May 22, 2003(retitled) Gary Numan's Favorite Band?Note to Babs: courtesy of Craig, here is a link to a pro-home-schooling cartoon. Before we get to the topic du jour, please take a moment to visit "Tiger." He's a lawyer with a blog, and we all know that this is a good thing. Once you've paid Tiger a visit and properly bookmarked and/or blogrolled him, come on back here to read about...
The Cars. You know, the musical group from (mostly) the 80s. Everyone knows at least several of their songs -- "Magic" "Moving In Stereo" "Best Friend's Girl" "Shake It Up" "Tonight She Comes" "You're All I've Got Tonight" and so on -- but how exactly would you categorize them? Pop? New Wave? Early Synth? Rock? Hard to say - The Cars were pretty unique, integrating many different styles into any given song. It seems to me that the band has come up somewhat short in the "Remember The 80s!" fad/s, due in part to their musical eclecticity (is that a word?). From a fansite: But it's almost impossible to place The Cars into just one category of music. In write-up after write-up, the one thing that had always been evident is that The Cars were known for the uniqueness of their sound as well as their lyrics, image, and videos. That inability to pinpoint their style is just one of the qualities that made them such a captivating icon of the 80's as Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes, and David Robinson went down in history.
Captivating, certainly, but probably not even in most people's Top 10 list of Bands They Love...at least upon first thought...but if you really think about it, shouldn't The Cars be on *everyone's* Top 10 list? BONUS: From the official Elektra Records website: "Not to mention the fact that bandleader/lucky bastard Ric Ocasek is still married to supermodel-emeritus Paulina Porizkova." Sidenote: In 1986, Ric Ocasek had a top 40 hit with "Emotion In Motion" and Benjamin Orr hit the top 40 with "Stay The Night." If those two song titles sound familiar, you may be thinking of two different songs: Billy Squier's "Emotion In Motion" and Chicago's "Stay The Night," both hits a few years earlier. Posted at May 22, 2003 09:40 PMCOMMENTS!
You just love that automatic advertising thingie, dontcha? ;) Me, too. Posted by: Venomous Kate at May 22, 2003 09:59 PMBeing from Boston, everyone knew the Cars in the 1980's... Them and the J Giles band and of course, Aerosmith... Never liked Aerosmith after they relaunched themselves. Posted by: sama at May 22, 2003 10:11 PMAgree with both of you...and Aerosmith is The Worst Band Ever, post 1982. Posted by: David at May 22, 2003 10:16 PMAerosmith Rocks, Pre and Post. In fact, "Love In An Elevator is one of their best "I can't catch my breath, this song rocks so hard" songs they YET recorded. I picked up on the Cars on a trip back to San Diego in 78 or 79. Learned about Blondie at that time as well. The Cars were truly unique, and I loved their music...and speaking of Aerosmith and the Cars, let's include the Stones, and you'll have the three most "interesting" looking guys in all of rock and roll covered. Imagine Jagger, Tyler and Ocasek all in the same place at the same time. Scary, eh? George Posted by: geo at May 22, 2003 10:56 PMAlmost as scary as you & I standing together...remember how crowds would flee in horror when we sauntered in for a Clark's Burger? Posted by: David at May 22, 2003 10:58 PMThanks for the plug, David! Hey, weren't The Cars categorized as a "Rock & Roll band?" Posted by: Tiger at May 23, 2003 08:00 AMOnly reason that I can't get into the Cars is because in order to wake me up every morning during high school (I'm a VERY heavy sleeper), my dad would play the Cars at full blast on my stereo. Ric Ocasek gravelling his way through "You Might Think" is no way to start the day, no matter the merits of the band backing him up. Posted by: Dave at May 23, 2003 09:23 AMPost a comment
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