the cars: rockers or posers?

[Gato Moteado]

Poll question: the cars: rockers or posers?

the san fran radio station i've been listening to seems to love them. i find them unlistenable. how about you?

[Ryano42]

1. First Album was great...IMHO

Candy O had some good tunes...then Bubble Gum after that. "All I can do" was my teenage angst song!

Even though Drive still takes me back to High School :)

[trogdor]

5. Ah, the Vargas girl!

Outfits that were literally painted on, big tits that looked real, and long legs that went from her ass all the way to the ground. Vargas make Playboy collectible.

Oh yeah, the commercialized version of New Wave was pretty good, too.

[Orsino]

16. Yeah. Not exactly rock, but something beyond.

Ultra-cool, and a breath of fresh air at the time. The other albums are mostly redundant.

[TheBaldyMan]

2. OTHER: Total shite

[AlCzervik]

3. i saw them at the Boston garden about 100 years ago and they are the worst

live show ever. they should only do studio and never tour, horrible, worst concert i've seen, seeing Steven Tyler puke onstage at the cape Colosseum was a better show.

[mitchum]

15. I absolutely agree with you about the wretchedness of their live show

[mitchum]

17. Other: Roxy Music for beginners

[Gato Moteado]

4. i think the vote is getting freeped.....

...to make DU look bad.

[Gato Moteado]

6. she'll make you fleer she comes again

uh-eye-uh-eye-uh-eye

[Strong Atheist]

7. I like the cars. Have done one earworm, will do more later. nt.

[Ryano42]

8. Memory: Winter 1980

At a "trash can" party...outside, unbearably cold Minnesota night...

She shadows me in the mirror
She never leaves on the light
And some things that I say to her
They just don’t seem to bite
It’s all mixed up
It’s all mixed up
It’s all mixed up...

I hear that and close my eyes and I am a 14 year old nerd-kid again...

Music is amazing.

[Benfea]

9. Both. ;) -nt

[djeseru]

10. As a young redhead...

...it was my secret wish to grow up to look like the redhead on the Candy-O album cover. Not to mention it being my favorite Cars album. I did find the material by the mid-80's to be unlistenable so I agree with you in that aspect.

[Gato Moteado]

11. so, did you end up looking like the redhead on the album cover?

it was my secret wish to grow up and not look like rick ocasek.

i ended up looking like mick jagger instead. well, actually i looked like mick all through high school.

[djeseru]

12. Sadly, no.

I can't walk in high heels.

And I don't blame you a bit for the Ric Ocasek thing.

[Gato Moteado]

13. well it's a good thing you didn't end up looking like a cartoon chick...

it's hard for two-dimensional people to operate machinery, get a job or have any kind of life. hell, it's hard enough for three-dimensional people to do that stuff.

[djeseru]

18. So true.

As well as being viewed by others as having no depth.

[hippiechick]

14. "All Mixed Up" HAS TO BE one of the best songs, ever!

:yourock:

[mvd]

19. They rock

One of the great original power pop groups, along with Cheap Trick, Badfinger, Rick Springfield, Go Gos, Blondie, and the Bangles.