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What music are you listening to now?
- Thread starter TheYancey
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In a 60s mood today...
Homebrewcock
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I have a strange personal story about The Cars...or at least my understanding of something to do with The Cars. I grew up a bit of a music nerd...at one point I thought I knew something about everything...I used to hang out so much at the old Record Bar in Columbia that they offered me a job...they told me I was there so often anyway that I might as well help out and get paid for it...this was back in the early to mid 80's not to long after this song was even released...1978 technically...but ANYWAY...I literally JUST realized that The Cars had TWO lead singers at the end of 2019...like a year and a half ago...if that...AND...that all my favorite Cars songs were not sung by Ric Ocasek but the late, great bass playing Benjamin Orr...Lets Go, Just What I Needed and...of course...Bye Bye Love, etc.
I know this is of zero consequence to anybody but I can't believe I never knew something so radically obvious that every other person on Earth already knew for like 30 plus years...and I thought I knew all sorts of things about recorded music and the bands that played it.
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Yes, Ben Orr was actually the lead singer on almost all of my favorite Cars songs! If you saw their RARHOF induction it was actually quite touching because they all paid tribute to him as being the main reason they were successful - they loved him a lot (he died in 2000). Then of course about a year later Ric Ocasek was dead too. I think I played the grooves out of both their debut album and Candy-O in high school... By the time I got to Carolina in '83 I had kind of moved on to other things, but as a "real" adult (lol), rediscovered my love for them and have kept them in heavy rotation ever since. My daughter challenged me to make a "My Top 100" songs of all time Spotify playlist, which was fun and SUPER challenging - and the Cars made it in there a couple of times - I think for Bye Bye Love and Let's Go.
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Homebrewcock
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He is doing some virtual concerts. Going to watch / listen to one tonight. It's the "Denver" show. Not that is matters where. He is performing all the shows in Chicago and broadcasting them. It was a little over $40 with tax. It's called the Clearly Human Tour.
https://nocapshows.com/artist?name=toddrundgren
Nice. About three or four songs up I posted a tune by The Samples, a group from out your way (Boulder) that formed in the late '80s. They were big in the area at about the same time as Big Head Todd and the Monsters and that crew.
Homebrewcock
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I will check that out Swayin'. Name sounds vaguely familiar.
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