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The Cars is the eponymous debut studio album by the American new wave band the Cars. It was released on June 6, 1978 on Elektra Records. The album, which featured the three charting singles "Just What I Needed," "My Best Friend's Girl," and "Good Times Roll," as well as several album-oriented rock radio hits, was a major success for the band, remaining on the charts for 139 weeks. It has been recognized as one of the band's best albums.

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The Cars (The Cars) Album Songs

NoSong TitleTime
1.Good Times Roll 3:45
2.My Best Friend's Girl 3:43
3.Just What I Needed 3:43
4.I'm In Touch With Your World 3:30
5.Don't Cha Stop 3:03
6.You're All I've Got Tonight 4:13
7.Bye Bye Love 4:12
8.Moving In Stereo 4:43
9.All Mixed Up 4:14

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- I love this

This is a great album, the songs are amazing, the instruments are also great. My personal favorites are Just what I needed and Let the good times roll

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- The BEST Cars album

The Cars were ahead of their time with this album. Catchy tunes, lots of synth, every song layered with sound... The whole album playable all the way thru-- no filler. It doesn't get any better than this.

- Absolutely amazing!

One of the best sounding albums I have ever heard. Who ever the engineer was is a magician!!

- Timeless Masterpiece

This album really blows me away each listen. I remember hearing a bunch of songs in the early 80's on the Los Angeles station KLOS.....I remember thinking ....I like that song, that's a good song too.....wow, that song is cool too. Only to realize it was from the Cars debut album. I came to the party a little late, but to this day this is my favorite band. This album is a masterpiece in my opinion, and its not an accident The Cars were inducted into the Hall of Fame right before Ric's passing. I know Ben was there as well...

- Awesome Album

There’s not a bad song on the whole album, my favorites are Just What I Needed, Moving in Stereo, and All Mixed up. I also love that the last three songs blend together! Highly highly recommended!!!! Also Benjamin Orr was a really cool guy!

- Absolute Best Cars Album

This is a unique masterpiece album. It’s really the Car’s best work. I highly recommend it.

- Pretty good album

My personal favorite is Bye Bye Love.

- One of the best rock / new wave albums ever.

Excellent first album by the Cars. Great tracks roll throughout, that defined rock during the transition from classic rock into the modern rock/new wave era.

- Brilliant

Not a bad tune on here. Easily one of the greatest first albums ever.

- Lone Reviewer

Just gonna throw this out there ,since there are no reviews posted. All the pieces are put together here , the hooks , songs to sing along with, mixture of lead vocals, superb musicians. They had a distinct sound you would never confuse for someone else. It could be fun,it could be passionate ,it could hurt. Tough album to follow ,1st was the best. I do not regret growing up with stuff like this on the radio. Amen

- The Cars

Remember when albums were good all the way through?! Yeah... Like that, but change the word (good) to great.

- 78 what a year

At the college I attended in the 70s, this album was on everyones turntable. I wore out two of these on mine, I liked a heavy needle. Still great today all the way through. Take me back...........

- Not Bad

I remember the first time I got this album: my sister gave me her copy because she was tired of hearing me mash The Cars. I thought they were pretentious, East Coast Pop-Rock—meant for FM saturation and then obscurity. My problem was in not hearing the songs put together in an album (which is what those EC Pop stars were reaching for in the first place). In context, those hits meld into a cohesive groove that gets you through the afternoon! Production is flawless; musicians are exactly where they should be; Okasek's ironic/anxious songwriting still holds up today. Overall, not a bad record, really.

- Great album

Awesome!!!!!!!!!

- Jimmi Chick’N

Yes this album was and is one of the best for the CARS as are several others they made.

- Fork In The Road

When this album hit it totally blew my musical mind. It was the fork in the road for me. While I was clinging to Van Halen's first album in 8th grade, my taste in music was changing as I moved towards freshman year. I jumped into The Cars, Cheap Trick, and The Knack and by the end of my first year of high school I had abandoned the music of my older siblings and headed towards punk and new wave. Thank you to The Cars for steering me in a better direction. Cheers

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- this album was light years ahead of its time

first heard it in 1978 on the local radio station on album night i was like wow this is amazing and so different from the eagles and all the other pop bands and disco. the sound, the clothes, it took me a month to find the album because no one had heard of them. it is a true timeless master piece. one of the best albums ever

- I Love, this Song!!

I'll have to put the group of people the cars are talking about to keep enjoying it though. I just don't want to buy it and have the wrong idea sent out. Big fan of this song. It's very memorable.

- Who can say?

Arguably, one of the very best debut albums ever. That it still rocks 40yrs later.....oh yeah.

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- One word............CLASS

Class album from a brilliant group.

- God bless Ric Ocasek!

Never get tired of listening to these boys.. just that bit different and just that bit ahead of their time.. one of the few bands that I never got to see and I regret that.

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The Cars Wiki

The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes (keyboards), and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader. The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Music critic Robert Palmer, writer for The New York Times and Rolling Stone, described the Cars' musical style: "They have taken some important but disparate contemporary trends—punk minimalism, the labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend." The Cars were named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers' Poll. The band's debut album, The Cars, sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks. The Cars had four Top 10 hits: "Shake It Up" (1981), "You Might Think" (1984), "Drive" (1984), and "Tonight She Comes" (1985). The band won Video of the Year for "You Might Think" at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. The Cars disbanded in 1988. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. In 2007, Easton and Hawkes joined Todd Rundgren and others to form the offshoot band The New Cars. The surviving original members of the Cars reunited in 2010 to record the band's seventh and final album, Move Like This, which was released in May 2011. Following a short tour in support of Move Like This, the band once again went on hiatus. In April 2018, the Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and reunited to perform at the induction ceremony. Ocasek died of cardiovascular disease in 2019.

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