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What happened to The Cars ?????
Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:12 pm
I am sure the answer is they sold out for some reason but how in the world do you go from classics like Best Friends Girl, Bye Bye Love, Moving in Stereo, Just What I Needed, You’re All I’ve Got Tonight, Let’s Go, to some of the worst songs ever recorded. Songs like uh oh it’s Magic, You Might Think, and the worst Cars song Shake It Up. I have always been perplexed by this transformation.
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Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:14 pm to Sport Wood
So you saying that the The Cars wrecked their legacy. Maybe they just ran out of material for songs or had internal issues?
untold story of the cars
untold story of the cars
This post was edited on 8/25/20 at 9:23 pm
Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:22 pm to Crow Pie
Don’t think they wrecked their legacy because the first two albums were incredibly good. Still two of my favorites. Just sayin they completely changed their sound. Never understood why.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:25 pm to Sport Wood
quote:I'm not sure but some bands want to evolve their sound as they mature and purposely move to a different style so they dont get pigeon holed and then fall off a cliff because the fans want more of the same...
Don’t think they wrecked their legacy because the first two albums were incredibly good. Still two of my favorites. Just sayin they completely changed their sound. Never understood why.
This post was edited on 8/25/20 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:30 pm to Sport Wood
Posted on 8/25/20 at 9:42 pm to Sport Wood
At least two of them are dead, so they have that working against them.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:40 pm to Sport Wood
Music artists usually start out following their own muse and the early work has the benefit of being developed on an open timeline. Subsequent work is always tampered with by record companies and their desire to homogenize the sound in order to broaden the audience and make more money. The later music also has a very finite amount of time to get done and some artists don't function well on a deadline.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 1:52 am to RockAndRollDetective
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Music artists usually start out following their own muse and the early work has the benefit of being developed on an open timeline. Subsequent work is always tampered with by record companies and their desire to homogenize the sound in order to broaden the audience and make more money. The later music also has a very finite amount of time to get done and some artists don't function well on a deadline.
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Posted on 8/26/20 at 9:46 am to Sport Wood
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Just sayin they completely changed their sound.
You Might Think and Shake It Up weren't that huge of a departure from their earlier sound. Magic was, but I've always liked that song. Maybe it's nostalgia, but those opening guitar riffs are great.
Shake It Up is a pretty terrible song though.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 10:31 am to Sport Wood
I thought they remained pretty good.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 2:00 pm to hogcard1964
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I thought they remained pretty good.
Ditto. What’s the OP’s opinion of “Drive”?
Posted on 8/26/20 at 2:27 pm to The Spleen
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You Might Think and Shake It Up weren't that huge of a departure from their earlier sound. Magic was, but I've always liked that song. Maybe it's nostalgia, but those opening guitar riffs are great.
I mean, their music slowly got less inspired, but of all the bands out there, I don't think of the Cars when talking about bands whose music fell off a cliff.
Weird thread is weird
Posted on 8/26/20 at 3:30 pm to BigOrangeBri
Drive is a quality tune.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 4:40 pm to Sport Wood
And the two members that died were The Cars' engine and transmission.
"Heartbeat City" was an incredible record. Wiki says it sold four million copies. I remember that record's videos owned MTV the summer of 1984, AND Ocasek landed Paulina Porizkova. Who in their right mind can argue with that kind of success?
"Heartbeat City" was an incredible record. Wiki says it sold four million copies. I remember that record's videos owned MTV the summer of 1984, AND Ocasek landed Paulina Porizkova. Who in their right mind can argue with that kind of success?
Posted on 8/26/20 at 5:27 pm to TheFretShack
Drive is great
Posted on 8/26/20 at 7:30 pm to The Spleen
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You Might Think and Shake It Up weren't that huge of a departure from their earlier sound. Magic was, but I've always liked that song. Maybe it's nostalgia, but those opening guitar riffs are great.
I think he´s talking about Panorama.
Posted on 8/27/20 at 2:20 pm to Sport Wood
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I am sure the answer is they sold out for some reason but how in the world do you go from classics like Best Friends Girl, Bye Bye Love, Moving in Stereo, Just What I Needed, You’re All I’ve Got Tonight, Let’s Go, to some of the worst songs ever recorded. Songs like uh oh it’s Magic, You Might Think, and the worst Cars song Shake It Up. I have always been perplexed by this transformation.
Sounds like you have shite taste. Shake it Up and the songs off Heartbeat City are awesome. They don't have many stinkers.
Posted on 8/27/20 at 2:32 pm to Sport Wood
Orr should have sang all the songs. Oh, and you forgot drive, their best song.
Posted on 8/27/20 at 6:07 pm to 91TIGER
Orr definitely was the better vocalist
Posted on 8/27/20 at 8:40 pm to DR93Berlin
They had at least one really good song on their final album in 2011.
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