false 2022-08-12 03:27:12 The Elektra Years: 1978–1987 2016 2016-03-11 2016-03-11 238 New Wave Rock 8c9b2f62-ee63-4f88-a6f9-fba85db37645 092b603f-eb4c-4958-b10e-02420de5885b 6bfc7663-bf2b-4bf0-af60-b9a40fad5a4c /media/data/media5/Music/The Cars/The Elektra Years_ 1978-1987/folder.jpg The Cars AlbumArtist The Cars Artist The Cars The Cars 1 Good Times Roll 03:45 2 My Best Friend’s Girl 03:43 3 Just What I Needed 03:43 4 I’m in Touch With Your World 03:30 5 Don’t Cha Stop 03:03 6 You’re All I’ve Got Tonight 04:13 7 Bye Bye Love 04:12 8 Moving in Stereo 04:43 9 All Mixed Up 04:14 1 Let’s Go 03:33 2 Since I Held You 03:16 3 It’s All I Can Do 03:45 4 Double Life 04:14 5 Shoo Be Doo 01:38 6 Candy‐O 02:36 7 Night Spots 03:13 8 You Can’t Hold On Too Long 02:49 9 Lust for Kicks 03:52 10 Got a Lot on My Head 02:59 11 Dangerous Type 04:31 1 Panorama 05:45 2 Touch and Go 04:56 3 Gimme Some Slack 03:34 4 Don’t Tell Me No 04:02 5 Getting Through 02:37 6 Misfit Kid 04:32 7 Down Boys 03:07 8 You Wear Those Eyes 04:57 9 Running to You 03:21 10 Up and Down 03:37 1 Since You’re Gone 03:31 2 Shake It Up 03:31 3 I’m Not the One 04:09 4 Victim of Love 04:24 5 Cruiser 04:56 6 A Dream Away 05:40 7 This Could Be Love 04:26 8 Think It Over 04:56 9 Maybe Baby 05:05 1 Hello Again 03:46 2 Looking for Love 03:51 3 Magic 03:57 4 Drive 03:54 5 Stranger Eyes 04:24 6 You Might Think 03:04 7 It’s Not the Night 03:48 8 Why Can’t I Have You 04:03 9 I Refuse 03:15 10 Heartbeat City 04:30 1 Leave or Stay 02:56 2 You Are the Girl 03:53 3 Double Trouble 04:14 4 Fine Line 05:22 5 Everything You Say 04:54 6 Ta Ta Wayo Wayo 02:51 7 Strap Me In 04:24 8 Coming Up You 04:18 9 Wound Up on You 05:00 10 Go Away 04:38 11 Door to Door 03:19 The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes (keyboards), and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader. 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. Music critic Robert Palmer, writer 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 were named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers' Poll. The band's debut album, The Cars, sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks. The Cars had four Top 10 hits: "Shake It Up" (1981), "You Might Think" (1984), "Drive" (1984), and "Tonight She Comes" (1985). The band won Video of the Year for "You Might Think" at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. The Cars disbanded in 1988. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. In 2007, Easton and Hawkes joined Todd Rundgren and others to form the offshoot band The New Cars. 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 Move Like This, the band once again went on hiatus. In April 2018, the Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and reunited to perform at the induction ceremony. Ocasek died of cardiovascular disease in 2019.