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PopTodd
 Post subject: The New Cars
PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:40 pm 
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Has anyone heard this curiosity?
It's The Cars -- reformed -- with Todd Rundgren taking the place of Ric Ocasek on vocals. Actually, it's like the Runt is channeling Ric's vocals. Eerie how much he sounds like him.

The first single is being played on WXRT in Chicago and, while I did not like it at first, it is growing on me. Once I get over the idea that Todd is trying very desparately (and very successfully) to sound like Ocasek, there is a pretty solid song at the root of it all. And.. Elliot Easton is still a damn great player.

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didn't we do this thread fairly recently?

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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PopTodd
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oldbullee Wrote:
didn't we do this thread fairly recently?


I must have missed it.
Sorry.

[catch phrase]Oh, that PopTodd![/catch phrase]

EDIT: I didn't find in in a search for "The New Cars"

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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A couple of weeks ago, I flipped past VH-1 Classic and hung around long enough to see a "Tuesday Twoplay" featuring "Tonight, She Comes" followed by that single by The New Cars. Believe it or not, The New Cars' song was better. It wasn't anywhere near as good as vintage RTB-era Cars (SK approved), but definitely better than their post-Heartbreak City dreck.

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This isn't really a "New Cars" is it? It's just a bunch of old songs and one new one, recorded from a live show?
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ok i know some of you might kill me for not checking them out on saturday night... i was at the blondie / the "new" cars show but left after blondie. i really had no interest in seeing the new cars.

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pumachik Wrote:
i was at the blondie / the "new" cars show but left after blondie.


you made the right choice.
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soreal
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i believe i will go see this at ravinia this summer and i will sit on the lawn and eat fancy cheese and get drunk on wine.
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