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| Sales Rank: | 149 (lower is better) |
| Price as of: | 08/29/2008 4:04:46 PM MDT |
| Price Used: | $8.97 |
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| Release Date: | 2002-02-19 |
| Label: | Elektra / Wea |
| UPC: | 081227828820 |
| Binding: | Audio CD |
| Published By: | Elektra / Wea |
| ASIN: | B00005Y1XY |
| Category: | Music |
Tracks on Cars - Complete Greatest Hits by Elektra / Wea
- Just What I Needed
- My Best Friend's Girl
- Good Times Roll
- You're All I've Got Tonight
- Bye Bye Love
- Moving In Stereo
- Let's Go
- It's All I Can Do
- Dangerous Type
- Touch And Go
- Shake It Up
- Since You're Gone
- I'm Not The One
- You Might Think
- Drive
- Magic
- Hello Again
- Why Can't I Have You
- Tonight She Comes
- You Are The Girl
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Album Description
20 of their best tracks available on 1 CD, including 'Just What I Needed', 'You're All I've Got Tonight', Touch and Go', 'Magic', 'You Might Think' & more. Rhino Records. 2002.
Amazon.com
If rock's most successful and memorable acts have usually succeeded by wrapping their own distillation of music history and personal tastes in whatever fashionable trappings are currently gripping the culture, it's hardly surprising that the Cars remain one of the most enduring symbols of the punk/new wave era. This 20-track anthology distills that argument perfectly. Ric Ocasek's songs embody a solid '60s sense of pop craftsmanship informed by a trend-conscious stylistic sheen and a cynical, slippery emotional detachment that's often betrayed by his own distinctly weary brand of romanticism, from the anxious pop of "Just What I Needed" and "You're All I've Got Tonight" to the melancholy-on-ice musings of "Drive" and "Tonight She Comes." Sixteen of the 20 cuts here were chart singles, and radio staples like "Bye Bye Love" and "Dangerous Type" might as well have been. --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews
Music's fine, but oh look. ANOTHER compilation. - Reviewed on 2008-08-14
2 customers found this review helpful.
This is the pinnacle of "marketing the same songs". I remember when Greatest Hits albums were it - you put one out and you were done. Now, there's repackaging, and new editions, updated remasters, and the phrase "Complete Greatest Hits" just strikes me as odd. I mean doesn't the concept of "Greatest Hits" mean that all of your good stuff is there? So why would songs on a "Complete Greatest Hits" as opposed to just "Greatst Hits" be as good? If those songs were as good as the original batch, wouldn't they have been on the first edition? This seems like marketing twaddle to me.
Anyway, the songs on here are fine. The Cars are one of those groups where I never really bought their material, since you heard almost all of it on the radio a zillion times anyway. But when I was going through and looking for some bands who I liked from the past, and had no material on CD at all from, I hit on this. There's just so many here I know and like, it's pointless in naming individual tracks.
Except this. Moving in Stereo. Phoebe Cates. One of the greatest cinematic scenes ever. ;)
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Book Subjects
- Album Rock
- New Wave
- Pop
- Pop/Rock
- Pop/Rock Music
- Rock
- Rock/Pop
- United States of America
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