The Cars - Door to Door
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Artist: The CarsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Leave or Stay
- You Are the Girl
- Double Trouble
- Fine Line
- Everything You Say
- Ta Ta Wayo Wayo
- Strap Me In
- Coming up You
- Wound up on You
- Go Away
- Door to Door
Free Music Notes for Door to Door
Free Music Review: A criminally underrated album that needs to be rediscovered
Hit: 4 Stars
The commonly accepted storyline concerning The Cars goes like this: The band storms out of New England with a classic first album which contains many radio-friendly rock staples still on playlists today. Ever the singles band, The Cars cranked out a few more albums with great hits and lots of filler before making a big splash on MTV with Heartbeat City. Finally, the band tanked with Door To Door, one of the worst albums of the 80s.
There's a problem with this story. It's all wrong. The Cars' first album was great, but it wasn't their best (in my opinion that goes to the superb Shake It Up), they were much more than a singles band (check out "It's Not The Night," "Cool Fool" or "Cruiser" to see how good this band was apart from the hits), and Door To Door was not a total disaster.
Door To Door isn't a perfect album, either. But it does have plenty on it that makes it worth hearing. To start off, the album's hit "You Are The Girl" is one of the best pop songs The Cars ever produced. Door To Door features several great songs with a harder edge to them, like "Leave Or Stay," "Double Trouble," "Strap Me In," and the punkish title track. Plus, there's the wonderfully weird "Ta Ta Wayo Wayo" and "Everything You Say," with its Johnny Marr-esque guitar line that suggests The Cars weren't just reproducing their old sounds.
Not everything works. As usual, the slow songs are the weakest (which is consistent with all Cars albums, the only possible exception being "Drive" from Heartbeat City), and so "Fine Line" and "Wound Up On You" are disposable. The light pop of "Coming Up You" also doesn't work well. However, it doesn't tarnish Door To Door completely.
The fact of the matter is that The Cars' final effort has been unfairly maligned and disparaged over the years, and it deserves a second look.
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