The Cars - The Cars - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for The Cars - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Take'er For A Spin
Hit: 4 Stars
"The Cars-Greatest Hits" is the perfect example of catchy hooks and pop rock prowess. The songs herein are simply pop rock hit after pop rock hit. "Just What I Needed," "You Might Think," "Magic," "Let's Go," and "Shake It Up" can all be found here. The rest of the playlist is fun to listen to and even more fun to recall good times with old friends. This is the type of album that can be played at a party and no one will complain. The Cars knew how to make pop hits, that's all I can really say. There songs are fun, catchy and you'll find it hard to say anything bad about them.
My favorite song on this album, however, is probably the most serious one out of the bunch: "Drive." But that's what is so amazing about these guys. They cranked out a ton of hits and still managed to throw in a successful ballad. Fortunately for them, they haven't been thrown into that bottomless pit with bands like REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Boston as commercial sellouts. For some reason, the yahoos at the music magazines get off on trashing these bands, but the Cars have remained out of their crosshairs so far(maybe because Ric Ocasek's wife is so hot).
Throw this one on for a good time. It's highly recommended.
Free Music Review: A very good collection but not the best collection to own
Hit: 4 Stars
I've had this collection for years. It offers many great songs "Just What I Needed," "My Best Friend's Girl," "Good Times Roll," "Let's Go," "Touch and Go," "Shake It Up," "You Might Think," "Drive," "Magic," and a new song in 1985 "Tonight She Comes." However, you can do better by purchasing Cars - Complete Greatest Hits, which contains 7 more classic songs not featured in this collection (You're All I've Got Tonight, Bye Bye Love, Moving in Stereo, Dangerous Type, Hello Again, Why Can't I Have You, and You are the Girl). I would definitely recommend that you purchase The Cars-- Complete Greatest Hits instead of this collection. Besides being more comprehensive, it is less expensive as well.Free Music Review: The Cars - Greatest Hits
Hit: 4 Stars
I submitted an excellent review of this album a few months ago which you never posted. I wouldn't mind except for having seen some of the inane one-liner drivel that did make the cut. Talk about insulting your customer.Free Music Review: The Best Of the Cars 1978-1985
Hit: 4 Stars
Here are the Cars' greatest hits. Five studio albums preceded this compilation. The only original track is TONIGHT SHE COMES. I first heard the song on the radio on October 12,1985. HEARTBEAT CITY,from the album of the same name is a bonus track only on the cassette and CD. Cars members Ric Ocasek and the late Ben Orr have recorded solo albums. Orr had one hit "Stay The Night" from his 1986 album THE LACE. That same year,Ocasek's solo album THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE spawned the hit EMOTION IN MOTION. Other HEARTBEAT CITY tracks on this album are DRIVE,MAGIC and YOU MIGHT THINK. Tracks from 1981's SHAKE IT UP are the title track,SINCE YOU'RE GONE and I'M NOT THE ONE. From the band's 1978 self-titled debut are JUST WHAT I NEEDED,MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL and GOOD TIMES ROLL. LET'S GO is from 1979's CANDY-O and TOUCH AND GO is from 1980's PANORAMA. Yes,there are many pictures of cars on the cover(one on the front and the others on the back). After this collection,the Cars would recorded one more album then disband.Free Music Review: Good CD For Cars Fans
Hit: 5 Stars
The majority of tracks on The Cars' "Greatest Hits" should satisfy most fans of this '80s new wave band, though there are a few good songs missing, like "Hello Again," the first song I heard in elementary school that made me a Cars fan for the past 10+ years. Other favorites are "Drive"--probably because it's not as pop-ish/upbeat as most of their other songs--and "Tonight She Comes."The Cars' "Complete Greatest Hits" remedies this aforementioned missing track--as well as a few other missing tunes--but if you're a diehard Cars fan, then I'd recommend the double-CD "Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology", which includes several additional hits and obscure tracks. Compared to these other two CDs, this greatest hits album isn't the best, but it still gets the job done, hits-wise.