The Cars

Ever since the cold, brittle pop of 1980's Panorama proved to be a dead end, the Cars have
been in retreat. Relegating most of their quirky tendencies to outside projects – Ric
Ocasek's two solo albums and guitarist Elliot Easton's guitar-pop-fest Change/No Change –
the band turned its own albums into monolithic, efficient hit machines. That process
culminated with 1984's Heartbreak City, an often stiflingly homogenous record t... More >