The Cars

ну я не дослушал, чот всё понятно стало к третьему треку уже

Two classic songs that I never knew were by this band. Drummer is a g but everything else is just ok. For the time era I can see how it’s a classic but it’s just not for me.

It was okay, nothing really stuck out though.

I better liked the movie.

I was transported back to the 80s, where I starred in a movie, sitting through Saturday detention, stealing the Ferrari belonging to my friend's Dad, or being forbidden to dance within city limits, and this was my soundtrack. A pleasant enough listen, but nothing very interesting.

What may have been interesting and innovative at its time doesn't always translate into good music today. It all sounds really bland and boring and the songs tend to drag on (not so much because they're so long, but because they're so uninteresting).

Not as bad as I first would have thought Some pretty good tunes. You're all I've got tonight was catchy

NOt so great

i don't have high expectations looking at the tracklist. first song sounds okay. second song: can't ever stand clapping in songs, wonder why that is. well, i'm done. there wasn't anything special about this album. nothing stood out. but it wasn't awful so, a 2 it is.

Tough one to rate. I can sense the innovation, very tight new wave rock. For some reason, I was getting a sonic connection point between the Cars and Queen, but that might be a little off. "Just What I Needed" has an insane build up to the chorus, and I'll love them for that, but overall I was uninterested with the music halfway through the album. Fav Track: "Just What I Needed" Rating 2.5/5

Not my cup of tea, per se. This record just doesn't inspire a strong reaction from me: it's just kind of inoffensive, middle of the road. There's not much here that would make me stand up and notice. I can appreciate the meticulous production and radio-friendly songwriting, though. There's something about it that feels exceedingly well-crafted, but lacking any particularly stirring artistic vision or compelling expression. The lyrics are particularly boring. Favourite track: "Just What I Needed"

Disappointed to say the least! I misread this as the Corrs and was beside myself with excitement only to find out it was the bloody cars!

The voice is is cloying on about half the songs.

Hit and miss. Some of the quirkier ones hit the mark but most is mor bollocks.

Thought I would like this, but apart from the obvious hits, I wasn’t enjoying it very much.

2

The Cars es una banda estadounidense de rock que surgió de la escena new wave a finales de los años 1970, proveniente de la ciudad de Boston, Massachusetts. Liderada por Ric Ocasek, y conformada además por Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton y David Robinson, se formaron a mediados de los años 1970 en pleno despegue punk; en 1977 consiguieron un contrato discográfico con Elektra Records y en 1978 lanzaron su primer disco, el cual hemos escuchado este fin de semana. Decir que el disco tiene una música muy pegadiza, típica de la new wave. Los temas están muy bien hilados y es un disco que se puede escuchar pero sin grandes pretensiones. Los mejores temas desde mi punto de vista son Good Time Roll, You're All I've Got Tonight y Bye Bye Love. De los demás se puede destacar también My Best Friend's Girl y Just What I need. Quizá me resulta un poco pesado el uso escesivo de los sinetizadores porque considero que a veces están poco metidos de re-lleno, sin ir al compás de la música. 2,5 / 5. Disco Correcto, sin más.

This album impressed me like Thatcher scares tories. Didn’t do much for me

Grand, some decent songs on it but not sure if I'd bother listening again.

This sounds very of the era to me, perhaps its why its on this list. Its not something I personally would seek out and listen too again. I can appreciate the popy and catchy songs for what they are. Perhaps I am just a simpleton but this album like a few others did not surprise me in anyway. Perhaps I am not understanding the purpose of the list. Top 3 Bye Bye Love, You're all I got Tonight, and Good Times Roll 2of5

Forgettable

Pretty generic classic rock, didn't feel like there was anything super special about it.

Not many individual highlights. Good album but did not catch my attention during the first listen.

Cool transition record from 70s rock to 80s rock, but too heavy with hits and has a hard decline after that

Kinda boring. Too pop-rock-y

no more albums by men society has progressed past the need for albums by men

So the band whose music is used in 80s and 90s movies? Or cheap Adam Sandler flicks? Lame.

This is not great but zi didn’t mind bits of it, might push it to 1.5 stars…. ‘Just what I needed’ was ok

New to me, not absolutely unlistenable but very unpleasant. One star. Tom.

i’ll have to give it more time another time, can’t find myself in it

Good songs but nothing special (at least for me).

Let the good time roll...yawn. Repeat it and it may sound better. Nope, it just sounds crap. And don't let me even start on the rest of this weak ass dross. Here she comes again, I fukin doubt it. Wank. Sorry but wtf is this doing on a list that supposedly reflects innovative interesting music that influences and creates new directions. This could not be more basic, generic and utterly boring if it really was trying. They're not in touch with my world. They're just dull as dishwater and that's a compliment.

2/10 All of the songs sounds the same Sounds nice until the singing starts Expected more

i can appreciate that this is early new wave but what i can not appreciate is how every track on this album is dripping with misogyny. it's just exhausting. the music itself alternates between fun early synth stuff and rather dull rock, but it's simply impossible to appreciate anything when every word sung is about how women aren't people. give me a god damn break.

Gäsp! Ännu ett menlöst New wave-band. Varför?

Is not to bad, but definitely no my style

mmmeee

It's fine, I'll never put it on out of choice

ass je album slabo pocne, mozda se malo poboljsaa kasnije ovo ti bukvalno dodje kao roditelj corporate muzike ne znam nekako prosto nema dusu

Veel van de nummers voelen alsof het middelbare scholieren zijn die bij het keyboard in het muzieklokaal de voorgeprogrammeerde geluidseffecten hebben gevonden. De klapeffecten en de fluitjes vond ik niet leuk. De rock voelt vaak voorspelbaar maar wordt soms afgewisseld door een misplaatste leuke synthesizer. Sommige stukjes zijn wel goed hoor maar het is te wisselvallig om het een goed album te laten zijn. Ik twijfel tussen 1 of 2 sterren. Maakt ook niet echt uit, het was niet leuk.

Not my bag

#246/1001. As I was around 17-18 I was in to punk and the Ramones. Someone recommended me the Cars, since their music was similarly simple (as far as I remember). I tried and didn't like them at all ...I didn't like Ramones because they were simple, I liked them because they were punk. 35 years later I usually prefer late 70s-80s new wave over Ramones. But the Cars don't really ring my bell, the simplicity is now just mainly boring, radio friendliness is for me a curse word, this is just aor masked as a new wave entity, one ear in, one out. Just what I needed - more than a feeling?

😏

dnf. didnt like it. boring

I didn’t buy it when it was released as I didn’t like it. I now played it 10 times back to back as it’s highly regarded just in case I was wrong. But I wasn’t. It’s rubbish. I like the sleeve though. Ron Coro – art direction Johnny Lee – design. Elliot Gilbert – photography

Nope.

I disliked this album to the point of, I have effectively forgotten the album in the two or three days it took me to come write the written review.

Apart from probably knowing a few songs on this ive not ever listened to this album in full. 3 songs in and i know each song well so far. The A side was clearly popular. Lots of radio play for this album perhaps. Did Australia Crawl steal this album’s schtick? Sounds like it to me and unfortunately, for me, like Aus Crawl, I find this a bit laborious and one dimensional (even if they do use elements of rock mixed with regae feel, operative choruses, etc). it feels a little on auto, one level, no shades. Ocasek’s singing doesnt help - its really back of the throat and i keep waiting for him to get a tickle he cant ignore and cough. Very distracting. Hes not a conventional singer and that can really work but i find it distracting here. It might bw the mix, they are pretty prevelant in the mix and everything else seems toned down. Could be listening on Apple and airpods. The guitar solo on you’re all ive got, for example, is at the same level as the rythm guitar. The whole album is a bit the same levelish. The whole album is not quite enough for me - not quite enough rock, not quite enough funky grrove, not enough prog rock, etc.

Bruh

? Schon wieder vergessen. "Talking Heads" war doch auch New Wave? manche Parts schon irgendwie classy aber, nichts hängengeblieben. c

meh

Unfortunately this album was really boring 🫣🫣 most of the songs felt very repetitive, only thing that kind of saved them was the guitar solos. Especially don’t cha stop and you’ve all I’ve got tonight were driving me nuts because the chorus was just the song’s title repeated over and over again….

Same report as Rolling Stones. It wasn't bad but nothing made it special for me.

New Wave music can be so hit or miss and for me this was a huge miss. 1 song that I would go back to and the rest of the album I was counting down when it would be over. 3/10

no lo escuche

Fuck rating albums. Just let me listen.

Booooring!

Dont understand this

Horrible

I get triggered whenever I hear Just What I Needed.

So not my style but Just What I Needed, Bye Bye Love, and Don't Cha Stop are okay. Moving in Stereo is good. Love the futuristic 8-bit synth sounds on the album. Pity about the REST.

Bubblegum pop, as Spotify calls this band, isn’t my thing. Getting through this album from start to finish was a real struggle.

The most generic album for 1978

Des synthés partout, de la reverb partout sur la batterie, le côté obscur du rock américain des années 70-80.

No, no, that's absolutely not possible. I listened to the album twice and I can't get anything out of it. I know why I was never a "Cars" fan, never really paid attention to this band and had completely lost track of them, it's absolutely not worth it. The guitar sound is totally boring and almost always the same. The whining voice really gets on my nerves. 1978 was a good year musically, the Cars were successful, but I ask myself why? Why couldn't I get anything out of them, then and now? Quite simple, I think they're crap. Compared to many other bands, they were simply in the bottom third for me.

1001 albums I dont want to listen to anymore

It's crazy how every new wave song sounds the exact same regardless of nationality, singer or year of release. It's hard work sitting on my ass listening to the creative endeavours of others five days a week. I think I'm gonna kick my feet back, give the rest of this album a spin and see if the power of rock music is ᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗᵒ ˢᵃᵛᵉ ᵐʸ ʷᵃⁿᶦⁿᵍ ᶦⁿᵗᵉʳᵉˢᵗ 😴😴😴😴😴😴 ˢᵉᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵍᵘʸˢ ᵗᵒᵐᵒʳʳᵒʷ 😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

Trash

The Cars are one of the most overrated bands out there in my opinion. They are the Weezer of their time, and I don’t mean that in a good way. This music is very bland to me. It lacks depth, it lacks soul, it doesn’t challenge me. I’ll never understand why this album is so popular and I’m fine with that. I’ll will award points for being mixed and mastered VERY well but those points don’t result in more stars, sorry.

seems like this song talks about desire, vulnerability, and the unexpected connections life can bring. for example: "I don’t mind you coming here And wasting all my time" this person displays openness, but also this person brings up the consequences of doing it overall, i don't like the song, and i wouldn't listen to it, as i don't find it interesting or relatable in any way

I think this album could be worse. It feels very repetitive and I don't like the beat. I don't recommend it.

Repetitive hooks, limited replay value, feels too simplistic after deeper listens.

Podia ser pelo menos o disco com o maior hit que gerou a versão primorosa do Deftones. Ou terei que ouvir mais um disco deles???

I just don’t get why this is a classic album ? It’s so plain and anonymous.

i'm sorry... this just isn't for me

lindsay lohan i'm bored i'm so bored.gif

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The repetitiveness and mediocrity of the music was a massive let down, and proved a waste of an otherwise excellent album cover.

I wasn't expecting much... ...and this delivered. I couldn't find any way to connect at all.

Kann man sich anhören. Rhythmusgitarre mit stark betontem Anschlaggeräusch. Geschmacklich nix für mich.

Unbekanntes Album. Sehr Elektrogitarrenlastig. Gefällt mir nicht.

It's pretty blocky. I don't love it. Mercifully short

Nor for me

meh

I mean I get that it was revolutionary at the time but it feels so dated today. Couldn't even get through it.

Paskaahan tämä kolmen suora.. voitto... kiitos kaikki...

offensively boring

Can't do it. Didn't know all those songs were the cars, but I hate every one of them.

Not my thing.

Standard eighties fare.

That‘s so tacky, dated, boring that I really doubt the authority of this list… 1 point for the band name

I decided at the start of this to listen to every album from beginning to end. I regret that now. I guess you had to be there, but with hindsight this feels like a really overly commercial, uninteresting album.

nope, more 70s vanilla meh

Boring

Nah

Crap

Absolute rubbish

Dog shit

Bad Queen tribute band

I don't know any music by The Cars so this was my first time hearing them and I am not impressed.