The Cars’ debut record provided a template for effortlessly catchy, hook-filled, and radio-friendly rock that has proven every bit as effective now as it was then. While songs like “Stacy’s Mom” use limp verses to justify exuberant choruses, The Cars still stands as an album that ...
Punk and poetry collide on a game-changer of an album that imagines Arthur Rimbaud and Cannibal & the Headhunters as kindred spirits. Patti Smith’s “Gloria” remains one of the strongest statements of purpose ever to open a debut album. Extra points for the Robert Mapplethorpe cover photo, ...
Expanded reissues of the Cars’ second and third albums capture the group running like a well-oiled machine, both refining and expanding upon their tightly wound new wave.
s eponymous debut album appeared in the summer of 1978 and it slowly built a following thanks to the hit singles “Just What I Needed” (number 27), “My Best Friend’s Girl” (number 35), and “Good Times Roll” (number 41). The Cars stayed on the charts for over two and a ...
The Cars in 1978 were raw and edgy, even as their debut album spawned some of their most radio-friendly hit songs, including “Good Times Roll,”“My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “Just What I Needed” (the first three tracks on the first record, and some of the biggest...
By 1975 youths in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn were stealing into train yards under cover of darkness to spray-paint colorful mural-size renderings of their names, imagery from underground comics and television, and even Andy Warhol-like Campbell’s soup cans onto the sides of subway cars....
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Album cover designed by Nick Knight Woman with Head, ORLAN, 1996 Screen shot from Lady Gaga’sBorn This Way(Nick Knight, 2011) music video Roseland Ballroom “A stranger took this picture of me in 2008 on the LES in NY, before I was ever a star. We found him and used that same pho...
‘Theme from Z-Cars’… In truth though Woods’ novel feels like it reaches back into a pre-war era, with its central trope of ‘inherited madness’ and the classic(al) themes of generational conflict/wilful misunderstandings, jealousy and financial gain all neatly threaded together in a ...
The Beach BoysCover art for the songs “I Get Around” and “Don't Worry Baby” by the Beach Boys. Their next album,Surfer Girl, was a landmark for the unheard-of studioautonomythat Brian had secured from Capitol as writer, arranger, and producer. Redolent of the Four Freshmen but actu...