The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

They just release a new album didn’t they?

If by "just released" you mean 2011, then yes.

Personally, I think that their five albums from 1978-1984 are their oeuvre, the 1987 album is ... fine, and the 2011 album doesn't count.

 

[Cadence]

Was in my regular rotation in part of the mid-80s. (What was that service where you got to select a bunch of cassette's for not much money?).

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Was in my regular rotation in part of the mid-80s. (What was that service where you got to select a bunch of cassette's for not much money?).

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Columbia House.

Their business model was perfectly modeled in Better off Dead.....

 

[darjr]

If by "just released" you mean 2011, then yes.

Personally, I think that their five albums from 1978-1984 are their oeuvre, the 1987 album is ... fine, and the 2011 album doesn't count.

2011….
Well

 

[payn]

Well, that and Drive.

Spoiler: Drive Video

The Cars is one of those bands that was absolutely perfect, and was incredibly massive at the time, yet somehow is less known today that it should be.

Maybe because they never were able (or that interested) in capitalizing on the nostalgia tours because of untimely death of Orr and because Ocasek was already fairly old when they hit it big.

ETA- Weirdly, I think that The Police are in a similar situation. Weirdly unrepresented for how massive and popular they were.

Are we really pretending classic rock isnt popular?

 

[CleverNickName]

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

2011….
Well

Given that the yin of the band died in 2000 and the yang died in 2019, pretty sure that we're not seeing any more albums.

Unless they go Tupac on us.

 

[darjr]

Given that the yin of the band died in 2000 and the yang died in 2019, pretty sure that we're not seeing any more albums.

Unless they go Tupac on us.

AI Cars album… shivvers

 

[billd91]

Are we really pretending classic rock isnt popular?

Are the Cars really classic rock? They kind of are, but late 70s/early 80s new wave isn't a great classic rock fit. The amount of times they get played is, I'm sure, thoroughly dwarfed just by the number of times commercial classic rock radio stations play Van Halen's "Jump" alone. Add in Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" and I'm sure they're just a blip on classic rock radio.

 

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