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[minstrel75itg]

‘Bye Bye Love’ by The Cars - “With your eyes of porcelain and of blue, They shock me into sense. You think you’re so illustrious. You call yourself intense”- #thecarsband #benjaminorr #ricocasek #greghawkes #ellioteaston #davidrobinson #theseventies

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Ric Ocasek

(Photo by Ebet Roberts/Getty Images)

#1970smusic #thecarsband #70smusic #1980smusic #80smusic #thecars #ricocasek

[nityarawal]

Good Times Roll

"Good Times Roll," @thecarsband

https://youtu.be/Ki6xHnDAwHw?si=vKbxn836c1yPnRas #SongOfTheDay2 #SOTD2 #GoodTimesRoll #TheCars

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Throwback: Happy 80th Birthday, Ric Ocasek!

Throwback: Happy 80th Birthday, Ric Ocasek! @thecarsband

March is a busy month in music history: The Who‘s Roger Daltrey celebrated his 80th birthday on March 1 Method Man celebrated his 53rd birthday on March 2 Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour celebrated his 78th birthday on March 6. Roy Haynes celebrated his 99th birthday on March 14.  Sly and the Family Stone frontman Sly Stone celebrated his 81st birthday on March 15 Public Enemy‘s Flavor…

[gsllc]

My Favorite Album by The Cars #music #album @thecarsband

If you enjoy this post, please boost it via BlueSky, Mastodon, and/or Twitter/X. A random thought inspired this post, which will likely result in a series of posts. I asked myself which album was my favorite among those produced by the Cars. There are honestly only four candidates for me: The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979), Shake It Up (1981), and Heartbeat City (1984). All of these albums are…

[zoso418]

THE CARS ― MOVING IN STEREO • ALL MIXED UP (1978) It's All Inside Of You .@thecarsband https://youtu.be/BZhfFXEMMI4?si=2sh7XaXYStjRSmka

[ivangzama]

The Cars - Drive (Official Music Video)

The Cars - Drive (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/xuZA6qiJVfU a través de @YouTube @thecarsband ▶️ #VenezuelaGaranteDeLosDDHH 🇻🇪¡La Verdad de Venezuela triunfa!▶️ #LasCallesSonDelPueblo 🇻🇪▶️ #LeerDescoloniza 🇻🇪🕊️💙📖📚

[rocklandmexico]

Checa el cover de Mark Hoppus en honor a Ric Ocasek, líder de The Cars, fallecido el pasado domingo.

[henshincyborg]

RIP Ric Ocasek . The Cars and Ric’s music were a huge part of my young life. Rock mixed with synth beats and incredible pop hooks. He was also skinny and gawky and did NOT feature standard handsome looks... but he exuded cool.Cool enough to snag one of the original supermodels. A style icon that even got Andy Warhol to direct one of their music videos....that video featured a whos who of eighties underground club culture in NYC.The Cars would also win best music video at the very 1st MTV awards!! I once saw him getting out of his car at a cafe on Melrose but I didn’t want to bug him so I didn’t say anything but man...I shoulda. Shoulda coulda. Now he can jam out with Ben Orr. . . #ricocasek #thecars #thecarsband #newwave #newyork #caricature #mtv #eighties #rollingstonemagazine @richardotcakek @thecars @rollingstone #anotheronebitesthedust (at Glendale, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2duRSDjxRC/?igshid=1d508t4kcn3e

[shayurikarasu]

"Ric Ocasek - into the Great Goodnight" ~ Since we discovered @thecars in August 2010, #RicOcasek has been Micky's personal hero and role model, someone he both wanted to be like, as well as meet one day. We talked about how we'd love to work with Ric and The Cars! That's how inspirational they are to us. I am grateful his passing was peacefully of natural causes, and he was surrounded by his family. The Great Goodnight will take care of Ric x 💜 #personal #myart #art #artwork #thecars #thecarsband #thecarsmusic #benjaminorr #davidrobinson #greghawkes #ellioteaston #paulinaporizkova https://www.instagram.com/p/B2fIE0hpjii/?igshid=sq55pkj2gxcc

[musicallyrich]

Crate Digger’s Corner: The Cars- s/t (Elektra/Asylum Records, 1978)

Crate Digger’s Corner…by DJ Musically Rich

(If you’d like to listen to a track from the album as you read, go to the end of the post to start the song)

Today in Crate Digger’s Corner I cover the most popular album that I’ve written about up to this point. The 1978, self-titled debut by The Cars. Five out of the nine songs off of this album are still in regular rotation on various stations that focus on classic rock or hits that span the late 70’s/early 80’s pop or rock genres. This I would also say is the album that took New Wave music to the mainstream. Plenty of bands had been in that genre area for a few years and had some minor hits, but this album put it in the middle of the top 40 conversation and kept doing so with a number of subsequent albums.  Whether you know them from the radio, commercials or movie/tv soundtracks, you are bound to have heard at least a few of these songs before, so I hope you’re ready for a quick overview of the album.

Based in the songs of lead singer (along with bass player Benjamin Orr who shares in that duty) and songwriter Ric Ocasek and brought to life through the sound of Elliot Easton’s lead guitar and Greg Hawkes keyboards, The Cars’ first album is a sensational piece of late ‘70s pop/rock. The anthemic songs on the album, ‘Good Times Roll’, ‘Just What I Needed’ and ‘You’re All I Got Tonight’, all have incredibly hooky choruses, which are led by complete group vocals. ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ opens with a really catchy guitar riff augmented by handclaps that instantaneously make this song recognizable once you’ve heard it. Then, if you’ve seen the movie “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” you’ll also instantaneously recognize the opening of ‘Moving In Stereo’ as the music is central to the famous pool scene. The synth led song, which uses phasing to really wonderful effect, has the feel of being influenced by Kraftwerk. If this first tier of songs weren’t so strong, I think the second tier of songs could have been almost as popular with a little more exposure than what they received. The Talking Heads sounding ‘Don’t Cha Stop’, ‘Bye Bye Love’ (not the Everly Bros. song) and ‘All Mixed Up’ are all extremely well played and have memorable melodies and riffs throughout. The only song that I would say falls just a little short of everything else is ‘I’m In Touch With Your World’ which reminds me a little of Television, and doesn’t quite have the earworms in the melodies to make it stick.

I also want to comment on what they did over the last three songs on the album. ‘Bye Bye Love’ highlighted by a soloing section at the end of the song that sees the guitar and keyboard trading off lead licks with each other every two measures, that fades into the beginning of ‘Moving In Stereo’, which blends into the beginning of the final song “All Mixed Up”. That creates a nice little medley on which to end the album.

This is a great album that not only had a huge influence on the original New Wave and plenty of bands in the ‘80s, they came back around in popularity and had a large influence on a lot of the indie rock that was coming out in the early 2000’s as well. If you’re looking for a way into New Wave or just a really catchy album, this is the album to do it!

Stars: 4.5/5

Available on: LP/CD/HDCD/SACD/Cass/8-Trk

RIYL: Blondie- Parallel Lines/ Donnie Iris- Back On The Streets/ Diamond Nights- Popsicle/ TV On The Radio- Seeds

To see photos of other albums in my collection follow my IG: djmusicallyrich

To listen to a track from the album…

[ray-rabies]

30/31 The Cars Testing the @brushpen_ecoline liquid watercolors I got at artfolio #thecars #thecarsband #inktober #inktober2018 #ink #watercolor #sketch #sketchbook #illustration #drawing #penandink #artistsofinstagram #classicrock #classicrockfanart #newwave #musician #band #greghawkes #ricocasek #benjaminorr #davidrobinson #ellioteaston #emergingartist halfass #caricature https://www.instagram.com/p/BpqCi34AKTC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wg52qbp8cezj

[theresacarmoneysworld]

Drive - The Cars Written by Ric Ocasek & released in 1984 Cover by Theresa Carmoney 💝💞Happy Holidays to all! Love ya'll!💞💝 Full recording is on You Tube, Smule, & Facebook! You Tube link is in my bio! @theresacarmoney please subscribe! Thanks so much! 💝Part 1 I have always loved this song...it was about time that I did a cover on it! "Drive" initially hit #1 in the US and #2 in the UK! I hope y'all enjoy my rendition...💝 @thecars #thecars #thecarsband #thecarscover #whosgonnadriveyouhometonight #whosgonnadriveyouhome #drive #myclaim2fame #claimtofame #claim2fame #frogfamily #happy #music #instagood #instagram #80ssynthpop #80ssynth #80s #80spop #80smusic #smulevideo #smulecover #smulesing #smuleclassics #smulevip #smule @talented.humans https://www.instagram.com/p/BrsoW6mAGxS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jti3f8ylx68i

[nityarawal]

Good Times Roll

"Good Times Roll," @thecarsband

https://youtu.be/Ki6xHnDAwHw?si=vKbxn836c1yPnRas #SongOfTheDay2 #SOTD2 #GoodTimesRoll #TheCars

[minstrel75itg]

Album Number Two Hundred Two. “Heartbeat City” is the fifth studio album by the Cars, released on March 13, 1984, by #elektrarecords . The band produced the album with #robertjohnmuttlange . My copy is a gatefold on Elektra Records - 60296-1 This marks the band's first album not produced by long-time producer #roythomasbaker . It also represented a return to the success of the band's self-titled debut album, with critic #robertchristgau noting that "the glossy approach #thecars #thecarsband invented has made this the best year for pure pop in damn near twenty years, and it's only fair that they should return so confidently to form." Numerous tracks from the album received airplay on modern rock and AOR stations, with the singles "#drive “ and "#youmightthink “ reaching the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, while the album peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. #rockandroll #theeighties #ricocasek #benjaminorr #ellioteaston #davidrobinson #greghawkes #davidrobinsondrummer https://www.instagram.com/p/CWv267GvRQI/?utm_medium=tumblr