The Cars Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Blue Tip
2. Too Late
3. Keep On Knocking
4. Soon
5. Sad Song
6. Free
7. Drag On Forever
8. Take Another Look
9. Its Only
10. Hits Me
From the Album
1. Leave Or Stay
2. You Are The Girl
3. Double Trouble
4. Fine Line
5. Everything You Say
6. Ta Ta Wayo Wayo
7. Strap Me In
8. Coming Up You
9. Wound Up On You
10. Go Away
11. Door To Door
From the Album
1. Hello Again
2. Looking For Love
3. Magic
4. Drive
5. Stranger Eyes
6. You Might Think
7. Its Not The Night
8. Why Cant I Have You
9. I Refuse
10. Heartbeat City
From the Album
1. Since Youre Gone
2. Shake It Up
3. Im Not The One
4. Victim Of Love
5. Cruiser
6. A Dream Away
7. This Could Be Love
8. Think It Over
9. Maybe Baby
From the Album
1. Panorama
2. Touch And Go
3. Gimme Some Slack
4. Dont Tell Me No
5. Getting Through
6. Misfit Kid
7. Down Boys
8. You Wear Those Eyes
9. Running To You
10. Up And Down
From the Album
1. Lets Go
2. Since I Held You
3. Its All I Can Do
4. Double Life
5. Shoo Be Doo
6. Candy-O
7. Night Spots
8. You Cant Hold On Too Long
9. Lust For Kicks
10. Got A Lot On My Head
11. Dangerous Type
From the Album
1. Good Times Roll
2. My Best Friends Girl
3. Just What I Needed
4. Im In Touch With Your World
5. Dont Cha Stop
6. Youre All Ive Got Tonight
7. Bye Bye Love
8. Moving In Stereo
9. All Mixed Up
Other Songs
Dont Cha Stoph
Dont Go To Pieces
Funtime
Hotel Queenie
Let The Good Times Roll
Pelican Coat
Slipaway
Take Me Out
Thats It
The Dangerous Type
Tonight She Comes
Wake Me Up
You Just Cant Push Me
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.
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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.
Ric Ocasek - lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards (1976-1988, 2000, 2010-2011, 2018; died 2019)
Elliot Easton - lead guitar, backing vocals (1976-1988, 2000, 2010-2011, 2018)
Benjamin Orr - lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, keyboards (1976-1988, 2000; died 2000)
Greg Hawkes - keyboards, guitars, backing vocals (1976-1988, 2000, 2010-2011, 2018), saxophone (1976-1979), bass (2010-2011)
David Robinson - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1976-1988, 2000, 2010-2011, 2018), keyboards (1983-1984)
From: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genre(s): New wave, pop rock, power pop, synth-pop
Active From: 1976-1988,2000,2010-2011,2018
Associated Acts: The New Cars