From “Just What I Needed” to “Magic,” “Drive,” and more, here are 15 essential songs from the Cars’ Ric Ocasek
“I obviously was a huge fan of Dylan, but my other favorite band was the Velvet Underground. I always went for the left side of the music brain, too. I loved the Velvet UndergroundBilly Madison,While Ocasek scored hit after hit with the Cars, he explored a darker, more personal vibe on his first solo album,“Jimmy Jimmy” has the experimental edge of the records Ocasek was producing for artists like Bad Brains, Suicide, or Romeo Void.
The success of “Drive” was perhaps predictable — this track is masterfully vague, offering up a series of rhetorical questions that made it perfect for, well, anything: “Who’s gonna pick you up when you fall? / Who’s gonna hang it up when you call? / Who’s gonna pay attention to your dreams? / And who’s gonna plug their ears when you scream?” “Drive” had repercussions for Ocasek outside of music: While shooting the single’s video, he met the model Paulina Porizkova, who starred in the clip, and...
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