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Edgy MD Mar 31 2012 08:52 PM

The Cars in the Crane Pool. (Thought I'd find more.) [list][*]The Cars and "All Through the Night." [/*:m] [*]The Cars for the MLB Hall of Fame. [/*:m] [*]BLC: The Cars vs. The Cure. [/*:m] [*]New Cars. [/*:m] [*]Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [/*:m] [*]New Car. [/*:m] [*]Be a Whacky DJ. [/*:m] [*]Anyone else sick of the commercials on WFAN? [/*:m] [*]YouTube is going to ruin my career. [/*:m] [*]Alphabetic Songs About Girls Threads. [/*:m] [*]Jump...no, Stand. [/*:m] [*]BLC: The Clash vs. Creedence Clearwater Revival [/*:m] [*]BLC: Smithereens vs. Pogues. [/*:m] [*]What are you listening to right NOW?!?! 2007 [/*:m] [*]1982 [/*:m] [*]Rock 1, Smooth Jazz 0 [/*:m] [*]NEW BLC Rotation and Standings[/*:m][/list:u]

metirish Mar 31 2012 09:36 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 01 2012 07:14 AM

Cooby thought Wide Bee Gee(JCL) reminded her of Marc Anthony ..... funny, but I remember this thread vividly , especially the Zvon album I bought and the Mark Olson stuff.... http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/5500/f2_t5534.shtml

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 01 2012 06:57 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

As if the Cure inspired more aggregation.

Edgy MD Apr 01 2012 11:19 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars fact of the day: Rik Ocasek has been married three times, with each marriage producing two sons. Additionally, in a 1986 NBC radio interview, he hinted at being bisexual: "I like beautiful women. Tall, thin, beautiful women. Fat little ugly women. I like all kinds of women. I'm always attracted to the opposite sex. I'm attracted to both sexes, actually. But not only beautiful men -- I think I like weird men." Benjamin Orr was a beautiful man. Greg Hawkes a weird one.

Edgy MD Apr 02 2012 07:46 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars fact of the day: There were several incarnations of the early Cars --- what you might call proto-Cars acts --- featuring several of the personnel mixed and matched in different arrays. The only one that had a release was called Milkwood --- a CSN-inspired harmony folk act for which Greg Hawkes contributed more on sax than keys. [youtube:1h531wqg]IBCrb1GI9Js[/youtube:1h531wqg]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 04 2012 09:47 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars Fact of the Day: 'Panorama' (1980) was the first Cars album -- and the only of its first 6 -- that didn't have a pretty girl on the cover. It was also the worst-selling of their first 5. Cars Opinion of the Day: It's kinda sinister and not nearly as hooky as they'd been, or would be, but all the same an interesting snapshot of what they could do when they didn't stick to the formula. Enjoy this Ben-sung non-hit if you can: [youtube]MYCvPlctI8Q[/youtube]

Edgy MD Apr 04 2012 10:11 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

That's his "Bye, Bye Love" voice. I give that track an almost. The rock-bandish vocal doesn't seem to match studio-production-bandish-techno-nu-wave arrangement. It's like a good vocal, but on top of the Devo-ish backing track, it should have been delivered more detachedly. Or by Ocasek. I am, by the way, taking this moment to announce that my Cars tribute band will be called Substitution Mass Confusion. We will be touring this summer supported by The Loneliest Mile, performing the very best of The Motels.

Mets – Willets Point Apr 04 2012 10:47 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Edgy DC wrote: Be a Whacky DJ. So we've determined that Greatest Song of All Time is "Kick Out the Jams" by MC5.

Edgy MD Apr 04 2012 10:49 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

That thread may have gone pear-shaped a half-dozen times, but that's a defensible position, I think.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 05 2012 08:12 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars Post of the day. Do you like this cover? [youtube:3sw3qv0y]GQSUIRDs6VE[/youtube:3sw3qv0y]

Edgy MD Apr 05 2012 08:19 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

I like it until he does a minor rewrite on the chorus and jarringly hits a note too high on ALL. Shakes a lot of the character out of the song for me.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 06 2012 07:43 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

AMAZING Cars Fact of the Day: The cover of Candy-O was a commissioned painting by Alberto Vargas, who was famous for his pin-up paintings in the 1940s and 50s. The Cars drummer David Robinson, who collected such paintings and doubled as the cars' art director, came up with the concept. Luring the 83-year-old Vargas out of retirement to do the artwork was difficult, but the artist eventually was pursuaded by his niece, who liked the Cars. The model in the image coincidentally was named Candy Moore and had a brief romantic fling with Robinson. Moore was a former child actor most famous for playing Lucy's daughter Chris Carmichael on the Lucy Show. Candy formerly was married the late character actor Paul Gleason, best known (by me) for playing idiotic police cheif Dwayne T. Robinson in Die Hard. So Candy had a thing for guys named Robinson obviously. Here she is more recently. She's like, 65 years old today. By the way, the cover pictured above is the original LP sleeve. More recent issues (CD, etc) have the same image but the band and album names are in a larger font across the top, not stacked in the corner. I don't know if the latter are collectors items or not but that's the version I have.

Edgy MD Apr 06 2012 08:54 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Those are amazing Cars facts! I look forward to bios of all their cover models.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 09 2012 08:25 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars Fact o' the day: This song was left off their first album: [youtube:tah9zltn]YOAHWMhlD5Y[/youtube:tah9zltn]

Edgy MD Apr 09 2012 03:33 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

I dig the song and sexy BOrr montage. Thumbs up.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 10 2012 08:13 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars fact of 4/10/12: Mandolin rockers The Punch Brothers cover the Cars. Is it just what you needed?

Fman99 Apr 10 2012 09:35 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

How are they NOT in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame? What a fucking farce that place is.

Edgy MD Apr 10 2012 11:13 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

That song punches me silly. Go, Punchers.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 11 2012 08:57 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

The amazing Cars Facts of the Day just never stop. Today we meet Natalya Medvedeva, the cover girl for the Cars debut album. Natalya is dead at the present time but led an interesting life that included being a Playboy model, a poet, a novelist, a musician, and a wife of a radical Russian politician Eduard Limonov. She was influential in her native Russia, in Paris and Los Angeles. They say she died at age 44 in 2003, which means she was likely 19 years old at the time of this famous intriguing photo. What do you suppose makes her laugh? Is she driving or parked? Where do you suppose she is going? What kind of car is she driving? Some sources say Natalya was the same model pictured with a martini shaker a few years later on Shake it Up. Somewhere I have heard an interview with the Cars discussing their first album cover as a stock photo provided by the record company. One of them remarked that the translucent white steering wheel over her lips resembled to them something they might see in a porn film. Crazy looking Russian web page recounts her life including some artsy nudie phtots. Here she is shortly before a heart attack took her life, still had that crazy mouth. edit: here's the interview where Ric mentions the sperm-colored steering wheel. Robinson and Easton say they found the packaging "too slick" and West Coast for their tastes. Album cover talk starts around 3:00. This whole interview is incredibly awkward but interesting nonetheless [youtube]AzWJDSmLZ4A[/youtube]

Edgy MD Apr 12 2012 10:31 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

The cover of Candy-O is a good marker of age. When you're young, the chick with the lucite steering wheel and her eyes not on the road screams, "Fun and excitement!" Now it screams, "Terror and imminent death!" The cover of their most successful album, Heartbreak City, wasn't commissioned at all, but was a detail from pop artist Peter Phillips' 1971 painting "Art-O-Matic Loop di Loop." The full painting emerges wrapped around onto the back cover: The car depicted is a 1971 Plymouth Duster. No word (I could find) on who the model was for the young woman depicted.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 16 2012 09:59 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Ric's son Christopher In Action with short-lived newwave fakerockers Glamour Camp, 1988 [youtube:2mnzuwuu]bda1w3RGzGg[/youtube:2mnzuwuu]

TransMonk Apr 19 2012 01:28 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars fact I did not know until today: A Taste of Honey (Boogie Oogie Oogie) won the Best New Artist Grammy in 1979 beating out the Cars (and Elvis Costello and Toto).

cooby Apr 19 2012 01:41 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Natalya might have died from red dye food poisoning, judging by her excessive use of lipstick

Edgy MD Apr 19 2012 01:49 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars Fun Fact o' the Day: Under the name "The Cars," they never had a lineup change, keeping the same personnel for a dozen years. When they reunited, they never explicitly replaced Orr, so that record stays intact. What really surprised me in later years was to learn that Ocasek and Orr weren't the rivals I always considered them to be, but practically best friends.

Edgy MD May 22 2012 06:10 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Cars Fun Fact o' the Day: The title and clapping hook from "Let's Go" is derived entirely from an early sixties instrumental by The Routers. The Ventures couldn't let an early sixties instrumental pass without doing their version, so they covered it as well. [youtube]IbZy30csNl0[/youtube]

Edgy MD May 24 2012 06:23 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Nu wave revivalist scenesters The Bravery donate this really ambitious cover of "It's All I Can Do" as a 2005 B-side (there are B-sides?). I think they come pretty close to do something awesome but come up just short. Doesn't mean I wouldn't go nuts if I got to go out and I heard this. What do you think? [youtube:3jvp92g8]meC7j_WLsdk[/youtube:3jvp92g8]

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 24 2012 06:35 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

It reminds you it's a good song but I think they're trying too hard to sound dirty and anguished. Plus they mess with the final verse a little bit. But yeah, it would be cool to hear that sometime other than in a Cars aggregator.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 27 2012 09:04 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

Only now realizing "I'm in Touch with Your World" apes "Smoke on the Water." /mind exlodes

Edgy MD May 27 2012 03:36 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

It's amazing how conscious the Cars were in revisiting the pop rock catalog. I mean, the first song on their first album is "Good Times Roll" --- a mid tempo song with an uptempo title that sends the message that they're digging through the AM archives and turning them inside out. Coincidentally, my wife and I are in the studio today and I just got sent out on a munch run. Impulse item next to the checkout counter is this underdesigned compilation, crying, "Buy ME!" Eight songs, four of them awesome, for $5.99. I could not say no.

Edgy MD May 30 2012 09:15 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

First installment of something I've been working on.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 30 2012 09:40 PM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

The images don;t appear to be aligning where you'd like them to. "Rate Your Music" is a good resource for release dates and other notes I've found.

Edgy MD May 31 2012 05:14 AM Re: CPF Cars Aggregator

I just stuck 'em where I had space. Fact I learned along the way: The Cars not only never changed the lineup, but they have almost no credits suggesting any outside musicians ever appeared on their records, a perhaps lone exception being "Andy Topeka: Additional Fairlight programming" on Heartbeat City.