Artist
The Cars
The Cars is a rock artist from Boston, Massachusetts, USA formed in 1976. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Best rock albums
- 20
- Releases
- 1978–2018
- Active years
- 1976
- Formed
Artist
The Cars is a rock artist from Boston, Massachusetts, USA formed in 1976. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Best rock albums
Most popular
Complete Greatest Hits
2002
Heartbeat City
1984
Moving in Stereo: The Best of The Cars
2016
The Cars
1978
Shake It Up
1981
Candy-O
1979
Door to Door
1987
Panorama
1980
Move Like This
2011
Live at The Agora, 1978
2017
The Elektra Years 1978 - 1987
2016
The Very Best Of The Cars (International)
2002
Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology
1995
The Cars Greatest Hits
1985
The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band originated in Boston, Massachusetts, with lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson. They were signed to Elektra Records by George Daly, then A&R head, in 1977. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synth-oriented pop that was then becoming popular and which would flower in the early 1980s. The Cars started fresh with their debut album The Cars which went on to go platinum in late 1978. The Cars' debut album was called a "genuine rock masterpiece" by Allmusic. The most successful and well known song from the album, "Just What I Needed", started as a demo in 1977. The song was sent as a mix tape to a local DJ in the Boston area, who played the song in heavy rotation. This soon caught the attention of other DJs, which led to the signing of the band by Elektra Records in 1977. The band broke up in 1988, and Ocasek had always discouraged talk of a reunion since then, telling one interviewer in 1997 "I'm saying never and you…
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