The Complete Elektra Albums Box (2016 Remastered) The Cars

• 1 Good Times Roll (2016 Remaster) 03:45
• 2 My Best Friend's Girl (2016 Remaster) 03:43
• 3 Just What I Needed (2016 Remaster) 03:43
• 4 I'm in Touch with Your World (2016 Remaster) 03:30
• 5 Don't Cha Stop (2016 Remaster) 03:03
• 6 You're All I've Got Tonight (2016 Remaster) 04:13
• 7 Bye Bye Love (2016 Remaster) 04:12
• 8 Moving in Stereo (2016 Remaster) 04:43
• 9 All Mixed Up (2016 Remaster) 04:14
• 10 Let's Go (2016 Remaster) 03:33
• 11 Since I Held You (2016 Remaster) 03:16
• 12 It's All I Can Do (2016 Remaster) 03:45
• 13 Double Life (2016 Remaster) 04:14
• 14 Shoo Be Doo (2016 Remaster) 01:38
• 15 Candy-O (2016 Remaster) 02:36
• 16 Night Spots (2016 Remaster) 03:13
• 17 You Can't Hold on Too Long (2016 Remaster) 02:49
• 18 Lust for Kicks (2016 Remaster) 03:52
• 19 Got a Lot on My Head (2016 Remaster) 02:59
• 20 Dangerous Type (2016 Remaster) 04:31
• 21 Panorama (2016 Remaster) 05:45
• 22 Touch and Go (2016 Remaster) 04:56
• 23 Gimme Some Slack (2016 Remaster) 03:34
• 24 Don't Tell Me No (2016 Remaster) 04:02
• 25 Getting Through (2016 Remaster) 02:37
• 26 Misfit Kid (2016 Remaster) 04:32
• 27 Down Boys (2016 Remaster) 03:07
• 28 You Wear Those Eyes (2016 Remaster) 04:57
• 29 Running to You (2016 Remaster) 03:21
• 30 Up and Down (2016 Remaster) 03:37
• 31 Since You're Gone (2016 Remaster) 03:31
• 32 Shake It Up (2016 Remaster) 03:31
• 33 I'm Not the One (2016 Remaster) 04:09
• 34 Victim of Love (2016 Remaster) 04:24
• 35 Cruiser (2016 Remaster) 04:56
• 36 A Dream Away (2016 Remaster) 05:40
• 37 This Could Be Love (2016 Remaster) 04:26
• 38 Think It Over (2016 Remaster) 04:56
• 39 Maybe Baby (2016 Remaster) 05:05
• 40 Hello Again (2016 Remaster) 03:46
• 41 Looking for Love (2016 Remaster) 03:51
• 42 Magic (2016 Remaster) 03:57
• 43 Drive (2016 Remaster) 03:54
• 44 Stranger Eyes (2016 Remaster) 04:24
• 45 You Might Think (2016 Remaster) 03:04
• 46 It's Not the Night (2016 Remaster) 03:48
• 47 Why Can't I Have You (2016 Remaster) 04:03
• 48 I Refuse (2016 Remaster) 03:15
• 49 Heartbeat City (2016 Remaster) 04:30
• 50 Leave or Stay (2016 Remaster) 02:56
• 51 You Are the Girl (2016 Remaster) 03:53
• 52 Double Trouble (2016 Remaster) 04:14
• 53 Fine Line (2016 Remaster) 05:22
• 54 Everything You Say (2016 Remaster) 04:54
• 55 Ta Ta Wayo Wayo (2016 Remaster) 02:51
• 56 Strap Me In (2016 Remaster) 04:24
• 57 Coming Up on You (2016 Remaster) 04:18
• 58 Wound Up on You (2016 Remaster) 05:00
• 59 Go Away (2016 Remaster) 04:38
• 60 Door to Door (2016 Remaster) 03:19
• Total Runtime 03:56:59

Info for The Complete Elektra Albums Box (2016 Remastered)

Ihre erste Single war ihr erster Top-40-Hit: Mit Just What I Needed stiegen The Cars in die Formel-1 der Rockszene ein und bestimmten von da an das Tempo auf dem Ring mit. Ein gutes Dutzend Radiohits wie Let's Go und Shake It Up sowie klassische Videotracks wie Magic und You Might Think, das 1984 mit dem allerersten MTV-Award »Video Of The Year« ausgezeichnet wurde, hielten The Cars zehn Jahre lang auf Spur.

Sechs Alben spielten The Cars zwischen 1978 und 1987 für Elektra Records in der Originalbesetzung Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr (2000 verstorben), Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton und David Robinson ein und brachten es insgesamt auf 23 Millionen verkaufte Alben allein in den USA!

Um das große musikalische Erbe der Cars zu feiern, veröffentlichen Rhino Records in diesem Frühling zwei neue Kollektionen, die das Schaffen von The Cars auf den Punkt bringen: Unter dem Titel The Cars – The Elektra Years 1978-1987 erscheint eine Sechs-Album-Set aller auf Elektra herausgebrachten The Cars-Alben.

Das umfangreiche Set beschreibt die gesamte Strecke ihrer Studioaufnahmen und enthält die Alben The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), Shake It Up (1981), Heartbeat City, (1984) und Door To Door (1987). Unter den 60 Songs befinden sich natürlich auch die großen Hits der Cars: My Best Friends' Girl, Good Times Roll, You Are The Girl und Drive.

"Gleich mit ihrer ersten Single “Just What I Needed” zogen The Cars 1978 in die amerikanischen Top 40 ein, mit ihrem dazugehörigen Album The Cars ging es mit Rang 18 sogar bis in die Top 20. Das war der Startschuss für eine eindrucksvolle Zeit, in der die Band von Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton, David Robinson sowie dem im Jahr 2000 verstorbenen Benjamin Orr nicht zuletzt durch ihren Megahit “Drive” zu den erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Acts der 80er Jahre wurden." (Good Times)

"... die Neuauflage und das Remastering der Originalaufnahmen ist lobenswert (...). Insgesamt 60 Songs (...) rauschen klangfrisch durchs Ohr." (Audio)

"Die Synthesizer klingen jetzt richtig anheimelnd, fast schon analog!" (Stereo)

The Cars

Digitally remastered

The Cars
In many ways, The Cars were the prototypical American new wave band of the 1980s. Barging into a pop-music scene then overwhelmed by English New Romantic pretty-boy bands, The Cars’ highly polished, chrome-plated four-on-the-floor rock ’n’ roll charged up the charts like a souped-up Camaro racing to the checkered flag—with the band’s Alberto Vargas-designed album art glinting like metal-flake paint on a hot rod.

Cars co-founders Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr had been writing songs and forming bands together since 1972, when they first teamed as two-thirds of the folk trio Milkwood (whose one album also featured Cars’ future keyboardist Greg Hawkes). In 1974, Ocasek and Orr joined with Elliot Easton to form the legendary Boston band, Cap’n Swing, which lasted but a year. Finally, in 1976, the trio called in Hawkes and ex-Modern Lovers drummer David Robinson, and The Cars were ready to roll.

The Cars, released in the spring of ’78, spun off three hit singles (“Just What I Needed,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “Good Times Roll”) and graced the charts for more than two and a half years, eventually going platinum six times over. Their debut was so successful, in fact, that Elektra delayed the release of the band’s 1979 follow-up, Candy-O, for several months. Candy-O, 1980’s Panorama, and 1981’s Shake It Up each, in turn, went platinum, and the latter’s title track became the group’s first Top 10 hit. Along the way, Ocasek began establishing a reputation as a producer, working with such bands as Suicide, Bad Brains, and Romeo Void.

After Shake It Up, the band members took a break, with Ocasek, Orr, and Hawkes all recording solo albums. It must have done them good, for their next album, Heartbeat City, became their most successful. Released in 1984, Heartbeat City sprang to #3 on the album charts and produced four Top 40 singles (“You Might Think,” “Magic,” “Drive,” and “Hello Again”). These singles also broke new ground visually with their inventive, computer-animated videos, which each received heavy rotation on the then-nascent MTV.

The next two years found the band on another extended leave (with solo albums from Ocasek, Orr, and Easton), followed by 1987’s only somewhat successful Door To Door. The Cars disbanded in February 1988. Ocasek went on to release seven solo albums and produced some of the biggest names in ’90s rock. Easton took to the road with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Orr, after a long and painful battle, succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2000.

The Cars legacy continued in to the 21st century with the release of a live concert DVD, a double-disc deluxe edition of their classic self-titled debut album, and the ultimate Cars collection, Complete Greatest Hits.

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