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They were a pretty good techie, pop-rock/new wavey-type band in the late '70's and early '80's. I always like Ric Ocasek's voice, he was great at sounding really stressed-out or perplexed, like in the song "Since You've Gone" which is one of my favorites. And as far as musicianship, they were a tight band, and they hade great producers; their albums always sounded sooo clean!
I had the opportunity to play session drums for Ocasek a few years after The Cars broke up, when he was working on a solo album called "This Side of Paradise" (I think that was the name.) Weird dude. I found out that sedgy stressed-out, paranoid-sounding voice he exuded on his songs was pretty much his true personality! LOL.
I've never owned any Cars albums (CDs/MP3s for you younger folks lol), but I've always liked most of their cuts. The "You Might Think" video was a trip for its time (1984), and "Drive" was always a nice song from 8th grade dances, and thanks to Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Phoebe Cates, I'll always have a wonderul memory of "Moving in Stereo!"
And they ALWAYS had hot women in their videos, so hey that's a !
You Might Think
Drive (ya, ya, I know most people think it sucks)
Magic
Moving in Stereo
Ones I can no longer stand:
Shake It Up
Just What I Needed
My Best Friend's Girlfriend
I don't know too much about them other than what is played on mainstream radio.
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