The Cars - Original Album Series 5CD (2010)
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The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, it consisted of Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes (keyboards), Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter.

The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Robert Palmer, music critic for The New York Times and Rolling Stone, described the Cars' musical style: "They have taken some important but disparate contemporary trends—punk minimalism, the labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend."

The Cars had four Top 10 hits: "Shake It Up" (1981), "You Might Think" (1984), "Drive" (1984), and "Tonight She Comes" (1985). The band was named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers' Poll, and won Video of the Year for "You Might Think" at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. Their debut album The Cars sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks. As of 2001, they had sold over 23 million albums in the United States.

The band disbanded in 1988 and Ocasek stated that a reunion would never occur. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. In 2005, Easton and Hawkes joined with Todd Rundgren to form the spin-off band the New Cars, which performed classic Cars and Rundgren songs along with new material. The surviving original members of the Cars reunited in 2010 to record the band's seventh and final album Move Like This, which was released in May 2011. Following a short tour in support of the album, inactivity on the band resumed.

In April 2018, the Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and reunited to perform at the induction ceremony. It was their final performance with Ocasek, who died on September 15, 2019 of cardiovascular disease.



Tracklist:


The Cars (1978)

01. Good Times Roll
02. My Best Friend's Girl
03. Just What I Needed
04. I'm In Touch With Your World
05. Don't Cha Stop
06. You're All I've Got Tonight
07. Bye Bye Love
08. Moving In Stereo
09. All Mixed Up

Candy-O (1979)

01. Let's Go
02. Since I Held You
03. It's All I Can Do
04. Double Life
05. Shoo Be Doo
06. Candy-O
07. Night Spots
08. You Can't Hold On Too Long
09. Lust For Kicks
10. Got A Lot On My Head
11. Dangerous Type

Panorama (1980)

01. Panorama
02. Touch And Go
03. Gimme Some Slack
04. Don't Tell Me No
05. Getting Through
06. Misfit Kid
07. Down Boys
08. You Wear Those Eyes
09. Running To You
10. Up And Down

Shake It Up (1981)

01. Since You're Gone
02. Shake It Up
03. I'm Not The One
04. Victim Of Love
05. Cruiser
06. A Dream Away
07. This Could Be Love
08. Think It Over
09. Maybe Baby

Heartbeat City (1984)

01. Hello Again
02. Looking For Love
03. Magic
04. Drive
05. Stranger Eyes
06. You Might Think
07. It's Not The Night
08. Why Can't I Have You
09. I Refuse
10. Heartbeat City




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