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Rock Steady received mostly positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards. The album was a commercial comeback for the band, surpassing sales of their previous album Return of Saturn (2000).
Dec 10, 2021 · The second single from No Doubt’s Rock Steady is grocery store music. I mean, of course it is. ... the Cars’ Ric Ocasek, Prince(!), Steely & Clevie, and the Neptunes. Sometimes, producer-heavy ...
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- Rachel Brodsky
Dec 12, 2004 · Indeed, “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Platinum Blonde Life,” produced by the Cars’s Ric Ocasek, both deliver a head-rush circa 1981. Not since Blondie—an earlier example of a band eclipsed, perhaps, by its frontwoman—has a rock act so effortlessly, irreverently, and fashionably skidded across so many different genre boundaries at one ...
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No Doubt – Rock Steady (2001; tracks "Don't Let Me Down" and "Platinum Blonde Life") Le Tigre – This Island (2004) Ric Ocasek – Nexterday (2005) Brazilian Girls – Talk to La Bomb (2006; track "Last Call") The Pink Spiders – Teenage Graffiti (2006) Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me (2007; Five tracks) Shwayze – Let It ...
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- Andrew Unterberger
- “Just What I Needed” (The Cars, 1978) Yes, The Cars wrote countless Perfect Pop Songs. But there’s Perfect Pop Songs, and there’s pop songs that deserve a Nobel prize.
- “Drive” (Heartbeat City, 1984) The first big ballad for The Cars, a risk that paid off with their biggest chart success, a No. 3 hit in September 1984.
- “Since You’re Gone” (Shake It Up, 1981) The Cars almost always went for the kill with their singles, but for whatever reason — maybe exhaustion after four albums in four years — they let off the throttle a little with Shake It Up‘s “Since You’re Gone.”
- “Moving in Stereo” (The Cars, 1978) It never needed Phoebe Cates. I mean, it certainly never hurts a song to soundtrack one of the most famous scenes in teen movie history, but “Moving in Stereo” made the Fast Times at Ridgemont High sequence eternal, just as much as the other way around.
Sep 18, 2019 · Ric Ocasek of The Cars died on Sunday, aged 75. To mark his passing, we look back at how the band created one of the best debut albums of all time. It could be the perfect album opener, but it...
Jan 15, 2002 · "Don't Let Me Down," produced by Ric Ocasek, with its Cars-like bass line, spacey keyboards and layered vocals is the perfect melding of the best of what both the eighties and No Doubt have to...
