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It's Alive! is the only album released by The New Cars.The album features fifteen live tracks, twelve of which are songs known as being performed by the original Cars.The remaining two, "I Saw the Light" and "Open My Eyes", were popularized by New Cars member Todd Rundgren ("Open My Eyes" was originally performed by Rundgren's earlier garage rock group, Nazz).
The New Cars were a band formed in 2005 by two of the original members of the 1970s/1980s new wave band the Cars. The band was composed of original Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, along with vocalist/guitarist Todd Rundgren, bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton, and drummer Prairie Prince. The band performed the Cars' songs, some new ...
The album includes classic Cars songs (and two Rundgren hits) recorded live plus three new studio tracks ("Not Tonight", "Warm", and "More") In April 2011, Todd Rundgren's Johnson , a collection of Robert Johnson covers, which had been recorded more than a year earlier, was released.
Filling in for other original Cars members were singer/guitarist Todd Rundgren, Utopia bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton and former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince. Atom Ellis filled in at bass when Kasim was touring with Meat Loaf. The band toured throughout 2006–2007. A live album with three new studio tracks, It's Alive!, was released in June 2006.
In June 2006, the band released a live album, It's Alive!, that includes three new studio tracks. [12] Easton was featured and played the solo in the Click Five song "Angel to You (Devil to Me)". [13] [14] In 2010, Easton reunited with the surviving original members of the Cars to record their first album in 24 years, entitled Move Like This.
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.
"My Best Friend's Girl" begins with chords in the lower register of the guitar, a two-bar progression moving from I to IV to V in F. [6] Hand claps enter in bar five, and after the eight-bar intro (following descending synthesizer sounds from David Robinson's Syndrums,) the first verse begins featuring Ric Ocasek's vocals over a lead guitar lick in the key of F. [6] An electronic piano (a ...
The core guitar riff that "Dangerous Type" is centered on resembles the T. Rex song, "Bang a Gong". [1] [2] The song features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals.AllMusic critic Tom Maginnis compared the song to "All Mixed Up", a track on The Cars' self-titled debut album, as they both were the final track on their respective albums, with both tracks "vamping on an upsweep of grand chord changes as the ...