We look back at some of Ric Ocasek's greatest songs, both with the Cars and on his own
Ocasek didn’t keep all his good songs for himself. He gave this 1979 single, about a free-spirited girl who won’t settle down, to bassist Benjamin Orr to sing. The track, with hand claps, a futuristic synth line, and dual guitar mastery, became their first Top 20 hit, and the first single for their second albumThe band again worked with producer Roy Thomas Baker, who famously produced Queen’s classics, but Ocasek said they tried for a rawer approach than on their first album.
. “On the second album, it was easier to say, ‘Roy, let’s not do the multi-tracked harmonies this time.'”“We started out wanting to be electric and straight-ahead rock, and it kind of turned into an artier kind of thing,” Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes once said of the way the band fine-tuned its sound in the early days. Case in point, “Candy-O.
of the tune seems entirely fitting. Ocasek provided a small clue as to the song’s unsettling mood when he once said of the title, “The ‘O’ stands for ‘obnoxious.'”Ocasek uses repetition for maximum impact in “Dangerous Type”: He runs through the four-line hook 10 different times in four-and-a-half minutes. Ocasek’s keen grasp of pop-music architecture sometimes gave him pause. “I feel cold sometimes about what’s going on,” he toldin 1980.
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