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The Cars

    Perfect pop/rock tunes topped off with a detached New Wave perspective make this a great debut in the same way that the first Boston and Ramones albums are (everything that came after refined the same formula). Not a big hit in 1978, The Cars continued selling throughout the '80s, bridging the gap between classic rockers, New Wavers, and the general public.

The first sound you hear on "Just What I Needed," the single from the Cars' debut album, is the repeated thump of bass notes against the short, metallic slash of guitar. It's a magnificent noise: loud, elemental and relentless. But the Cars–the best band to come out of Boston since J. Geils–aren't interested in simply
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traveling the interstates of rock & roll. They'll go there for the rush, but they prefer the stop-and-go quirks of two lanes. Before "Just What I Needed" is over, guitarist Elliot Easton has burned rubber making a U-turn with his solo, and Greg Hawkes' synthesizer has double-clutched the melody. Leader Ric Ocasek once sang that he lived on "emotion and comic relief," and it's in this tension of opposites that he and his group find relief (comic or otherwise) between the desire for frontal assault and the preference for oblique strategies. This is the organizing principle behind not only the single but the entire LP, which is almost evenly divided between pop songs and pretentious attempts at art.

The pop songs are wonderful. (Besides "Just What I Needed," they include "My Best Friend's Girl" and "You're All I've Got Tonight.") Easy and eccentric at the same time, all are potential hits. The melodies whoosh out as if on casters, custom-built for the interlocked but constantly shifting blocks of rhythm, while Ocasek's lyrics explode in telegraphic bursts of images and attacks ("You always knew to wear it well/You look so fancy I can tell"). Neither Ocasek nor bassist Ben Orr have striking voices, but by playing off the former's distant, near-mechanical phrasing against the latter's sweet-and-low delivery, the band achieves real emotional flexibility.

As long as the Cars' avant-garde instincts are servicing their rock & roll impulses, the songs bristle and–in their harsher, more angular moments ("Bye Bye Love," "Don't Cha Stop")–bray. The album comes apart only when it becomes arty and falls prey to producer Roy Thomas Baker's lacquered sound and the group's own penchant for electronic effects. "I'm in Touch with Your World" and "Moving in Stereo" are the kind of songs that certify psychedelia's bad name. But these are the mistakes of a band that wants it both ways–and who can blame rock & rollers for that? (RS 274)


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Cars Records and CDs:
Candy-o
Coming Up You
Complete Greatest Hits
Door To Door
Double Life
Drive
Greatest Hits
Heartbeat City
  Hello Again
It's All I Can Do/got A Lot On My Head
Just What I Needed
Let's Go
Live
Magic
My Best Friends Girl
  Panorama
Same
Shake It Up
Since You're Gone
Strap Me In
The Cars
The Cars Greatest Hits
  Tonight She Comes
Touch And Go
Why Can't I Have You
You Are The Girl
You Might Think

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Cars, The the Cars Elektra, 6e-135, 1978
S 9 9 8 LP   $12.40   CyrCo
USA   
Cars - The Cars   Cars   The Cars
Lp Vinyl, Cars, The: The Cars, Elektra 6e-135/red Labels/lyric & Pic Innersl./'76 M-/vg++.....
M-/VG++ LP   $12.60   Music Obsess
USA   
    Cars   The Cars
vg+/vg+ LP   $12.65   stevens
USA     
    Cars   The Cars
Label: Elektra, Published: 1978 Engineer - Geoff Workman Engineer (second) - Nigel Walker (2) ...
C:EX,M:NM LP   $14.89   recordsale
Germany   
    Cars   The Cars
Elektra Recs, 1978, K 52088, Ex/nm, Insert
LP   $16.40   VinylUK
UK   
    Cars   The Cars
C19090 vinyl-lp Condition: Mint Barcode: - Year:' Title: The Cars Style: Pop - Rock Special Order
LP   $16.28   CDExpress
Netherl   
    Cars   The Cars
6e-135 (#3) With Original Inner Sleeve - Notched Cover
NM/NM LP   $16.50   MightyVinyl
USA   
    Cars   The Cars
Nautilus Half Speed Master s Nr, 14
vg+/vg+ LP   $18.00   Bananas
USA   
    Cars   The Cars
Uk Stereo Sleeve Ex- With Inner Elektra, K52088
EX LP   $19.68   Sweet Memori
UK   
The Cars - Cars   Cars   The Cars
Original. Lyrics Inner Sleeve. Second Press With Red Label. Usa, Elektra, K 52088, 1978
Ex / Ex LP   $22.40   www.b-sides.
Italy     
    Cars   The Cars
+ Lyrics Uk Or As Shown, (elk 52 088)
M/M LP   $19.68   Rock Revelat
UK     
    Cars   The Cars
K52088, Elektra
EX LP   $34.02   Vinylshop
UK     
Cars - The Cars Album   Cars   The Cars
1981 Nautilus Recordings Super Disc Lp, W/ Lyric/photo Insert Sheet, Of The Cars Killer Fisrt Alb...
LP   $36.05   Jack Wolak's
USA   
Cars - The Cars Record   Cars   The Cars
Format: New 180 Grm Reissue Lp - Released On: 29 August 2009 - Details: One Of The Most Successfu...
New LP   $41.83   My Platters
UK   
    Cars   The Cars
Us 9-track 180g Original Master Recording. Half Speed Production And Mastering By Mobile Fidelity...
LP   $52.47   Garden
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    Cars   The Cars
Usa, Elecktra Records Usa, Ge 135, 1978
Still Seal LP   $60.39   lpfrenzy80s
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    Cars   The Cars
K452088. Elektra Records 78. Ex Ex
Cassette   $11.48   VinylUK
UK   
    Cars   The Cars
Cars, The the Cars Elektra, 0-a66929, 1984
7 7 3 12"   $7.74   CyrCo
USA   
    Cars   The Cars
Fidelity Not Guaranteed. Elektra Et8 135 / 1978
Other   $8.99   Musical Ener
USA   
    Cars   The Cars
Lp + Cdr Digitally Remastered W/ Original Artwork & Inserts. --these Are Not Commercial Cds,...
S 4 4 4 LP+CDR   $42.45   CyrCo
USA   
    Cars   The Cars
12 Inch Single + Cdr (12 Inch Single Is A Single Not A Lp) Digitally Remastered W/ Original Artwo...
7 7 3 12"+CDR   $35.90   CyrCo
USA   
Cars - The Cars (deluxe Edition)   Cars   The Cars (deluxe Edition)
Special Edition. Second Cd Full Of Demos. Usa, Rhino, 000081227570026, 1999
New 2CD   $29.90   nCDMusic
Portuga     
    Cars   The Cars (numbered Limited Edition 1
Lmf274 lp New/hard To Find Lp Special Order
LP   $101.41   CDExpress
Netherl   
    Cars   The Cars (numbered Limited Edition 180g Lp)
Hard To Find Lp
NEW LP   $31.08   GrooveNet
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    Cars   The Cars (us Lp Incl: Good Times Roll, Best Friends Girl, Just What I Needed)
Us Lp - Good Times Roll, Best Friend's Girl, Just What I Needed, All Mixed Up Us, Elektra
Nm/Nm LP   $5.00   Dixon Music
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VG+/VG+ LP   $88.00   Recsim
France     
    Cars   The Cars - 7559603262 - 9 Tracks
CD   $9.30   Action
UK   
    Cars   The Cars - Elektra
VG+/VG+ LP   $88.00   Recsim
France     
    Cars   The Cars - Elektra 52088-s
VG+/VG+ LP   $152.00   Recsim
France     
    Cars   The Cars - Greatest Hits
Year: 1990; Label: Elektra / Wea; tracks: 1. Just What I Needed (lp Version) 3:42; 2. Since You'...
Like New CD   $9.03   SSM Music
USA   
Cars - The Cars - Greatest Hits [audio Cd]   Cars   The Cars - Greatest Hits [audio Cd]
Good Customer Service.will Package Well.
Like New CD   $7.80   LooneyGeeks
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    Cars   The Cars - Lp
With Inner Elektra, Elk 52 088
LP   $8.20   Replay Music
UK     
    Cars   The Cars - Wea
VG+/VG+ LP   $105.60   Recsim
France     
    Cars   The Cars -used Copy
CD   $5.31   Action
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