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Most of the songs on Candy-O were written after the release of The Cars, meaning that most of the leftovers from the first album (including the popular encore "Take What You Want") were scrapped; "Night Spots", a reject from the first album, was still included. [5] For the album, the band once again worked with Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker ...
"Candy-O" is a song by the American rock band the Cars, the title track of their 1979 album Candy-O. Written by Ric Ocasek, the song was not based on a real person. [1] The song features a prominent guitar solo by Elliot Easton and lead vocals by bassist Benjamin Orr.
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 ...
"Let's Go" was released as the debut single from Candy-O in June 1979. The song's B-side is a non-album track titled "That's It" that features Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. The single peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US, [4] making it the first song by The Cars to reach the Billboard top 20. The song was an even ...
"It's All I Can Do" is a new wave influenced pop rock song. [1] According to Brett Milano, writer of the Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology album notes "'It's All I Can Do' was an affecting, straight-ahead piece of romantic pop, give or take a line like 'When I was crazy, I thought you were great.'" [2] The track was described as "gentle" by AllMusic reviewer Greg Prato, while Hamish Champ ...
Although the song begins with an A power chord, the song is in C Major, consisting primarily of C and F major chords, A minor chords, and the dominant, G7 chords. [citation needed] The song features a brief guitar solo by lead guitarist Elliot Easton, who plays a number of high-speed solo licks over a musical background of G major. Some of his ...
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.
'Night Spots'", and in the Billboard review of Candy-O, "Night Spots" was noted as one of the "best cuts". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Rolling Stone critic Tom Carson said, "In 'Nightspots,' Greg Hawkes ' synthesizer jabs and jumps like the flashing lights on a rainy, late-night highway, and the tune's hopped-up rhythms and stuttering singing have a tense ...