric synths on ‘Drive’, to his “bag of tricks” sound effects and synth combo on ‘I’m In Touch With Your World’, to his beautiful sax solo closing out on of my very favorite Cars tunes, ‘All Mixed Up’, which seemingly echoes Ben’s gorgeous, tender lead vocal. Unforgettable. And that’s what this band is to me. RIP Ric and Ben. Thank you kind gents for making the world a better place. Edit: My 5er: 5. ‘Bye Bye Love’ 4. ‘Fine Line’ 3. ‘Drive’ 2. ‘All Mixed Up’ 1. ‘Tonight She Comes’
Nice job Adam! I was hoping The Cars would be on here soon. I never got to see them in concert, closest I could do was seeing Benjamin Orr lost 80’s concert in Denver. Shout out to an underrated song of theirs... “It’s All I Can Do”.
Saw the Cars live twice: just after their first album was released (tremendous show), and again at Live Aid in Philly in 1985. Their performance of Drive at Live Aid was certainly one of the highlights of that epic show
My 5er: Heartbeat City,Since You're Gone,Candy-O,Touch And Go,and Let's Go. The Cars were the first rock band i liked and remain my favorite to this day.
I don't care what anybody says. The Cars have the greatest debut album ever! 1. You're all I got tonight 2. Just what I needed 3. Let's go 4. My bestfriend's girl 5. Drive
The Cars were a breath of fresh air when they debuted. Disco was getting old and worse. Hearing them for the first time, it was like, Finally! Now this is good.
Cars are one of the most underrated bands of all-time. I'm glad they made the Rock-n-roll HOF. Well deserved. There music is some of the most underated off all-time. Their music videos were very unique as well when MTV first started. I expected them to last a long time but they ended in the late 80's. My fiver is different but I respect yours. Drive is my all-time favorite. It has something about it that it gives me chills but it carries emotion to it. Something about it seems final. I don't know what that really means but that is what comes into mind.
Drive is not just my favorite Cars song, but one of my favorite songs overall. I knew that Benjamin Orr was the lead singer on that one Because it sounds so different than so many of their other hit songs. But I didn't realize until years later that he sang on so many of their other hits as well. I don't think that his and Ocaseks voices sounded similar, but so many of their hit songs have a common flow that you instantly recognized as a Cars song when you hear it.
The Cars are one of my all time favorite bands. Some of my favorite songs are: Since I Held You Dangerous Type Got A Lot On My Head Panorama The Cruiser Maybe Baby It's Not The Night Stranger Eyes Everything You Say
He's right, there will never be another group like the cars. I love ric ocasek"s guitar in gimme some slack. RIP Ben and Ric. We lost a couple great ones.
Totally agree with your Top 5. I’d like to add an honorable mention for Since You’re Gone off the Shake It Up album. There’s just something about it that always makes me stop what I’m doing and take a pause for the cause. Great song
The Cars are a musical icon of "summer" to me. When I got my first vehicle and could go wherever I wanted to, whenever I wanted to. I lived in the Bay Area and drove to Sacramento to see family and I blasted their first album I had on cassette down I-80. Funny thing is, the B side of that album from "You're All I've Got Tonight" to "Bye Bye Love" to "Moving In Stereo" to "All Mixed Up" blend seamlessly together and it's difficult for me to listen to them separately or out of sequence. They have to be played one right after the other as they were recorded on the album or they're just not right to me. I'm just weird that way about that album. Love The Cars...
You're so right! When download digitally, the songs are downloaded in reverse order, at least for Android phones. It drives me nuts when the three songs you mentioned are played out of sequence!
They were Berklee alumni where I went to school...Let's go and the whole Candy O album was one of the finest ever! Classic melodies and unique magical tracks...Ben Orr is an American rock icon, very underrated and under appreciated!!!
I remember when I was learning guitar and taking a lesson on a song by 38 special, that lead guitarist Jeff Carlise(sp?), stated that the band was just another southern rock band until on day he heard "Just what I needed" by the cars ( the opening simplistic guitar) and thought well what about this!!! and thus " Hold on Loosely was born" and completely changed 38 specials trajectory. Love the content and THE CARS !!!
The cars were one of the first bands I Listened to, after seeing the movie the sure thing had their song featured in a scene. As a young kid! Benjamin Orr the lace was a favorite album of mine also!
I totally love The Cars. Their music is just so catchy and fun to listen to. My top 5 are: 1. My Best Friend's Girl 2. You Might Think 3. All I Can Do 4. Drive 5. Magic
The Cars' "Complete Greatest Hits" is an excellent CD; I grew up with their music, so I was shocked to hear of Ric's death last September! My favorite of theirs is "Drive", followed by "Magic", "Just What I Needed", "You Might Think" and "Good Times Roll"
Moving In Stereo was the first Cars song I ever listened to and I remember saying how badass that song was(and still is). Had to hear more and they quickly became one of my favorite bands back in the day.
Their first album was my first album, back in Massachusetts in '78. Truly and proudly the foundation for the rest of my musical meanderings throughout my lifetime. Still have the vinyl. Used to read the lyrics along with the songs and it expanded my vocabulary and poetic mind, at the ripe young age of 8 😬. Integral part of my childhood and entire life. So thankful for this cerebral, unique, uber-talented, forward-thinking, rock-'n'-roll band 🙏
Drive and Stay the Night are two of the best ballads of the 80's. Benjamin Orr was awesome. Also, maybe it's just me, but I always thought he looked a hell of a lot like Roger Taylor of Queen.
The Cars is one of my favorite bands. 😍 love Elliot Easton's solos like Touch and Go and Tonight she comes .... loved them on Live Aid with Heartbeat city 👌 Greetings from Mexico City 🎶
It’s criminal to overlook ‘Move Like This’. I missed Benjamin Orr like hell, but that album is one of the great “comeback” albums ever. They wanted to recapture the magic for a moment, and absolutely did. I’m a massive Cars fan, and am often told I’m a bit of a music purist at times, but there’s nothing I can see / hear wrong with this release. It’s brilliant.
They were MY first favorite band of my own...not my brother's...and then my first live concert in 1983....Ben had an amazing voice and Ric could really write some eccentric lyrics
I love this band! One of my favorite songs by them is All Mixed Up! I can’t stop watching their live shows online. I hate that I never got to see them.
They are one of my favorite bands, Panorama was the first album I ever bought. I saw them in concert at Poplar Creek outside of Chicago, and they were terrible. It was the worst concert I ever saw, without question. It was like they were robots - absolutely no passion or emotion.
The Cars did not have to be flamboyant!!! Their music spoke for themselves!!!!!! I saw them in concert hit after hit after hit, not wasting time to shoot the shit! All music!!!!
I remember my "you gotta hear this" moment. At a beach house in Imperial Beach, CA. Same house that I remember hearing the Edgar Winter Group. Just remember the relentless ocean breeze blowing through the house.
5. It's All I Can Do, 4. Dangerous Type, 3. Moving In Stereo, 2. Since You're Gone, 1. Tonight She Comes. Awesome episode Adam, The Cars were one of the few bands that you could easily pick out the musical contribution of each member on every song.
My all-time favorite band!! I love that you did not choose the “typical“ songs normally associated with The Cars (except, of course, Drive) I would agree Let’s Go is one of the best songs ever… But the one that I wore out was Stranger Eyes. I remember for seeing the trailer for Top G un in the movie theater and only focusing on the fact that they were using that song as their background Thank you for all that commentary on my favorite group of all time… My husband knew how in love I was with The Cars and was the first to break the news to me when Benjamin Orr died in 2000. I absolutely love how they worked together as a band and shared so many parts of the arrangements and performances. Greg Hawkes was brilliant on the keyboards and really lead the way in the “80s sound“. Elliot Easton really was brilliant on the guitar and, honestly, David Robinson was just so quiet and in the background on the drums, but such an essential part of their sound. I often wonder how much more we would have known about the cars had they been who they are in the age of social media. They were my first ever concert and I am probably forever associated as “the girl who loved The Cars to anyone who knew me in the 80s in the 90s :)
My Top 5 1. "Just What I Needed"- One of the greatest rock songs ever written and recorded. The Synth & guitar solo are perfect. Ben Orr lead vocals are excellent. 2. "Drive"- 3. "Let's Go" 4. Touch & Go"" 5:"Magic" tied with "Since You're Gone"
As I recall, The Cars released the absolute coolest "We're done as a Band" type of statement in 1988... At that time, I remember hearing a local radio DJ in Minneapolis, read The Cars Press Release on air... (BTW, I'm paraphrasing here) He said; "We re done as a band.. We don't think we're cool anymore -The Cars" I remember smiling, & kinda laughing to myself, as even in calling it quits they were pretty dang clever... I've scoured the internet to find proof of this -can't seem to find anything to back it up. There's only my memory of what I heard... Best "band break up statement" ever
their 1st and 2nd albums are one of the greatest "1 / 2" punch in music history. yet on all their albums they were creative, pushing themselves forward and never stagnate.
I have a special fondness for The Cars because even though I didn't know him Ben Orr went to my high school for a while. And Ric Ocasek although from Baltimore lived in Cleveland for several years when his father got a job at NASA. He graduated from Maple Heights High School, a suburb of Cleveland in 1963.
My 5er: 1-Moving In Stereo 2-Drive 3-You Might Think 4-This Could Be Love 5-Hello Again Can you tell I love Heartbeat City? Three songs from it. It’s right up there with my favorite albums like Depeche Mode’s Violator and Berlin’s Love Life.
When I think of the 80s I immediately think & hear The Cars music. For me Looking back That was the best times in my life. I will never forget beautiful memories. Life was simple. I had the pleasure of seeing The Cars my favorite band only 2 times before they broke up. I always blasted there music on my radio more than any other band. It is true there will never be another band like them .They were all gifted musicians and contributed to there unique sound even to this day which defined them. Thank you Ric, Ben, David, Elliot, and Greg for being a great part of the awesome memories through your music in my life. Here are my favorite 5. Its impossible to choose 1.Since you Gone 2.My Best Friends Girl 3.Lets Go 4.Touch & Go 5.Why Can't I have You.
Let's not forget the Cars' partial reunions: The New Cars, teaming Elliot Esston & Greg Hawkes with Todd Rundgren & former members of his band Utopia... & The Cars (featuring the return of Ric Ocasek) with the group's final album, 2011's "Move Like This".
Roy Thomas Baker was producer for the Cars earliest albums. One thing that first drew me in as a fan was that “choir sound” that reminded me of Queen. Roy T Baker was Queen’s producer along with many others. Another cool note, The Cars almost called their first album “The Cars Greatest Hits. Every song on this album is on their greatest hits album(s)!!!
Great episode!
Consistently the only show on RUclips with ZERO thumbs down. And for good reason.
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this side of paradise is still my favourite album of all time!
followed by tom petty's into the great wide open
for good reason
Thanks for reminding me.
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I think "Bye Bye Love" is genius. Unbelievable weave of instruments and harmonies.
And also contains one of the best "Kiss Off and Die" lyrics of ALL TIME: "You think you're so illustrious, you call yourself intense" delivered to utter perfection by Benjamin Orr... it's my favorite Cars song of all time! :)
This song has my favorite David Robinson skillset.
The lyrics of this song are some of the best Cars lyrics ever!
The Cars are the greatest band ever! Easton is the greatest guitarist of all time. Period. Orr was the best male vocalist ever, with maybe the exception of Elvis. Ocasek was the best songwriter ever. Hawkes is actually a world renowned ukulele player and his use of keyboards is second to none.
My favorite 5 Cars songs (in order) are:
1) All Mixed Up
2)Candy O
3) Everything You Say
4) Bye Bye Love
5) You Might Think
The Cars produced one of my favourite songs of all time. I believe it can stand alone as one of the greatest rock recordings ever. And it's not on your list... the song is 'It's All I Can Do'. My understanding is it may not have been popular amongst the bandmates, but damn it's a beauty. The perfect example of how each member contributes to complete The Cars package. Ben's vocals are emotive with longing, the guitar string effect building the tension, the big drums hitting your chest and keeping the beat, the keyboards sweep with such beauty and power, and Elliott drops the most proficient and creative sweeping solo he may have ever recorded... right into the pocket, backing vocals are on point, and almost forgot to mention the brilliance of the fade out at the end of the song. The call and response of the guitar, from one ear to the other. Brilliant! So good. Certainly on a level up high on their very own. The Cars are a treasure.
Great great underrated song
When the Cars came out, it was like nothing I had ever heard before! I am more partial to the 1st 2 albums that came out! I couldn’t get enough!! I had the albums and the 8 tracks of them. Album for my stereo and 8 tracks for my car. So many memories of teenage and college years. One of my most favorite bands of all time. Got to see them in concert in the 90’s at the Richmond Colliseum I Richmond Va. Every single song they sung in concert and on their albums was a hit to me!! Not one bad song in the bunch!!!
Benjamin Orr vocals are amazing on each track, and his songs are my favorite overall. I wish he got the recognition and the money Rick got.
@Rachel Wise I agree which is why I created my channel and Facebook page and now working on a website dedicated to Benjamin
Totally agree!
@@benjaminorrelectricangelro5493 Oh wow, awesome!
@@starrywizdom Thank you, I feel so blessed, I celebrated the anniversary of my page & RUclips channel with sharing a rare footage of live concert from 1978 and more and was so touched as I had close to 300 notifications. I have such a lovely community of like minded fans of Benjamin and The Cars :) Warmest regards from a hot summer day in Tasmania, Tia :)
Elliott Easton was a very underrated guitarist ...
Caught them on the ,' Candy - O ' tour in ' 79 ...
as is Greg Hawkes, his keyboards never receive praise (but they are prominent in all of the Cars songs).....Elliot is SUPERB
I believe he was a Juliard graduate.
Yes a phenomenal guitarist.🎸💪👍
touch and go has a crazy solo
he's a traitor - when he was touring with CCR he said he'd never really liked The Cars' style of music. Go figure.
I find it VERY frustrating when guys talk about greatest guitar players of all time and NEVER mention Elliot. I play guitar, and I can figure out licks and solo's by Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Vai, and Satch fairly easily...but, when it comes to learning Easton's licks and his solo's...I have a LOT of trouble getting it right. He's a fantastic and an extremely under rated player!
Very true, totally agree
@@benjaminorrelectricangelro5493 , I love your handle "Electric Angel Rock and Roller". I hear what your playin!
@@terryguire1321 Yep , that it's indeed :) When I created my Facebook page dedicated to Benjamin Orr and The Cars I knew there was only one name for this page and also for the channel. I was lucky no one had used this before :D I am working on a website as well, warm regards from Tasmania, where we are having ORRsome orangy skies ;) Tia
⚡ 😇 🎸🎼
@@terryguire1321 The " woman " behind the handle :D
Got that right. Some of his stuff is so wild i can't figure it out. Was thinking to buy one of those tab books off Amazon but i have my doubts that they are going to help.
Tonight She Comes is my all time favorite solo to play everytime i pick up a guitar with a floyd rose
my 5er, no matter the order
- touch and go
- i'm not the one
- since you're gone
- tonight she comes
- just what i needed
My 5er:
5) Moving In Stereo
4) Just What I Needed
3) Good Times Roll
2) You're All I've Got Tonight
1) Dangerous Type
everybody is forgetting "My Best Friends Girlfriend" classic!
Hey, Just What I Needed also made my "fiver"; Touch & Go, Since You're Gone, & Tonight She Comes are in my top ten. Great choices!
Ok, NOW you’ve got my attention! The Cars are absolutely one of THE MOST underrated bands ever! The hooks were off the chain! The precision drumming of David Robinson; the genius behind the keyboards & synthesizers of Greg Hawks; the cool guitar riffs from Elliott Easton; the smooth, yet cool vocals of Benjamin Orr; and the quirkiness of Ric Ocasek!
LOVED THAT BAND!
My 5’er: 5) “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight”
4) “Since You’re Gone”
3) “Bye Bye Love”
2) “Moving In Stereo”
1) “Let’s Go”
And Boston!
Their debut album may be one of the best albums ever just on the number of radio hits that came off it.
My Top 5:
1. "Just What I Needed"
2. "Bye Bye Love"
3. "Let's Go"
4. "Candy-O"
5. "Got A Lot On My Head"
Cruiser and Candy O got me completely hooked for life
I was trying to remember candy-o what a great song
Two great tracks!
Cruiser is spot on!
Love Candy O!
“Bye bye love” is one I would have added to it. “Maybe tonight she comes”, also gotta add “shake it up”. and “magic”, and finally “touch and go.”
Touch and Go, absolutely! LOVE that song
Hard to limit it to just 5.
Bye bye love, so sexy
Uh oh, I touch your star
I was OCD-ing on 'Take What You Want' recently and also on an early, stripped-back version of 'Night Spots' 😀
The Cars single, ‘Since You’re Gone’ is one of my absolute favorites. I love that clicking beat that guides you into the song.
These guys got me through my high school years. I was a HUGE Cars fan. Saw them 6 times at Madison Square Garden. "There'll never be another group like The Cars " is an understatement for sure...
The best pop band EVER, no contest for me.
I'm with ya.
Pop? I don't think so. Pop is New Kids on the Block etc.. LOL...
@@tomcampbell5186 When they first came out they were considered alternative Rock/New Wave on radio formats. Now really just rock.
Please don't call them a "pop" band. They were a rock band.
My favorite band of all time...
I love the song Its all I Can Do. Bens vocals on that are great
Great choice
Eliot's absolutely searing guitar solo midway through Candy-O is one of my greatest moments in rock.
There's something in the energy of The Cars that no other band has ever managed to pull off, corky, hopefull, sarcastic at times, naive, mature, I don't know, I love them anyway hahaha. There'll never be a band like them ever again.
My top 5:
* Magic.
* Tonight She Comes.
* My best friend's girl.
* You Might Think.
* Just What I Needed.
Hey I'm a huge The Cars fan, so don't everyone freak out, but I'm going with my top 5 overlooked.
5: I'm In Touch With Your World
4: Gimme Some Slack
3: Leave Or Stay
2: Why Can't I Have You?
1: Touch And Go
"Why can't I have you", to me is totally underrated. I'm an amateur guitar player and always liked it even though it was one of theirs that had no guitar solo, and Elliot was a big influence on me also. His solos fit their songs perfectly. Very catchy hooks.
Nice! Two tracks from Panorama, one of The Cars' most overlooked LPs...😎
The Cars were my first "favorite band". They showed up right when I was looking for my musical identity and they fit perfectly. So many great songs-- I loved the hits. I loved the B-sides. I loved the deep cuts that no one else got into. I could never compile a 5er I'd be happy with, but I can list a bunch of perhaps underrated or widely-unknown songs from them:
"Panorama" from the album of the same name-- Despite some "not so great" production on this album, a lot of the songs on Panorama are killer. I love the energy of the album opener. And the video is Beastie Boys "Sabotage" before it was a thing.
"I'm In Touch With Your World" from the first album-- Maybe not unknown, but I think under-appreciated. No samplers back then-- this song is total studio fun-housing, with timpani, foley sounds, and that weird whistle that goes "ffffwwweEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!"
"A Dream Away" from Shake it Up-- A trance-like drone song that always transports me back to being awake way too early in the morning, walking around outside in the pre-dawn mist.
"It's Not The Night" from Heartbeat City-- Really liked this song and wasn't sure why it didn't get more airplay (was it even released as a single?). The live performance of it from their Houston show is really great. Notable for the fact that it's one of the few Cars songs that features Ben and Ric trading vocal duties during the song.
"Think It Over" from Shake it Up-- It's got one of those signature "weird Cars sounds" going, which I love. The song itself is totally catchy, if a bit repetitive. I never really noticed that aspect until I got older. I just grooved on the... groove.
My answer to the question of "What is your favorite Cars song?" will always be "The entire 2nd side of the first album, in order, uninterrupted. As God intended."
I love Panorama too. 'Getting Through' is one of my favorites.
“Drive” is probably the best ballad on rock radio.
Top 5:
1- Touch and Go (5/4 time!)
2- Drive
3- Just What I Needed
4- Magic
5- It’s All I Can Do
Absolutely
Cool list !! My favourite is Let's Go .
I am certain fans already know this, but for those who do not, John Lennon was quoted as saying Touch & Go was a current favorite of his before his assassination in '80. And that he liked The Cars. That's a pretty decent, fair-dinkum vote of approval!
@@justin.robben Didn't know that.
2:13 - Back in the day, when I was first discovering music that wasn't on the little local radio station, I went out and used my first ever paycheck to buy:
*Cars - The Cars
*The Wall - Pink Floyd
I’d put “you’re all I’ve got tonight” in the top 5. Incredible rocker and fantastic solo
I've held for decades that the car's debut album is one of the best produced albums ever, I love the cars. Thank you for covering them so thoroughly.
STORY TIME! I top-5 them (kind of) at the bottom of this.
Let's Go was the first song by The Cars that I ever heard. I remember where I was. Back seat of a Plymouth Arrow with my cousin, with my aunt and uncle driving us from Denver to California in the summer of 1979. My uncle had recorded a bunch of songs to cassettes from KAZY ("The Rock of Colorado" was their slogan) and Let's Go was on it. I must have heard it a dozen times on that trip, and oh did I love it. It's been my all-time favorite ever since. And The Cars have always been my favorite band. They were just... different... from all the WXYZ/CKLW/Dick Purtan top 40 radio stuff my parents favored at that time, different from everything else I had ever heard. I went out looking for that song when I got back to Detroit from that summer trip to CO & CA, and I was 12 and testing my mom's patience as I pawed through the record bins. I ended up with the first album on vinyl instead of Candy-O, which I did not find that day. THAT 2ND SIDE! And that was after a first side that was as hooky and awesome as anything I had ever experienced.
I had discovered my first rock band that was all my own, in terms of how I learned of them myself and discovered their sound without the influence of parents or the light musical peer pressure of my friends. I still play the 2nd side of the first album in that order whenever I am jonesing for some Cars. I think it was some time before I found Candy-O since I was so happy with The Cars debut album.
What a hard band to top five. Too many awesome songs. But #1 is always "Let's Go" for me if for no other reason than the visceral memories it brings back for me. Really their first three albums were for me music perfection. I liked Shake It Up less than those, but then Heartbeat City was top of game again. Never got into Door To Door at the time it came out, but it grew on me in later years. I don't hate their "Move Like This" album, but without Ben, it just was off for me. I play it now and again, but I have always favored Ben's singing by far over Ric's. Ric's quirky vocals (always been my description, too) are just as important to their sound for me - no knock on his singing. But BEN.
My top 5. With an asterisk for that whole 2nd side of the first album.
All Mixed Up (5d? this one had to grow on me for a few years. Who can figure out early teenage music tastes though.)
Moving In Stereo (5c?)
Bye Bye Love (5b?)
5) You're All I've Got Tonight (but really, the whole 2nd side of "The Cars" is one long continuous play, as it was intended)
4) Dangerous Type
3) Candy-O
2) It's Not The Night
1) Let's Go
Love everything you have said, and great list of 8, and yes, 'But BEN' every time. From Patricia H. not William H.
New Wave was colorful. How can something sound colorful. Well, the people who dressed up like "new wave" dressed "colorful." They had guts, because the vast majority of music lovers weren't following. And we know how intolerant young people can be. I knew a girl with a lunchbox purse. She wore hats too. They had pins stuck in their lapels. Late seventies this was
The Cars have been on constant play for me during the pandemic. When I don't want to do something around the house, I put my ear buds on, find my Cars spotify list, and go to it.They were one of the best bands out of 80's, truly fantastic musicians.
When i was fourteen years old my friend bought Just What I Needed on blue car picture disc...we played it in his bedroom that night and where both blown away... 42 years on it is still one of my favourite songs ever...
Touch and Go is great because of the odd time signature with the drums and bass locking in, not to mention one of the greatest Elliot Easton guitar solos on the planet! There's too many great ones to make a top 5, seriously. All Mixed Up, It's All I Can Do, I'm Not the One, the list just goes on forever.
1980 saw them at Long Beach Arena, Motels opened for them, was 14, bought a scalped ticket for 20 bucks. The Cars were like? New wave and Rock had a baby, And the Cars were born.Still a fan.
My top 5 from The Cars
1) Double Life
2) Moving In Stereo/All Mixed Up (in my opinion you can't separate them)
3) Let's Go
4) Cruiser
5) Panorama
For me the best Cars songs are:
5) Nightspots
4) Candy-O
3) Just what I Needed
2) All mixed up
1) It's All I Can Do
Still not my favourite but it’s all I can do is their most underrated.
@@riskydigitsta1794 I agree. Which is your fave Cars song then?
@@carolebarker2195 either Just What I Needed or Moving In Stereo/All Mixed Up. Always viewed the latter as one song. They used to play them live together. Wish it was one song for the purpose of playlists.
@@riskydigitsta1794 I love their earlier songs best too. Did you see them play live? They never toured here in the uk. They did Rock Goes to College here, but I think that was a one-off.
@@carolebarker2195 haha wasn’t alive I’m afraid. Would love to if Ben and Ric were still around. I actually assumed they were English when I first heard them. Most great new wave and others are.
The Cars always take me back to some of my fondest memories growing up as a teenager in the 80’s. When just driving with your friends, no where to go was more than enough. Loved them then and love them even more today, 45 years later…
"Drive" is the greatest song of the 1980's. It is the song that most captures the sentiment of an era, the sentiment of the transition from analogue to digital, with all its implications. And we felt it as kids, even then.
The first live band I ever saw was The Cars...1984, Heartbeat City tour. I was 13 years old... I can still remember the stage setup, the televisions attached to mechanical arms waving up and down. The Forum in Southern California...man it was so good.
My cars fiver:
-it’s all I can do
-moving in stereo
-lets go
-just what I needed
-since you’re gone
absolutely a huge part of the soundtrack of my high school life, entering HS in 1980 you couldn't go anywhere without hearing someone's boombox blaring the Cars!!
The Cars are the one band that can get me into a positive mood no matter who or what pisses me off. You just can't be pissed when you crank up songs like "Dangerous Type" or "Good Times Roll" with a a follow up dose of "Moving in Stereo" and "Let's Go" to forget that I was ever angry.
“Drive“ is easily quintessential balladscious.
The best compliment I can give The Cars is that after listening to them awhile I decided to make a mixtape of theirs and it ended up being two discs. Too many good songs to do a top five but I'd like to highlight a few favorites; Don't Go to Pieces, Don't Cha Stop, Cruiser, Touch and Go, Down Boys, Gimme Some Slack.
R.I.P. Rick Ocasek and R.I.P. Benjamin Orr
What I like about The Cars are the dueling lead vocals & harmonies. Elliot Easton is an ace 🎸 player. My favorite album of theirs " Panorama " is vastly underated. Give Roy Thomas Baker credit , his Production was amazing on their early albums. Brilliant band.
He also produced Bridge of Spies by TPau which propelled them to a US number 4 hit with Heart and Soul and then success in Britain and the rest of Europe after the song was used in a Pepe jeans commercial in America. Home country success in reverse to the usual order of things.
Ugh. Panorama is the ONLY album of theirs I never listen to (except for "Touch and Go"). For me, their weakest album.
Panorama is my favorite too.
Panorama is an acquired taste. I didn't like it first time I heard it. It was what I call a "experimental sound" album. Every band has one. Panorama was this album. I listened to it in the 90's. Almost thirty years later I gave it another chance. It's great!
I was heart broken and floored last summer when Rick passed away suddenly. He was my favorite in the late 70’s early 80’s The Cars❤️
I still remember You might,Think Magic, Drive, Hello again from MTV. Shake it up Let’s Go Just what I needed My best friends girl .....earlier on I was hooked so glad they made the Rock hall before he passed ❤️
Elliott Easton solo on 'Tonight She Comes'. One of the greatest solos in a commercial radio song of all time.
Agreed their debut is one of the best debuts ever. Benjamin Orr's solo the lace is really a great album still listen to it all the time, just like the rest of the cars albums.
@Kelly Barthel, so true
Ty. So much. I am from Boston, couldn't believe how long it took them to get into RRHofF.
Heartbeat City '84 Forever!!!!!
First band to win an MTV Video Award
My late Uncle Mike introduced me to The Cars in probably 1980/81. I would look through his album collection, flipping through his massive collection. When he would come home, he'd play music. I remember he always played The Cars. Thank you Uncle Mike for introducing me to this great band!
My 5'er
5- Dangerous Type (very underrated song)
4- It's All I Can Do
3- Let's Go
2- My Best Friends Girlfriend
1- Drive
The Cars are my favorite band. I never get tired of listening to them.
They was a clever #powerpop with New (back then) sounds from polyphonic synthesizers like Prophet-5. For me sound like a mixture between #Roxymusic, #Starbuck and #Television .
The first two Cars albums will always be summer perennial classics played as long as we're here! I enjoyed other Cars songs after that but the first two will always shine bright!
❤️ The Cars!
- Touch and Go (perhaps my favorite EE solo)
- Candy-O (because it’s bad-ass)
- Strap Me In
- Hello Again
- Cruiser (hypnotic and punchy)
Since You're Gone, Double Life, Touch and Go, Moving in Stereo, Its All I Can Do. Great tribute to a great American band.
"Candy O" and "It's All I Can Do" saved my life in 1979.
"Dangerous Type" is the 3rd. of my 5er. Magic is #4. Since You're Gone is #5.
I could always tell the difference between Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr's voices.
My fav 5 , which is very hard , at 5 Candy O , no4 Double life , no3 Shake it up ,no2 Drive ,no1 Just what I needed , have all their albums , the first 4 , where my have to have albums , put on Candy -O and i go right back to my teens , All hail The Cars ,
The Cars is one of my very favorite bands of all time forever. I was gutted when Ben and then Ric died. Their music got me through some seriously uncertain times in my life. They were the joy and the color of life right when I needed them. So many of Ric’s songs are embedded in my ears and heart for good. And his and (especially) Ben’s vocals are as familiar to me as the sound of my own breathing. And the other guys as well, David’s great drumming and outstanding graphic sense for the band, as an aesthetically-sensed person, I just love it. Elliott is one of rock’s most underrated guitarists, I particularly adore his “a dozen licks in one” guitar solo in my #1 favorite song of theirs, ‘Tonight She Comes’, and then there’s the band’s musical secret weapon, Greg Hawkes, from his atmospheric synths on ‘Drive’, to his “bag of tricks” sound effects and synth combo on ‘I’m In Touch With Your World’, to his beautiful sax solo closing out on of my very favorite Cars tunes, ‘All Mixed Up’, which seemingly echoes Ben’s gorgeous, tender lead vocal. Unforgettable. And that’s what this band is to me. RIP Ric and Ben. Thank you kind gents for making the world a better place.
Edit: My 5er:
5. ‘Bye Bye Love’
4. ‘Fine Line’
3. ‘Drive’
2. ‘All Mixed Up’
1. ‘Tonight She Comes’
Nice job Adam! I was hoping The Cars would be on here soon. I never got to see them in concert, closest I could do was seeing Benjamin Orr lost 80’s concert in Denver. Shout out to an underrated song of theirs... “It’s All I Can Do”.
I love love that song!! 🌸❤️💜
Great song
Saw the Cars live twice: just after their first album was released (tremendous show), and again at Live Aid in Philly in 1985. Their performance of Drive at Live Aid was certainly one of the highlights of that epic show
Benjamin Orr is the definition of cool. Facts.
My 5er: Heartbeat City,Since You're Gone,Candy-O,Touch And Go,and Let's Go. The Cars were the first rock band i liked and remain my favorite to this day.
I don't care what anybody says. The Cars have the greatest debut album ever!
1. You're all I got tonight
2. Just what I needed
3. Let's go
4. My bestfriend's girl
5. Drive
The Cars were a breath of fresh air when they debuted. Disco was getting old and worse. Hearing them for the first time, it was like, Finally! Now this is good.
RIP Ben. One of my all time favorite singers
Cars are one of the most underrated bands of all-time. I'm glad they made the Rock-n-roll HOF. Well deserved. There music is some of the most underated off all-time. Their music videos were very unique as well when MTV first started. I expected them to last a long time but they ended in the late 80's. My fiver is different but I respect yours. Drive is my all-time favorite. It has something about it that it gives me chills but it carries emotion to it. Something about it seems final. I don't know what that really means but that is what comes into mind.
Drive is not just my favorite Cars song, but one of my favorite songs overall. I knew that Benjamin Orr was the lead singer on that one Because it sounds so different than so many of their other hit songs. But I didn't realize until years later that he sang on so many of their other hits as well. I don't think that his and Ocaseks voices sounded similar, but so many of their hit songs have a common flow that you instantly recognized as a Cars song when you hear it.
I agree. And Benjamin could sing anything - his voice was wonderful . From Patricia H. not William H.
The Cars are one of my all time favorite bands. Some of my favorite songs are:
Since I Held You
Dangerous Type
Got A Lot On My Head
Panorama
The Cruiser
Maybe Baby
It's Not The Night
Stranger Eyes
Everything You Say
He's right, there will never be another group like the cars. I love ric ocasek"s guitar in gimme some slack. RIP Ben and Ric. We lost a couple great ones.
The Cars was the quintessential band of the 1980’s. Thank you for honoring them.
Totally agree with your Top 5. I’d like to add an honorable mention for Since You’re Gone off the Shake It Up album. There’s just something about it that always makes me stop what I’m doing and take a pause for the cause. Great song
The Cars are a musical icon of "summer" to me. When I got my first vehicle and could go wherever I wanted to, whenever I wanted to. I lived in the Bay Area and drove to Sacramento to see family and I blasted their first album I had on cassette down I-80. Funny thing is, the B side of that album from "You're All I've Got Tonight" to "Bye Bye Love" to "Moving In Stereo" to "All Mixed Up" blend seamlessly together and it's difficult for me to listen to them separately or out of sequence. They have to be played one right after the other as they were recorded on the album or they're just not right to me. I'm just weird that way about that album. Love The Cars...
Yes! Listening to their debut album on CD is an experience lost due to the blips between these three songs.
You're so right! When download digitally, the songs are downloaded in reverse order, at least for Android phones. It drives me nuts when the three songs you mentioned are played out of sequence!
I completely agree with you!!!
They were Berklee alumni where I went to school...Let's go and the whole Candy O album was one of the finest ever! Classic melodies and unique magical tracks...Ben Orr is an American rock icon, very underrated and under appreciated!!!
Only Easton and Hawkes were Berklee students.
I remember when I was learning guitar and taking a lesson on a song by 38 special, that lead guitarist Jeff Carlise(sp?), stated that the band was just another southern rock band until on day he heard "Just what I needed" by the cars ( the opening simplistic guitar) and thought well what about this!!! and thus " Hold on Loosely was born" and completely changed 38 specials trajectory. Love the content and THE CARS !!!
That's so cool. Two of my most favorite bands.
The cars were one of the first bands I Listened to, after seeing the movie the sure thing had their song featured in a scene. As a young kid! Benjamin Orr the lace was a favorite album of mine also!
Same here
I totally love The Cars. Their music is just so catchy and fun to listen to. My top 5 are:
1. My Best Friend's Girl
2. You Might Think
3. All I Can Do
4. Drive
5. Magic
Another masterpiece. Just what I needed takes me back to 78 Everytime
The Cars' "Complete Greatest Hits" is an excellent CD; I grew up with their music, so I was shocked to hear of Ric's death last September! My favorite of theirs is "Drive", followed by "Magic", "Just What I Needed", "You Might Think" and "Good Times Roll"
Moving In Stereo was the first Cars song I ever listened to and I remember saying how badass that song was(and still is). Had to hear more and they quickly became one of my favorite bands back in the day.
Their first album was my first album, back in Massachusetts in '78. Truly and proudly the foundation for the rest of my musical meanderings throughout my lifetime. Still have the vinyl. Used to read the lyrics along with the songs and it expanded my vocabulary and poetic mind, at the ripe young age of 8 😬. Integral part of my childhood and entire life. So thankful for this cerebral, unique, uber-talented, forward-thinking, rock-'n'-roll band 🙏
I think you're 100% right there will never be another band like the cars
Drive and Stay the Night are two of the best ballads of the 80's. Benjamin Orr was
awesome. Also, maybe it's just me, but I always thought he looked a hell of a lot
like Roger Taylor of Queen.
The Cars is one of my favorite bands. 😍 love Elliot Easton's solos like Touch and Go and Tonight she comes .... loved them on Live Aid with Heartbeat city 👌
Greetings from Mexico City 🎶
It’s criminal to overlook ‘Move Like This’. I missed Benjamin Orr like hell, but that album is one of the great “comeback” albums ever. They wanted to recapture the magic for a moment, and absolutely did. I’m a massive Cars fan, and am often told I’m a bit of a music purist at times, but there’s nothing I can see / hear wrong with this release. It’s brilliant.
They were MY first favorite band of my own...not my brother's...and then my first live concert in 1983....Ben had an amazing voice and Ric could really write some eccentric lyrics
I love this band! One of my favorite songs by them is All Mixed Up! I can’t stop watching their live shows online. I hate that I never got to see them.
They are one of my favorite bands, Panorama was the first album I ever bought. I saw them in concert at Poplar Creek outside of Chicago, and they were terrible. It was the worst concert I ever saw, without question. It was like they were robots - absolutely no passion or emotion.
The Cars did not have to be flamboyant!!! Their music spoke for themselves!!!!!! I saw them in concert hit after hit after hit, not wasting time to shoot the shit! All music!!!!
A Midwestern Bowie ... Love that description of Ben Orr. Right on!
The first album blew me away as something fresh and super cool when it came out and It still does today. And many classic hits after that as well.
One of the greatest bands ever!! 5.touch and go 4.since you're gone 3.bye bye love 2.heartbeat city 1.just what i needed
Elliot Easton is amazing. The long solo on 'tonight she comes'.
Such a great band.
The Cars, one of my all-time favorite music groups. #5. Drive #4. Think It Over #3. Dangerous Type #2. Let's Go #1. Tonight She Comes
I remember my "you gotta hear this" moment. At a beach house in Imperial Beach, CA. Same house that I remember hearing the Edgar Winter Group. Just remember the relentless ocean breeze blowing through the house.
Before i start the video...I FREAKING LOVE THAT T SHIRT!!!...ok now i can continue...
5. It's All I Can Do, 4. Dangerous Type, 3. Moving In Stereo, 2. Since You're Gone, 1. Tonight She Comes. Awesome episode Adam, The Cars were one of the few bands that you could easily pick out the musical contribution of each member on every song.
Been a fan since 78'. I was 16 then. I will say I really relate to Misfit Kid off Panarama. That song was my life!
My all-time favorite band!! I love that you did not choose the “typical“ songs normally associated with The Cars (except, of course, Drive) I would agree Let’s Go is one of the best songs ever… But the one that I wore out was Stranger Eyes. I remember for seeing the trailer for Top G un in the movie theater and only focusing on the fact that they were using that song as their background Thank you for all that commentary on my favorite group of all time… My husband knew how in love I was with The Cars and was the first to break the news to me when Benjamin Orr died in 2000. I absolutely love how they worked together as a band and shared so many parts of the arrangements and performances. Greg Hawkes was brilliant on the keyboards and really lead the way in the “80s sound“. Elliot Easton really was brilliant on the guitar and, honestly, David Robinson was just so quiet and in the background on the drums, but such an essential part of their sound. I often wonder how much more we would have known about the cars had they been who they are in the age of social media. They were my first ever concert and I am probably forever associated as “the girl who loved The Cars to anyone who knew me in the 80s in the 90s :)
My Top 5
1. "Just What I Needed"- One of the greatest rock songs ever written and recorded. The Synth & guitar solo are perfect. Ben Orr lead vocals are excellent.
2. "Drive"-
3. "Let's Go"
4. Touch & Go""
5:"Magic" tied with "Since You're Gone"
As I recall, The Cars released the absolute coolest "We're done as a Band" type of statement in 1988... At that time, I remember hearing a local radio DJ in Minneapolis, read The Cars Press Release on air... (BTW, I'm paraphrasing here) He said; "We re done as a band.. We don't think we're cool anymore -The Cars" I remember smiling, & kinda laughing to myself, as even in calling it quits they were pretty dang clever... I've scoured the internet to find proof of this -can't seem to find anything to back it up. There's only my memory of what I heard... Best "band break up statement" ever
The Cars are just one of the best all-around bands EVER. Who doesn't like their songs?!
their 1st and 2nd albums are one of the greatest "1 / 2" punch in music history. yet on all their albums they were creative, pushing themselves forward and never stagnate.
I have a special fondness for The Cars because even though I didn't know him Ben Orr went to my high school for a while. And Ric Ocasek although from Baltimore lived in Cleveland for several years when his father got a job at NASA. He graduated from Maple Heights High School, a suburb of Cleveland in 1963.
My 5er:
1-Moving In Stereo
2-Drive
3-You Might Think
4-This Could Be Love
5-Hello Again
Can you tell I love Heartbeat City? Three songs from it. It’s right up there with my favorite albums like Depeche Mode’s Violator and Berlin’s Love Life.
@anthropeg1978 I got... hope...
When I think of the 80s I immediately think & hear The Cars music. For me Looking back That was the best times in my life. I will never forget beautiful memories. Life was simple. I had the pleasure of seeing The Cars my favorite band only 2 times before they broke up. I always blasted there music on my radio more than any other band. It is true there will never be another band like them .They were all gifted musicians and contributed to there unique sound even to this day which defined them. Thank you Ric, Ben, David, Elliot, and Greg for being a great part of the awesome memories through your music in my life. Here are my favorite 5. Its impossible to choose
1.Since you Gone
2.My Best Friends Girl
3.Lets Go
4.Touch & Go
5.Why Can't I have You.
Let's not forget the Cars'
partial reunions:
The New Cars, teaming
Elliot Esston & Greg Hawkes
with Todd Rundgren & former
members of his band Utopia...
& The Cars (featuring the return
of Ric Ocasek) with the group's
final album, 2011's "Move Like This".
They were the band that got me thru my teenage years. Amazing band.
Roy Thomas Baker was producer for the Cars earliest albums. One thing that first drew me in as a fan was that “choir sound” that reminded me of Queen. Roy T Baker was Queen’s producer along with many others. Another cool note, The Cars almost called their first album “The Cars Greatest Hits. Every song on this album is on their greatest hits album(s)!!!