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The Cars were an American rock band who recorded 89 songs during their career, of which included 86 originals and 3 covers.Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, the group consisted of singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek, bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
The Cars' music has been described as new wave, [25] pop rock [26] [27] [28] and power pop, [29] and is influenced by proto-punk, garage rock and bubblegum pop. [25] They have also used rockabilly in songs such as " My Best Friend's Girl ". [ 30 ]
The discography of the American rock band the Cars includes seven studio albums, eight compilation albums, four video albums and 26 singles. Originating in Boston in 1976, [1] the band consisted of singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer/bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
"Drive" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984). It was released on July 23, 1984, as the album's third single. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr [3] and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange with the band. [4]
Musically, The Cars has been described as new wave, [3] [4] power pop, [5] and synth-rock. [5] It featured a large amount of contemporary technology on many of its tracks, due to the band's appreciation for new equipment. Robinson said, "We'd always get the latest stuff from music stores even if it would be obsolete in two months.
AllMusic's Donald A. Guarisco called the song "one of the classics of the Cars' catalog", [8] and Rolling Stone writer Kit Rachlis called it a wonderful pop song. [18] Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated it as the Cars' 6th greatest song, praising Elliot Easton's opening guitar riff and saying that "The song has such a happy, good ...
Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology is a two-disc, career-spanning compilation album of songs by the American new wave rock band the Cars.It features most of the band's singles, as well as many album tracks, non-album B-sides and unreleased songs.
"Magic" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984). It was released on May 7, 1984, as the album's second single, reaching number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Top Tracks chart. [4] The track was written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and ...