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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.
"Take It on the Run" is a song by American rock band REO Speedwagon off the band's ninth studio album Hi Infidelity (1980). The song was written by lead guitarist Gary Richrath. "Take It on the Run" was the follow-up single behind the group's number-one hit, "Keep On Loving You". The single went gold on April 17, 1989.
The band's second album, Candy-O, was released in June 1979 and eclipsed the success of The Cars, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart, 15 spots higher than the debut album. Featuring a cover created by the famed Playboy artist Alberto Vargas , the album featured the band's first top-20 single " Let's Go ".
Unlike many of the Cars' album covers, the cover for The Cars was designed by the record company, rather than drummer Robinson. [7] Robinson said in an interview that he "had designed a very different album cover [for The Cars] that cost $80.00 to design." He continued, "I remember the price exactly.
[10] Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated it as the Cars' third greatest song, noting that it "sounds like nothing else the band ever did." [ 11 ] Classic Rock History critic Emily Fagan rated it as the Cars 2nd best song sung by Orr, praising the way that the "careful arrangement frames the lyrics poignantly, with each line ...
Donald A. Guarisco of AllMusic described the song as "one of the Cars' finest experimental tracks," noting that it "sounds like a new wave update of Eno-era Roxy Music." [ 2 ] Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated "Moving in Stereo" combined with " All Mixed Up " as released on the album as the Cars' all-time greatest song. [ 5 ]
Heartbeat City is the fifth studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on March 13, 1984, by Elektra Records.This marks the band's first album not produced by long-time producer Roy Thomas Baker, instead opting to produce with Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
The Cars did not add a new bassist to the lineup to replace Orr; instead, the album's bass parts were programmed or performed by Hawkes and Lee, with Hawkes playing a bass once owned by Orr. [11] While Ocasek and Orr split vocal duties on past albums, Move Like This is the only album to feature Ocasek as the sole lead vocalist. [ 11 ]