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. ;)

I had purchased their previous greatest hits (from the '80's), but it did not include all of their greatest hits!

So, I bought this one and I am now totally fulfilled with The Cars.

There is not one song on it that I don't know, and I listen to it all the time.

2 thumbs up!

This is a excellent CD, but I think that they could have done a 2 or 3 CD set to capture all of the Cars Greatest hits.

The price was excelent and delivery on time. The producto, you will not find in just one cd The Cars Greatest Hits, but this is great.

I'm a huge Cars fan. I really enjoyed The New Cars on their tour last year. The question I have with this collection is where is the track "Candy-O"? The song is so quintesentially Cars. Also, I totally agree with the coomment about the seque "Moving in Stereo" into "It's all mixed up" not including that was another mistake.

On another note...notice something is missing here? "Moving In Stereo" is traditionally - [on ALL to the very present Classic Rock Radio Formats and from the very beginning on late 70's FM Radio] - and ALWAYS coupled with the album closer on their debut album, "ALL MIXED UP". You can't include one without the other, as "Moving in Stereo" segues right into "ALL MIXED UP". Its omission here makes this incomplete. There is NO argument there...everybody knows this! Another missing FM staple, "DON'T TELL ME NO"...was ommited. Otherwise, this is a very good, comprehensive one disc compilation.

This CD is a filled with great music for all CARS fans. It is a must have.

I bought this cd on a whim as I loved some of the old songs.But,I was shocked as to how much great music the Cars had produced over a short time.Several tunes(which I had forgotten) have become my favorites.You will love to revisit this blast from the past!!!

How energizing and a trip down memory lane~ Their songs always bring enormous energy into a room. Great for listening and for dancing to!

The great songs on this c/d bring back great memories!
I can't say enough good things about this greatest hits collection, it is one of the best greatest hits.
Most greatest hits c/d's give you a couple of the most popular songs at best but this one is packed with a lot of them!
This is a great buy and totally worth it.

This is a really good Cars compilation, it has many of the Cars best-loved hits. The Cars were a fun group to listen to, very catchy tunes. The sound here is great, also. If I were to have one complaint, it would be the omission of the song "Candy-O", I think that should have been included, but, oh well, you can't have all of the songs on one disc. I do recommend this for Cars fans and fans of 70-80's synth-pop.

A decent enough compilation, but it's missing two of my favorites that showed more of their non-commercial roots at the time; "This Could Be Love" and "Don't Tell Me No". I think people forget that this is New Wave. They were a Post-Punk band when they came out and not really an FM radio band. So it would've beeen nice to hear some of the more "home played" cuts. I agree, a double disk would've been nice.But overall, I'm getting it.

Excellent condensed collection of Cars hits. Easily could have been a 2 cd
collection as the Cars were a hit machine in their day. Very good selection of songs that are catchy and fun as well as mysterious and open-ended. Once you get this you will likely want more.

A good late 70s early 80s CD. Reminds on of early MTV. Good mix, great sound

The itemwas fine but it took wayyyyy toooooo long to receive it!!!

DRIVE--My favorite Cars' song and one of my top five songs EVER. Just so beautiful. It touches me in some way, even now.

Fran Mobley

The more I play (almost every afternoon) the 20 hits on this CD the more I love each and every one of them. From the 80s I was hooked on the video for "You Might Think" and only now am able to appreciate the other great Cars recordings as included on the CD. They put a lift in the day of this old Disco music fanatic. How fortunate that they are available today.

Looking back, I sometimes think of the '80s as kind of a wasteland of rock music--dominated by Duran Duran, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears and the like, but an impulsive, successful Karaoke rendition of "Best Friend's Girl" inspired me to buy this compilation of the best songs by one of the best bands of that era--The Cars. The band had a great mix--just edgy enough not to be pop, but catchy enough to grab your attention, without the sledgehammer hooks of the contemporaneous Huey Lewis and the News. The accompanying CD book describes well the evolution of the band and their sound. Overall, there's nothing here that will save the world, but right now a good mix of singable tunes artfully arranged, played with spirit (like "Let's Go") and sold at a reasonable price is just what I needed.

Trust Rhino to get it almost right with this third Cars compilation. As many other reviewers have pointed out, the 2-disc Anthology is the one to go with. However, this compilation is still better than the poor 1985 attempt by WEA.

This compilation does a good job at focussing on the early stuff with a good representation of their very good first album which debuted in 1978. Who could forget the catchy "just what I needed" and "my best friend's girl". Most Cars fans would rate "Candy O" as one of their fav albums and it is chock full of great new wave classics. Five years later came the very 80's sounding "Heartbeat City" album which saw at least four hit singles including the title track which was clearly one of the better cuts from the album. You can imagine my surprise to see it left off this compilation, while room has been given to crap songs such as "you are the girl".

Best option is to buy the individual albums and make your own compilation.

I'd say over 75% of the songs on this CD are recognizeable tunes from the '80's and sound great. A few I wasn't personally crazy about, but true CARS fans probably won't care. For the amount of familiar hits on this 15+ track CD, it is well worth the money, and you can skip the ones you may not be crazy about; it won't be that often.

Good compilation; could use a couple more tracks from the post-"Shake it Up" period.

Making a case for The Cars as brilliant singles band, "Complete Greatest Hits" is twenty songs that are all incredible. From 1978 till they dissolved in 1987, this Boston band helped to define what American New Wave music sounded like. A touch of Roxy Music, a dash of David Bowie, a really strong helping of melody and top that off with two solid lead vocalists in Ric Ocasek and the late Ben Orr, and you had the formula for the albums from "The Cars" classic to the lackluster final bow, "Door To Door."

As brilliant as the debut was, it is the most represented CD on this collection, with six songs. Of those, three were singles, with "Just What I Needed" being one of the most important top 40 records of 1978. (Oddly enough, this was about the same time Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" cracked the charts - both of these bands arguably changed the state of radio.) The simple handclaps and harmonies of "My Best Friend's Girl" were irresistible. The debut's artier leanings were well represented on AOR radio (hey old-timers, remember that?) by "Moving In Stereo."

When the sophomore album arrived, it was with the brash mix of Buddy Holly and The Beatles that collided on "Let's Go." That probably remains my favorite Cars single, exploding from the radio in the summer of 1979. Even though it was never a single, "Dangerous Type" was a great radio song. It also pretty much hews to the blueprint of great Cars music. Enigmatic lyric, moody synths and hot solo from Elliot Easton.

The underrated "Panorama" followed. Ocasek had become interested in experimental music, like the art duo Suicide, and "Panorama" reflected that. The tricky key changes in "Touch and Go" were not the average hit single fare, and it's the only song from that CD. (I would have preferred the title track - surely one of the six songs from "The Cars" could have been sacrificed?) Ocasek's solo albums often had more of a "Panorama" feel to them, and I guess he needed to get it out of his system.

Then it was a return to popland. "Shake It Up," with its cheesy picture-disk styled cover art, produced the first top ten single for the group. "Shake It Up" (the single) was a prefect mash of Beach Boys sunniness and new wave dancablity. It also became a harbinger of the next album, as the moody ballad "I'm Not The One" set the stage for the band's biggest hit.

When "Heartbeat City" arrived in Spring of 1984, it matched the artiness of "Panorama" with the pop splendor of "Shake It Up" and the debut. Jumping from producer Roy Thomas Baker to Robert Lange, the sound went from arthouse to dancehouse, and the pop sheen was unmistakably Cars. Ben Orr rode that sound to the band's biggest single, "Drive," climbing to number three that summer. The videos for that song and the giddy "Magic," the Andy Warhol directed "Hello Again" and "You Might Think" (remember Ocasek as a human fly) were all over MTV that summer, and The Cars had their greatest success to date. Five "Heartbeat City" songs grace this CD.

The success also came with strain. Easton, Ocasek and Orr each releasing solo albums (with Orr charting a single with "Stay The Night") and only convening to record a one-off single for a Christmas best of in 1985. "Tonight She Comes" was a great double-entendre of a lyric, as were many of the best Cars songs. It was also their last top ten single. The Ocasek produced "Door To Door" found the band in a non-cohesive state, even dredging up songs written around the time of the debut. Only "You Are The Girl" managed to chart. Like much of "Door To Door," it only seemed to echo what the band had achieved before, but still sounds pretty good almost 20 years later.

"Complete Greatest Hits" is pretty close to a five star set. I would have maybe picked the title songs from "Panorama" and "Heartbeat City" over a couple of the album tracks here, but at the same time, putting this disc in the car will give you 20 songs of roadtime pleasure. More to the point, every single one of these songs stays with you. If you were a radio-geek (or an MTV geek) in the early 80's, this CD will take you back.

I bought this CD to give to my daughter for Christmas. She loved listening to these classic songs.

the album was just magic when i first took it out of it's plastic wrapping. If you want some flashback memories from the best decade in hisory make sure you purchase this disk and i guarentee you that you are in for a treat. Rock and roll for life my 70's brothers

The CARS were one of the most annoying, dumb, pathetic, lame, overrated, stupid, lousy, and awful bands ever came out in the 70's. Their lead singer RIC OCASEK sings horribly and sings like a baby. This greatest-hits album was a huge joke that each and every song is incredibly bad.
Their guitar playing is really bad. They are only recommended for loosers. Don't listen to the five star reviewers of this album and avoid CD's from the Cars, Nirvana, and AC/DC who suck. Listen to good bands like Foreigner and Dire Straits insted.
ps.the cars are for babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you like the Cars This is the CD for you it has all of their greatest hits on hear from "Tonight She Comes" to "Moving In Stereo". If you like 80's music or if yoou just plain like music you will buy this cd. The remastered sound is done well too. This is 80's rock n roll at its best. So buy it Today.

IF YOU LIKE THE CARS. THIS CD HAS ALL THEIR BEST HITS

I JUST LOVE THE CARS.I THINK THAT RIC OCASEK AND HIS BOYS WERE VERY UNDERRATED AND NEVER GOT THE FAME THAT THEY RIGHTLY DESERVED.ALL THE SONGS ON THIS COLLECTION ARE REALLY GOOD AND I WONT HESITATE TO RECOMMEND THIS TO EVERYONE.

I think The cars are stupid!! They are only meant for little babies. This is the worst album I have ever heard and has a few
of the worst most lousiest songs in DANGEROUS TYPE, and LET'S GO.
If you give this awful album 5 stars, I will be dissapointed...
Even Metallica is better than this. Avoid this and go with all the legends of Dire Straits, Foreigner, Metallica, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, and Green Day insted. All of them will be legends forever. Want me to say it again? FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cars suck, so please don't buy any of their albums.

OK, let's get this straight. If you're looking for an intro to the Cars, a cheat sheet, get this disc. DON'T GET THE 1985 GREATEST HITS DISC! This disc sonically is far superior, has 20 songs versus 13 on the older one, and "Moving in Stereo", "It's All I Can Do", and "Bye Bye Love" among others. I find this disc routinely shows up for around $10 (and even less). I originally wrote this review a few years ago, and since then the older one is now available at a slightly cheaper price, and it has to be because warehouses are trying to clear out the older version. If you're finding yourself trying to choose between the older one and spending another couple of bucks on this one, it's a no brainer. It really is. Don't waste your time (or $$) on the other one. Having said that, hopefully after you purchase this one, you still get the Cars' debut. Sure, 6 of the 9 songs on that album are here, but there's a cohesion with that album that makes it necessary (and the 3 songs that aren't here are pretty damn good, especially "All Mixed Up"). And, if you like the 3 songs on this CD that are from the Candy-O album, get that album too. That one is another classic, start to finish.

One more thing. If you do decide to spring for the debut and Candy-O, get the remastered versions and if it's cheap enough, get the Rhino 2-CD version of the debut. You won't be sorry, although the first album is available as a single disc remaster that's well worth it, too.

Now, why they haven't remastered "Shake It Up" and "Heartbeat City" is beyond me. They're both good albums (not as great as the first two), but if they found a way to remaster "Panorama" (yeah, there was a Cars album between "Candy-O" and "Shake It Up" that most have forgotten, and for good reason) then come on.

Wow!I cannot imagine anyone not liking the cars.They are great,superb,terrific,majestic and super.the cars rock!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks!the cars rocks.THIS COMPILATION IS GREAT BUY IT.

what a fun cd brings back the fun of the bands of the eighties

THE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS CD IS:
IT IS THE TYPE OF MUSIC TO TURN YOUR FROWN UPSIDE DOWN!
ANYTIME I AM STRESSED OUT OR DEPRESSED I PUT ON THIS CD AND IT LIFTS MY SPIRITS;TO THE POINT WHERE I ACTUALLY GET IN A GOOD MOOD.
THE CARS MADE MUSIC FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN TO.AND THAT IS WHAT THIS GREATEST HITS IS PURE FUN.
IT IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A GREATEST HITS;ALL THE SONGS ARE GREAT AND YOU NEVER HAVE TO SKIP OVER ONE.
THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SONGS THAT IS YOU ARE A FAN;YOU HAVE BEEN PLAYING THESE SONGS ON YOUR STEREO FOR 20+ YEARS.
AND THE FACT THAT YOU ARE NOT TIRED OF THEM YET;AND THE RADIO STILL PLAYS THEM.TO ME THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING MUSIC IS THE BEST MEDICINE.AND AS LONG AS THE MUSIC PLAYS THE MEMORYS WILL NEVER FADE!{AND THE CARS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT}
{TONY~TONI~TON`E}:[SYRACUSE,NEW YORK]

All the songs you WANT to hear - fun for driving and singing along. A must-have for all of us 40-somethings.

The Cars may have been a bit before my time, but they are still a great band that is very refreshing to listen to considering all the crap that's on the radio these days. The Cars were a band that was about having fun with their music, and it shows on the songs here. Their songs aren't very deep, but they don't ever strive to be. They just made music that was fun to listen to then, as it still is now. I highly recommend this CD to everyone who likes good music.