The Complete Elektra Albums Box (2016 Remastered) The Cars

• 1Good Times Roll (2016 Remaster)03:45
• 2My Best Friend's Girl (2016 Remaster)03:43
• 3Just What I Needed (2016 Remaster)03:43
• 4I'm in Touch with Your World (2016 Remaster)03:30
• 5Don't Cha Stop (2016 Remaster)03:03
• 6You're All I've Got Tonight (2016 Remaster)04:13
• 7Bye Bye Love (2016 Remaster)04:12
• 8Moving in Stereo (2016 Remaster)04:43
• 9All Mixed Up (2016 Remaster)04:14
• 10Let's Go (2016 Remaster)03:33
• 11Since I Held You (2016 Remaster)03:16
• 12It's All I Can Do (2016 Remaster)03:45
• 13Double Life (2016 Remaster)04:14
• 14Shoo Be Doo (2016 Remaster)01:38
• 15Candy-O (2016 Remaster)02:36
• 16Night Spots (2016 Remaster)03:13
• 17You Can't Hold on Too Long (2016 Remaster)02:49
• 18Lust for Kicks (2016 Remaster)03:52
• 19Got a Lot on My Head (2016 Remaster)02:59
• 20Dangerous Type (2016 Remaster)04:31
• 21Panorama (2016 Remaster)05:45
• 22Touch and Go (2016 Remaster)04:56
• 23Gimme Some Slack (2016 Remaster)03:34
• 24Don't Tell Me No (2016 Remaster)04:02
• 25Getting Through (2016 Remaster)02:37
• 26Misfit Kid (2016 Remaster)04:32
• 27Down Boys (2016 Remaster)03:07
• 28You Wear Those Eyes (2016 Remaster)04:57
• 29Running to You (2016 Remaster)03:21
• 30Up and Down (2016 Remaster)03:37
• 31Since You're Gone (2016 Remaster)03:31
• 32Shake It Up (2016 Remaster)03:31
• 33I'm Not the One (2016 Remaster)04:09
• 34Victim of Love (2016 Remaster)04:24
• 35Cruiser (2016 Remaster)04:56
• 36A Dream Away (2016 Remaster)05:40
• 37This Could Be Love (2016 Remaster)04:26
• 38Think It Over (2016 Remaster)04:56
• 39Maybe Baby (2016 Remaster)05:05
• 40Hello Again (2016 Remaster)03:46
• 41Looking for Love (2016 Remaster)03:51
• 42Magic (2016 Remaster)03:57
• 43Drive (2016 Remaster)03:54
• 44Stranger Eyes (2016 Remaster)04:24
• 45You Might Think (2016 Remaster)03:04
• 46It's Not the Night (2016 Remaster)03:48
• 47Why Can't I Have You (2016 Remaster)04:03
• 48I Refuse (2016 Remaster)03:15
• 49Heartbeat City (2016 Remaster)04:30
• 50Leave or Stay (2016 Remaster)02:56
• 51You Are the Girl (2016 Remaster)03:53
• 52Double Trouble (2016 Remaster)04:14
• 53Fine Line (2016 Remaster)05:22
• 54Everything You Say (2016 Remaster)04:54
• 55Ta Ta Wayo Wayo (2016 Remaster)02:51
• 56Strap Me In (2016 Remaster)04:24
• 57Coming Up on You (2016 Remaster)04:18
• 58Wound Up on You (2016 Remaster)05:00
• 59Go Away (2016 Remaster)04:38
• 60Door to Door (2016 Remaster)03:19
• Total Runtime03:56:59

Info for The Complete Elektra Albums Box (2016 Remastered)

Let the Good Times Roll: The Elektra Years features all six of studio albums the band’s original five members – Ric Ocasek, the late Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton and David Robinson – released on the Elektra Records label. From their eponymous debut long-player of 1978, through Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), Shake It Up (1981) and Heartbeat City (1984) to Door To Door (1987), this set brings together records that have accumulated sales of more than 23 million copies in the United States alone.

Each album is peppered with hits, including The Cars’ debut single Just What I Need which made the US top 40, Let’s Go, Shake It Up, Magic, Drive and You Might Think (which, incidentally, won MTV’s first-ever Video Of The Year award in 1984)

Moving In Stereo: The Best Of The Cars is a collection curated by the band, with all surviving members contributing song sections. Ocasek also supervised digital remastering of all the audio on this one with Ted Jensen at the Sterling Sound studio in New York.

"The Cars' studio albums have been boxed before -- most of them showed up on 2009's Original Album Series, while in 2014 there was a cheap and basic set called Studio Album Collection, 1978-1987 -- but the 2016 set The Elektra Years 1978-1987 is handsomely produced and newly remastered, two features absent on the previous sets. Ric Ocasek handled the digital remaster, while David Robinson is the art director on the set, overseeing the replicas of the original albums and coming up with the spiffy retro artwork. Sadly, "Tonight She Comes" -- a hit single featured on 1985's Greatest Hits and never part of an actual album -- wasn't added as a bonus track to either Heartbeat City or Door to Door, but that's the only flaw on this otherwise nicely assembled, affordable set." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

The Cars

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The Cars
In many ways, The Cars were the prototypical American new wave band of the 1980s. Barging into a pop-music scene then overwhelmed by English New Romantic pretty-boy bands, The Cars’ highly polished, chrome-plated four-on-the-floor rock ’n’ roll charged up the charts like a souped-up Camaro racing to the checkered flag—with the band’s Alberto Vargas-designed album art glinting like metal-flake paint on a hot rod.

Cars co-founders Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr had been writing songs and forming bands together since 1972, when they first teamed as two-thirds of the folk trio Milkwood (whose one album also featured Cars’ future keyboardist Greg Hawkes). In 1974, Ocasek and Orr joined with Elliot Easton to form the legendary Boston band, Cap’n Swing, which lasted but a year. Finally, in 1976, the trio called in Hawkes and ex-Modern Lovers drummer David Robinson, and The Cars were ready to roll.

The Cars, released in the spring of ’78, spun off three hit singles (“Just What I Needed,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “Good Times Roll”) and graced the charts for more than two and a half years, eventually going platinum six times over. Their debut was so successful, in fact, that Elektra delayed the release of the band’s 1979 follow-up, Candy-O, for several months. Candy-O, 1980’s Panorama, and 1981’s Shake It Up each, in turn, went platinum, and the latter’s title track became the group’s first Top 10 hit. Along the way, Ocasek began establishing a reputation as a producer, working with such bands as Suicide, Bad Brains, and Romeo Void.

After Shake It Up, the band members took a break, with Ocasek, Orr, and Hawkes all recording solo albums. It must have done them good, for their next album, Heartbeat City, became their most successful. Released in 1984, Heartbeat City sprang to #3 on the album charts and produced four Top 40 singles (“You Might Think,” “Magic,” “Drive,” and “Hello Again”). These singles also broke new ground visually with their inventive, computer-animated videos, which each received heavy rotation on the then-nascent MTV.

The next two years found the band on another extended leave (with solo albums from Ocasek, Orr, and Easton), followed by 1987’s only somewhat successful Door To Door. The Cars disbanded in February 1988. Ocasek went on to release seven solo albums and produced some of the biggest names in ’90s rock. Easton took to the road with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Orr, after a long and painful battle, succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2000.

The Cars legacy continued in to the 21st century with the release of a live concert DVD, a double-disc deluxe edition of their classic self-titled debut album, and the ultimate Cars collection, Complete Greatest Hits.

This album contains no booklet.