These guys came bursting on the scene with 10 great songs right off the bat no one else sounded like them and boy they sound terrific live.. love this band
Yes! I was in high school, Journey was getting popular at about the same time. All of my friends were really into Journey, not me, I became a huge cars fan as soon as I first heard them. I always will be.
@deppilisa I agree, I hated Journey after they brought on Perry. This has to be one of the best debut albums of all time. Too bad Rick and Elliot developed bad blood somewhere along the line.
I just found my Happy Place ; ) My sista' & I just bought our first High fidelity Stereo & speakers when the Cars released this album!! We smoked pot! Moving in Stereo!!! OMG! The Cars were my first love!!!!! Please help to get them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if you LOVE them as much as I do!!
OK I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I believe the keyboardist (I don't even know his name) was the MVP of The Cars. It was his contributions that gave their songs a hook that stuck in you. Without his infectious keyboard work, their songs would've just been average, instead of the instantly addictive pop songs they were.
I agree, I'm just re-visiting the Cars for the 1st time, and they are so Underrated. Their keyboardest is phenomenal putting beautiful melodies congruent to the guitarwork.
@@gteefxr3094By the guy who wrote it I guess... Yeah, they were pretty successful for mates to be underated.. Every member contributed to their unique sound
I'm a serious metalhead but I love The Cars. Always have. They really kicked ass in their own way. In fact, I know quite a few other metalheads who love them too. They had that ability to reach across the lines. Not many bands do.
not a metalhead.. tried and true punk.friends used 2 think that the cars were a too slick"nuwave" band....but the cars ruled. always have. eliot easton is the boss.
The Cars were simply amazing with this tremendous lineup, and they we're blessed with great songs and phenomenal delivery and stage presence. Hall of Fame worthy for sure.
It's Ben 20 years since Ben died at 53. Life is really unfair and unpredictable so live in the present and enjoy every moment... and not through the lens of a cell phone camera. We didn't have them then and life was great.
This is one of the songs I heard twice and knew all the words to it and the instrumentation too. Have loved this song ever since. It came at time when so many ppl needed a great song like this and a terrific band of guys singing and playing this for us!! Wow! ❤❤❤
My first cars song. A buddy in Jr high school said I had to check out this band. So glad I did.... Legendary status in my book... Thanks Ben and Ric.... Keep on rockin it ......
Man, these guys can lock into rhythm like nobody's business. RUclips really opened my eyes to a different side of the Cars than I loved them for when I was a kid.
"If the illusion is real, let them take you for a ride! You make a thunderous appeal, let them be on your side!! Let them bring you up in the air... Let them brush, your rock n‘ roll hair!! Let the good times roll, let the good times roll... Let the good times roll, let the good times roll! Just let the --- good ---- times ----- roll!!!
We definitely need another band like the Beatles or Cars...highly creative, simple, fun songs by highly talented good time musicians. Maybe in the 2020's coming up. We need to get back to Rock and Rolling before we all bust!
@@moeb434We’ve had a band like that for about a decade now, and they’ve slowly been picking up steam. They’re called King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Fucking phenomenal band with zero bad albums (and that’s saying something when they have close to 30 studio albums).
+Larry L I love the Cars first two albums but as to the Beatles, they were weak vocalists, the Bee Gees put them to shame. ruclips.net/video/Rj2SFFGX8cE/видео.html
Yes, i remember being an 8th grader getting ready to let the good times roll into high school w/ the inventive Cars leading the way as one of the pioneers in new wave/rock music.
I remember when this came out and a friend had the album. He sat me down telling me this album is your sound, your kind of music....from the opening chords I was hooked. Although, they have so many great songs, this is the one I link to them always. RIP Ben and Rick and thanks for the good times...
LQQK actual live music from real musicians - no backing tracks turned up once the hook starts like too many bands today do . Real live is just 'not exciting enough' for many boring listeners . This is real music, no fluff
Even though I'm 12, when I'm 65 i'll be telling my family about the days of '18, 2018. "I was listening to this song through the Kenmore radio in my 2012 Camaro, the good old days of the 2010's" Like people say about the 1970's. I love this song! :D
Yea!! Benjamin Orr.... Such a great lead singer...miss him. Ric O. made it all happen but had Ben not passed away so young we would be seeing Cars shows to this day.
It had to be amazing to have heard the Cars in clubs as they were perfecting the material on their 1st LP. The first thought had to be that you were hearing something new and fresh that was not out there. They were not an exciting band to see from a theatrical standpoint, though Benjamin Orr was eye candy for the girls and obviously had the rock star look. "Moving In Stereo" will forever be in my top 20 of "stranded on an island" songs to want.
You know what? This song is really, really fun to play on guitar! Especially Ric Ocasek's opening rhythm guitar part. It's a sort of strumming on a power chord, where you hit the chord only on the off-beats (one-AND-two-AND-three-AND-four-AND). On the ON-beats, you don't bear down on the frets, so you get harmonics instead of the lower notes (mostly B or A). Ric also uses this technique in "You're All I've Got Tonight", later in the song, after the main riff has been established. Brilliant!
These were the times when classical was starting to go out like frank sinatra and going towards bands like queen little twist. Then in the 80's-90's bands like pink floyd, guns n roses ACDC.... The Cars would have been definetly in the hall of fame. And still should be.
One of the best of The Cars' songs, it still plays well after 30+ years. (And I'm glad to see that The Cars have regrouped. Ric Ocasek is still a great frontman; check out the video of "Free".)
While everyone else was listening to ACDC, Van Halen(whose music I also liked) I was listening to The Cars on my 8 Track player. Yes they were still putting out 8 tracks back then.
As for Elliot Easton's lead playing, that too is awesome! The solo is relatively easy, compared to most of his stuff. It's strongly based on the chords, so if a band had only one guitarist, he could still play that solo without that sense of "drop" a band sometimes creates (especially a trio) when there's no rhythm playing going on. Then there's that fantastic pre-chorus! While Ric plays a power chord of G, Elliot does a unison bend on F#, creating an overall major-seventh tonality.
Let the good times roll Let them knock you around Let the good times roll Let them make you a clown Let them leave you up in the air Let them brush your rock and roll hair Let the good times roll Let the good times roll-oll Let the (good times roll) Let the stories be told Let them say what they want Let the photos be old Let them show what they want Let them leave you up in the air Let them brush your rock and roll hair Let the good times roll Let the good times roll-oll Won't you let the (good times roll) If the illusion is real Let them give you a ride If they got thunder appeal Let them be on your side Let them leave you up in the air Let them brush your rock and roll hair Let the good times roll Won't you let the good times roll-oll Let the (good times roll) Let the good times roll Won't you let the good times roll Well let the good times roll Let it roll (good times roll) Let the good times roll Ooh let the good times roll Ooh let the good times roll Let 'em roll (good times roll) Well, let the good times roll (Let the good times roll) Ooh let the good times roll Good times roll (the good times roll) Let the good times roll Let 'em roll
The Cars really push it to the limit with this. It's definitive late 70s new wave post punk. This and a bunch of their other songs were and are just what I wanted.
rest in peace ben orr and ric ocasek. you both made the good times roll.
Amen to that
Yes they certainly did ❤❤❤❤
These guys came bursting on the scene with 10 great songs right off the bat no one else sounded like them and boy they sound terrific live.. love this band
🎉❤🎉
Yes! I was in high school, Journey was getting popular at about the same time. All of my friends were really into Journey, not me, I became a huge cars fan as soon as I first heard them. I always will be.
Still sounds like nothing else
Sure did! New Wave cool, saw them in ‘79 Arrowhead Stadium. Wish it had been a small intimate venue like this though, up close and personal.
@deppilisa
I agree, I hated Journey after they brought on Perry. This has to be one of the best debut albums of all time. Too bad Rick and Elliot developed bad blood somewhere along the line.
Takes me back to a simpler time.
No such thing as a band like this today.Gone are the days when bands could play instruments and sing.
Not true. There's plenty of great rock bands still. Check out "Pond" or "King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard"
Wish we could go back to those days! 😊
When you right your right and your 100 percent right
When I was down the cars always made me happy
Me too
One of the most original and unique sounding bands of the 70s. You could never mistake a Cars song for anyone else.
Right On the Money Sir
Amazing sound effects and songs that Rock
I just found my Happy Place ; ) My sista' & I just bought our first High fidelity Stereo & speakers when the Cars released this album!! We smoked pot! Moving in Stereo!!! OMG! The Cars were my first love!!!!! Please help to get them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if you LOVE them as much as I do!!
I'm glad Ric was still alive when they were inducted.
OK I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I believe the keyboardist (I don't even know his name) was the MVP of The Cars. It was his contributions that gave their songs a hook that stuck in you. Without his infectious keyboard work, their songs would've just been average, instead of the instantly addictive pop songs they were.
I agree, I'm just re-visiting the Cars for the 1st time, and they are so Underrated. Their keyboardest is phenomenal putting beautiful melodies congruent to the guitarwork.
Underrated by who?
He adds a cool to this one
@@gteefxr3094By the guy who wrote it I guess... Yeah, they were pretty successful for mates to be underated.. Every member contributed to their unique sound
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I'm a serious metalhead but I love The Cars. Always have. They really kicked ass in their own way. In fact, I know quite a few other metalheads who love them too. They had that ability to reach across the lines. Not many bands do.
So true.
not a metalhead.. tried and true punk.friends used 2 think that the cars were a too slick"nuwave" band....but the cars ruled. always have. eliot easton is the boss.
Aerosmith
I'm a metalhead too and I truly enjoy the music made by this fantastic band.
Right ! Everybody could relate to The Cars stuff . This is a classic example .Goodtimes indeed .
The Cars, Blondie, The Pretenders, Tom Petty, Pat Benetar... tasty keyboards plus great guitar. Who else from that "New Wave"?
Talking Heads
My first concert was BLONDIE 79
The Cars were simply amazing with this tremendous lineup, and they we're blessed with great songs and phenomenal delivery and stage presence. Hall of Fame worthy for sure.
To me they were the led Zeppelin of the late 70s and 80s
Yes sir I agree with you 100 percent and well said
"blessed with great songs"
Thank Ric Ocasek
"Let them brush your rock ’n roll hair.” One of my favorite lyrics in the myriad of great Cars lyrics.
Yes Gretchen, When I had all the hairs to brush then too.
"Tonight She Comes"!!!!
I just started High School when this came out. Had a head full of hair back then(LOL). I know what you mean.
Indeed Gretchen! Indeed!!!
My favorite group! After the Beatles!
THE CARS - Way ahead of their time, excellent, intelligent musicians, and just not average enough for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame
I loved The Cars .. And their music!!! They were awesome and their music was awesome!!!!!!
God bless them ❤❤❤❤❤
It's Ben 20 years since Ben died at 53. Life is really unfair and unpredictable so live in the present and enjoy every moment... and not through the lens of a cell phone camera. We didn't have them then and life was great.
I think The Cars first two albums are as good as any first two records from any band. Been listening since 78 Let the good times roll.
Panorama
Still listening in 2024 🥳
Definitely agree, and I'm a headbanging metalhead
And I wore out the first album and the candy o 8 track
Great band, I like them even more now that I'm older.....
This is one of the songs I heard twice and knew all the words to it and the instrumentation too. Have loved this song ever since. It came at time when so many ppl needed a great song like this and a terrific band of guys singing and playing this for us!! Wow! ❤❤❤
RIP Ric You and Eddie Money in just a few days apart is too much. Thanks for the music.
Yeah they're dropping like flies it's sad
Let me put it this way; Yeah I'm old, but I got to see all the cool bands...
The Cars are on that list.
soundtrack of my youth, very thankfully
My first cars song.
A buddy in Jr high school said I had to check out this band.
So glad I did....
Legendary status in my book...
Thanks Ben and Ric....
Keep on rockin it ......
This song is one long eargasm!! Not many songs can do that.
From a time when musicians actually had talent, great band.
Eveytime I hear this song I am reminded of good times in 1979....
I was a little young but I get it!
Takes me back to Junior High. 1978. Kick ass first album. 🎸🏆
Ric, you truly let the good times roll. RIP 9/15/19.
Tell that to the wife. After he cut her throat.
RIP Ben Orr too 🙏🙏🙏
Good Garage Band Gone Great. Classic,and Timeless.
Man, these guys can lock into rhythm like nobody's business. RUclips really opened my eyes to a different side of the Cars than I loved them for when I was a kid.
Exactly, great bass player who is not flashy and a tight drummer with tasty fills but solid groove.. what's not to like?
When a band member dies and is not replaced.True respect for them .R.I.P. BEN
Did they carry on without Ben. He was the most handsome one, amazing voice too x
Love the Cars but always feel sad regarding the passing of Benjamin Orr.....He was Talented Cute and really good guy so I hear ! RIP
He was so handsome was Ben.
@@Cristiano48239 One of the most handsome men in rock n roll.
Definitely @@blackwingvalleylover
"If the illusion is real, let them take you for a ride!
You make a thunderous appeal, let them be on your side!!
Let them bring you up in the air...
Let them brush, your rock n‘ roll hair!!
Let the good times roll, let the good times roll...
Let the good times roll, let the good times roll!
Just let the --- good ---- times ----- roll!!!
Damn brings hella good memories to mind! Luvin it!!!!
I was very lucky to see these guys at William and Mary hall in the 80's.Hell of a show
Super duper!!!✌🎸🎷🎺💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
this made me realize we dont have bands like this anymore :[
We don' you are sooo right no more great band throw away society !
We definitely need another band like the Beatles or Cars...highly creative, simple, fun songs by highly talented good time musicians. Maybe in the 2020's coming up. We need to get back to Rock and Rolling before we all bust!
@@moeb434We’ve had a band like that for about a decade now, and they’ve slowly been picking up steam. They’re called King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Fucking phenomenal band with zero bad albums (and that’s saying something when they have close to 30 studio albums).
put these guys in the rock and roll hall of fame
me too, nice to know they are touring still.
+Stéphane Richard Agreed. They belong. By far the best of the New Wave.
+Stéphane Richard not the Cars w/out Orr
agree with u stephane
Induction committee, are you listening!?
........."Let them brush your rock and roll hair"...."Let the Good times roll".......
The BEATLES of the 80's!!!
A part of me died..😢 RIP Ric..you're now with ben
Love the Cars! ❤
Let the good times Roll!
Gorgeous benjamin....you are so greatly missed and loved. =)
This version of this song kicks fn ass! These guys are fn cool! Rock, man!
Love the song; amazing!
The first 2 albums are classics & as far as new wave maybe the Talking Heads & a couple others were in the same ballpark as the Cars. Rip RO & BO
In a sense they are like the Beatles.. each one had a job, and did it to perfection. The whole became greater than the sum of the parts.
Larry L said perfectly!
Brilliant observation! Wish that I had thought of it. Well done!
+Larry L I love the Cars first two albums but as to the Beatles, they were weak vocalists, the Bee Gees put them to shame. ruclips.net/video/Rj2SFFGX8cE/видео.html
yes - the essence of a great band!
So, so true! There has never been a badder, cooler band. NEVER!
Yes, i remember being an 8th grader getting ready to let the good times roll into high school w/ the inventive Cars leading the way as one of the pioneers in new wave/rock music.
I remember when this came out and a friend had the album. He sat me down telling me this album is your sound, your kind of music....from the opening chords I was hooked. Although, they have so many great songs, this is the one I link to them always. RIP Ben and Rick and thanks for the good times...
I agree, this song is thee cars song.
Brings back some great memories!
LQQK actual live music from real musicians - no backing tracks turned up once the hook starts like too many bands today do .
Real live is just 'not exciting enough' for many boring listeners . This is real music, no fluff
The Cars - Let The Good Times Roll - 1978 ! Awesome .
Mike Hand
Eli Selling How come you never say anything ?
RIP Just a Great Music Grow Up On This The Magic Is Gone Today 10-4
Alright---the party is on!! Now where the heck did I put those dancing shoes?
Let the good times roll 🦴🐗
The Cars are the most underrated band ever Love them!!!!
America 🇺🇸 greatest ever rock band 🎸 innovative/ original/ write the music 🎵 play the instruments 🎹 record and reproduce on stage - LIVE ❤
Sounds tight like a studio mix Love the Cars
Great video transfer, yuffenough! Very clear, almost HD-like. Thanks for sharing.
Even though I'm 12, when I'm 65 i'll be telling my family about the days of '18, 2018. "I was listening to this song through the Kenmore radio in my 2012 Camaro, the good old days of the 2010's" Like people say about the 1970's. I love this song! :D
Rest In Peace Rick. Let the Good Times Roll, thanks for the amazing music
Love the Cars 1978. I was 15 years old smoking some Hooter and letting the good times roll.
TY...One of my Fav.s ...I,m Old ...Had this ..Candy-o...Moving in stereo...Love the cars....
Ben Orr 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Yea!! Benjamin Orr.... Such a great lead singer...miss him. Ric O. made it all happen but had Ben not passed away so young we would be seeing Cars shows to this day.
It had to be amazing to have heard the Cars in clubs as they were perfecting the material on their 1st LP. The first thought had to be that you were hearing something new and fresh that was not out there. They were not an exciting band to see from a theatrical standpoint, though Benjamin Orr was eye candy for the girls and obviously had the rock star look. "Moving In Stereo" will forever be in my top 20 of "stranded on an island" songs to want.
Ben Orr was SO fit. Can't believe he left us so young. What a great band they were!
Cancer does that to everybody, unfortunately. One of the best base guitarists ever!
Ben Orr & Ric Ocasek were both pretty heavy smokers... it effected their health, though Ric later in life.
You know what? This song is really, really fun to play on guitar! Especially Ric Ocasek's opening rhythm guitar part. It's a sort of strumming on a power chord, where you hit the chord only on the off-beats (one-AND-two-AND-three-AND-four-AND). On the ON-beats, you don't bear down on the frets, so you get harmonics instead of the lower notes (mostly B or A).
Ric also uses this technique in "You're All I've Got Tonight", later in the song, after the main riff has been established. Brilliant!
Agree! They had a lot of cool riffs!
Good Lord Ben Orr was a gorgeous man!
i think we foget how good the keyboards and drummer were. the whole band is great musicians. fan 🚗
Great memory man!
Hard not to argue that this is the quintessential CARS song
The Cars have always been in my top 3 list of alltime greatest bands.
I saw these guys open for foreigner dec. 78, 1st album for both bands.
Ahhh I always get thrown back into my high school years!! Never gets old and I'm 61 now. ❤❤❤
These were the times when classical was starting to go out like frank sinatra and going towards bands like queen little twist. Then in the 80's-90's bands like pink floyd, guns n roses ACDC.... The Cars would have been definetly in the hall of fame. And still should be.
One of the best of The Cars' songs, it still plays well after 30+ years. (And I'm glad to see that The Cars have regrouped. Ric Ocasek is still a great frontman; check out the video of "Free".)
bloody classic!
dynamite tune !!!!!! love the cars Ben Orr was a legend always will be in my eyes R.I.P
Rip Ric, thanks for the great music
Love them!
What a tight band, on top of just being a fantastic piece of music.
Those were the good old days
minimalist pure pop for now people, always sounds smart & well crafted to me. Great band
The cars are just simply superb!
Luvem
I love his unique voice. They were one of all time favorite bands in the 80's.
This whole concert is amazing!
While everyone else was listening to ACDC, Van Halen(whose music I also liked) I was listening to The Cars on my 8 Track player. Yes they were still putting out 8 tracks back then.
I think it's so fucking awesome to have these videos from that time(especially the live ones) it's like walking into a time machine.
Man, I' ve never seen a Adams apple like that. Up and down it goes.
Rick Haggett HeHe,thanks for the laugh,so true
This is Perfect, Sounds Exactly as Recorded💥 and as I Remember Hearing & Seeing Them in Concert🌟❤️
RIP Rick! thanks for making many good times roll!
RIP Ric,, thanks for write the score of my youth
As for Elliot Easton's lead playing, that too is awesome! The solo is relatively easy, compared to most of his stuff. It's strongly based on the chords, so if a band had only one guitarist, he could still play that solo without that sense of "drop" a band sometimes creates (especially a trio) when there's no rhythm playing going on.
Then there's that fantastic pre-chorus! While Ric plays a power chord of G, Elliot does a unison bend on F#, creating an overall major-seventh tonality.
I can relate so much to that!!
Excellent !
Dig it as always!
Let the good times roll
Let them knock you around
Let the good times roll
Let them make you a clown
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll-oll
Let the (good times roll)
Let the stories be told
Let them say what they want
Let the photos be old
Let them show what they want
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll-oll
Won't you let the (good times roll)
If the illusion is real
Let them give you a ride
If they got thunder appeal
Let them be on your side
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
Won't you let the good times roll-oll
Let the (good times roll)
Let the good times roll
Won't you let the good times roll
Well let the good times roll
Let it roll (good times roll)
Let the good times roll
Ooh let the good times roll
Ooh let the good times roll
Let 'em roll (good times roll)
Well, let the good times roll
(Let the good times roll)
Ooh let the good times roll
Good times roll (the good times roll)
Let the good times roll
Let 'em roll
Ric ocasic strumming from south to North created a new and great sound
Love been outfit, so much style
I totally miss the Cars they were one of the very few bands that changed my life
R.I.P Ric and thanks for the great jams.
I wish I was back in 1978. If I only had a time machine.
Me too!!
The Cars really push it to the limit with this. It's definitive late 70s new wave post punk. This and a bunch of their other songs were and are just what I wanted.
Don't you mean, 'just what i needed'?