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This track is really nice. Sure it’s about a guy driving around freeways chatting up some prostitutes. I was surprised that this was almost not on candy-o also… it’s so catchy.
this actually reminds me of steely dan thematically- some aging no longer joe cool trying to talk himself up to just about anyone who’ll listen, keeping the dooming and looming at bay by chattering away, those scary feelings inadequacy at bay with his fast car, fast ladies, and a good book.
trying to find something or someone to stroke that boomer ego.
it’s really just a great driving around song (as almost any Cars song is)- but this one is just a touch more ironic, yet also plaintive.
lift me the wondermaze
alienation is the craze
and it’s all gonna happen to you
2d ago
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The Cars self-titled debut is stuffed so full of stone cold classics that it’s hard for me to choose one song to post about. Ocasek’s songwriting is so simple and ear wormy, and I love that he shares vocals with the completely underrated Ben Orr (who sings on the albums most popular songs).
ive been self soothing with this whole album because it’s such a thrill. you ought to do the same. i think it could help you get through the summer!
good times roll is by far my fav ocasek-vocal track. i love his lyrics. he’s like if julian casablancas were actually cool. i cant stop thinking about the guitar at 1:45 (thanks eliot easton!). also that album cover! so seductive, kind of unsettling.
let them leave you up in the air
let them brush your rock and roll hair
let the good times roll
4d ago
so many good albums in this thread! I’m throwing this little ditty into the hat. These guys had skills to share with the neo pop world- the emo transition from Good Times Roll to Just What I Needed is genius. So good. I’m smiling, just thinking about it, envious of the hold Rick and Benji had over their audience.
Oct 3, 2024
I was on the train today and this song came on. It paralysed me at first because it was this stunning paralysingly beautiful opening but then suddenly it bounced into this exciting silly journey!
The song is Cybele’s Reverie by Stereolab
It kinda gave me “this is life” vibes. Life can be paralysing, life can be silly, then at the end of the song it is this AWESOME JAM. Because life Can be awesome.
I had listened to an album of Stereolab before but WOW are they sooooooo cool. They just get it, they get the whimsey, they get the beauty.
Mar 26, 2025
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3d ago
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do it! i dont, and it has netted no positive results!
3d ago
if im ever in a funk i throw this on and take a hot girl walk or a nice drive. it’s just one of the best feel good songs ever imo.
this is probably one of my favorite new york albums, if not #1 for me.
i paint pictures / to remember / you’re too beautiful / to put into words
6d ago